Thursday, June 29, 2023
Impact of court' decision on Labs
The Supreme Court declared affirmative action programs at public and private colleges and universities unconstitutional on Thursday in a decision written by Chief Justice John Roberts.
The decision puts an end to systems designed to help Black and Latino students access higher education after centuries of racial discrimination. Colleges and universities will no longer be allowed to seek greater diversity of their student bodies by preferencing race.
Since the labs have extensive programs for students we should ask how this will effect the NNSA lab system. There are also several programs at the labs designed for minority students does this get effected also?
Saturday, June 24, 2023
New World order?
WW3 around the corner or a new world order?
It looks like Putin might be about to fall, which means Russia could fall apart and essentially be integrated into the West or a give up its nuclear arms in exchange for better trade or help with rebuilding Ukraine.
If that happens the only two nuclear powers left are the US and China, right now the US has at least 10-20 times more nukes than China but China is rapidly expanding. If Russia is no longer a threat the next 1-3 years could be the best chance the US has of defeating China in a war. We either tell China to disarm or we go to WW3 and they lose. Either way the US wins, if we do nothing China will continue to grow and at some point we will have another stalemate in the world order for another 80 years.
I always said the whole push to defeat Russia in Ukraine was always about China.
Friday, June 23, 2023
Queering nuclear weapons?
https://www.thecollegefix.com/researchers-queering-nuclear-weapons-can-strengthen-national-security/
The duo also claim that queer theory, like feminist theory, “shines a light on the harm done by nuclear weapons” by focusing on individuals’ “rights and well-being” over national security.
Thursday, June 22, 2023
Change in N3B Los Alamos
Brad Smith To Succeed Kim Lebak As President/General Manager Of N3B Los Alamos
https://losalamosreporter.com/2023/06/05/brad-smith-to-succeed-kim-lebak-as-president-general-of-n3b-los-alamos/
Wednesday, June 21, 2023
Titanic safety questions
The company that sent a tourist submersible to the Titanic wreck has faced safety questions before
https://www.wbur.org/news/2023/06/20/missing-titan-submersible-safety
Tuesday, June 20, 2023
A cheap fix to global warming
Global support for one of the cheapest and most powerful climate actions is accelerating—and it couldn't come at a more urgent time.
Monday, June 19, 2023
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