These Solar Panels Also Turn Rain Into Electricity
Researchers at the Institute of Materials Science of Seville have used a perovskite-based solar panel that can create electricity from the rain. They created a nanometer-thin film that covers the…
Wise Law’s Top Ten Legal News Post for the Week of April 20, 2026
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Wise Law’s Legal Headlines for the week of April 20, 2026
Here are our leading legal headlines for the week of April 20, 2026 from Wise Law on Twitter:Judge Dismisses Trump’s Suit Over WSJ Report on Birthday Card to Epstein U.S.…
Da plane, boss! Da plane!
Dog Ford flies away.
Sunday Funday: Schrodinger’s Blockade, Trump v Pope, plus other posts, sports stuff, musical notes, getting old(er), Carney hat trick, TrumpWatch, Animal Crackers
It's being called Schrodinger's Blockade tonight, because nobody knows anymore whether the Strait of Hormuz is open or closed or both at once. "You put your blockade in You pull…
Once a sharp critic of Danielle Smith’s UCP Government, Independent MLA Scott Sinclair sure is quiet nowadays
Lesser Slave Lake MLA Scott Sinclair, rusticated from the United Conservative Party Caucus by Alberta Premier Danielle Smith for trying too hard to look out for his rural constituents, sure…
On becoming an admirer of popes
I have never been a fan of the Roman Catholic Church. Its hierarchical and misogynistic... The post On becoming an admirer of popes first appeared on Views from the Beltline.
Saturday Afternoon Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading.- Tim Murphy, Schuyler Mitchell and Chasity Hale chart the obscene concentration of wealth in the U.S., while Murphy also highlights the flaws in how…
NYC-ABC PP/POW updates April 14, 2025
Click here for the latest compilation of every other week updates. NYC ABC, along with several other individuals and prisoner support crews, now send hard copies to all political prisoners…
Novel Arguments For Challenging Anti-Transgender Laws In Canada
Since Alberta has decided to make itself the beachhead in bringing an "American-Style" attack on transgender people through legislation that is largely unconstitutional in Canada unless the province invokes The…
Saturday Photo: More Than 100 Years Old, the Library in Ritzville
On my to Walla Walla a couple of weeks ago, I stopped to eat lunch in Ritzville, WA, a small town which was once a bustling shipping point on the…
Noted in passing: comments about Poilievre v reality, the Canadian economy, and the Iran War
Comments about Poilievre v reality Chantal Hébert: "The issue is not if the old Pierre Poilievre would be back, but when the old Pierre Poilievre would be back, and that…
Musical interlude
Massive Attack & Tom Waits - Boots on the Ground
Friday Afternoon Links
Assorted content to end your week.- Jeff Masters points out how the climate breakdown is making hurricanes and other severe weather far worse than would otherwise be the case. And…
Some fooling around with AI
Surrealist building shaped like a cat.
Modern Futility
How the enchantments of consumer society keep us attached to a failing world-systemThere is something eerie about living in a civilization that cannot stop doing what is destroying the conditions…
Orbán’s Defeat And The Path To Atonement
Orbán’s defeat in Hungary last weekend gives us hope for an end to the destruction being wrought by the global movement of oligarchs against the people.