One billion suns: World's brightest laser sparks new behavior in light | University of Nebraska-Lincoln

A rendering of how changes in an electron's motion (bottom view) alter the scattering of light (top view), as measured in a new experiment that scattered more than 500 photons of light from a single ...

Rain Dance | James Howard Kunstler

Photo credit: original source unknownJames Howard Kunstler -- World News Trust June 23, 2017 Think of the ObamaCare reform debate now playing in the U.S. Senate as the final gurglings of polity that ...

The Twilight of Anthropolatry | John Michael Greer

John Michael GreerJune 21, 2017 (EcoSophia) -- During the last three months, while on hiatus from blogging, I’ve looked back over the 11-year run of The Archdruid Report. As my regular readers know, ...

Play Ball! | James Howard Kunstler

James Howard KunstlerJames Howard Kunstler -- World News Trust June 16, 2017 Historians of the future, huddled around their goose-fat lamps in muddy woolen cloaks, may cite this as the month that the ...

Things To Come | James Howard Kunstler

James Howard Kunstler -- World News Trust June 12, 2017 As our politicos creep deeper into a legalistic wilderness hunting for phantoms of Russian collusion, nobody pays attention to the most dangero ...

Moby Trump | James Howard Kunstler

Image from: ipadairwallpapers.comJames Howard Kunstler -- World News Trust June 9, 2017 He breached out of the horse latitudes in the Great Sea of Politics last spring and destroyed all the lesser wh ...

Gimme Shelter | James Howard Kunstler

Image from: medium.com/@WAKEconsult/stop-calling-trump-crazy-its-stigmatizing-and-oppressive-68284b1084ff James Howard Kunstler -- World News Trust June 5, 2017 “Have you all lost your mind?” Vladimi ...

Nuclear Calendar -- June 5, 2017 | FCNL

Nuclear Calendar -- June 5, 2017 Friends Committee on National Legislation June 6 10:00 a.m., Council member Robert White will present the Washington, DC, City Council with a ceremonial resolution in ...

Covfefe Land | James Howard Kunstler

James Howard Kunstler -- World News Trust June 2, 2017 “This is one of the things I find funny about the radical Left protests on campus…. You want to have it both ways. You want to be a fledgling me ...

Scientists detect gravitational waves for third time | Physical Review Letters

This image shows a numerical simulation of a binary black hole merger with masses and spins consistent with the third and most recent LIGO observation, named GW170104. The strength of the gravitation ...

The So-called Resistance | James Howard Kunstler

James Howard Kunstler -- World News Trust May 29, 2017 Entropy never sleeps. It works remorselessly to transform things of value into useless, dissipated waste and heat. Complexity stokes it especial ...