Iraq has a new President today. He is a Kurd named Jalal Talabani and he has been a prominent figure in Kurdish and Iraqi politics for many many years. I’m obviously not Iraqi, so I will defer to others who know the his story better than I do. First, Kurdo’s World has an excellent post …
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Scientists nearing the Mantle…
and Hillary Swank puts on her super-gravity suit. If you’ve ever seen the movie “The Core”, you’ll appreciate this story if only because it restores a modicum of credibility to the poor Earth Sciences fields that were decimated by the horror (or whorring?) of scientific “liberties” used during the movie. Apparently scientists working somewhere in …