Tomorrow, Ernest “Smokey” Smith will lie in state (CBC) in the foyer House of Commons of Canada in Ottawa. He was the last remaining recipient of the Victoria Cross in Canada. He earned it for his heroic and brave acts while fighting in Italy in 1944. He died on Sunday at the age of 91. …
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Peter Jennings signs off.
I don’t have much to say about the death of Peter Jennings, but plenty of other people and news sources do. The best and perhaps most in depth one I’ve seen so far has been by John Simpson of the BBC. Peter did what he could to halt the downward spiral of television news in …
Inside the Earth and Beyond Neptune
A couple interesting scientific discoveries lately. One was the discovery of another “minor planet” that resides in the Kuiper Belt of asteroids beyond Neptune. There have actually been two of these large space rocks found recently. The BBC reports extensively on “2003 UB313”. It seems to be the largest of the objects, larger than pluto …