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Ever wonder why we wear a poppy on Remembrance Day?
The tradition dates back to the First World War. Amidst the devastation of the battlefields in Flanders, Belgium, bright red poppies were the first plants to grow out of the churned-up earth. 1/3
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How long have disclosure issues been happening you ask?
Just around .... 175 years.
1851: Alfred Hobbs picked the famous Bramah lock at the London World's Fair and then publicly explained how he did it.
The lock industry was outraged arguing revealing weaknesses endangered customers and aided criminals.
Sound familiar?
One of the best opening comments I ever heard at the start of a politicized meeting of citizens and politicians was to allow everyone to speak with human dignity and respect. That was 12 years ago but those few words have always stayed with me
Heart breaking, please stand by your personnel on their long road to recovery
It is with profound sadness that we confirm that a fire incident at CFB Wainwright on October 17 resulted in fatalities and injuries. Our immediate priority is supporting those affected and notifying next of kin.
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The final line, “In government, there’s always something to be discreet about”, sums it all up perfectly.
This is a memorable scene from the British political comedy "Yes, Prime Minister", Season 2, Episode 8, which aired on BBC Two in 1988. The exchange features Prime Minister Jim Hacker (Paul Eddington), Sir Humphrey Appleby (Nigel Hawthorne), and Bernard Woolley (Derek Fowlds).
What am I watching: Bro needs to pick up his medication, is drinking, not once does she offer to drive the golf cart cuz she’s retired and in the middle of a serious crochet? #TikTok vt.tiktok.com/ZSb3q92sA/
The sea gave up its secrets. The contemporaneous evidence locked in time corroborated his statement
🇬🇧A British submarine vanished with 61 men aboard.
Eighteen months later, one of them walked into a British consulate in Turkey!
On December 6, 1941, HMS Perseus struck an Italian mine off the Greek island of Kefalonia and plunged to the seabed.
John Capes was trapped in the stern with three wounded men. Wearing a primitive Davis escape apparatus, he opened the hatch and began an almost unimaginable ascent, from roughly 170 feet (51,8 m) below the surface.
Capes emerged alone into the freezing darkness. Then he swam nearly five miles to Kefalonia.
Greek islanders found him and risked their lives to hide him from Italian occupation troops. For 18 months, they moved him between homes and villages before secretly carrying him by boat to Turkey.
No one else aboard Perseus survived.
For decades, some doubted Capes. He had been traveling as a passenger, so his name did not appear on the submarine’s crew list. His escape simply sounded impossible.
Then, in 1997, divers found Perseus at 170 feet. Its stern escape hatch was open. Inside, crucial details matched Capes’s account.
He had escaped a steel coffin beneath the sea, and ordinary Greek civilians had kept him alive.
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I was impressed when my local school division hosted a virtual information session for parents that brought in guest speakers who referenced Haidt's work.
I was originally drawn to Haidt to better understand issues of 'viewpoint homogeneity' when current trends in the humanities increasingly started percolating into my traditionally first principles based professional world; Haidt is extremely helpful for navigating parenting and raising resilient humans,
Jon Haidt @jonhaidt is one of the greatest psychologists of the 21st century, having illuminated moral cognition, the relation between emotion and intellect, the perils of politicization and viewpoint homogeneity in social science, and the roots of the youth mental health decline. That NYU students should protest this wise and brilliant man as their commencement speaker is a backhand vindication of his diagnosis of what's wrong in higher ed. Our sometimes coauthor @PamelaParesky explains: Reports of The Death of 'Woke' May Be Greatly Exaggerated realcleareducation.com/artic…
There is lots of talk nowadays from exasperated Police Chiefs about handguns being smuggled in from the US, but what do legal firearms owners do every day to be safe and make sure everyone else is safe?
They use a lot of Safes….
A fair question may be, what constitutes a safe?
In Canada the law doesn't explicitly define what a safe 'is', However, we do have case law.
A while back, a certain Mr. Barnes had several prohibited firearms in locked steel cabinets without trigger locks. The Crown argued this was unsafe storage and wanted to dispossess Mr. Barnes of all his firearms.
It went to trial, a judge disagreed, and threw out the charges and in the process clarified that a safe can be a locked steel cabinet. (R. v. Barnes, 2011 ONCJ 419)
Some people may ask the firearms were prohibited in the Barnes cases, so Mr. Barnes was guilty of something right?
Well, it’s not so simple, prohibited just means it can’t be purchased or sold. In the modern context, there were families at the range one day using their .22 plinking rifles for target shooting, then through order in council the next day found out they owned prohibited firearms, which had to be kept secure.
Because of recent changes there are tens of thousands of more Mr. Barnes out there in Canada. One day, practising a perfectly safe and legal hobby, the next day regulated into no man’s land.
The broader political question is what do we do with all these new Mr. Barnes? How do we allocate our scarce judicial resources? Is it the role of Police to track down suburban middle class people because of their hobby? These are the questions of our time.
Yeah, I’ll go further, just having kids is like an episode of myth busters. Blank slateism is the realm of the childless.
14 million twin pairs confirm: All traits are partially heritable; the home you grow up in has surprisingly little effect on how you turn out. stevestewartwilliams.com/p/f…
