And the beat goes on…

Cool butter beans… BEIJING, June 18 (Xinhua) — A satellite with a huge golden umbrella-shaped antenna is in an orbit more than 400,000 km from Earth, waiting for Chang’e-4, which is set to be the first ever probe to land softly on the Moon’s far side. The relay satellite for Chang’e-4 will establish a communication […]

Bluntly: Fat = Diabetes

You can sugar coat being fat all you want: Oh I am pleasingly plump, just hefty, big boned, structurally challenged and so on and so on. It is simply that you and I am fat! We have way more excess mass than we should carry and it is 99% of the time, because we eat […]

Sixteenth century description of Russia

Moscow”Moscow is very large and appears even larger from a distance. It is built entirely of wood. For this reason the artisans, most of whom have fire at hand, are all outside the town and there is a long row of buildings beyond it. In between lie large squares … the Prince had had the […]

Some thoughts sent to WtR…

1. Crimea would still be Ukrainian if not for the coup in Kiev which overruled and nullified Ukraine’s constitution, and disintegrated its territories, violating and ending the Budapest memorandum. Crimea’s parliament announced that Ukraine no longer existed because of that. They were right, and Crimea had to choose their future identity… 2. Crimea’s 2014 referendum […]

Russia develops space laser cannon to evaporate space junk…

MOSCOW, June 14 (Xinhua) — Russian scientists are developing a new space laser cannon that could shoot down potentially harmful space debris, according to local media reports. The powerful “laser cannon” will be based on a three-meter optical telescope, which was first designed to monitor space for satellites and space junk, according to Russian TV […]

Next week we go to Tiny Russian Village…

We were able to get the money together to get two more windows like the front one we replaced… Yesterday was very busy and mosquitoes are well fed… So that means we have the windows to replace the side ones at the Russian village home. The windows cost about 3000 rubles (under $50) each. Exactly […]