“This video shows a demonstration of the “Cheetah” robot galloping at speeds of up to 18 miles per hour (mph), setting a new land speed record for legged robots. The previous record was 13.1 mph, set in 1989.” Humans typically sprint at 12-17 miles an hour.
McCain: Bomb Syria; But Iraq and Russia oppose Intervention
Senator John McCain called on Monday for US air strikes on Syria, but the Obama administration pushed back. McCain said on the Senate floor, “Foreign capitals across the world are looking to the United States to lead, especially now that the situation in Syria has become an armed conflict . . . But what they […]
Netanyahu 1992: Iran will Have the Bomb by 1997
Scott Peterson at the Christian Science Monitor did a useful timeline for dire Israeli and US predictions of an imminent Iranian nuclear weapon, beginning 20 years ago. 1992: Israeli member of parliament Binyamin Netanyahu predicts that Iran was “3 to 5 years” from having a nuclear weapon. 1992: Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres predicts an […]
Omar Khayyam (52)
If the heart knew the secret of life as it really is, it would also know, in death, the divine mysteries. Since you know nothing of yourself today, what will you know tomorrow when you’re gone from yourself? Translated by Juan Cole from Whinfield 52
Libya Seeking Qaddafi Assets Abroad: Mathiason & Serle
Libya acts to seize £10m Gaddafi house in London by Nick Mathiason and Jack Serle of the Bureau of Investigative Journalism The Gaddafis spent four decades plundering Libya amassing private jets, fast cars and expensive properties the world over. But next Friday could see what international corruption experts claim is the first repatriation of a […]
Top Ten Dangers for Obama of Iran Sanctions on behalf of Israel
President Barack Obama addressed the American Israel Public Affairs Committee conference on Sunday, warning against loose war talk regarding Iran but also threatening violence against that country to stop it, he said, from getting a nuclear weapon ( not an ambition in evidence). The speech is here. Obama has ratcheted up US financial sanctions against […]
Tomgram: Stephan Salisbury, Weaponizing the Body Politic
At the height of the Occupy Wall Street evictions, it seemed as though some diminutive version of “shock and awe” had stumbled from Baghdad, Iraq, to Oakland, California…
Omar Khayyam (50)
You’ve seen the world, and all you’ve seen is nothing; and everything, as well, that you have said and heard is nothing. You’ve sprinted everywhere between here and the horizon; it is nothing. And all the possessions you’ve treasured up at home are nothing. Translated by Juan Cole from Whinfield 50
Khamenei Takes Control, Forbids Nuclear Bomb
Early returns in Iran’s 9th parliamentary election since the 1979 revolution show that Ahmadinejad’s lay populists have taken a drubbing, and that hard line supporters of clerical Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei are ascendant. Ahmadinejad’s sister, Parvin, who stood for election from their own hometown of Garmsar, was defeated, a major blow to the president. Western […]
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