"Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back." - Carl Sagan

Only a mindless fool would make this deal after starting a war that began with a pledge to 'change the regime' and telling Iran's people that 'help was on the way'. This is rolling over before the entire world.

China built too well in its efforts to cut their birth rate over the last half century.

The Pakistan PM announced that a peace deal between the USA and Iran has been reached‼️ Freaking finally! We need oil prices to go down to bury Russia's war economy!

“When a clown moves into a palace, he doesn’t become a king. The palace becomes a circus.”

The fake map of Ukraine posted and then deleted by Director of National Intelligence (DNI) Tulsi Gabbard misplaced Kyiv by 350km - distance between London and Paris. Chernihiv misnamed "Cherniv" and misplaced by 620km. Distance between Lviv and Vienna is only 585km. The ODNI map of Ukraine is so busted location of the real Chernihiv ends up in Belarus. According to Gabbard, the US is running biolabs in partnership with Russia in occupied Crimea, Luhansk, and Donetsk regions. You can still find this garbage on the official DNI website. dni.gov/files/BIOLAB_Slides.…

This was fun to watch. Frozen Planck 'stars' instead of infinite singularities and white/black hole superposition after evaporation. youtube.com/watch?v=Wu8xNx4n…

Who’s more motivated to make a deal, Iran or the US? Hint - it’s the one with more to lose if oil prices skyrocket. cnn.com/2026/06/12/business/…

The timing could not be better for Ukraine to deprive Russia of fuel. Unwittingly, the closure of Hormuz by Iran plays into Ukraines hands in preventing Moscow from getting enough foreign donations to power their war machine.

In 1979, an aging physicist asked a question so strange that quantum mechanics seemed afraid to answer. What if the past is not fully fixed until the present asks the right question? He was not a mystic, a poet, or a philosopher smuggling spirituality into physics. He was a giant of 20th-century physics. His name was John Archibald Wheeler. The story of how he pushed quantum theory to its deepest edge is a masterclass in why reality is not always as solid, passive, and finished as common sense wants it to be. By the mid-20th century, physicists accepted that particles act strangely. A photon could act like a wave of possibilities, spreading through more than one path at once. But once you measured it, the mystery collapsed into something definite. A measurement turned possibility into fact. That was disturbing enough. But Wheeler asked a more dangerous question: what if the choice of measurement happens after the photon has already entered the experiment? This was the delayed-choice experiment. If the apparatus is arranged one way, the photon behaves like a wave. If it is arranged another way, it behaves like a particle. Wheeler said the choice could be delayed until the photon was already inside. So what was the photon before the measurement? Was it secretly a wave? Was it secretly a particle? Or was the question itself wrong? Wheeler’s answer was uncomfortable. The photon did not carry a neat classical history with it. There was no hidden movie of what really happened waiting behind the curtain. The event became definite only when the experiment forced nature to give an answer. Then Wheeler made the idea cosmic. Imagine light from a distant quasar traveling billions of years across space. A massive galaxy sits between the quasar and Earth, bending the light around it. The photon now has two possible routes to reach us. An astronomer today can choose how to measure that light. One setup can reveal which path the photon took. Another setup can erase the path information and reveal interference. The cheap version says: the observer changes the past. But Wheeler’s deeper point was stranger. Before measurement, the photon may not have had the kind of past our common sense demands. The universe was not a finished story waiting to be read. At the quantum level, the question we ask helps decide what kind of fact can appear. This is why Wheeler called it a participatory universe. Not because human consciousness magically creates reality. But because observation is not passive. Every measurement is a physical interaction. Every experiment is a question asked of nature. Quantum mechanics does not always allow reality to possess all the answers before the question is asked. That idea made many physicists uncomfortable. Science was built on the dream of a fully objective world: a universe existing out there, complete in every detail, while humans merely stood outside and inspected it. Wheeler was saying the separation was not so clean. Later, quantum optics labs tested versions of Wheeler’s delayed-choice experiment. They did not prove that minds control matter or that consciousness rewrites history. They proved something more disciplined and more disturbing. Quantum reality cannot always be forced into the simple classical story we want to tell about it. The lesson Wheeler left behind is a philosophical blueprint: The people who wait for a finished reality are excellent at describing what already exists. But they are helpless when the future is still undefined. Most of us approach life like classical physicists. We want the path to be fixed before we move. We want the result to be guaranteed before we act. But sometimes, the problem is not that reality is hiding the answer from you. The problem is that you have not built the experiment yet.

Thinking about these words this evening, as I have since he first wrote them 11 years ago.

They just created a million James Comeys

Even Israel trusts Iran’s words more than the US President

Revolting, disgusting and flat out murder by the Trump admin.

This is extraordinarily bad. Whoever comes after Trump will need to kill this on day one of the next admin.

It would be a groundbreaking physics victory for China if the JUNO lab solves the neutrino mass hierarchy first.

From about 1 km distance, the ice field of Athabasca glacier at Banff National Park. My better half is the tiny person at the bottom.

There's always a Tweet.

It’s like a meaningless mantra every Sunday just before oil futures open trading.

Guy who has called every displeasing election fraudulent -- from Ted Cruz beating him in the 2016 Iowa caucus to the Virginia redistrict election -- calls a displeasing election fraudulent. Again. .......... I just don't know why anyone takes it seriously.

If Shakespeare was right when he wrote ‘the past is prologue’, it’s likely no longer true that the US has the hegemony it used to. It’s been whittled away over successive decades starting with Korea, then Vietnam, Afghanistan and now to Iran. We aren’t the force we used to be.