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Chemical Valley and the Power of the Coal Mining Industry 

At this link is a New Yorker article that I read today.  Read it and no comment from me is needed.  It tells of the dark side of mining coal and the Republican corruption and blindness that is West Virginia.  A terrible story that is frightening to contemplate as reality elsewhere. Here is just a

Trust 

A few days ago, I was hanging around in the great hall of London's Natural History Museum, considering their cast of Dipolodocus carnegii, which is the focus a new fundraising effort to renovate the hall. It's called "I Love Dippy," because apparently that's what generations of visitors to the Museum have affectionately called the skeleton. I've been going there for at least 40 years, and it's the first time I've ever heard it called that, which leads me to believe that the sobriquet was dreamt [...]