Breaking the Material Mold with Quantum Observations

Paul Collier November 30, 2021

Scientists have discovered a way to unleash a myriad of new property potentials in materials that can be created from simple defects in atomic structures. By observing these defects in nature, they can now study these anomalies and learn to identify the types of unique properties they produce, enabling them, in time, to plan out intentional defect creation to unleash a whole range of new materials with properties we might not even now begin to imagine.

A unique quantum-mechanical interaction between electrons and topological defects in layered materials

From phys.org
2021-11-30 12:42:43

Excerpt:

An international team led by EPFL scientists, has unveiled a unique quantum-mechanical interaction between electrons and topological defects in layered materials that has only been observed in engineered atomic thin layers. The phenomenon can be reproduced by the native defects of lab grown large crystals, making future investigation of Kondo systems and quantum electronic devices more accessible.

The properties of materials that are technologically interesting often originate from defects on their atomic structure. For example, changing the optical properties of rubies with chrome inclusions has helped develop lasers, while nitrogen-vacancy in diamonds are paving the way for applications such as quantum magnetometers. Even in the metallurgical industry, atomic-scale defects like dislocation enhances the strength of forged steel…..

Working with the Laboratoire National des Champs Magnétiques Intenses in Grenoble and Toulouse, they accessed some of the world’s most powerful magnets. The collaboration performed experiments up to 34 Tesla in static conditions and with pulses up to 70 Tesla for a few milliseconds.

“My first guess was that it is a new type form of Kondo effect, despite the fact that we did not introduces magnetic species in the crystal,” says Konstantin Semeniuk, a scientist who worked on the study.

“Once we completed our investigation, the result was clear,” says Martino. “The atomically thin defects create a sort of magnetic wall in the material that bounces back some of the electrons that try to cross it. Unraveling the source of the Kondo effect has shown that thermodynamics can make big surprises. We believe there is a lot more to discover in this field, better understanding of atomic-scale defects by electronic microscopy, local magnetic measurements, and new quantum simulations to understand the formation and effect of such defects in layered materials.”

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Jab Reprieve for Federal Employees Thanks to Biden

Mark Clouse November 30, 2021

The Biden Administration might be getting more resistance than they thought they would get judging by the recent move to extend the deadline for Federal Workers to get the jab until 2022.

Federal workers get reprieve from vax mandate penalties until 2022

From nypost.com
2021-11-29 21:55:30
Mark Moore
Excerpt:

The Biden administration has told government agencies that they can hold off on disciplining workers who refuse to get vaccinated against COVID-19 until after the holidays, saying the mandate was intended to “protect federal workers, not to punish them.”

The White House originally set a Nov. 22 deadline for federal workers to be fully vaccinated or face suspension or dismissal unless they were granted a religious or medical exemption.

But the Office of Personnel Management and the Office of Management and Budget said on Monday that noncompliant workers should not be penalized until January in order to allow officials more time to convince holdouts to get inoculated against the coronavirus.

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China Can’t Stop the Deafening Silence from Peng Shuai

Paul Collier November 30, 2021

It seems not even Beijing can conceal the political ruthlessness of its actions from the world even when it comes to how it usually treats its stars, specifically female stars, like sexual conquests for the party elites. The top-ranked doubles tennis player in the world, Peng Shuai, dared to speak out against becoming a sexual conquest by one of the creepy powerful elites of the party, and she quickly disappeared.

With the Olympics Committee serving as China’s apologist, the attempted ruse is not working, and the people of the “West” are now asking questions they should have asked long ago, “what kind of country is China and can we continue to do business with it?”

The Women’s Tennis Association, for one, is not amused at China’s attempts to silence this woman who dared speak out against the party and its decades of sexual conquest of its female ‘starts.’ It doesn’t pay well to become a star in China when the party elite find you sexually conquestable.

Never mind all that, though, King Lebron and the NBA have a great relationship with China, and their social justice work in America surely doesn’t conflict with the reality of the nature of the Chinese state under a totalitarian ruler, Chairman Xi, who serves as the head of the party, the Chinese Communist Party, the big brother, if you will, of what the DNC hopes one day to become (but I digress).

China’s Silence on Peng Shuai Shows Limits of Beijing’s Propaganda

From www.nytimes.com
2021-11-30 12:26:42

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When the Chinese tennis star Peng Shuai accused a former top leader of sexual assault earlier this month, the authorities turned to a tried-and-true strategy. At home, the country’s censors scrubbed away any mention of the allegations. Abroad, a few state-affiliated journalists focused narrowly on trying to quash concerns about Ms. Peng’s safety.

Beijing seems to be relying on a two-pronged approach of maintaining the silence and waiting for the world to move on. The approach suggests that the country’s sprawling propaganda apparatus has limited options for shifting the narrative without drawing more attention to the uncomfortable allegations Beijing hopes would just disappear.

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Fed Chair Blames Omnicron for Inflation to Come

Paul Collier November 30, 2021

When individuals come to power on the back of the image of moral purity and and scientific certainty, they must protect the lie that such claims always are by finding reasons for the inevitable failures that come with any attempt to centrally control outcomes of human interaction over any significant span of time.

The more centrally controlled your system, the more prone to catastrophic failure it is, leading to apocolyptic boogeymen needing to be created to serve as the foil of anger and fear that comes at such times. As the Coronavirus has taken its course, the lies of the party of supreme morality and scientific certainty are being exposed every day, breaking more and more Americans away from the central signal that must increasingly create more and more fictions to hide all the lies of the promises and claims of superiority their party used to come to power in the first place.

As the natural outcome of their insane plan to print away the pains of Corona comes to light, inflation, the ones behind the strategy, the faces of the party of the morally supreme and scientifically certain are now going to blame the rise of a new variant for the reason that probably, maybe (oh most surely, you can count on it), inflation might be here to stay for a while.

The Federal Reserve Chair, Jerome Powell, the Printer King himself, is preparing to tell lawmakers that the Omnicron is to blame for the pain to come, not us, promise, pinky swear. Look at us, we’re the good guys, the party of the morally supreme and scientific certain, the party that mourned the death of JoJo, the prince of the DNC himself, gone too soon, that party.

The Omnicron is an inflation creator and perpetuator, which means, by extension, it won’t be long before the Federal Reserve and the Joe himself (if Soda Pop will let him leave their game of dominoes over a glass of lemonade) is not declaring the unvaccinated are to blame for inflation. They probably sabotage our businesses too. And stuff.

Laugh now friends, but we’re already at that point. The good news is this, technology is not on the side of the central planners anymore.

Good times.

The Fed chair will tell lawmakers that Omicron increases inflation uncertainty.

From www.nytimes.com
2021-11-29 21:36:52

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Jerome H. Powell, the Federal Reserve chair, will tell lawmakers on Tuesday that inflation is likely to last well into next year and that the new Omicron variant of the coronavirus creates more uncertainty around the economic outlook, according to a copy of his prepared remarks.

The remarks by Mr. Powell, who will testify before the Senate Banking Committee alongside Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, convey a sense of wariness at a time when price increases are running at their fastest pace in three decades.

“It is difficult to predict the persistence and effects of supply constraints, but it now appears that factors pushing inflation upward will linger well into next year,” Mr. Powell plans to say. “In addition, with the rapid improvement in the labor market, slack is diminishing, and wages are rising at a brisk pace.”

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Federal Judge Fails to Protect Chicago City Workers from Jab or Fired Order

Freedomist Editor November 30, 2021

Another DNC-appointed Judge is failing to recognize even basic constitutional rights, this time, it’s the very right to property itself, in the form of your own person not being forced to take a vaccine.

The Judge makes the usual argument that it’s safety over freedom and we’re probably all gonna die from covid if we don’t surrender all our sovereignty to the state, or words to that effect. The Judge in question is Judge John Z. Lee, a Federal District Judge of Northern Illinois.

Judge says Chicago city workers have no constitutional right to spurn vaccinations – Cook County Record

From cookcountyrecord.com

Excerpt:

A federal judge has explained he recently refused to block the Illinois governor and Chicago mayor from forcing COVID-19 vaccinations upon Chicago city workers, saying the workers’ evidence against the value of vaccines was “slim” and the city’s evidence in favor was “substantial.”

Judge John Z. Lee, of U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, issued the explanation Nov. 24, declaring the workers “do not have a fundamental constitutional right to refuse COVID-19 vaccinations.”

On Oct. 21, a group of employees of Chicago’s fire, water and transportation departments asked Lee to stop Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker and Mayor Lori Lightfoot from ordering them to be vaccinated and tested for COVID-19 or risk losing their jobs. The workers claim the mandate trespasses on their rights to bodily autonomy.

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Is Omicron a Good Variant for Humankind?

Paul Collier November 29, 2021

It appears the much-vaunted Coronavirus variant emerging from South Africa, the Omicron variant, might be the kind of virus evolution we humans can get behind. The virus appears to have become more transmissible, but also less deadly, meaning the virus is increasing the chance it will become another yearly flu we might have to deal with and little more.

The power to shut down and mandate might soon be coming to an end IF the early reports coming out of Africa are confirmed. One doctor is reporting that the symptoms are all mostly mild, especially compared to other variants. The WHO push to drive the world to fear might not have long legs as countries experience a much more mild, but more contagious version of the coronavirus. God willing, the early reports will be confirmed by what’s to follow.

The doctor who actually found the variant is the one sharing with the world the claim tha this variant is ‘extremely mild.’

Doctor Who Found Omicron Variant: ‘It’s Extremely Mild

From www.louderwithcrowder.com
2021-11-29 15:57:04
Joseph Gunderson
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Upon the discovery of a new variant of COVID-19, subsequently dubbed Omicron, the WHO has decided, in line with their particular brand of fear-mongering, that the variant “poses a very high risk of infection surges that could have ‘severe consequences’ in some places.”

“Omicron has an unprecedented number of spike mutations, some of which are concerning for their potential impact on the trajectory of the pandemic… The overall global risk… is assessed as very high.”……..

“What we are seeing clinically in South Africa—and remember, I’m at the epicenter, that’s where I’m practicing—it’s extremely mild. We haven’t admitted anyone.”

Unlike so many ignorant lemmings who consume CNN brainwashing on a regular basis, I’m inclined to believe the doctors in the trenches far more than the bureaucrats in organizations like the WHO. And it doesn’t seem like Dr. Angelique Coetzee sounds too worried….

Dr Angelique Coetzee, the South African doctor who first spotted the new Covid variant Omicron, told #Marr the patients seen so far have had “very mild symptoms”

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Amazon Wants More NFL in Quest to be Everything Corp

Ivo Fysic November 23, 2021

The era of Conglomo continues full pace, where Empires of international mega corps get in the business of everything. Amazon, which flies now, that is, to space, is now also looking to expand its hold on the NFL by becoming the lead minority state in the NFL’s media properties, which coincides with a bid to get more games on Amazon Prime.

What that last ten years has taught us, if anything, it’s that putting the means of cultural and social production in the hands of the few, especially a particualr few that don’t fundamentally share our American values, is a fantastic idea, so we’re sure this whole Corporate Everything way of creating social and cultural value is going to work out just fine, like it has so far.

Amazon Takes Lead In Talks for NFL Media Stake

From frontofficesports.com
2021-11-23 00:41:25

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Amazon has emerged as the frontrunner to buy a minority stake in the NFL’s media properties, sources tell Front Office Sports.

The tech giant is in talks with the country’s richest sports league about acquiring up to a 49% stake in NFL Network, RedZone and NFL.com, said sources.

But the Amazon deal isn’t done and there are multiple media, private equity and tech bidders seeking a piece of the NFL media empire, said sources. A last-minute snag could push a final agreement back by several months, warned another source.

The $10 billion league hired Goldman Sachs Group in June to sort out potential partners.

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Chinese Tennis Star Safety in Doubt After Accusing Party Man

Mark Clouse November 23, 2021

The World’s number one women’s doubles tennis star is Peng Shuai, a Chinese Citizen. Last Month, Peng Shuai recently accused a Chinese Official of sexual assault. She disappeared for three weeks. She recently showed up in a video conference call with the IOC, the International Olympic Committee.
That Committee appears satisfied with the results of the call. This is the same committee still committed to doing the Beijing Olympics while China continues its elimination of the Uyghurs and executes dissidents without any trial whatsoever.
The WTA, which is not so China dependent, it would seem, is not satisfied and is still pressing for more investigations and accountability by the Chinese government, lest that government potentially face sanctions from the WTA itself.

Chinese tennis star Peng Shuai’s video call with IOC draws criticism, raises questions – National

From globalnews.ca
2021-11-22 21:40:51

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A video call between the head of the International Olympic Committee and Chinese tennis player Peng Shuai, whose nearly three-week disappearance from public view sparked an outcry, was meant to reassure the world that she was safe – but instead has raised more questions.

Concern grew in the last week for the former No. 1-ranked doubles player _ who hadn’t been seen since accusing a senior Chinese official of sexual assault on Nov. 2. Tennis stars and fans alike demanded to know #WhereIsPengShuai, and the head of the Women’s Tennis Association threatened to pull lucrative events from China.

On Sunday, the IOC said Peng spoke to its president, Thomas Bach, and other officials in a 30-minute video call from Beijing……

The IOC’s short statement, which offered few details and no follow-up on her allegations, seems unlikely to close the door on Peng’s case _ and it’s leading to increasing criticism of the sports body, which was already facing calls for a boycott of the Beijing Winter Olympics, which open on Feb. 4.

Today, IOC President Thomas Bach, the Chair of the IOC Athletes’ Commission, Emma Terho @ELaaksonen3, and IOC Member in China Li Lingwei held a video call with three-time Olympian Peng Shuai from China. cc/ @Athlete365 https://t.co/8at0ZMrozS

— IOC MEDIA (@iocmedia) November 21, 2021

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Are We Pushing Girls Away from STEM? One Study Says Yes

Paul Collier November 23, 2021

A study recently published in a medical journal suggests ‘gender-interest stereotypes’ contribute to a drop in the number of girls who might be interested in STEM by as much as 50 percent, a startling figure if true.

What’s not certain about the study is whether these gender-interest stereotypes emerged from a biological reality of whether they were imposed in an effort to hem in the dynamic of a particular group, in this case, the female of the species. In other words, is it genes or is patriarchy? It is probably a lot of both.

As a people, it is in all our interests for our girls to be given less expectations and more options, as well as our boys. This study could potentially help us understand how to create more space for our children to discover more fully who they are, not who the world expects them to be, or it could become a cudgel used to beat on all things currently (allegedly) ‘orthodox’ and traditional.

My suspicion is if you apply the standard of creating space for boys and girls to discover more fully who they really are then the counter-coercive methodology of invalidating the orthodox and traditional and fetishizing anything the orthodox or the traditional is not would be a feckless tactic to try on such a people as that.

That respect of self becoming who they are by choice works to cut the orthodox and traditional from coercively stamping their assumptions on the next generations, but it also works to cut the non-orthodox and the non-traditional off from coercively stamping their assumptions on the next generation in a bid to become the NEW coercively imposed orthodoxy and tradition.

My suspicion is that a people raised in such liberties will produce remarkably similar ‘orthodox’ and ‘traditional’ patterns as before, just maybe not so overwhelmingly so, as the non-orthodox, the non-traditional are free to openly engage in all public space, respective of one another’s Bill of Rights ‘protections.’

The unity is the Bill of Rights, which makes the diversity possible. A Bill of Rights constructed land, a Bill of Rights led people will be respecters of what our children choose to become, not coercive stampers of our assumptions onto their newly developing minds.

Just a caveat in closing, this is NOT to suggest I don’t believe we share our orthodoxies and traditions, nor that we don’t offer some boundaries to our children, and boundaries against the world in dealing with our kids in matters that belong between parent and child alone.

Gender stereotypes can drop girls’ interest in STEM by 50%

From cosmosmagazine.com
2021-11-22 20:49:00
Deborah Devis
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Even children as young as 6 can develop ideas that girls don’t like computer science and engineering as much as boys – stereotypes that carry over into teenagerhood and contribute to gender gaps at university, according to a study published in PNAS.

“Gender-interest stereotypes that STEM is for boys begins in grade school, and by the time they reach high school, many girls have made their decision not to pursue degrees in computer science and engineering because they feel they don’t belong,” says lead author Allison Master, of the University of Houston.

The study involved four different experiments to assess the beliefs of a racially diverse sample of children and teens right throughout school. Instead of exploring who children perceived as ‘good’ at STEM subjects, they investigated who children thought liked them, which can affect childrens’ sense of belonging and willingness to participate in STEM-related activities.

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They Want the Freedom to Force You to Accept Their Beliefs and Express Them

And Now Transgenders Want You to Bake Their Transitioning Cake

Paul Collier November 23, 2021

The freedom of expression versus the freedom of expression comes to bear, with one representing the expression of gender in the form of transgenderism and the other in the form of not having to be compelled to express an opinion one does not share.

In this instance, the backdrop is a public space under the authority of a private enterprise, a cake shop in Colorado. The issue to be resolved within a Bill of Rights, Due Process, Rule of Law context is to determine which right is more fundamentally being violated here, the person wanting a cake celebrating a transition day for a transgendered person or the Christian who does not wish to express such approval for such an act?

Of course, we Americans can easily see which side should be held justified in this exchange within that Bill of Rights parameter, and that would be the one you are compelling to express a belief that person does not share. In esseence ,the pro-transgendered person is asking the state to make acceptance of transgenderism compelled belief, to establish a form of secular church, an orthodoxy of belief that the people must openly express approval of, one of which is that transgenderism is good and should be celebrated.

The two parties aren’t talking from the same value perspective at the start, with one side equating a hierarchy of minoritized groups as defined by a mere handful of human factors (gender, sexual preference, race, and are you anything other than us which makes you literally Nazis?) which should determine the hierarchy of rights values. The heart of CRT is to inject into the law super extra ‘considerations’ that essentially boil down to a hierarchy of preferred human expression and a hierarchy of forbidden human expression with which to undo the very spirt of the Bill of Rights itself.

A not-so-trojany-Trojan horse that the alleged opposition, the GOP, seemed not too concerned to let into the inner sanctum of jurisprudence nonetheless. Of course, this was just one of many ‘fails’ that have many, including many writers for the Freedomist itself, to conclude the GOP is mostly controlled, even still, by the DNC’s Washington Generals team, leading all Americans into hopelessness as the DNC Python squeezes the life out of the American soul.

Still, the reality of our technological situation is such that these days of heady micromanaging power will more than likely be short-lived, and in that era, transgendered folks will be free to live openly, without fear of hate, and Christian bakers won’t be compelled to create any message they don’t wish to create, as will Muslim, Atheist, and Hindu bakers.

South Carolina AG joins brief in support of Colorado cake shop that refused to make gender transition cake

From www.wbtw.com
2021-11-22 23:36:11

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COLUMBIA, S.C. (WBTW) — South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson joined 16 other attorneys general in support of a Colorado cake shop that refused to make a cake celebrating a gender transition.

Wilson, in a news release, says the amicus brief supports “free speech rights of small business owners.” The brief claims cakes are works of art and should be protected by the First Amendment.

“The right to free speech is precious to all our citizens and cake bakers are no different,” Wilson said in the news release. “The U.S. Supreme Court has already ruled in favor of this same small business in a previous First Amendment case so we know we’re on solid legal ground.”

Jack Philips, who owns Masterpiece Cakeshop in Colorado, was sued after not making a custom cake celebrating a gender transition because “[i]t would violate [his] religious beliefs to send a message to anyone that he would celebrate a gender transition,” according to the news release.

Read a full copy of the brief here.

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