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An immense amount of neutrino research is going on in the US, Japan and even Antarctica. On DowneastBlog, we've already mentioned severa...

The Thorium Fuel Cycle has been known for over 50 years and had staunch advocates, a.o. in The Netherlands, which in the 70s even boasted an...

Cults with Always Forever . From the album Static (2013). Cults is an American indie pop duo formed in New York City in 2010. Madeli...

Via my Twitter/X pal Kuruki (@Kuruki23882260), this new Lotuseaters episode: Have a nice weekend. MFBB.

Imho one of the best art accounts on Twitter/X (can't get used to the latter) is Richard Morris's, who focuses on non-mainstream, bu...

ABBA with SOS . From the album ABBA (1975). True, this is normally outside DowneastBlog's line of work, but I post it neverthele...

The steep descent of the UK towards a totalitarian 1984-like society is both astounding and frightening. Grandmothers and 11 year olds ar...

Did you ever hear about the Lavochkin-250 Anakonda? Well, I didn't - until this evening. Here is its story: It was quite a beas...

On X, formerly twitter, I discovered Fermilabs (very) short educational videos, all the more reason to follow Fermilab's account! Firs...

Donna Summer with Lady of the Night . From the eponymous 1974 album, actually her debut. Iconic American singer/songwriter from Bosto...

Dominik Tarczyński is a Polish politician for the Law and Justice Party (PiS) and a journalist, who is making a name for himself as a firebr...

Don McLean with Castles in the Air . From the 1981 album Believers , although it was actually released a decade earlier as a single. ...

The Starmer government has been in power for about two months, and it shows. Boys are being arrested for waving a British flag and grandmoth...

Jack Watling, Senior Research Fellow - Land Warfare, Military Sciences, posits that Ukraine, fearing a not so unlikely scenario of a 2nd Tr...

A truly frightening evolution in the UK, where you can now be ARRESTED and IMPRISONED over social media posts deemed 'offensive' by ...

Wendy and Bonnie with I realized you . From their sole album Genesis (1969). Wendy and Bonnie Flower were Californian singing sister...

Per @cdrsalamander, our longtime ally, this appalling stat which sheds light on US women's fertility: I don't have similar stat...

The UK elections are over. As expected, the Tories got - rightly so - a clobbering, and Farage's Reform did well. However, the UK electo...

Fine-Structure Constant (approx. 1/137) is a dimensionless constant that characterizes the strength of the electromagnetic interaction betwe...

With 33% of the vote, Marine Le Pen's rightwing Rassemblement National (RN) seems to have won the first round of France's parliamen...