The real national emergency is the triviality of our politics

02.18.19

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post) When House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) learned that President Trump would declare a national emergency to shift around money to finance his border wall, her denunciation was predictable. Observing the "unease," even among many Republicans, over Trump’s abuse of his power, she noted that "if the president can declare an emergency on something that he has created as an emergency — an illusion that he wants to convey — just think of what a president with different values can present to the American people." Our nation’s deadly permissiveness toward firearms was very much on Pelosi’s mind — even before Friday’s shooting at an Aurora, Ill., warehouse that killed five people — because on Wednesday, the House Judiciary Committee had voted 21 to 14 to send a bill requiring background checks for all gun sales to the House floor. It...

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02.18.19

Read the Full Transcript of Former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe's '60 Minutes' Interview

Former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe outlined Sunday the reasons the FBI opened a counterintelligence probe into President Donald Trump’s campaign ties to Russia and revealed alleged discussions over the potential to use the Constitution to oust Trump from office. In an interview with 60 Minutes that aired Sunday night, McCabe said that Deputy Attorney General Rosenstein raised the idea of invoking the 25th Amendment against the president. The 60 Minutes sit-down comes ahead of the publication of McCabe’s new...

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02.18.19

Dance Your PhD's 2018 winner mixes superconductivity and swing dancing

Pairs of swing-dancing electrons do the Lindy Hop in "Superconductivity: The Musical," the winning video for this year's geektastic Dance Your PhD contest. Pramodh Yapa, a graduate student at the University of Alberta, Canada, beat out roughly 50 other entries for the interpretive dance based on his master's thesis, "Non-Local Electrodynamics of Superconducting Wires: Implications for Flux Noise and Inductance." The Dance Your PhD contest was established in 2008 by science journalist John Bohannon, and is sponsored by Science magazine...

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02.18.19

Get ready for this week's 'super snow moon,' brightest lunar light show of the year

Stock image, St. George News ST. GEORGE — A supermoon that’s set to light up the skies this Tuesday is arriving during a special time of year traditionally referred to by Native Americans as the "snow moon." Supermoon formationA comparison between the Dec. 3, 2017, full moon at perigee and the year’s farthest full moon taken at Telok Kemang Observatory, Port Dickson, Malaysia, June 2017 Photo courtesy of Muzamir Mazlan/Space. com, St. George NewsWhen perigee takes place, the moon appears...

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02.18.19

In the new Malaysia, signs of an older, uglier politics

These, along with the minarets, churches and temples that dot the city, are small signs of the multicultural fabric of the Malaysian society, a complicated weave of Malay, Chinese, Indian and other identities. The new government -- formed by a coalition of parties which forced former Prime Minister Najib Razak from last year, is reflective of that mix. But whether that will help new Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad unite the country behind a single Malaysian identity is up for debate....

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02.18.19

Clark County measles outbreak rises to 61 cases

VANCOUVER, Wash. – Clark County Public Health confirmed two new measles cases on Sunday, bringing the total to 61 identified cases in the outbreak since the beginning of the year. Officials also identified two new locations where the contagious patients visited and may have exposed others to the measles. Authorities say 14 of the cases involve children 11 to 18 years old, one patient between 19 and 29 years old, and two cases for people ages 30 to 39. The...

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02.18.19

NASA Captures Image of Bright Blue Objects in Space

According to NASA, the young star that is the source of these Herbig-Haro objects is called SVS 13, and in the image, the bright blue clusters are moving away from SVS 13 toward the upper left side. Herbig-Haro objects are developed by a complex process: Jets of ionized gas are thrown out by a young star and they bang into nearby clouds of dust and gas at high speeds, causing these eerie, bright blue clusters to form deep in the cosmos....

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02.18.19

Why do the northern and southern lights differ?

Earth generates a magnetic field that looks as if a bar magnet runs from the South Pole through its core to the North Pole. The field lines curve outward from both poles, far beyond the atmosphere, with the outer arcs forming the boundary of a magnetic bubble around our planet. The particles accelerate along Earth’s magnetic field lines toward the icy polar regions. When the magnetic field lines curve symmetrically around Earth, aurorae should appear in identical places in the...

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02.18.19

LG knows when to hold 'em, won't be folding its smartphones this year

Kwon, who was handed the reins to LG's struggling phone business late last year, told reporters at a press conference in Seoul on Friday that the company has "reviewed releasing the foldable smartphone when launching [its] 5G smartphone but decided not to produce it," as reported by The Korea Times. Given that LG's smartphone business is currently flagging, the decision to stick with traditional non-folding handsets for another year might end up hurting the company's phone sales even further.

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