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Secrecy News :  February 7, 2018 View this email in your browser SECRECY NEWS From the FAS Project on Government Secrecy Volume 2018, Issue No. 9 February 7, 2018 Secrecy News Blog:   https://fas.org/blogs/ secrecy/ **     THE EXPANDING SECRECY OF THE AFGHANISTAN WAR **     DARPA: AN OVERVIEW, AND MORE FROM CRS THE EXPANDING SECRECY OF THE AFGHANISTAN WAR Last year,  dozens of categories  of previously unclassified information about Afghan military forces were designated as classified, making it more difficult to publicly track the progress of the war in Afghanistan. The categories of now-classified information were tabulated in  a memo dated October 31, 2017  that was prepared by the staff of the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction ( SIGAR ), John Sopko. In the judgment of the memo authors, "None of the material now classified or otherwise restricted discloses information that could threaten the U.S. or Afghan missions (such as det

It has its good points. It presents a means of observing the universe and its challenges/questions through logical deduction. It relies on the idea that all of reality has a rational structure. It can provide people a means of framework to view the universe without having to include a lense of supernatural and religious belief. And I don’t have any issue with it per se. I just don’t agree with the notion some rationalists and others have that logical reasoning and faith are somehow opposing concepts, when I see them both as virtuous. Because I’m a virtue ethicist, my philosophy on the whole matter essentially is that to make myself a better person, I need to embrace all virtues. The virtue of faith, trust, belief, and the virtue of rationality, logic, deduction are not things that need to be in opposition. Rationalism as a philosophy indeed relies on the notion that just because we do not see or sense something somehow, doesn’t mean that it doesn’t exist. We can intui

humor  hollyblueagate “if goofy is a dog and pluto is a dog why is one a pet” is the cartoon equivalent of “if man evolved from monkeys why are there still monkeys” zagreus The implication that Goofy is just a more advanced stage in canine evolution is oddly terrifying somehow hollyblueagate theres no such thing as ‘more advance’ in evolution. a dogman isnt more evolved than a dog, just as you are no more evolved than an seagull or coral, they are just fitted for different environments and have evolved as such dimetrodone Goofy is not more evolved the Pluto, Goofy just fills a different ecological niche. While Pluto is just a scavenger and Goofy is an apex predator both play important roles in the ecosystem. thekingmickey Originally posted by kevinarsenault chlstarrbaby Goofy’s a domestic dog, Pluto is a real one. hollyblueagate “Why me? I’m domesticated!” is the deepest rabbit hole of a line in the entire disney canon

In 1861 only 200 Chinese lived in the Eastern United States, of which 58 participated in the Civil War, 5 fighting with the Confederacy.  While a handful are recognized and fully documented, most are nearly forgotten to history.   Perhaps one of the best documented was Cpl. Joseph Pierce (pictured left).  Born in China Pierce was sold by his parents to slavers at the age of ten.  Eventually he was purchased by an American ship captain, who took pity on the boy and raised him as his own son in New England.  In 1862 Pierce enlisted in the Union Army with the 14th Regiment of the Connecticut Volunteer Infantry.  With the 14th Regiment he fought in 34 engagements including Antietam, Gettysburg, and Appomattox Courthouse.  After the war he settled in Meriden, Connecticut, passing away at the age of 72 in 1914. Edward Day Cohota (pictured right) was found as a stowaway aboard the ship of Capt. Sargent S. Day.  Day adopted the boy, naming his Edward Day Cohota,  Cohota  bein

ESA / David Sing When a planet transits in front of its parent star, some of the light is not only blocked, but if an atmosphere is present, filters through it, creating absorption or emission lines that a sophisticated-enough observatory could detect. Perhaps the most revolutionary find of the past generation, when we think about the Universe beyond Earth, is the discovery that our Solar System isn't the only one out there. 30 years ago, we had yet to find a single planet beyond our own Solar System; today, we're aware of thousands. The rapid developments in exoplanetology have taught us that there are more planets than stars in the Universe, and that Earth-sized, potentially habitable worlds are common. In fact, there are likely hundreds of billions of such worlds in our galaxy alone. But the majority of these worlds are around red dwarf stars: stars where flares and activity are common, and many scientists contend that worlds around these stars should have no