Monthly Archives: December 2016

Affordable Care Act and Medi-Cal Support in Orange County and California

Affordable Care Act and Medi-Cal Support in Orange County and California If there is repeal or major modifications to Federal support of the Affordable Care Act in California’s Medi-Cal, there will be serious impacts to Orange County and California health … Continue reading

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Trump Has it Backwards About Climate Action Hindering Our Competitiveness

Trump Has it Backwards About Climate Change Being a Chinese Plot and Hindering Our Competitiveness The Chinese emit more greenhouse gases than any other country. In 2011, they emitted 10 Gigatons (a billion tonnes) equivalent of greenhouse gases, the US … Continue reading

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What is Trump Doing With His Personnel Questionaire to the Department of Energy?

What is Trump’s Transition Team Doing With Their Personnel Questionnaire to the Department of Energy? They have sent a 74 question form asking about personnel who work on various clean energy projects or climate science research. They want to know … Continue reading

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TTTTs: Trump Tweet Tactical Teams Around the World

TTTTs: Trump Tweet Tactical Teams Around the World Deep in the sub-sub-basement of the Kremlin in the Real-Top-Secret area meets the Trump Tweet Tactical Team at precisely 2 PM Moscow time, every day. That time is the same as 3 … Continue reading

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Are Trump’s Appointments Meant as Revenge Against His Opposition?

Are Trump’s Appointments Meant as Revenge Against His Opposition? We know that daily, Trump is seeking revenge against anybody who criticizes him or even corrects one of his numbers. Imagine the fear of Republican congressmen to ever cross Trump even … Continue reading

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Trump’s EPA and Climate Science

Trump’s EPA and Climate Science Trump just appointed one of the most environmentally dangerous lawyers to become Administrator of the EPA, Scott Pruitt, Oklahoma’s Attorney General. Yet there might be some hopes left. Like the transition team EPA member, Myron … Continue reading

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Math of the 2016 Election

This article contains the pdf of the lecture that I am giving to the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at UC Irvine, on Dec. 6, 2016.  It started as the math hidden in the primaries, but got delayed until after the … Continue reading

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OLLI Presentation on Discovery of Gravitational Radiation, Using Video by Barry Barish

This is my one hour long Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at UC Irvine presentation on the Detection of Gravitational Waves, using the YouTube talk by earlier LIGO leader Prof. Barry Barish at Cal Tech. I start with a short description … Continue reading

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Enough of Trump Endorsing Murderous Dictators in Exchange for Trump Towers

Enough of Trump Endorsing Murderous Dictators in Exchange for Trump Towers As Bernie Sanders would say to Trump, “enough with endorsing dictators”, which Trump does to get their approval for local tower builders to host the Trump name, and for … Continue reading

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