For logical reasons, guns are in the news. Some statistics: “Americans own (at least) 42% of the world’s guns. We are 4.4% of the world’s population, but 31% of the world’s mass-shooting victims”. These are simple facts. Just as simply, these facts point to a serious problem. This problem needs to be resolved. Now. People are needlessly dying. This situation has long been out of control and appears to be headed in a bad direction as we come out of covid. Here is the source for these numbers.
Between Lula making a sort of come back, covid devastating the country, and fake treatments killing people, Brazil has produced multiple headlines in the last couple of days.
The story of a Galileo treatise from 1610 being stolen from the Spanish National Library and taken to Argentina has gotten some attention. Apparently, it is the work where Galileo reported important telescope observations such as mountains on our moon, Jupiter having four of its own moons, and the Milky Way having lots and lots of moons (and other things).
Between Lula making a sort of come back, covid devastating the country, and fake treatments killing people, Brazil has produced multiple headlines in the last couple of days.
The story of a Galileo treatise from 1610 being stolen from the Spanish National Library and taken to Argentina has gotten some attention. Apparently, it is the work where Galileo reported important telescope observations such as mountains on our moon, Jupiter having four of its own moons, and the Milky Way having lots and lots of moons (and other things).
