30 Friday Jul 2021
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The authors of an important new essay collection discuss proposals for international order in the 21st century. This webinar launches Anchoring the World: International Order in the Twenty-First Century, published by Foreign Affairs. This anthology marks the Centennials of Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service, the Council on Foreign Relations and Chatham House. The anthology is the culmination of the Lloyd George Study Group on World Order.
26 Saturday Jan 2019
The economy grew at an annual rate of 2.3 percent in the first quarter, the government reported Friday, offering a preliminary glance at how last year’s sweeping package of tax cuts is affecting consumers and businesses this year.
During the first three months of 2018, the economy was whacked around like a pinball. The stock market took investors on a giddy ride. President Trump imposed tariffs on allies and rivals alike, stoking fears of a trade war. And the revamped tax code shifted business incentives and started to put more money in workers’ paychecks.
Still, the economy ended up puttering along just a bit above the average yearly growth rate that it had registered since the recession ended nearly nine years ago.
Read More:
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/27/business/economy/gdp-economy.html
https://www.bea.gov/newsreleases/national/gdp/gdpnewsrelease.htm
22 Saturday Dec 2018
Posted in Environment, global, Oceans, Research
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17 Friday Aug 2018
Posted in Environment, global, weather
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A supercomputer-powered Web site project sporting the humble name “earth” is a fascinating look at global weather patterns. It comes from software developer Cameron Beccario and it will suck you into a world full of weather-induced curves and swirls viewable at different levels in the atmosphere.
The globe, with its animated lines of colorful wind patterns, can be rotated and zoomed to get in close on a particular location. The closer you click, the more surreal it gets, until the wind looks like some hairy alien growing across your state.
Try out the different heights and overlay options (like temperature) and watch weather patterns around the world meld into each other and connect across continents. The visualization of global weather conditions is generated by supercomputers, with the forecast being updated every three hours.
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