Report: New Supervolcano Discovered Under U.S.

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(Photo Credit: U.S. Geological Survey)

 

According to a new report scientists have discovered a new supervolcano that is brewing under several New England states. Continue reading

PLA Navy eyes China’s deep-sea underwater glider after successful test shows it rivals US vessel

A fleet of underwater gliders developed by professor Yu Jiancheng’s team. Photo: Xinhua

 

Chinese military’s interest piqued after Haiyi-7000 makes it 5,751 metres down world’s deepest ocean trench

Chinese researchers have just carried out the first test of what they believe will be the world’s deepest-reaching underwater glider – challenging the record held by a vessel now in use by the US Navy.

The Haiyi-7000 – carried on board the maiden voyage of China’s submersible mother ship, Tansuo-1 – was deployed above the Mariana Trench, in the western Pacific, an ocean trench with the greatest known ocean depth of 11,034 metres from late June to early August.

It was able to glide down to a depth of 5,751 metres and its progress has greatly interested the People’s Liberation Army Navy. Continue reading

New York Times 2015 Op-Ed Issued a Dire Warning About Polling Accuracy

When you see the Hillary-vs-Trump polls, here are two things you need to know:

  1. When they show Trump is behind, he’s tied.
  2. When they show Trump is tied, he’s ahead — by a landslinde.

 

As I demonstrated in yesterday’s article, How Bloomberg Spun its Own Poll Data to Make Hillary Clinton Seem Inevitable, the media is intentionally spinning poll results at best, and completely fabricating them at worst.

While that’s bad enough, there are also some deep, fundamental problems which plague any attempts to conduct accurate polling in 2016. Cliff Zukin, professor of public policy and political science at Rutgers University and a past president of the American Association for Public Opinion Research, wrote about many of these issues in a 2015 New York Times opinion piece titled, What’s the Matter With Polling? Continue reading