I was at a scientific conference dinner once where I was sat in between the Professor head of a European research institute and the principal researcher in a department of a British government scienc… (View Post)

It's eating the seedcorn. It would be disastrous. I know Britain is skint, and there's only really a variety of bad and worse choices left, but it speaks volumes that politicians would rath… (View Post)

According to US life tables, Trump had a ~5% chance of dying in his 80th year, rising to ~5.5% for his next year and ~6% the year after that. So there's a slightly better than 1-in-40 chance tha… (View Post)

As I understand it a person in the audience behind Trump was very genuinely killed. It would be a pretty risky play to fire a live weapon towards your principal as part of a faked assassination attem… (View Post)

Yes, and my understanding is that head wounds in general, even if very minor, bleed like billy-o, so they look worse than they are. (View Post)