War
Military Success in Syria Gives Putin Upper Hand in U.S. Proxy War nytimes v
For the first time since Afghanistan in the 1980s, the Russian military for the past year has been in direct combat with rebel forces trained and supplied by the C.I.A. The American-supplied Afghan fighters prevailed during that Cold War conflict. But this time the outcome — thus far — has been different.
Chinese fleet sails near Japanese Senkaku islands bbc
The reported incident occurred near the Senkaku Islands. They are administered by Japan but also claimed by China, which calls them the Diaoyu Islands.
See also Beijing sends bombers, fighter jets on combat patrols over contested S. China Sea rt
Russia-Turkey
Putin-Erdogan meeting to pave way for restoring bilateral cooperation news.xinhuanet
Russia intends to gradually lift the special economic measures, introduced against Turkey earlier due to the downing of Russia's Su-24 aircraft by Turkish air forces last November, Ushakov said.
Space
Soonly NASA will close International Space Station and will move to Moon albanydailystar
Gerstenmaier made those comments during a meeting of NASA’s advisory council in early December at Johnson Space Center, which Ars attended. The comments are striking because, while the remarks reflect NASA’s desire to see US commercial industries thrive in the space around Earth, it is not the agency’s top priority to ensure that happens. Gerstenmaier said NASA is committed to moving humans deeper into space to the vicinity of the Moon, an area known as cislunar space.
Anti-Semitism
US Jewish groups dismayed by Movement for Black Lives accusing Israel of genocide jpost
Beyond this accusation and the use of the word “apartheid” to describe Israel, the [published BLM] platform includes a section calling on the United States to end military aid to the country.
Research
Mathematicians Are Building a Unified Theory of Geometric Randomness wired t
Sheffield, a professor of mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, studies shapes that are constructed by random processes. No two of them are ever exactly alike. Consider the most familiar random shape, the random walk, which shows up everywhere from the movement of financial asset prices to the path of particles in quantum physics. These walks are described as random because no knowledge of the path up to a given point can allow you to predict where it will go next.
I found this (semi-long) article fascinating in that even "random" is consistant and (becoming) describable with math. Also reminded me of Proverbs 16:33...
The lot is cast into the lap, but its every decision is from the LORD.
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