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2021
“Kohlenklau”, or how Germany’s transportation constraints led to crippling coal shortages during WW IIoriginal ↗
26 May 2021
COVID19 mini-update, May 25, 2021: Yesterday’s “conspiracy theory” about lab origin now embraced by Fauci?!original ↗
25 May 2021
COVID19 mini-update, May 23, 2021: Preliminary results indicate Pfizer, Oxford/Astrazeneca vaccines largely remain effective against Indian variantoriginal ↗
23 May 2021
PLO head honcho in 1977: “Palestinian identity is just a tactical ploy” [blast from the past]original ↗
22 May 2021
Israel under fire update: Egyptian cease-fire efforts; surprising Saudi media tone; Prof. Eugene Kontorovich; Gad Saadoriginal ↗
19 May 2021
Israel under fire update: goals on both sides; Arab reporter beaten by Ḥamas for not wearing a headscarf; Thai foreign workers killedoriginal ↗
18 May 2021
Israel under fire update: US pressuring Israel for cease-fire; video of drone operator told to abort strike because children on the target site; former Hamas member: “Hamas is the worst enemy of the Palestinian people”original ↗
16 May 2021
Israel under fire update: rockets fall on Arab towns too; UAE tells Gaza their planned infrastructure projects won’t go through unless they stop; the Iron Dome system in a nutshelloriginal ↗
15 May 2021
14 May 2021
Israel: Rocket fire and riots in mixed Jewish-Arab towns; Netanyahu gets a new lease on political life? [UPDATED]original ↗
13 May 2021
Of Dutch (Nederlands), “Flemish” (Vlaams), and “tussentaal” (intermediate language) as a koinéoriginal ↗
8 May 2021
8 May 2021
COVID19 mini-update, May 7, 2021: The Lancet paper on efficacy of Pfizer in Israel; Germany says, “patents are not the bottleneck, production capacity is”original ↗
7 May 2021
7 May 2021
Sabbath musical delight: J. S. Bach, sinfonia to Cantata BWV 29, also appearing as Preludio to Sonata in E major for solo violin, BWV 1006, and… as the organ solo in Deep Purple’s “Nothing At All”original ↗
1 May 2021
24 Apr 2021
23 Apr 2021
Neat, plausible, and wrong: Mencken’s Observation and how people embrace ideologies divorced from realityoriginal ↗
22 Apr 2021
Sabbath musical delight: Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV 565, on… viola?! (Not a viola joke.)original ↗
17 Apr 2021
15 Apr 2021
COVID19 mini-update, Yom HaZikaron edition: Dr. Campbell looks at the state of therapeutics after 1 year; Daily Telegraph wonders if China is losing the COVID Cold Waroriginal ↗
13 Apr 2021
COVID19 mini-update, April 11, 2021: clues about rare Oxford/Astrazeneca thrombotic events; Israel “has reached a form of herd immunity”; Pfizer and South African variantoriginal ↗
11 Apr 2021
COVID19 mini-update, April 9, 2021: Dr. John Campbell on Oxford/AstraZeneca rare side effects; Israel reopening furtheroriginal ↗
9 Apr 2021
8 Apr 2021
7 Apr 2021
COVID19 mini-update, April 5, 2021: Dr. Campbell on the UK ‘single-shot first’ vaccination campaign and its effects; miscellaneous updatesoriginal ↗
5 Apr 2021
Video of the month: Bari Weiss in dialogue with the Hoover Institute “Goodfellows” on “The Great Awokening”original ↗
3 Apr 2021
31 Mar 2021
No, Bach did not “hate” the piano. Bonus: Happy Passover wishes from the Israel Philharmonicoriginal ↗
27 Mar 2021
Bach Baptism Day post: the curious tale of the “Zippelfagottist” (bell-end bassoonist) and Bach’s only sword fightoriginal ↗
23 Mar 2021
22 Mar 2021
Bach Day post: Encountering BACH (2+ hour documentary by Dr. David Chin); a few J. S. Bach “did you know”soriginal ↗
20 Mar 2021
15 Mar 2021
COVID19 update, March 13, 2021: interview with Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla on Israeli vaccination drive/”Phase IV clinical field trial”original ↗
13 Mar 2021
9 Mar 2021
Derp-seal of the week: author of bizarre state law proposition to “regulate” internet communicationoriginal ↗
4 Mar 2021
COVID19 update, February 21-22, 2021: Israel approaching herd immunity one year after the beginning?original ↗
22 Feb 2021
16 Feb 2021
14 Feb 2021
12 Feb 2021
COVID19 update, Feb. 11, 2021: Israel now has fewer over-60 than under-60 COVID hospital patients, due to age-selective vaccination driveoriginal ↗
11 Feb 2021
COVID19 update, February 9, 2021: Oxford/AstraZeneca, UK, and EU spat; the “data scientist” who wasn’t; WaPo no longer dismisses biocontainment breach as origin theoryoriginal ↗
9 Feb 2021
9 Feb 2021
COVID19 mini-update, February 6, 2021: two promising new Israeli drugs; Dr. Seheult on the Johnson & Johnson one-shot vaccine; Israel’s former COVID19 czar says time to end lockdowns, let people get back to workoriginal ↗
6 Feb 2021
Out: claims the elections are rigged are conspiracy theories. In: TIME magazine article about why rigging the election was a good thingoriginal ↗
5 Feb 2021
3 Feb 2021
COVID19 update, February 3, 2021: Sputnik vaccine trial in The Lancet; mouthwash and colchicineoriginal ↗
3 Feb 2021
30 Jan 2021
COVID19 breaking news, January 28, 2021: first preliminary data on effectiveness of Israeli vaccination campaign [UPDATED]original ↗
28 Jan 2021
International Shoah Memorial Day post: the less well-known story of DP camps after the war and the “survivor baby boom”original ↗
27 Jan 2021
26 Jan 2021
Constitutional law professors left, center, right: 2nd impeachment trial in the Senate unconstitutional.original ↗
26 Jan 2021
COVID19 mini-update, January 22, 2021: Israel vaccination progress; Pfizer side effects study; WHO quietly issues caution about RT-PCR with high replication countsoriginal ↗
22 Jan 2021
22 Jan 2021
20 Jan 2021
18 Jan 2021
COVID19 mini-update: fixing your indoor air (not just for COVID); vitamin D evidence in the House of Commons; Bell’s Palsy; COVID19 risk as a function of ageoriginal ↗
17 Jan 2021
16 Jan 2021
COVID19 mini-update, January 5, 2020: Third lockdown in Israel; progress in vaccination drive; Dr. John Campbell with a UK updateoriginal ↗
5 Jan 2021
COVID19 mini-update, January 4, 2020: India approves Oxford-AstraZeneca and local Bharatech vaccines; Israel update; UK lockdown; Instapundit; Dr. Seheult meets Dr. Campbelloriginal ↗
4 Jan 2021
2020
COVID19 update, December 30, 2020: Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine approved in the UK; more updates from Israel; link between viral load and severity of disease; Rapid CRISPR-based tests comingoriginal ↗
30 Dec 2020
COVID19 update, December 29, 2020: Belgium starts vaccination; over 500,000 vaccinated in Israel so far; China arrests author of Wuhan Diaries; asymptomatic transmission rare to nonexistent?original ↗
29 Dec 2020