Back of the Book

Sat, Feb 5, 2022 05:00 AM

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Hosts: R. Paul Martin & Pickles of the North

Topics:

Covid~19 cases in the whole world - 389,947,603 on Friday.
Covid~19 deaths in the whole world - 5,720,295 on Friday.
Covid~19 cases in the United States of America - 76,165,124 on Friday.
Covid~19 deaths in the United States of America - 899,895 on Friday.
Covid~19 deaths in the United States of America since our last program - 18,940.
Venus - A privately funded mission to the planet Venus is going to look for life in the thick clouds of that planet.
Bad people - Vandals have "irreparably damaged" prehistoric rock art at Big Bend National Park in Texas.
Florida - The "Don't Say Gay" bill prohibits classroom discussion "about sexual orientation or gender identity."

Synopsis:

Of Spheres, and Rock Art and a Pandemic

We talked about the "Venus Life Finder Mission" led by some folks from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. It's not going to look at the surface of Venus for signs of life, it's going to look at a cloud layer 37 miles above the surface.

Some people are still saying that the pandemic is about over, but the death rate from COVID~19 is again higher this week than it was last week.

We talked about the revelations that Trump was trying to appoint conspiracy nutcase Sidney Powell as a special counsel to overturn the 2020, election.

There are bad people doing bad things in the world.

Guests:

Guests? Guests? We don't got no guests. We don't need no stinkin' guests! -

Playlist:

Barracuda - Heart
Baker Street - Gerry Rafferty

Info / Links:

I have a Web site.
R. Paul is on Twitter.
WBAI LSB Treasurer's Reports are here.
If you want to do something to protect your privacy while using regular browsers, like Firefox, you can check out NOSCRIPT which gives you more control over what Web sites can learn about you.
Search engines help us to find things on the World Wide Web. Most search engines exist not to help you find things but to allow the companies that provide the search service to data mine your searches and then sell your search history to clients so they can spam you. An alternative to getting your privacy compromised is to use the DuckDuckGo search engine.
If you'd like to keep your browsing history private you can get yourself the Tor Browser. Using the DuckDuckGo search engine is automatic with the Tor Browser, and by accessing the DuckDuckGo search engine from the Tor Browser you are pretty much guaranteed that no one can trace searches back to you.
Gnu Privacy Guard can help you to encrypt your data and preserve your privacy.
For those who need some help getting started with Gnu Privacy Guard there is Gentle GPG which does a lot of the work for you.
For the somewhat more advanced user who wants to protect his or her privacy there is the Tails OS. Tails is a live operating system that you can start on almost any computer from a USB flash drive or a DVD. It allows you to use any computer that will allow you to boot up off a USB flash drive or a DVD and it provides a lot of good security for your on-line activities. You can get the Tails OS here.

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