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- Utah Jazz star Lauri Markkanen reports for military service in Finland. Good for him! 

- The four Buddhist mantras for turning fear into love.

- Elon Musk's BBC interview show journalists don't speak truth to power - they coddle it.

- Interesting interview with botanist Stefano Mancuso

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- NASA finds cave on moon that could be perfect for human habitation.

- You may have missed this news but Finland very quietly officially became the 31st member nation of NATO.  

- Glenn Reynolds on Who Can You Trust? Reynolds goes to Heinlein for his example but Michael Crichton's Rising Sun and its manipulation of digital media in a murder case might have been a better example.

- Still makes me laugh

Finland and Sweden : Reinforcing NATO's Northern Flank

Finland and Sweden are seemingly fast-tracking potential membership into NATO. I don't like that idea at all!

To me it isn't reinforcing NATO's northern flank - instead it would be an unforced error of escalating tensions unnecessarily.  Putin claimed Ukraine's potential of joining NATO putting NATO troops on Russia's doorstep as one of his justifications for invasion. Having Finland and Sweden join NATO would allow Putin, with some truth, to tell the Russian people, "See I was right! NATO is trying to surround us!"

Don't like this idea at all.

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- Autonomous ships may become a big part of the Navy. I can see these being put to good use by the Coast Guard as well.

- Finland's guaranteed basic income trial boosts happiness but not employment. Of course it boosted happiness - these people were getting "free" money.

- Big fan of the X-Man

- Wow - this was the best Super Bowl party! I was amused that even the homeless guys skipped the Maroon 5 halftime show.

- I'm not aged 65-80 but maybe it's time to start taking 500 Mg of Resveratrol daily

- If we are going to all PC about it why doesn't baseball just change the DL to the DA (Differently Abled) list?

- If this doesn't get you a little misty then I seriously don't want to know you

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- How to clear the data off your old phone before you sell it

- Nice shot

- Where the top American-made cars are manufactured

- Is Roger Goodell deliberately pushing the NFL leftward? By Jason Whitlock?

- And in a related story - Vin Scully says he will no longer watch another NFL game because of the Anthem protests. 

- I love these stories.

- Agreed - still the greatest tourism poster ever made.