Monthly Archives: December 2020
Mon, Dec 28, 2020, 3PM (CT) #KPFTHouston 90.1FM. POSSIBLE TOPICS: Voting info; “Vote By Mail” applications; TX DMV end date for waiver; TX hasn’t said when/how inmates will receive the COVID Vax; AG Paxton asked Trump to take back some of Harris Cty’s COVID-19 money; Despite smooth election, GOP leaders seek vote restrictions; The Democrats Trying to Overturn an Election; Sweden’s Covid-19 failures exposed myths of lockdown-sceptics; Chinese economy to overtake US ‘by 2028’ due to Covid; more. Guest: [AUDIO/VIDEO]
This program was recorded early in the morning on SUNDAY, December 27. Due to Covid-19, shows are being prerecorded beginning March 13, 2020 and until further notice. We miss our live call-in participants, and look forward to a time we can once again go live. Thinkwing Radio with Mike Honig (@ThinkwingRadio), a listener call-in show airing live every Monday from 3-4 PM (CT) on KPFT-FM 90.1 (Houston). My co-host and Editor is Andrew Ferguson.
Listen live on the radio, or on the internet from anywhere in the world! When the show is live, we take calls at 713-526-5738. (Long distance charges may apply.) Please take a moment to visit Pledge.KPFT.org and choose THINKWING RADIO from the drop-down list when you donate. Continue reading
Mon, Dec 21, 2020, 3PM (CT) #KPFTHouston 90.1FM. POSSIBLE TOPICS: Voting info; “Vote By Mail” applications; Texas DMV announces end date for waiver of vehicle title, registration requirements; Houston child shot amid parental dispute; Houston City Council says no to prison labor; So. TX restrictions meant to protect from COVID-19 – Then came the handcuffs and tickets; Texas unemployment rate rises in Nov.; Researcher Finds Evictions Associated With More Than 10k Deaths From COVID-19; Foxconn tells Wisconsin it never promised to build an LCD factory; Boston sergeant placed on leave as videos of George Floyd protests prompt investigations; Trump Contradicts Pompeo Over Russia’s Role in Hack; Pro-Trump shakeups continue at VOA’s parent agency; Supreme Court throws out challenge to Trump’s plan to exclude undocumented immigrants from census count; Heated Oval Office Meeting Included Talk Of Special Counsel, Martial Law As Trump Advisers Clash; China should consider alternatives for Australian iron ore as trade tensions simmer; Australia escalates China trade dispute with WTO action; Concern among Muslims over halal status of COVID-19 vaccine; NASA to skip repair of Orion electronics unit; More. Guest: [AUDIO/VIDEO]
This program was recorded early in the morning on SUNDAY, December 20. Due to Covid-19, shows are being prerecorded beginning March 13, 2020 and until further notice. We miss our live call-in participants, and look forward to a time we can once again go live. Thinkwing Radio with Mike Honig (@ThinkwingRadio), a listener call-in show airing live every Monday from 3-4 PM (CT) on KPFT-FM 90.1 (Houston). My co-host and Editor is Andrew Ferguson.
Listen live on the radio, or on the internet from anywhere in the world! When the show is live, we take calls at 713-526-5738. (Long distance charges may apply.) Please take a moment to visit Pledge.KPFT.org and choose THINKWING RADIO from the drop-down list when you donate. Continue reading
Mon, Dec 14, 2020, 3PM (CT) #KPFTHouston 90.1FM. POSSIBLE TOPICS: Voting info; “Vote By Mail” applications; New speed limit for cyclists; Three indicted in Harris Cty illegally influencing state House races; El Paso Mayor loses reelection by a lot; Woman charged for driving car into NYC protesters; The Constitution has an answer for seditious members of Congress; Gingrich and Huckabee back Newsom recall effort; Trump’s New Citizenship Test Is Full of Conservative Bias And Mistakes; TX students will take STAAR tests in 2021 but schools won’t be rated; Why autism training for police isn’t enough; Iran rejects Biden’s terms for reviving nuclear deal; Trump’s bold moves raise fear of ‘destructive’ final days in office; More. Guest: [AUDIO/VIDEO]
This program was recorded early in the morning on SUNDAY, December 13. Due to Covid-19, shows are being prerecorded beginning March 13, 2020 and until further notice. We miss our live call-in participants, and look forward to a time we can once again go live. Thinkwing Radio with Mike Honig (@ThinkwingRadio), a listener call-in show airing live every Monday from 3-4 PM (CT) on KPFT-FM 90.1 (Houston). My co-host and Editor is Andrew Ferguson.
Listen live on the radio, or on the internet from anywhere in the world! When the show is live, we take calls at 713-526-5738. (Long distance charges may apply.) Please take a moment to visit Pledge.KPFT.org and choose THINKWING RADIO from the drop-down list when you donate. Continue reading
Mon, Dec 7, 2020, 3PM (CT) #KPFTHouston 90.1FM. POSSIBLE TOPICS: Rooftop Cinema Club’s new drive-in theater rolls into Houston’s EaDo district with holiday movie lineup; Hewlett Packard Enterprise to relocate headquarters from Silicon Valley to Springwoods Village; School districts worry a fiscal cliff could await them in January; Gov. Greg Abbott tells supporters he’s considering placing law enforcement for Central Austin under state control; E.P.A.’s Final Deregulatory Rush Runs Into Open Staff Resistance; Solar Panels + Agriculture: You Ain’t Seen Nothing Yet; Salmon have been dying mysteriously on the West Coast for years. Scientists think a chemical in tires may be responsible; Facing the first loss of their voting lives, young Republicans are surprisingly hopeful, but want the GOP to work for Gen Z; N.J. congressman says Trump should be tried for ‘crimes against our nation and Constitution’; More. Guest: [AUDIO/VIDEO]
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This program was recorded early in the morning on SUNDAY, December 6. Due to Covid-19, shows are being prerecorded beginning March 13, 2020 until further notice. We miss our live call-in participants, and look forward to a time we can once again go live. Thinkwing Radio with Mike Honig (@ThinkwingRadio), a listener call-in show airing live every Monday from 3-4 PM (CT) on KPFT-FM 90.1 (Houston). My co-host and Editor is Andrew Ferguson.
Listen live on the radio, or on the internet from anywhere in the world! When the show is live, we take calls at 713-526-5738. (Long distance charges may apply.) Please take a moment to visit Pledge.KPFT.org and choose THINKWING RADIO from the drop-down list when you donate. Continue reading
The Oceans of Enceladus, and Some Musings on Extraterrestrial Life
This article, “We’re all alone: Oxford study says chance of intelligent life elsewhere very low – Paper uses statistics to examine how long it took life to evolve on Earth and how likely each step was; concludes highly unlikely other intelligent civilizations out there”, prompted me to republish one I wrote back in 2010.
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April 19, 2011 (Republished Dec. 5, 2020, with minor changes)
Business is humming if you’re in the business of extra-solar planets, exobiology or exoenvironmental studies.
Recently, it was announced that scientists had determined that liquid water and hydrocarbons were present on Saturn’s moon Enceladus. They made this determination using Cassini’s plasma spectrometer, which had found specific ions characteristic of water in motion. (It never ceases to amaze me how scientists can tease information out of data using the most obscure scientific facts.)
That makes at least 4 worlds (Earth, Mars, Enceladus, and Europa) in our solar system where liquid water and other ingredients necessary for life have been found to be present now or in the past, or probably so. Continue reading