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🚨Some exciting news: I'm stepping out on my own & launching an independent media venture, supported by you! Strange times call for a particular gutsiness & that's what you'll get in "The Red Letter," my new home for in-depth reporting, scoops, interviews & so much more...

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Technical Illustrations: I collect information in notes, gather swipes of other images, and then build a virtual artifact using AutoDesk 3DS Max. Using camera shots of the virtual artifact I will then make a line drawn image in ClipStudio Paint, adding text in Adobe InDesign. #CBRN #MilitaryHistory

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Thunderforge AI in war games. Fun experiment is to use ChatGPT or other LLM as a player in a matrix wargame. www.diu.mil/latest/dius-...

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The WHO Scientific Advisory Committee for the Origins of Novel Pathogens (SAGO) just published an article about the new WHO global framework to guide investigations into origins of potentially epidemic and pandemic pathogens www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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What is in an ISBN

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Article describing Novichok agents and several notable cases of poisoning. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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This book released yesterday. It is the biographical sketch of four women that worked for the OSS during WWII told in four parts—career journeys.

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Are you a PhD student, junior faculty member or early/mid-career national security practitioner interested in using wargaming as an analytic or teaching tool? Apply for the 2025 Summer Wargaming Lab Institute! Learn more and apply: ssp.mit.edu/WGL-summerin... (1/2)

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Happy National Minnesota Day!!!

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The aromatic carbonate TL1217 had an estimated LD50 of 7 mg/person (s.c.). Important in the military history of toxic ammunition.

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Looking forward to participating in the @haydencenter.bsky.social 2025 National Security Challenges Open Forum on March 6 at 7 pm with my Schar School colleagues. Sign up here to attend in person or watch online: signup.e2ma.net/signup/20085...

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Edge treatments are becoming popular in trade books.

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Second chapter of Poisoned Weapons book of the American WMDs series completed. #CBRN #MilitaryHistory

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I design books. Commercial book projects. Then there are those that use books as an artistic medium. Often these are photographers where an individual print is insufficient to capture their intent. These artists will make short-run limited edition books. There is even more possible with book as art.

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After a long day of Popup Manual workshop, I have produced many paper engineering forms. Much more to come in the remaining three days.

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When I sent a colleague a sample chapter I printed the typeset final centered on letter paper, put a personal cover letter on the project over it on my corporate stationary, and then bound into a C tri-fold with a manuscript backer. Perfect for mailing.

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This should be: 47° 45' 14" N 90° 20' 7" W Leaving off the seconds typographical mark is a design fail. Use of dumb apostrophe and quotation marks also helps distinguish symbol from text.

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¡ Happy New Year to you and yours ! ¡ Chúc mừng năm mới! Chúc bà con năm mới an khang, thịnh vượng, làm ăn phát tài, gia đình hạnh phúc !

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First chapter of first book of American Weapons of Mass Destruction done! Now onto second chapter, the Atoll Problem, covering Second World War efforts on American alternative to German nerve agents—the carbamates. #CBRN #WMD #MilitaryHistory

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If you are a CBRN professional, this three-day course may be of interest to introducing you to wargaming analysis as a tool of your trade. www.mors.org/Events/Cours...

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The materials for my Pop-Up Creation Manual class has finally arrived.looking forward to next month’s workshop.

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One thing the COVID-19 pandemic taught us was where the most remote places on earth. Celebrities thought New Zealand … showed up infected early on. But a solid six months after the first cases in Antarctica, Dugway had its first case. Thinking thought might be the most remote place in a pandemic.

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This was good Cold War history—covers the little known case where formal study of nuclear strategic bombing alone was deemed not a deterrent, and how the USAF just ignored it and kept on going.

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Don’t do this. Professional typesetting has left-justified … no need for ragged edges.

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Kate Turabian’s rigorous Manual on for Writers has corrupted at least two generations into believing the typographic standards of a MS are the same as that of a published work. Underlined names of books, movies, ships etc. should be printed in semibold italics fonts … not italics or underlined.

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Please join me and @natashahall.bsky.social for a webinar "The Future of Syria's Chemical Weapons Stockpile" sponsored by the CWC Coalition. Wednesday, January 29, 2025 10:00 - 11:00 a.m., U.S. Eastern Time us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

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For the aspiring aerobiologist … a.co/d/1lj2Rug

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A Japanese Nakiri vegetable knife is perfect for cutting pages out of a book. Here sample pages are placed on a light box to validate styles for a second book if a series matches the styles of the first book.

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Someone is opening a cat cafe in MSP. Me imagining if they stocked it with Bengal cats …

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I wrote this book during COVID pandemic as a brain dump to a colleague from a c. 2006 MS. It details the weapons, field trials, and programmatic contradictions of the American experience. Ultimately chemical weapon like RW failed and the evolution overtook tactical nuclear doctrine. a.co/d/fu0inO5

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I love cacao. I ordered this via Amazon, and they reported it delivered but unsure as it was sent directly from the supplier. I was about to report it as missing after a week or so no-show. Got this from supplier with a “We’re Sorry” pack to cover for their shipping and handling delay.

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Everyday advice. The northerners most point of the conterminous United States is only accessibly from United States territory by driving over a frozen lake in winter. The rest of the year residents must drive through Canada.

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Casual reading to play a VR video game …

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First book of American Weapons Of Mass Destruction series will cover Direct Injection Ammunition Chemical Biological Agent (DIACBA) weapons like the XM60 BUSH RIVER bomblet for the Lance Missile.

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For CBRN military history readers … coming in 2025.

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Markup to capture layout from a first novel so the sequel has same book design. Each design element of the book becomes a document setting or style in Adobe InDesign.

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Looking forward to experimenting with this in 2025. nvidianews.nvidia.com/news/nvidia-...

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President Truman proposed to buy Greenland from Denmark after WWII—stopping the effort in 1948 with the creation of NATO, which obviated the need as access was part of mutual security. Since 1943 the United States has operated Pituffik Space Base (Thule AFB). There have been other bases there too.

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Keith Carter and Paul Lushenko will be lecturing on the use of “wargaming in the classroom” in the Sidore Master Class series of University of New Hampshire 14 February 2025. cola.unh.edu/calendar-eve...

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Yesterday’s word count = 184 Ohhhh shiny!

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