Sunday Three Problems Two Doors One Cup

By Paul Sankey Published on July 19, 2026 at 2:39 PM

As a battle-scarred veteran of being a US Travel Soccer Dad, it is no new experience for me to travel for days to a big match and come back defeated and furious with the coach. Briefly to get it out of the way, a couple of things from the point of view of being present in Atlanta for the worst England capitulation since the fall of Singapore (February 1942, some 80,000 British Empire forces under …

News from the Frontline of the Nuclear Arms Race

By Paul Sankey Published on October 22, 2024 at 6:41 AM

Churchill’s Neutrinos OR Going Big on Small (Modular Reactors) This short note is mostly about nuclear power news, but we also dabble in molten salts, indirect meltdown references, fake control rooms, moon power, XOM CCS, Scandinavian architecture, and Diamondback buying unproven nuke technology. ~ One of my heroes is Churchill – my father as a young British Foreign Office civil servant once nearly knocked him back, an aging world statesman, entering as Churchill exited a …