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David Chandler at the Toronto Hearings

David Chandler at the Toronto Hearings

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At the recent International Hearings on the Events of September 11, 2001 in Toronto, Canada (the Toronto Hearings), David Chandler gave a superb talk on the science behind the collapse of World Trade Center 7. I was honored that in his presentation, he cited my paper, “Video Analysis of NIST’s…

Video Analysis of NIST’s Claim of a 5.4 s Collapse Time Over 18 Stories for WTC 7

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ABSTRACT NIST, in its draft report for public comment, initially denied that WTC 7 collapsed at the acceleration of gravity with the claim that an overall collapse time of 5.4 seconds was 40 percent longer than a free-fall time of 3.9 seconds for the first 18 stories. After being confronted…

It’s Well Past Time to Start Taking Peak Oil Seriously

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Foreign Policy Journal — Michael Lind writes a top-9 list of “most annoying sky-is-falling clichés in American foreign policy” under the headline “So Long, Chicken Little” in the March/April issue of Foreign Policy, with his second pick being, “The world must adapt quickly to the end of fossil fuels”, including…

The Mysterious Collapse of World Trade Center 7: Case Far From Closed

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According to the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), videos of the collapse of the 47-story World Trade Center 7 on September 11, 2001 show the building succumbing to a fire-induced progressive collapse. Many independent researchers and scientists, however, including over 1,400 professional architects and engineers who have signed a petition calling for a [...]

Mozilla Firefox vs. Google Chrome: A Researcher’s Perspective

Mozilla Firefox vs. Google Chrome: A Researcher’s Perspective

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I really like both Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome. They each have a few pros and cons that stand out in my mind, for my purposes, which is mostly to do research. In the end, I believe Firefox is the better browser, but it has borrowed from and could still…

NIST Releases Long-Awaited Report on WTC7

NIST Releases Long-Awaited Report on WTC7

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The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) released its final report on the collapse of the World Trade Center 7 building on Thursday, 6 years after it began its investigation into the collapses of WTC buildings on September 11, 2001. …