Editor’s Note: The 2020s are shaping up to be a volatile time on multiple fronts. Globally, the Covid-19 pandemic has ushered in the most extreme government controls in history. Censorship is growing rapidly in the West. Economically, the US government has proven that the US dollar is no better than any other fiat currency, and the geopolitical chess pieces are changing to reflect China’s formidable role in the next decade.
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In 1965 my dad brought home a transistor radio from the television factory where he worked. At home, we still had the stately valve-amp radiogram that took up half the parlour, where my mother had listened to Churchill’s radio broadcasts while my dad was fighting in the war. As a small child in the 1960s, I liked to sit behind the humming radiogram, watching the orange glow of the glass valves. It was fairy-like and warm.
Those valves, as the Brits called them, were vacuum tubes. They were invented in Britain, in 1904, by John Ambrose Fleming – really as a spin-off from the incandescent light bulb, a filament inside an evacuated glass container. When hot, the filament releases electrons into the vacuum; it’s called the Edison Effect (technical term, thermionic emission). Thomas Edison had invented the lightbulb in 1879, and Ambrose realised that if he put a second electrode into a similar evacuated envel
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Meet 14-year-old entrepreneur Aradhitta Goenka, who bakes healthy treats to support needy through âMiracle Projectâ In the pandemic times, Aradhitta took up Resin Art to make clay toys which she may incorporate in her next project in Diwali this year Miracle Project/Instagram
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It s been a year since Aradhitta Goenka started cooking up gluten-free, vegan, and refined sugar-free sweets like pannacotta, chocolate mousse, granola jars, and cookies, among other things. The primary purpose of ‘The Miracle Project is to assist individuals who have been harmed by the pandemic, such as disadvantaged children, young women, and cancer patients.