The Buyer | Vinhos de Lisboa – the irrefutable charm of the wines of Lisbon

“God placed danger in the ocean, but he also made it heaven’s mirror.” You know when a tasting session gets started with a quote from Fernando Pessoa’s Book of Disquiet, this isn’t your average regional visit…
#wine #Portuguesewine #miketurner #Portugal #VinhosdeLisboa #Wine #WinefromPortugal #WineofPortugal
https://www.diningandcooking.com/2330793/the-buyer-vinhos-de-lisboa-the-irrefutable-charm-of-the-wines-of-lisbon/

Everyone wants something better than ΛCDM

There’s a nice short review article on arXiv today by Mike Turner. I wasn’t going to share it because it hasn’t got any pictures in it, but changed my mind.

Here is the abstract

The current cosmological paradigm, ΛCDM, is characterized (b) its expansive description of the history of the Universe, its deep connections to particle physics and the large amounts of data that support it. Nonetheless, ΛCDM’s critics argue that it has been falsified or must be discarded for various reasons. Critics and boosters alike do agree on one thing: it is the not the final cosmological theory and they are anxious to see it replaced by something better! I review the status of ΛCDM, provide my views of the path forward, and discuss the role that the “Hubble tension” might play.

arXiv:2510.05483

To make up for the lack of pictures in the article, here’s the first image that came up when I did a search for “ΛCDM”:

#arXiv251005483 #Cosmology #HubbleTension #LambdaCDM #MikeTurner

Turner: North Korean Troops Against Ukraine Must Be A Red Line For the United States and NATO | Permanent Select Committee On Intelligence

https://intelligence.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=1473

#miketurner #northkorea #troops #ukraine

Via #NewRepublic

#Dems..have warned abt #RussianInfluence in #DonaldTrump's #RepublicanParty. Now some prominent #GOP mmbrs o #Congress r soundng alrm

“..Russian propaganda has made its way in2 US..it’s infected good chunk o party’s base,” Rep #MichaelMcCaul said
Rep. #MikeTurner, chairman, #HouseIntelligenceCommittee: “We see directly coming frm #Russia attempts 2 mask comms that r anti-Ukraine and pro-Russia, some of which we even hear being uttered on #House floor.”

https://newrepublic.com/article/180630/russia-corruption-network-europe-buying-politicians-america

#house #congress #MikeTurner #russia #RussiaUkraineWar #propaganda #ukraine #nato
#cnn
#stateoftheunion

“GOP Rep. Mike Turner on Sunday said that Russian propaganda has taken hold among some of his House Republican colleagues and is even "being uttered on the House floor."

"We see directly coming from Russia ... communications that are anti-Ukraine and pro-Russia messages, some of which we even hear being uttered on the House floor," Turner, the chair of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence said in an interview on CNN's "State of the Union."

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna146760