Blog Heap of Links for the day 9 October 2018

…He and his wife adopted her from China when she was 5 and brought her back to their home in Indiana. She was born with only one finger on each hand… As fate would have it, the student in the back seat… works with an engineering group [which] 3D-prints robotic hands—and had been searching in vain for a child who needed one.…

If you care about global warming, you must like wind power, right? But what if wind power itself ends up contributing to a warmer climate? That appears to be the case, according to a new study.…

… On this day in 1936 The Hoover Dam) began to generate electricity and transmit it to Los Angeles. It was originally called the Boulder Dam after its location but its name was changed by an act of Congress.

…Tuesday's here and as Associate Justice Brett Kavanaugh starts his first day on the Supreme Court, there's still a whole lot of fallout politically both in a tactical sense as we are now four weeks out from the Midterms and in the long run in terms of what is now an open assault on the rule of law, the very nature of the law itself in the Constitution and Bill of Rights, and a political movement and its party that seeks nothing less than permanent and absolute power by any and all means at its disposal.…