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A lot more energy is invested by people in theorizing what respectable and corrupt influences motivate members of the U.S. Congress than at least some members of the U.S. Congress...

It’s not exactly news that the Alternative Media is under assault: skeptical inquiry and dissenting narratives are smeared as “fake news,” and new suspiciously corporate...

Since 2009, a culinary debate regarding putting pineapple on pizza has haunted the internet and continues to divide pizza lovers all over the world. An army of haters spawned numerous...

Wine production flourished in the days of ancient Egypt. Grapes but also other fruits such as figs or pomegranate were all exploited for winemaking purposes. Now, archaeologists...

United Front Against Austerity|Tax Wall Street Party American System Network|Thursday, January 31, 2019 Senate Votes 68-23 to Rebuke Trump’s Cut and Run Doctrine for Syria and...

United Front Against Austerity|Tax Wall Street Party American System Network|Wednesday, January 30, 2019 Don’s Promises of Foxconn Job-Creation Bonanza for Wisconsin Turn...

After mass opposition, Syngenta has withdrawn its patent on tomatoes. As a consequence, the European Patent Office (EPO) now has officially revoked patent EP1515600. In its patent...

A federal judge overseeing lawsuits alleging Bayer AG’s glyphosate-based Roundup weed killer causes cancer on Monday tentatively allowed pieces of controversial evidence...

The good news about the cold: DULUTH, MN — When it’s so cold your face hurts, and it’s hard to talk, it’s easy to forget there are actually some positives that come with these...

Cold waves in Eastern USA are down according to Dr Roy Spencer. As can be seen in the plot below, there is no evidence in the data supporting the claim that decreasing Arctic sea ice…...

The just-announced “agreement in principle” between the US and the Taliban should be called what it is: a Faustian bargain that will lead to still more violence in the region...

Xi Jinping’s word may be law, but faced with difficult choices on China’s new challenges, he now finds himself under pressure By Brahma Chellaney, The National, January 25...

RT America Published on Jan 31, 2019 Engineers at Columbia University have created a breakthrough device that they say can translate human thought into accurate and intelligible...

There seems to be information when we attempt to interpret them in the light of our present knowledge. I have been able to relate Indian temple architecture to Astronomy,Mantras to...

Is this not a contradiction? What ,then, is Morality? Which is morally correct? Concepts of Hinduism are complex and it needs a thorough understanding of its concepts...

  Blogger Andy Spears reports that an admitted sex offender in the legislature has a key role in shaping education policy. He wrote: Yesterday, the House Education Administration...

  Dutch historian Rutger Bergman stunned the super-elite at the World Economic Forum at Davos by telling them that the biggest problem in the world today is the refusal of the richest...

The third week of 2019 dipped slightly in terms of science and technology bookings and content.  Sonequa Martin-Green continues her promotion of Star Trek: Discovery with her January...

Last week started off strong, with Sonequa Martin-Green appearing on the January 14 edition of The Late Show.  She plays the lead (and a scientist) on Star Trek: Discovery, which...

By Paul Homewood     The US version of Jeremy Corbyn thinks that cold winters are due to global warming!      https://twitter.com/ewarren/status/1091035931770003456   Perhaps...

By Paul Homewood   h/t Joe Public     https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-47088684     While much of  the US continues in the grip of a brutally cold winter, we can...

Charismatic Swiss meteorologist Jörg Kachelmann posted a comment at Twitter where he wondered what flagship German ZDF television was thinking when its evening news announced...

Modern Climate Warming Is Not Dangerous, Unprecedented, Globally Pervasive Image Source: Lansner and Pepke Pedersen, 2018 The Hockey Stick Fails  The  PAGES 2k Consortium...

Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice: Tuning Out: What Happens When You Drop Facebook? (Krysten Crawford) (Guest Post by Krysten Crawford) Krysten Crawford is a freelance...

10th Period: What Coulda Been (And Still Could Be) ... This school year is the 10th since I was the Chairman of the Primary and Secondary Education Subcommittee on the House Finance...

Victor Davis Hanson // American Greatness The news obsesses over the recent government shutdown, the latest Robert Mueller arrest and, of course, fake news—from the BuzzFeed...

Victor Davis Hanson // National Review The idea of rapid assimilation, integration, intermarriage, and Americanization was once melting-pot clear. Immigrants arrived in the...

The U.S. Postal Service (USPS) is planning to honor the nation’s brave and loyal military working dogs with a new booklet of 20 stamps The post Our Postage Stamps Are ‘Going to the...

Black History Month 2019 begins with the Google website honoring Sojourner Truth with a doodle. Here is an excerpt from the Biography.com entry about Sojourner Truth: Sojourner...

1. “Grant abstracts that are longer than the average abstract, contain fewer common words, and are written with more verbal certainty receive more money from the NSF (approximately...

San Francisco has more drug addicts than it has students enrolled in its public high schools, the city Health Department’s latest estimates conclude. There are about 24,500 injection...

Originally posted on Diane Ravitch's blog: Lots of readers of this blog don’t like to hear what conservatives, Republicans, or pundits like Thomas Friedman have to say. I disagree...

Originally posted on Diane Ravitch's blog: Racism and segregation are our nation’s greatest sin, written into our founding and our history. We live with their consequences every...

Many people have been shocked by the prenatal-infanticide developments in New York and, more recently, Virginia. They shouldn’t be. Oh, disgust is certainly warranted. But anything...

The far-left perverts and fraudsters running the website “Snopes” dishonestly styling itself a “fact-check” operation have shown yet again why they have no credibility...

While Facebook claims impartiality in its crackdown on “coordinated inauthentic behavior,” the loyalties of the man charged with carrying out that mission. if his resume is...

The U.S.-China trade war isn’t actually about soybeans and steel. Washington fears its iron grip over the post-Soviet world is waning thanks to China’s new global initiatives...

1. “Grant abstracts that are longer than the average abstract, contain fewer common words, and are written with more verbal certainty receive more money from the NSF (approximately...

San Francisco has more drug addicts than it has students enrolled in its public high schools, the city Health Department’s latest estimates conclude. There are about 24,500 injection...

My Daily Link Poster has gone from "Will generate posts, but can't reach Dreamwidth to post them, so I have to manually copy/paste them into the DW Update page" to "Will not generate...

Have Phones Become Boring? Well, They’re About to Get Weird (tags: phones thefuture design ) Scottish Conservatives to block post-Brexit trade role for Scottish Government (tags...

Bipolar disorder is a long-term mental health condition. Although there is currently no cure, there are many treatments available that can reduce symptoms. Learn more here...

A benign esophageal stricture is a gradual narrowing of the esophagus that has no medical links to cancer. Learn more about the condition here.

Some people think I do nothing but argue politics on Facebook all day every day and that’s not entirely true.  There is some truth to it, of course, I spend way more time arguing politics...

I must say, I have been surprised many times over the past few years at how deeply corporate interests are embedded in American politics, and how fiercely they will fight to keep their...

His name would be Scout. This dog just looked like he should have that name. I think the notion came from some old 50s cowboys and Indians TV show stored deep in childhood memory. Forget...

Read Part One: Outside of A Dog… Gandy, a week before she died on Valentines Day last year, was able to jump into the back of my truck while we unloaded wood. She always helped by selecting...