Parenting teenagers can be challenging. A recent study investigates the importance of tone of voice when interacting with 14- and 15-year-olds.
A new mouse study reveals that adding fructose to high fat diets disrupts fat burning in the liver through effects on fat oxidation genes and mitochondria...
TweetIn the latest episode of Have You Heard, we talk to Christopher Leonard about his bestselling new book, Kochland: The Secret History of Koch Industries and Corporate Power in...
Betsy DeVos: The Musical!
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TweetTheater teacher Quinn Strassel has seen first hand the impact that Betsy DeVos has had on Michigan’s public schools. And so he decided to fight back, by writing a musical. Strassel...
The Back to School Episode
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Chicago Boyz
Today being the 62nd anniversary of the Sputnik launch, here’s a rerun of a post about a very interesting book. Rockets and People, by Boris E Chertok Boris Chertok’s career...
Why Impeachment Now ?
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The intention to impeach Donald Trump actually followed his election by a day or two. The idea that “High Crimes and Misdemeanors” have been committed is ludicrous. So, why go...
Trump and the Ukrainian Translator
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Centinel2012
Re-Posted from The Conservative Tree House on October 4, 2019 by sundance Rudy Giuliani appears on Fox News to discuss the overall Ukraine issue. Giuliani emphasizes that...
Re-Posted From The Conservative Tree House on October 4, 2019 by sundance Everything about this short news segment has to be devastating to democrat candidates, party leadership...
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The BRAD BLOG
After a valiant, several...
It's NICOLE SANDLER, back again to guest host the BradCast. We start the show as usual, by bringing everyone up to speed on the latest news concerning the impeachment inquiry into the...
Impeach This: 'BradCast' 10/3/2019
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Friday happy dance
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The nuclear power industry's PR machine has long tried to cynically hitch its wagon to the climate crisis. As but one recent example, WAMU (NPR's Washington, D.C. station) has been...
U.S. Energy Secretary Rick Perry (with sword), alongside Saudi energy ministerOne year has passed since the brutal murder, and macabre dismemberment, of Washington Post columnist...
United States presidential candidate Bernie Sanders had a heart attack, his campaign confirmed on Friday as the Vermont senator was released from a Nevada hospital...
The city of Chicago says retired grandmother Allie Nelson owes it $6,000 in fines and fees after her car was impounded in 2017, even though the criminal case that led to her car being...
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Research Digest
Our weekly round-up of the best psychology coverage from elsewhere on the web
By Emma Young. Sounds between 40 and 80 Hz are particularly attention-grabbing.
Some foods come with a legend. With “Death Noodles,” that legend went viral on the internet when one man, Ben Sumadiwiria, claimed he went deaf for two minutes after shoveling...
The Krapina Neanderthal Museum (Muzej Krapinskih Neandertalaca) was opened in 2010, a short distance from one of Europe’s most important paleontological sites. Inside the museum’s...
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Accidental Deliberations
Assorted content for your weekend reading.- Jeff Spross discusses the effectiveness of a wealth tax both in generating revenue, and in reducing inequality. David Leonhardt notes...
Musical interlude
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Kaskade feat. Skylar Grey - Room for Happiness
New column day
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- Here, on the echoes of previous campaigns in Canada's federal election - including the possibility that the 1972 minority government scenario might be the best outcome of all.For...