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A surreal smash and grab theft of valuable Dali sculptures and drawings has taken place at a Swedish art gallery. Why surreal? Because the target was none other than eccentric artist...

Sounds from the voice of a mummy are finally heard again! The technology of 3-D printing has made things possible that we could never have imagined even 20 years ago.  The most recent...

No Place for Republicans in America’s Future; Extinction on Model of Federalists, Whigs, and Know-Nothings Looms; With Trump, the Smoking Gun Is Only as Far as the Next Witnesses...

United Front Against Austerity|Tax Wall Street Party American System Network|Thursday, January 30, 2020 WHO Secretary General Dr. Tedros of Ethiopia Kow-Tows to Xi on Real Issues...

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has continued its glyphosate cover-up by announcing Thursday that they have finished and published their regulatory review and...

After Health Canada’s re-approval of the herbicide glyphosate — a probable carcinogen according to the World Health Organization — Safe Food Matters Inc. (SFM), a Toronto...

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Brahma Chellaney, The Hindustan Times Amid the raging media war between Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s supporters and critics, recent developments are helping to disprove one...

US President Donald Trump once seemed to recognize that, as long as the US remains mired in endless wars in the Middle East, it will be unable to address in a meaningful way the threat...

When we reflect what had given us joy or pleasure, they are not the instruments of pleasure like relationships or Money but small instances that have given us Sublime joy...

There is yet another temple where the Shiva Linga absorbs entire Oil when abhisheka is performed.

The University of California’s faculty leaders have recommended  retaining the controversial SAT and ACT as admissions requirements, despite concerns that the standardized...

  Parents, students, and local officials plead with Chancellor Lewis Ferebee: DO NOT CLOSE WASHINGTON MET! No student was ever helped by closing schools! Stop the mayhem. Stop the...

Things ticked up for science and technology on late night in the last week of January.  On the January 26 repeat of The Late Show, you could catch host Stephen Colbert lacerating a recent...

The ongoing dearth of science and technology content on the late night programs continues.  This past week was pretty light, though as is often the case, you could count on The Daily...

By Paul Homewood   h/t stewgreen     BBC Springwatch has long given up any pretence of objectivity. Now they are openly campaigning for societal change:   https://twitter.com/BBCSpringwatch/status/1223362042423336961...

By Paul Homewood   GWPF starts new series of factsheets for friends, colleagues and family. They are short, easy to digest and easy to print, giving an empirical overview of relevant...

A new 5680-year tree-ring temperature reconstruction for southern South America (Lara et al., 2020) reveals (a) no clear warming trend in recent decades, and (b) the 18th and 19th...

Leading dailies in Germany are reporting today that power companies across the country will be hiking electricity prices once again in the February to April period, affecting millions...

David Labaree on Schooling, History, and Writing: Pluck vs. Luck This post is a piece I recently published in Aeon.  Here’s the link to the original.  I wrote this after years...

Radical Eyes for Equity: Reading Programs Put Reading Last While rewatching Zombieland recently, I noticed that this version of the zombie genre was not only a blend of horror...

Victor Davis Hanson // American Greatness Adam Schiff is starting to wear on his own. He may be the darling of leftwing cable news. But like a moth to a candle, the California congressman...

Victor Davis Hanson // National Review An ancient habit of Western elites is a certain selectivity in condemnation. Sometimes Westerners apply critical standards to the West that...

By Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO — Some traitorous do-nothing Democrat made a false accusation against Donald T. for he learned one day he was being impeached even though in his mind he had...

Among Donald Trump’s despicable defenders are William J. Bennett and Brian T. Kennedy. This duo reveals their unhinging in their Fox News opinion piece Despicable impeachment...

That is the topic of my latest Bloomberg column, here is one excerpt: The first and perhaps most important effect will be to make Trump’s nationalism seem ordinary, even understated. Hundreds...

1. New book on Never Trumpers by Robert Saldin and Steve Teles.  And should a Fields medalist be mayor of Paris? (NYT) 2. A dollarized and somewhat deregulated Caracas is booming...

VIDEO - At the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP25) in Madrid, The New American magazine's foreign correspondent was minding his own business asking people for their...

Near the end of his three-hour long daily program on Monday, radio legend Rush Limbaugh announced that he has been diagnosed with “advanced” lung cancer...

"In my office at M.I.T, when I was there I looked out the window of my office and I saw the David Koch Cancer Center. David Koch is surely a candidate for one of the most extraordinary criminals...

Nell Thomas, the only member of the cyber task force willing to make their participation public, was previously employed with the online arm of Hillary Clinton’s 2016 campaign...

Why 02/02/2020 is the most palindromic date ever.(tags:date viaSwampers video )Here's Google once again giving money to awful bigoted politicians(tags:politics money Google...

Archiving digital art is really really hard(tags:art technology )It is ok not to feel bad about feeling this way(tags:emotion comic )Cutting corners cost Boeing $19Bn. I wonder...

Scientists have successfully destroyed cancer cells in mice by using copper-based nanoparticles and immunotherapy.  Importantly, the cancer did not return...

Scientists recently tested probiotics in a roundworm model of Parkinson’s. A particular bacterium had a protective effect and improved symptoms.

Coronavirus fears continue to infect markets as global stocks are still recovering from shock. What could the future hold in store for the international economy? We’ll break it...

It’s after midnight and I need to get to bed now, so I won’t see any of the results from the Iowa precinct caucuses until the morning, but I’ve got a pretty good feeling about them...

“In ancient Rome, there was a poem, about a dog who found two bones. He looked at one. and then the other. Turned round in circles, and he dropped dead” -Devo People are like that...

As a biologist, I’ve always been interested in epidemiology of disease, and as a zoologist, particular those that originate in wild or domestic animals. And so there has been quite...

I’m taking the path of least resistance, tossing up some links from the past week or so, straight from my daily gatherings (using ROAM as mentioned below.) YMMV. A new day for Indigo...