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Life is too short, so don’t spend time with people who suck the happiness out of you.  “Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending.”...

Things have really changed; people are becoming obsessed with online validations. Almost everyone has been or is on one of the social media platforms, where taking selfies and sharing...

TweetBlaming teachers for the woes of US public schools and beyond is as old a pastime as public education itself. Historian Diana D’Amico Pawlewicz takes us through 100 years of...

TweetHave You Heard heads to fast-growing north Texas for a first-hand look at how support for public education is upending the state’s politics. Spoiler: GOP candidates are scrambling...

I just want to mention my gratitude to Trent for tracking down good information and getting it to us in quantity. I have not commented because I have no particular expertise, neither...

SARS-CoV2/COVID-10 Update 3-5-2020 -- "As long as you remember to keep breathing and don't fall asleep, it's basically just like the flu."

Deep State Cure Bill Gates, whose net worth is over $100 billion, once remarked that vaccines could reduce world population by 10 to 15 percent. Bill is a member of the ‘Big Club.’...

Concerned and vigilant?  Yes.  Panicked?  No way! Re Posted for the Canada Free press By Jim ONeill —— Bio and Archives—March 5, 2020 It is said that despite its many...

We enjoy a brief pause from our wall-to-wall election coverage of late on today's BradCast (if not entirely) to revisit the ongoing unraveling of the rule of law as we know it at the U.S...

On today's BradCast: Sad news for many regarding the end of Elizabeth Warren's run for the 2020 Democratic Presidential nomination. But we start with what suffices for good-ish news...

Officials are demanding a briefing from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission about a report that found false statements and flawed science. As reported by The Patch. See the NRC Office...

Damning NRC Inspector General report details faulty analysis that led to approval of natural gas pipeline; Shumer, Gillibrand had originally called for independent review Schumer...

U.S. border agents will soon begin a widespread program to gather DNA samples from immigrants who enter the country illegally and are in federal custody, according to two administration...

U.S. law enforcement agencies signed millions of dollars worth of contracts with a Virginia company after it rolled out a powerful tool that uses data from popular mobile apps to track...

Our weekly round-up of the best psychology coverage from elsewhere on the web

By Emma Young. Researchers recorded participants' brain activity and emotions while they watched Forrest Gump.

Pierre Pullis had a photography studio on Fulton Street, in New York City, but he spent a lot of time working outside its walls. For about four decades in the first half of the 20th century...

Sequoia National Park, in the Sierra Nevada mountains of California, has a 4.5-star rating on Yelp. Hundreds of visitors rated it five stars, and only a handful left one-star reviews...

Tanika Charles - First & Last

Assorted content to end your week.- Owen Jones asks why we're not treating the existential threat of a climate breakdown with anything close to the urgency applied to the coronavirus...