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Israel is lost

The UN has a few words of condemnation for Israel. The top court for the United Nations on Friday ordered Israel to take measures to prevent and punish direct incitement of genocide in its war in Gaza,...

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The illusion of the good old days

You may have heard of the concept of retrospective coronation — the idea of looking back, and well after the fact deciding that a moment or phenomenon was the key event in history, even though at the...

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$83.3 million!

Who would have thought it? Having a classless, obnoxious lawyer, ranting on social media, and stomping out of the courtroom during closing arguments is not a winning strategy. Donald Trump lost again...

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Encouraging news from the young’uns

I may have to give my students extra credit just for being born. They’re all “Gen Z” (personally, I’m not a fan of lumping people into these cohorts), and polls are showing some heartening trends. A...

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Oh no! It’s Monday!

It happened again. Monday rolled around. When will Science master the ability to predict these cataclysmic disasters? Surely there is some cause that we can treat. Vaccinations, maybe? Monday shelters,...

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Ken Ham is sad that other denominations have gotten smarter

Poor man. Ken Ham is being left behind by other creationists, which is of course not his failing, but of all those other faithless Christians. So he’s going to tell us where they are going wrong. Many...

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The sad death of a distant drone

I am disappointed to learn that another robot has ended its mission — the Ingenuity helicopter on Mars. Scott Manley breaks down the details. Wow, those are some amazing shots of Martian landscapes,...

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We have to talk about this

Minnesota is shrinking? By about a millimeter a year? xkcd I agree. Minnesota should not be squishy, and it’s going to be all we talk about around here. In tangentially related headlines, the...

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Spider season has come early

We are experiencing unseasonably warm winter weather here in Minnesota — it’s been above freezing for a week, the snow is all melting, I can go outside without a coat, all that stuff you might take for...

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Sam Harris and the disgraceful “philosophy” of bigotry

I made a terrible mistake. I read an essay by that amazing moral “philosopher,” Sam Harris. He hasn’t changed since those days of rationalizing nuking Mecca — he still hates Islam in his slow,...

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If you think I’m too mean to Sam Harris…

You should listen to this podcast by NiceMangos in which she tears into multiple episodes of his blog, in particular a joint appearance by Harris and Eric Weinstein. Yikes. The amount of cringe those...

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Anyone want to go to a concert?

Over the last several years, I’ve gone from “Who the heck is this Taylor Swift person everyone is talking about?” (yeah, I’m old) to “Those songs are catchy, I get it now.” They’re not in regular...

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Elon has gone and done it

Musk has stuck a Neuralink device into a person’s head. His announcement isn’t particularly informative. The first human received an implant from @Neuralinkyesterday and is recovering well.Initial...

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Dawkins is one step away from consulting a dictionary to define biology

Did you know that Richard Dawkins began his career as an ethologist? He got his Ph.D. studying animal behavior under Niko Tinbergen. If you’re an ethologist, you might study things like courtship...

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I will never see a commercial label that I lo…

Whoa. That is an informative work of art. Why aren’t all labels like that?

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Watch moment shirtless England star Billy Vunipola is tasered before being...

RUGBY star Billy Vunipola’s moment of madness in Majorca was caught in full on shocking CCTV obtained by The Sun.The shock clip shows nine cops tackling the England and Saracens No. 8, 31, in a bar...

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Stalker ex-cop who caught estranged wife having sex with new lover at...

A FORMER cop who tracked his wife to a Screwfix car park where she was romping with her new lover has avoided jail.Gavin Harper, 45, subjected Stephanie Glynn, 40, to “obsessive, intrusive and unwanted...

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Major update in Kersal Dale headless torso ‘murder’ probe as cops name victim...

POLICE probing the discovery of a headless torso have today named the victim after more body parts were found.Stuart Everett’s severed body parts were strewn across four different locations in Greater...

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‘Stern warning’ over IPTV as two men are convicted for illegal Sky & TNT...

HOUSEHOLDS using dodgy streaming gadgets have been slapped with a “stern warning” after an illegal TV operation was busted.Two men running the ‘Titan Streams’ illegal streaming ring were caught selling...

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Man Utd legend Nicky Butt ADMITS breaking motorcyclist’s leg after smashing...

MAN Utd legend Nicky Butt today admitted breaking a motorcyclist’s leg after smashing into him while driving in his Range Rover.The Class of ’92 graduate was driving carelessly through Burnley,...

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