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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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Footballer starts League One match just hours after pleading guilty to...

A FOOTBALLER started a League One match just hours after he pleaded guilty to causing a cyclist’s death in a horror crash.Mansfield Town striker Lucas Akins, 36, was driving his Mercedes G350 near...

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Daughter caught on camera ‘forcing’ frail mum’s hand to sign over her entire...

A DAUGHTER has been caught on camera “forcing” her dying mum’s pen hand as she signed over her fortune on her deathbed.Margaret Baverstock, 76, was so ill she could “barely flicker an eyelid” in March...

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Haunting last CCTV photo of man, 75, ‘surrounded by three schoolgirls who...

A FINAL haunting image of a pensioner allegedly punched and kicked to death by three teenage girls in north London has been released by police.The CCTV image shows Fredi Rivero, 75, prior to the...

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Coronation Street legend plays his real-life grandfather in gripping new ITV...

A NEW series about the last woman to be executed in Britain also sees one of its stars stepping into the shoes of his own grandfather, who played a pivotal role in the real-life case. A Cruel Love: The...

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Mum appears in court charged with murdering daughter, 2, who was found dead...

A MUM has appeared in court charged with murdering her toddler daughter who was found dead in a pond near her home.Annabel Mackey vanished from her home in Kingsley, Hampshire, on September 10, 2023 –...

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I was coerced into becoming a sex slave for paedo ‘sugar daddy’ who abused...

STRUGGLING for money and coming out of a bad break up, Hayley joined a sugar daddy website where rich men pay women for their company.She thought it was a harmless bit of fun and couldn’t believe it...

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Ex-cop pleads GUILTY to manslaughter over deaths of four people in...

A FORMER cop has pleaded guilty to manslaughter following the deaths of four people in a paddleboarding tragedy.Paul O’Dwyer, 42, Andrea Powell, 41, Morgan Rogers, 24, and Nicola Wheatley, 40, died...

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Russia sentences Brit fighter James Scott Rhys Anderson, 22, to 19yrs in...

RUSSIA has sentenced British PoW James Scott Rhys Anderson, 22, to 19 years in the gulag after he was brutally captured in the Kursk region.The ex-British Army squaddie was sentenced by Russian...

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Depraved fiends who groomed and raped vulnerable girls in Rotherham and...

TWO depraved predators who groomed and raped vulnerable girls in Rotherham have been jailed.Romauld Stefan Houphouet, 37, and Absolom Sigiyo, 42, attacked two 15-year-old girls “countless” times over a...

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One of UK’s worst rapists found guilty of drugging & filming victims – as...

ONE of Britain’s most prolific rapists has been convicted of drugging and filming ten victims – as cops fear he could have actually targeted 50 more women.Zhenhao Zou “stupefied” his victims using vast...

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