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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...
View Article$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...
View ArticleEncouraging 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...
View ArticleThe 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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Andrew Tate is a monster we cannot demonise enough… I believe if you support...
AS an opponent of capital punishment, my first reaction to hearing that misogynist influencer Andrew Tate is now in Florida and facing a police probe took me by surprise.“Good! They have the death...
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Moment ‘car dealer’ who tried to smuggle dozens of gun parts hidden inside a...
THIS is the moment a crook who tried to smuggle dozens of illegal gun parts into the UK was dragged from his car by an armed cop.Yasir Khan – who claimed he was a car dealer – hid a stash of components...
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Double-murderer executed by FIRING SQUAD in 15-year first as thug ‘kept...
A DOUBLE murderer has been executed by firing squad – but he kept breathing after he was shot three times in the chest.Brad Sigmon is the first person to choose execution by firing squad in 15 years –...
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Plans to shake-up AI copyright rules could be in breach of international law,...
PLANS to shake-up AI copyright rules could be in breach of international law, a top barrister warned yesterday.Nicholas Caddick KC said the Government could be taken to court over its proposal to let...
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Inside Crufts biggest controversies from poisoning scandal to streaker as...
CRUFTS is back on the box for another year of pampered pooches and strutting canines.However, despite being dubbed the world’s most prestigious dog show, over the years the show has been dogged by...
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