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U.S. Kids Are Now Getting Nearly 70% of Their Calories From ‘Ultra-Processed’ Foods.

The Mysterious Street Snack That Has Baffled Botanists for Decades. Even DNA tests have yet to confirm its identity.

The Delta Variant Has Warped Our Risk Perception. I don’t think it was every any good, and Delta has made many people just go fucking bonkers.

That the narrative that this is a new virus which is tremendously more dangerous for children is just simply not supported by the data.

A Failed Star Called ‘The Accident’ Puzzles Astronomers. “The Accident.” Also what my parents called me.

Youth, the pandemic and a global mental health crisis. Remember when we were (and still are) being gaslighted and told this was not happening?

Drawing a blank: can artistic talent ever be taught? No.

Just crazy enough to work.

Study identifies molecule that stimulates muscle-building in humans.

Femininity and the Electric Car.

What Does it Take to Be a Frasier.

If your employer fires you because you won’t get the COVID vaccine, don’t expect to collect unemployment.

The Pandemic Business Boom. COVID-19 killed countless businesses. Surprisingly, it also launched a whole bunch of new ones.

The threat of ecofascism.

The mRNA Vaccines Are Extraordinary, but Novavax Is Even Better.

Vaccines work, trooferism kills.

Amia Srinivasan: ‘Sex as a subject isn’t weird. It’s very, very serious.’ Oh the prudes are gonna hate this book. Want to read it.

U.S. inflation is still running high – and it doesn’t look like it will fade fast soon.

Republicans treated Covid like a bioweapon. Then it turned against them.

How a Daddy Longlegs Grows Such Strange Legs.

13 bygone mall stores.

Conscious intention and human action: Review of the rise and fall of the readiness potential and Libet’s clock. These are not the only reasons that experiment is absolute garbage, but these are more such reasons.

The latest terrible pandemic trend? Vaccine hypocrites.

Detroit Once Tried To Privatize Public Health. Now It’s Trying To Rebuild.

‘We can’t take another blow’: Some restaurants may not survive renewed mask mandates. That’s the point of mask mandates.

The Seed Collector Who Roams the City’s Marshes.

Big Tech is suffering from a ‘Great Resignation’ of workers, who say ‘It’s a good time to leave.’

Their neighbors called covid-19 a hoax. Can these ICU nurses forgive them? Why forgive? Fuck them. Hope they all die of Covid.

Deep dive into stupid: Meet the growing group that rejects germ theory.

Ventilation and the Forever Pandemic.

Relax, America: The Vaccines Are Still Working. But a million libs on Twitter said they were not.

The Kindergarten Exodus: 340,000 Absent Children.

The climate news is about to get a lot worse.

If you wait long enough, everything you ever liked will be gentrified. Over the years I’ve watched the childhood meals I used to eat at the table with fork in one hand, book or magazine in the other, become trends for people with more money than sense.

Study Finds Falsehoods About Delta Variant May Spread Twice As Easily As Original Covid Misinformation.

Scientist says cleaning indoor air could make us healthier—and smarter. Indeed it absolutely would do both of those things. Easiest win around.

FTC says Facebook misused privacy decree to shut down ad research.

How politics around the world became a contest dominated by two kinds of elite – the rich and the well educated.

Climate crisis: Scientists spot warning signs of Gulf Stream collapse.

Why CAPTCHA Pictures Are So Unbearably Depressing. They force you to look at the world the way an AI does.

Operation Sea-Spray.

The Costs of Selling Covid Fear.

Yes, Other Places Do Housing Better, Case 3: Paris. The world’s most improved city for abundant housing in low-carbon neighborhoods.

Vaccine Mandates Are Lawful, Effective and Based on Rock-Solid Science.

Data shows how rare severe breakthrough Covid infections are.

The Fed Announces Plans to Permanently Backstop Wall Street with a Standing Repo Loan Facility of $500 Billion.

No Work, No Food: Pandemic Deepens Global Hunger.

What Is Biden Waiting For? The Delta variant is making clear what the Administration should have done back in January: mandate vaccines, mandate passports and crack down on the denialists. Now time is running short. Yep. Time to nuke those fuckers.

Moderna Shot’s Covid Protection Stays Steady for Months.

The Use and Abuse of History. Critical race theory turns America’s past into a torture chamber and offers no real hope for a better future.

State of the American Debt Slaves: Forbearance & Free-Money Phenomenon amid Soaring Prices of Homes & Autos.

Environmental impact of bottled water ‘up to 3,500 times greater than tap water.’

Cargo bikes deliver faster and cleaner than vans, study finds. Bikecause they can go almost anywhere.

American Shoppers Are a Nightmare. Customers were this awful long before the pandemic.

Worldwide per Capita GDP.

Potterian Economics.

L.A. gets aggressive on vaccine requirements as Delta surges.

Thorium myths.

What do many terrorists have in common? They abuse women.

No, the Covid-19 Vaccine DOES NOT Accumulate in the Ovaries.

Pick-up trucks are ridiculous clown cars and 99% of the people who buy them will never have a practical need to own one. (I post as I own a car with 415HP that can go 180MPH.)

Neutralizing antibodies against SARS-CoV-2 variants induced by natural infection or vaccination: a systematic review and pooled meta-analysis.

US private payrolls rise by 330,000 in July — less than half what economists expected.

An Uncertain New Phase of the Pandemic, in Which Cases Surge but Deaths Do Not.

Pandemic fuels broadest global house price boom in two decades.

Unfortunately, I Care About Power Lines Now. If America wants to fight climate change—or enjoy the benefits of a modern economy—it must get much better at building electricity transmission. Yikes.

Study reveals how smell receptors work.

Space scientists reveal secret behind Jupiter’s ‘energy crisis.’

Children who become ill with coronavirus rarely experience long-term symptoms, with most recovering in less than a week, research suggests.

Trump’s coup came so close to working — do the American people even care? Not that I can tell. The Dems certainly do not.

Vaccinated People Three Times Less Likely to Contract Delta Variant in UK Study.

The C.D.C. Needs to Stop Confusing the Public. They were already confused enough to start with.

Carbon offsets going up in smoke as company-linked forests burn.

Vaccination and the bonfire of Asian clichés.

The Effect of Influenza Vaccination for the Elderly on Hospitalization and Mortality: An Observational Study With a Regression Discontinuity Design.

Life before smartphones.

Did the New York Times stifle lab leak debate? Were commercial relationships with China a factor? Of course and of course.

Employers are losing patience with unvaccinated workers. Fire them all.

Watch the U.K. to Understand Delta. The country lifted all its COVID-19 restrictions just as Delta peaked. What happens next will tell us how well vaccines are working.

Horror films animate the 21st-century fear that our selves are inescapably corrupted.

When will the labor force’s ‘missing millions’ return? A lot is riding on the answer.

An exploration of why Twitter saw red over a display of excellent parallel parking. Libs have gone totally fuckin’ nuts.

After Months of Avoiding the Vaccine Issue, Companies Begin to Mandate.

Woke discourse largely dodges practical and economic questions in favour of increasingly arcane etymological point-scoring and shaming.

Nope, it isn’t “cognition all the way down.”

The Costs of Selling Covid Fear. Covid vaccines are incredibly effective. The media’s overhyping of new research from the CDC is making people think otherwise.

‘Buy now, pay later’ is becoming a huge business. Usury business model. Great. Dressed-up loan sharking.

And The Mass Evictions are ON.

Subsidies really do prop up the oil and gas industry. Here’s the most important one to get rid of.

Housing and Demographics: The Next Big Shift.

Perhaps they are everywhere? Undetectable distributed quantum computation and communication for alien civilizations can be established using thermal light from stars.

Electric cars have much lower life cycle emissions, new study confirms. In the US, life cycle emissions for EVs are already 60-68% lower than gasoline. So all the liberal lying about “they are just as bad as gasoline” was all lies? Shocking!

Big tech companies are at war with employees over remote work.

Progressive Denial Won’t Stop Violent Crime.

The Anti-vaccine Con Job Is Becoming Untenable.

Leading academic warns that America is on precipice of losing democracy. This is correct.

Long Covid Treatment Is Full of Dead Ends.

A tsunami of deferred debt is about to hit homeowners no longer protected by a foreclosure moratorium.

I’m An ICU Doctor And I Cannot Believe The Things Unvaccinated Patients Are Telling Me.

Apollo 11 ascent stage may still be orbiting the moon.

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