June 25, 2022

The Supreme Court Just Ruled That Half of America Is Less Equal.



The Biggest Disruption in the History of American Education. For many students, physical school wasn’t replaced with Zoom. Rather, school closures meant no school—literally none at all. ZeroCovid, tada!



After Decades of Searching, 1898 Film of New Orleans Mardi Gras Is Found.



Dear Pelosi and Schumer: Cancel recess. Expand the court. Nuke the filibuster. None of that will ever happen with the current Dem gerontocracy.



Ending Roe is a pure exercise of Republican power, wielded to reduce women’s freedom and equality.



Cascadia (independence movement). Probably time for this.



Moderna says bivalent vaccine appears to work against omicron subvariants BA.4 and BA.5.



We are entering an era not just of unsafe abortions but of the widespread criminalization of pregnancy.



Roe Is Dead & Democrats Want Us to Vote—for What, Exactly?



June 23, 2022

How the Republican war on the administrative state will cook the planet.



The Left-NIMBY meltdown. It’s getting harder to pretend that blocking new housing helps poor people.



The Most Dangerous Place On Earth.



Face-planting and laughing about it: why we need to encourage failure in learning.



The Million Earth Solar System.



The Left Keeps Warning You That Centrist Democrats Are A Disaster.



The Coming War On Abortion Drugs.



Olive trees were first domesticated 7,000 years ago, study finds.



‘The Long Tail’ was supposed to boost alternative voices in music, movies, and books—but the exact opposite happened.



Ukraine and the problem of “futurelessness.”



Jim Chanos: ‘We are in the golden age of fraud.’ Scam economy.



‘To bear arms’ didn’t always mean what today’s pro-gun crowd thinks.



Ukraine war underscores need for permanent Nato eastern defences.



Estonia’s PM says country would be ‘wiped from map’ under existing Nato plans.



Galactic Belly Flop: Mysterious “Blue Blobs” Reveal a New Kind of Star System.



Escorting Was Good For Me. the best thing to happen to my sex life, really.



Who gets credit for science? Often, it’s not women.



June 22, 2022

If I Get Canceled, Let Them Eat Me Alive.



Pacifism is the wrong response to the war in Ukraine.



Bleeding-heart horror fans: Enjoyment of horror media is not related to reduced empathy or compassion.



Clues to Long Covid. Scientists strive to unravel what is driving disabling symptoms.



The power of twelve. The financial industry’s new emperors.



Are We Sure America Is Not at War in Ukraine?



The Liberals Who Won’t Acknowledge the Crime Problem. Refusing to admit the gravity of the problem won’t make it go away.



This new California coronavirus wave isn’t sticking to the script: Big spread, less illness.



Abortion Used to Be No Big Deal. A Few Angry Men Made It One.



Paramount: we won’t remove content from eras with ‘different sensibilities.’ That’s the right answer, even if they’re doing it for commercial reasons.



Successful 10-second one-legged stance performance predicts survival in middle-aged and older individuals.



FAA: Airlines must retrofit faulty altimeters “as soon as possible.”



The Incredible Journey of Three African Wild Dogs.



June 21, 2022

The Mystery of “Remote” Job Listings That Aren’t Actually Remote.



Why ‘Natural’ Is Not Always Better.



Stock Market Swoon Pulls Rug Out from under Luxury Home Sales.



Macron has been sent tumbling to Earth – now he’ll have to learn to compromise.



At least 6 dead, 42 injured in weekend mass shootings across US.



Affordable housing in California now routinely tops $1 million per apartment to build.



Nobody Is Going to Save Us From a Recession.



Autonomous trucks, unlike robotaxis, are going to be here soon.



Russia’s invasion of Ukraine shows brutal conflict is not in the past and highlights three lessons of war the West must not forget.



June 20, 2022

Magnetars.



The Privatized Internet Has Failed Us.



The Theft of the Commons.



Police never tried to open door to classrooms where Uvalde gunman had kids trapped.



Mitochondria and the origin of eukaryotes.



DOE Announces Breakthrough in Residential Cold Climate Heat Pump Technology.



Tax excess margins.



COVID-19: Bharat Biotech Completes Phase III Trials Of Nasal Vaccine; DCGI To Review Data.



As Po dries up, Italy’s food and energy supplies are at risk.



My Problem With Pronouns.



Republican Drive to Tilt Courts Against Climate Action Reaches a Crucial Moment.



Russia-Ukraine war could last for years, say western leaders. This was always the most likely. I said 3-5 years on my other blog.



June 19, 2022

How to make sense of ancient Greek colours.



Leaked Amazon memo warns the company is running out of people to hire.



Moth wing–inspired sound absorbing wallpaper in sight after breakthrough.



Physicists link two time crystals in seemingly impossible experiment.



Film Dialogue from 2,000 screenplays, Broken Down by Gender and Age.



Installing Rooftop Solar Can Be a Breeze. Just Look at Australia.



Covid is making flu and other common viruses act in unfamiliar ways.



Dan Brown’s Inferno.



To judge by the protagonists, we have become stuck in a #MeToo reappraisal phase, where sex is exposed as an ordeal.



Police Militarization Gave Us Uvalde.



Exercising before or after a flu vaccine may make it work better.



You Tried: Remembering Internet Explorer’s 27 Year Odyssey.



Unhealthy levels of hypertension are increasing globally, especially during puberty, with boys affected three to four times more frequently than girls: Around 20% of male adolescents have elevated blood pressure.



From record-setter to rubbish: World’s biggest cruise ship to be scrapped without sailing a single voyage.



June 18, 2022

All The Greatest Minds.



COVID and smell loss: answers begin to emerge.



Us Versus Them: Harming the ‘Outgroup’ Is Linked to Elevated Activity in the Brain’s Reward Circuitry.



The paranoia driving office politics.



The U.S. Economy Is Confusing Everybody—Including the Federal Reserve. An old economy is dying, and a new economy is struggling to be born. Now is the time of monstrously confusing data.



Inflation is expected to remain high later this year even as the economy slows and layoffs rise. Already, signs of financial stress are surfacing. “Transitory.”



Why is American administrative capacity in decline?



Car Shoppers Seeking More Fuel-Efficient Vehicles Come Up Empty.



Climate Change Threatening Industrial Facilities Along Lake Michigan.



Ever Given insurance claims could exceed US $2 billion.



100 Million People in America Are Saddled With Health Care Debt.



Before Ideals Comes The Body: A Cronenberg Retrospective.



What Makes Censors Tick?



We demonstrate that cognitive ability predicts various aspects of health in adults over 55 years.



Play in Predictive Minds: A Cognitive Theory of Play.



The Brain Has a ‘Low-Power Mode’ That Blunts Our Senses. Study with mice; probably true of humans, too.



Murder Spike in Rural, Red Counties Exposes Media’s Anti-Reform Double Standard.



June 17, 2022

Price Shocks in Formative Years Scar Consumption for Life.



Ten years after the Higgs, physicists face the nightmare of finding nothing else.



Why Does a Hard Workout Make You Less Hungry? Try telling the Fat Acceptance people this.



On Inflation, Economics Has Some Explaining to Do.



To Fight Inflation, The Fed Declares War On Workers. By leaving the problem of inflation to the central bank, Democrats are accepting an attack on labor power.



Nanoparticle sensor can distinguish between viral and bacterial pneumonia.



Abbott halts EleCare output from plant at center of baby formula shortage.



Lightyear Shows China’s Box Office Has Become ‘Irrelevant’ to Hollywood. Good. Might mean better movies, eventually.



A Hotter, Poorer, and Less Free America. In the next few weeks, Senate Democrats could fall short—for arguably the third time in 30 years—of passing a climate deal. What will that mean for the planet and the country?