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  • New research in mice and human cells suggests that capsaicin, the compound that gives red peppers its spicy flavor, may slow lung cancer progression.

  • Medical News Today: What is the difference between a headache and a migraine?

    4 hours ago
  • While most people experience a headache occasionally, migraine is a condition that causes severe head pain and other symptoms. Learn more about the differences here...

  • Medical News Today: What to know about high potassium

    6 hours ago

    • Symptoms of high potassium, or hyperkalemia, may include nausea, and difficulty breathing. A person may not show symptoms. Kidney issues are the main cause. Learn more here...
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      The Daily Sheeple




  • Only three weeks after a “bomb cyclone” — one of the most intense storms on record — pummeled the Plains and Midwest, another bomb cyclone of similar strength has been forecast...

  • Terrorist attack thwarted near DC

    11 hours ago
  • Federal authorities charged a DC-area suspect Monday with a plot to use a stolen truck to run down pedestrians on the National Harbor waterfront, a popular tourist site along the Potomac...

  • Booker introduces Senate bill on slavery reparations

    12 hours ago

    • Democratic Senator Cory Booker on Monday introduced a bill that would study the possibility of reparations for descendants of slaves, embracing a push that recently has caught the...


      Exceptional Delaware 2017




  • The ongoing saga with Odyssey Charter School continues!  As the AHEPA members of the Board continue to do whatever the heck they want, attention is being drawn to their stunts by more...

  • Over Half Of Delaware Charter Schools Below Expectations

    2 months ago
  • Based on the Delaware School Success Framework, well over half of Delaware’s charter schools are not meeting expectations.  Tonight, the Delaware Charter School Office will...

  • Controversial Del Tech Tax Bill Dies A Quick Death

    2 months ago

    • What is it about Delaware bills with the number 50 in it?  Senate Bill #50 is going to be pulled today according to sources in the know.  The bill would have created the Delaware Tech...


      Have You Heard




  • TweetDid you hear the one about the Arizona state legislator who made a cool $14 million from selling his network of charter schools to a nonprofit that he set up, which then inked a lucrative...

  • Selective Outrage: Revisiting the Atlanta School Cheating Scandal

    a month ago
  • TweetIn March of 2013, thirty five Atlanta educators, all of them Black, were charged with racketeering and conspiracy for allegedly changing student answers on standardized tests...

  • The Rise of the *Portfolio* Model for Schools

    a month ago

    • TweetThe portfolio model of school district management—it sounds technocratic, even a little bit weedy and yet it’s arguably one of the hottest button topics in our great education...


      Din Merican: the Malaysian DJ Blogger




  • April 11, 2019 What are the real reasons for not ratifying the Rome Statute Opinion  |  P Gunasegaram Published: Today 6:41 am  |  Modified: Today 6:41 am   QUESTION TIME | I am...

  • The New Science of How to Argue—Constructively

    5 hours ago
  • April 11, 2019 The New Science of How to Argue—Constructively Disagreement is central to our lives online. ‘Erisologists’ want to study it more systematically. Apr 7, 2019...

  • Uncle Joe and the Perils of Good Intentions

    a day ago

    • April 8, 2019  Uncle Joe and the Perils of Good Intentions By Katy Waldman April 7, 2019 Joe Biden’s charisma, for those who see it as such, depends on him being slightly naughty...


      Chicago Boyz




  • Today marks the 55th anniversary of IBM’s announcement of the System/360 line…which made obsolete virtually all of its then-existing products.  The 360 line established...

  • A Thumbnail History of the American Fighter Drop Tank 1923-2000

    2 days ago
  • The flying services of the American military pioneered the use of fighter drop tanks, but there is no one place where you can go to get a historical ‘thumbnail sketch’ of their introduction...

  • Education Part IV

    2 days ago

    • There have been some interesting places to bring the discussion that came up in the comments, and I am impatient to get to them. But I think I will stay with my original plan for now. After...


      Centinel2012




  • Conservative Resurgence Published on Apr 1, 2019 SUBSCRIBE 83K Now more then ever we need your help keeping this channel producing REAL content for REAL people https://www.paypal.me/ConservativeRes…...

  • “AOC” Dancing Socialism into the Hearts and Minds of Young People Everywhere

    17 hours ago
  • Conservative Resurgence Published on Jan 5, 2019 SUBSCRIBE 83K Now more then ever we need your help keeping this channel producing REAL content for REAL people https://www.paypal.me/ConservativeRes…...

  • Corporate Charity: Should the Boss Force You to Redistribute Your Money?

    17 hours ago

    • Bill Whittle Uploaded on Apr 8, 2019 SUBSCRIBED 123K Corporate charity — whether driven by gratitude, altruism or public relations — is still a form of redistribution. Conservatives...


      The BRAD BLOG




  • On today's BradCast: Two tracks, plus callers, as the Right ascends at the White House and the ACLU's fight to restore civil and Constitutional rights finds its way into the 2020 President...

  • Sunday 'Moron of La Mancha' Toons

    2 days ago
  • * * * Perry Dorrell blogs as PDiddie at Brains and Eggs, usually on topics concerning the strange brew of Texas politics. He's also on Twitter @PDiddie...

  • All the President's Probes: 'BradCast' 4/5/2019

    3 days ago

    • On today's BradCast, guest hosted by Angie Coiro of In Deep with Angie Coiro. Why is it Democrats get accused of "flip-flopping" while Donald Trump won't even admit when he changes...


      bluebird of bitterness




  • ❧ I asked the librarian where to find a book of patriotic American songs. She said “Over there.” ❧ I asked the librarian where to find books about paranoia. She whispered, “They’re...

  • Happy National Library Week

    a day ago

  • Sunday musical offering

    2 days ago

    • Come, ye sinners, poor and needy, Weak and wounded, sick and sore; Jesus ready stands to save you, Full of pity, love, and power. I will arise and go to Jesus, He will embrace me in His arms...


      Home




  • As reported by the Daily Hampshire Gazette. Crowe is featured in Robbie Leppzer's documentary film, "Power Struggle." (She, and Leppzer, are shown on the film poster, left.) Crowe...

  • Act now: No money for new nukes!

    5 days ago
  • Please email your Senators or call the U.S. Capitol Switchboard (202) 224-3121 and ask for your Senators' offices.   Urge them to redirect funds from futile new reactor research...

  • Report back from "Nuclear Fool's Day" in St. Louis -- final event on MO, KS, and NE Mobile Chernobyl speaking tour

    7 days ago

    • See Beyond Nuclear radioactive waste specialist Kevin Kamps' power point presentation (as well as links to three short videos -- posted under UPDATE -- and an article, authored by...


    BlackListed News




  • PAID ADVERTISEMENT - Europe’s 2nd biggest gold mine could be about to make early investors rich. This story begins over 2,000 years ago when the Romans dug up $16.8 billion in gold...

  • Why Is Trump Designating Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps As Foreign Terrorist Organization?

    a day ago
  • designated the Quds Force for its "support of terrorism". It also sanctioned several enterprises that are connected to the IRGC. It is totally unclear what the designation of the...

  • Futurist Predicts AI Will Take Jobs, Benefiting the Rich But Not Workers

    a day ago

    • Citing "significant" new corporate investments in AI technology, futurist Gary Grossman argues that AI "may be the fastest paradigm shift in the history of technology -- and warns...


      Research Digest




  • By Christian Jarrett. The new findings have a bearing on theories for how synesthesia occurs.

  • People Who View Their Britishness or Englishness As “Causally Central” To Their Self-Concept Are More Likely to Have Voted For Brexit, Study Finds

    a day ago
  • By Matthew Warren. The research sheds light on how political identity affects some people’s behaviour more than others.

  • To Boost Your Self-esteem, Write About Chapters Of Your Life

    4 days ago

    • By Christian Jarrett. It remains unclear exactly why the life-chapter task had the self-esteem benefits that it did.


      Atlas Obscura - Latest Articles and Places




  • It was October 1998 when artist Jane Greengold conceived of a special use for the spiky fence guarding her home in Cobble Hill, Brooklyn. As she looked out over the enclosure where Kane...

  • Tad’s Chicken ’n Dumplins in Troutdale, Oregon

    13 hours ago
  • "Tad's Chic Dump": The old neon sign glows amid the trees on the rugged edge of the Columbia River Highway in Troutdale, Oregon. While half the letters spelling the name of Tad's Chicken...

  • The Wool House in Southampton, England

    13 hours ago

    • Throughout its long existence, this 14th-century stalwart has been a secure anti-pirate bastion for precious fleeces, a jail for prisoners of war, an early aviation workshop, a...


      Accidental Deliberations




  • Miscellaneous material to start your week.- Robert Reich offers a reminder that the Trump administration is just the most glaring example of the utter breakdown of any pretense of...

  • Sunday Morning Links

    2 days ago
  • This and that for your Sunday reading.- Ryan Meili writes about the need for leaders to listen to bona fide activists regardless of their cause - while drawing an important distinction...

  • Saturday Morning Links

    3 days ago

    • Assorted content for your weekend reading.- Crawford Kilian writes that Canada's Changing Climate Report should be a loud wakeup call about the need to avert climate breakdown...
    .The Desmedoma Despair feed is not picking up. Even though I despair their strict adherence to anthropogenic global warming claptrap, there are stories I would see no other way.

    Sea turtles are being born mostly female due to warming – “I can’t deny it: seeing those results scared the crap out of me”

    Big cities, bright lights and up to 1 billion bird collisions each year in the U.S.

    Survivors of Hurricane Michael in the Florida Panhandle fear they have been forgotten

    The stretch of the Florida Panhandle east of Panama City is known as the Forgotten Coast, because it’s so rural and undeveloped — a remnant of a wild, pre-Disney, pre-air-conditioned Florida. That moniker has become more searing in the aftermath of the fourth-strongest hurricane, as measured by wind speed, ever to hit the mainland United States.
    Government agencies have cleared the roads and utilities have restored power, water and communications, but thousands of people are still desperate for permanent housing, competing not only with one another for the scarce supply of rental units, but with construction workers who have come into the area.
    Many residents are living in damaged homes or trailers unfit for human habitation. Some live in tents. Homeowners are frustrated by stingy insurance companies and bewildering government paperwork, and they’re wary of shady contractors. […]

    Cyclone Idai’s death toll rises to 847, hundreds of thousands displaced – “The harvest for this season is gone, and the chances for next season are minimal at best”

    BEIRA, Mozambique, 7 April 2019 (Reuters) – Hundreds of thousands of people are in need of food, water and shelter after Cyclone Idai battered Mozambique, Zimbabwe and Malawi.

    Creeping floodwaters threaten Washington’s cherry blossoms – “The infrastructure is breaking down because of the daily flooding”

    Canada warming at twice the global rate, government report finds – “Northern Canada has warmed and will continue to warm at more than double the global rate”

    Iran hit with 3rd major flood in 2 weeks – “The water has risen by as much as three meters in parts”

    DUBAI, 30 March 2019 (Reuters) – Iran said on Saturday it faced an emergency in a southwestern province threatened by flooding and worked to evacuate dozens of villages as forecasters predicted more of the heavy rains that have killed at least 45 people this week, state media reported.
    Some 56 villages lying near the Dez and Karkheh rivers in the oil-rich southwestern province of Khuzestan may have to be evacuated as officials released water from two major dams along the rivers due to forecasts for more rain, the provincial governor, Gholamreza Shariati, told state television.

    Ocean heatwaves threaten survival of dolphins – “The reproductive success of females appears to have not returned to normal levels, even after six years”

    More than 1 million acres of U.S. cropland ravaged by record floods and dozens of levee breaks – “There’s thousands of acres that won’t be able to be planted”

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