Sunday, May 05, 2019

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  Washington's Blog


  • I don’t know if most people in the United States ever knew what Fallujah meant. It’s hard to believe the U.S. military would still exist if they did. But certainly it has been largely...

  • Blatant Violation, by U.S. & Its Allies, Against the U.N. Charter

    a day ago
  • Eric Zuesse America’s and its allies’ violation of the U.N. Charter, in regards to their recent actions to force a regime-change upon the sovereign nation of Venezuela, are baldly...

  • How did Zelenskiy win the 2019 Ukrainian presidential bid if Ukraine is a rigidly nationalist country?

    2 days ago

    • Although the investigation isn’t complete, I have uncovered all the working parts that make an impossible story not only plausible but show the election results as the only logical...

      The Vintage News



  • One of the most popular things to do on vacation in Asia is roam visit ancient temples and religious monuments. When we think of ancient Buddhist temples, we have certain images in our...

  • The Styrian People Who Ate Arsenic For Breakfast

    10 hours ago
  • Modern medicine is very different nowadays from what it once was. Delving back into the past, we can find all kinds of crazy examples of bizarre home remedies and strange pseudo-scientific...

  • Beautiful Images: America’s Grandest Movie Theathers Turned Into Gyms & Supermarkets

    11 hours ago

    • On top of many things the United States is known for, its film industry is undoubtedly one of the most important and iconic. It is a source of inspiration for many around the world, and...

      Utopia – you are standing in it!




  • How Quickly Did the Crew of Apollo 13 Know They’d Lost the Moon?

    4 hours ago

  • How data drives Uber’s efficient but controversial business model

    7 hours ago


    •   TARPLEY.net



  • Henry C. Baird TARPLEY.net May 1, 2019 A Synopsis and Review of Frederick L. Schuman’s Europe on the Eve Frederick L. Schuman image courtesy ofWilliams College Archives and Special...

  • Trump’s Neocon Warmonger Bolton Pressing to Follow Failed Coup by Feckless Comprador Guaidó with Direct U.S. Military Action!

    3 days ago
  • United Front Against Austerity|Tax Wall Street Party American System Network|Thursday, May 2, 2019 Utopian “Full Plan” for Decapitation of Caracas Regime by Anti-Maduro...

  • “Coverup General” Barr Earns His Own Impeachment with Another Day of Flagrant Lies in Defense of Trump Before Senate Judiciary Committee; Hirono, Blumenthal, Harris Expose AG’s Crude Gaslighting!

    4 days ago

    • United Front Against Austerity|Tax Wall Street Party American System Network|Wednesday, May 1, 2019 Lindsay Graham Won’t Call Mueller; Barr Flees House Testimony; Nadler Threatens...

      Sustainable Pulse



  • Relying heavily on confidential industry research, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has proposed to re-approve glyphosate, the active ingredient in Monsanto’s...

  • Bayer Shareholders Vote Against Board over Monsanto Merger

    9 days ago
  • Bayer chief executive Werner Baumann was dealt a blow Friday at the German chemical giant’s annual general meeting, amid tensions over last year’s decision to buy US seeds and...

  • Glyphosate Causes Serious Multi-Generational Health Damage to Rats – New WSU Research

    12 days ago

    • Washington State University (WSU) researchers have found a variety of diseases and other health problems in the second- and third-generation offspring of rats exposed to glyphosate...

      sunshine hours



  • South / North

  • Sea Ice Extent (Global Antarctic and Arctic) – Day 123 – 2019

    a day ago
  • South / North

  • China Placing A Global Bet On Coal

    2 days ago

    • China dupes the world. China, known as the world’s biggest polluter, has been taking dramatic steps to clean up and fight climate change. Sort of. So why is it also building hundreds...

      Stagecraft and Statecraft



  • Brahma Chellaney, DailyO As India seeks to address the terrorism challenge in Jammu and Kashmir, jihadist forces are quietly gaining ground in far-flung states, especially West...

  • Asia Is the New Ground Zero for Islamist Terror

    8 days ago
  • The murder of more than 250 churchgoers, tourists, and other civilians in Sri Lanka on Easter Sunday should serve as a reminder that Asia is now the world’s leading site of Islamist...

  • Sri Lanka bombings carry a stark message for India

    9 days ago

    • Brahma Chellaney, The Hindustan Times The Sri Lanka bombings — one of the world’s deadliest acts of terrorism — highlight the growing terrorist threat to democratic, secular...

      Socio-Economics History Blog



  • Gregory Mannarino: Gold & Silver Greatest Trades on Earth by Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com Market analyst and professional trader Gregory Mannarino doesn’t feel good...

  • MSM Networks Go Nuts Over Venezuela Without Facts

    4 days ago
  • RT America Published on Apr 30, 2019 RT America’s John Huddy joins Rick Sanchez to discuss the skewed mainstream coverage of Tuesday’s violent clashes and protests in Venezuela...

  • Top CIA Analyst: Israel Partisans Push US to War

    4 days ago

    • If Americans Knew Published on Apr 30, 2019 Ray McGovern served as a CIA analyst for 27 years, from the administration of John F. Kennedy to that of George H. W. Bush. Ray’s duties included...

      Ramani's blog



  • Sonia Gandhi,the driving force and the real President of the Congress Party voted illegally when she was not a citizen of India . Her name in the voter list document in the image here...

  • Rahul Gandhi Director Backhops Ltd UK British Citizen Document Four Passports

    15 days ago
  • Mr Gandhi had called himself "British" on the annual returns of a UK-based firm "Backops Limited".

  • First Thirukkural Malayalam Manuscript 1595 Before Tamil

    17 days ago

    • The Annual Report of the Cochin Archeological Department for the year 1933–34 reported an unpublished manuscript of a Malayalam translation of the Tirukkural made in 1595.'...

      Diane Ravitch's blog



  • Remember when Republicans believed in local control of public schools? In recent years, they have turned against local control and rejected democracy in their determination to...

  • Indiana: Phyllis Bush, Education Advocate, Receives Posthumous Award

    2 hours ago
  • Phyllis Bush, career teacher, education advocate, founder of the Northeast Indiana Friends of Public Education, board member of the Network for Public Education, was honored with...

  • Valerie Strauss on the Strange Case of the Charter School That Plans to Open in Rural Alabama

    3 hours ago

    •   Valerie Strauss investigated the strange case of the charter school that was approved to open in rural Alabama, over the objections of the local mayor and despite the rejection...

      Pasco Phronesis



  • While 2019 continues to disappoint in general, we have an increase of The Tonight Show listings so far.  Ocean explorer Philippe Cousteau appeared on the April 22 edition of the show...

  • Science and Technology Guests on Late Night, Week of April 15

    14 days ago
  • The drought continues where science and technology late night content is concerned… The best I was able to do for last week’s listings is to once again mention an actor who used...

  • Science and Technology Guests on Late Night, Week of April 8

    21 days ago

    • This past week we went to the daytime for our new science and technology related content.  Matthew Gray Gubler was on The Talk April 9th.  He plays an F.B.I. agent and behavioral scientist...

      NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT



  • By Paul Homewood     h/t AC Osborn     Jo Nova has the latest example of temperature shenanigans in Australia:   Friday April 19th set more records than anyone realized. Not only...

  • Christian Aid’s Blatant Climate Propaganda For Schools

    a day ago
  • By Paul Homewood     Someone sent me this teachers study aid being circulated around schools by Christian Aid. Far from being an educational aid, it is little more than insidious...

  • Net Zero – The UK’s (Miniscule) contribution to stopping global warming

    2 days ago

    • By Paul Homewood     GWPF have already responded to the CCC’s latest recommendations, but I have a few detailed observations to add:       https://www.theccc.org.uk/publication/net-zero-the-uks-contribution-to-stopping-global-warming/...

      NoTricksZone



  • On April 29 I turned 60, and yesterday was the big bash. Today I’m not quite up to speed and so I’m taking the day off from blogging. See you soon!...

  • May Snowfall Surprises Swath Of Central Europe, Winter Road Crews Called Out! Freeze Expected Overnight!

    a day ago
  • At his Twitter site here, veteran Swiss meteorologist Jörg Kachelmann reported that many Europeans woke up to snow this morning as a blast of polar cold sweeps across the continent...

  • New Study Finds That Wind Turbines Could Have Impact On Insect Populations, Food Chain

    2 days ago

    • German DLR model computations show each year 1.2 trillion insects are killed by wind turbine rotors in Germany alone. Wind energy shows there is no free lunch. Some major drawbacks...

      NEPC Blog Post of the Day



  • Our Schools: Progressives Take a Bold Stance at an Epicenter of the Charter School Movement for Public Education To learn more about school privatization, check out Who Controls...

  • Janresseger: Can We Hold Onto Our Values as We Struggle to Survive in the Trump-DeVos Holding Pattern?

    3 days ago
  • Janresseger: Can We Hold Onto Our Values as We Struggle to Survive in the Trump-DeVos Holding Pattern? I was dismayed recently when I sat down to read some excellent proposals for addressing...

  • Code Acts in Education: Learning from Surveillance Capitalism

    4 days ago

    • Code Acts in Education: Learning from Surveillance Capitalism ‘Surveillance capitalism’ has become a defining concept for the current era of smart machines and Silicon Valley...

      Victor Davis Hanson Private Papers



  • Please read this piece by my colleague Paul Roderick Gregory in The Hill Dictators fear being ridiculed with humor. Jokes about Stalin were punished by prison or death. In China, a...

  • Clinton Projection Syndrome

    3 days ago
  • Victor Davis Hanson // American Greatness Hillary Clinton recently editorialized about the second volume of special counsel Robert Mueller’s massive report. She concluded...

  • Why Go West?

    4 days ago

    • Victor Davis Hanson // National Review The harshest critics of the West in general and the United States in particular are the best arguments for it. Take the latest iconic critic...

    The Moderate Voice



  • The sports gambler from Las Vegas has dominated the game like no one else in its 35-year history. Jeopardy Productions Michael Rooney, Pasadena City College In 1997, fresh out of graduate...

  • ‘We Cannot Ignore the Threads’ that Connect Acts of Hate

    a day ago
  • By John L. Micek HARRISBURG, Pa. – Holocaust survivors, their families, their friends, and their allies all gathered in the state Capitol building here Wednesday. And they vowed...

  • Bad-Joke Saturday

    a day ago

    • Enough with the fussing about political issues. It’s time that we all take a comedy break. So, for your amusement – or groaning – here are some bad jokes for you to digest. After...

      Marginal REVOLUTION



  • 1. Good @CleoCZ thread on the history of the economics of discrimination. 2. Gilbert Arenas on John Wall. 3. New Samo Burja YouTube channel. The post Sunday assorted links appeared...

  • Economists at UBER

    8 hours ago
  • Here’s a good video discussing why tech companies like UBER hire economists. The post Economists at UBER appeared first on Marginal REVOLUTION.

  • Big business isn’t big politics

    13 hours ago

    • That is my recent essay, adapted in Foreign Policy, from my new book Big Business: Love Letter to an American Anti-Hero.  Here is the opening: The basic view that big business is pulling...

      Lloyd Lofthouse



  • Donald Trump lives by: “If you repeat a lie often enough, it becomes the truth.” Continue reading →

  • How popular is MAGA Man

    23 days ago
  • Why is Donald Trump MAGA Man, Moscow's Agent Governing America? Continue reading →

  • Bombshell Report About Copycat Legislation Written by ALEC but Adopted by Your State

    a month ago

    • Originally posted on Diane Ravitch's blog: Democracy is under attack, not only in D.C., but in the state capitols. To understand just how serious this attack is, how insidious it is...

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  • The 2019 snowpack in the Sierra Nevada Mountains is higher than normal, which bodes well for the water supply in the state.  But more drought is almost certainly on the way in the future...

  • NYT Finally Admits Biden’s Strong-Arming Ukraine — and Whether His Son Benefitted — Is a Story

    20 hours ago
  • The New York Times has finally decided that former former Vice President Joe Biden’s successful push to fire a prosecutor in Ukraine, who just happened to be investigating a company...

  • Democrats Try to Block Trump’s U.S. Exit From UN Paris Scheme

    2 days ago

    • After years of playing defense, the “climate cult,” as numerous scientists have described man-made warming theorists, is striking back. Evidently hoping to destroy the U.S...

      MintPress News



  • With Guaidó rapidly losing momentum and credibility after Tuesday’s failed coup, López and his U.S. backers may turn on their own if they think it will benefit or energize their...

  • Sri Lanka: How Saudi-Backed Terror Targeted China’s Allies

    2 days ago
  • When terrorism strikes – as in any sort of criminal investigation – the first question that must be asked is “cui bono?” To whose benefit? The post Sri Lanka: How Saudi-Backed...

  • MintCast Episode 2: Failed Coup in Venezuela, Forgotten US Atrocities in the Koreas, and Joe Biden’s Race Problem

    2 days ago

    • MintCast co-hosts Alan MacLeod and Whitney Webb discuss current events in Sri Lanka, France and Venezuela and also delve into U.S. efforts to hide the real history of the Korean War...

      Marginal REVOLUTION



  • 1. Good @CleoCZ thread on the history of the economics of discrimination. 2. Gilbert Arenas on John Wall. 3. New Samo Burja YouTube channel. The post Sunday assorted links appeared...

  • Economists at UBER

    8 hours ago
  • Here’s a good video discussing why tech companies like UBER hire economists. The post Economists at UBER appeared first on Marginal REVOLUTION.

  • Big business isn’t big politics

    13 hours ago

    • That is my recent essay, adapted in Foreign Policy, from my new book Big Business: Love Letter to an American Anti-Hero.  Here is the opening: The basic view that big business is pulling...

      Made from Truth and Lies



  • The Times Newspaper Is Being Sued For Transphobic Discrimination By A Former Editor(tags:transgender lgbt TheTimes uk )Michael Gove unveils plans to take control of Holyrood cash(tags:scotland...

  • Interesting Links for 04-05-2019

    a day ago
  • Emergency stop signs projected onto waterfalls at road tunnel entrances(tags:sign driving Technology water light )Boris Johnson lies about voting Conservative(tags:Conservatives...

  • Interesting Links for 03-05-2019

    2 days ago

    • Edinburgh University under fire over job which stops lecturers's pay over the summer(tags:Edinburgh academia OhForFucksSake )M&S made my sandwich gay.(tags:lgbt food uk...

    Featured Health News from Medical News Today



  • According to a new study, a cell phone game called 'Sea Hero Quest' could assist researchers in identifying people who are more at risk of Alzheimer's...

  • Medical News Today: Colorectal cancer vaccine has promising results in early trials

    12 hours ago
  • Researchers have revealed positive results of a small, early clinical trial that tested the effects of a new vaccine on 10 people with colorectal cancer...

  • Medical News Today: Type 2 diabetes: Intensive hypertension therapy may lower death risk

    a day ago

    • New research finds that intensive therapy for lowering the blood pressure of people with type 2 diabetes reduces their risk of mortality.

      InvestmentWatch



  • via redstate: “So far, over 150,000 people have voted in the DSCC’s Twitter poll. If you’d like to join the fun, click here.”     h/t ED

  • An Explanation for the Infamous Tarmac Meeting between Bill Clinton and Loretta Lynch

    3 hours ago
  • By LV   The following RedState article appeared online yesterday.   www.redstate.com/elizabeth-vaughn/2019/05/04/leaked-transcript-loretta-lynchs-pre-exoneration-tarmac-meeting-bill-clinton-shows-anxious-speak/...

  • Credit markets are in complete denial of this bullish narrative in stocks.

    3 hours ago

    • via @TaviCosta: How are we supposed to believe in this S&P 500 rally when 2-year yields continue to fall? The idea of rate-cuts when it’s late in the cycle has never ... Read...

      www.gurukalehuru.com



  • In real life I am generally a non-confrontational person.  I don’t go around arguing politics with everybody.  This is normal human behavior, I think, and I try to be a normal human...

  • Bernie Speaks: The Mayor’s Show

    2 days ago
  • I don’t know how it’s possible we didn’t know about this before now, although I’m sure people in Burlington, Vermont did, but Bernie Sanders had a TV series, from 1986 to 1988...

  • Coup Coup

    3 days ago

    • When I went to Google and typed in ‘coup definition,’ what I got was ‘a sudden, violent, and illegal seizure of power from a government.’  There were other, more benign definitions...

      Fragments from Floyd



  •  In the spring of 2019, we acknowledged that the time had come to relocate us from the wild to the tame. Or at least tamer—closer to town, less mowing and weed whacking and firewood...

  • Spring at Full Tilt

    11 days ago
  • Don’t know about you, but for us, spring happened on Saturday (20 April.) By Sunday, the foliage of almost all trees was at least barely emerged, if not half-way, the sun setting spring...

  • FOUNDATIONS

    13 days ago

    • We got to poking around (again) around the edges of this semi-permanent feature down the valley and around the bend from the house. We were told by an long-time resident of Goose Creek...
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    5 May - iGoogle Portal - Tab 8




  • Derek Pearce designer, woodcarver, sculptor, and furniture maker, who has a unique creative vision, carves animal figurines out of wood and stone to make stunning coffee tables...

  • Swedish Couple Builds Greenhouse Around Their Home To Become Self-sufficient

    a day ago
  • The first greenhouse was built in Saltsjöbaden, Stockholm in 1974-76, by Bengt Warne, a Swedish eco-architect, for him and his family and also for research and development until...

  • Grow Exotic Mexican Plant – Looks Like A Watermelon & Tastes Like Cucumber “Cucamelon”

    4 days ago

    • This cute tiny fruit is the size of a grape, looks like a miniature watermelon named ‘cucamelon’ it is not a genetically-modified hybrid grown in a laboratory. They have a distinctive...

    Featured Health News from Medical News Today



  • According to a new study, a cell phone game called 'Sea Hero Quest' could assist researchers in identifying people who are more at risk of Alzheimer's...

  • Medical News Today: Colorectal cancer vaccine has promising results in early trials

    12 hours ago
  • Researchers have revealed positive results of a small, early clinical trial that tested the effects of a new vaccine on 10 people with colorectal cancer...

  • Medical News Today: Type 2 diabetes: Intensive hypertension therapy may lower death risk

    a day ago

    • New research finds that intensive therapy for lowering the blood pressure of people with type 2 diabetes reduces their risk of mortality.

      The Daily Sheeple



  • Attorney General William Barr told the Senate Judiciary Panel last week that he has assembled a team at the Justice Department to probe whether the spying conducted by the FBI against...

  • Supreme Court Says No to NYC’s Second Amendment–Avoidance Scheme

    8 hours ago
  • On Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court refused to buy into New York City’s transparent scheme to avoid the Court’s review, and wisely denied the city’s request to indefinitely put...

  • Trump nominates Kelly Knight Craft as UN ambassador

    a day ago

    • President Donald Trump has officially nominated Kelly Knight Craft as the new United States ambassador to the United Nations. Trump first stated his intention to nominate Craft...

      Exceptional Delaware 2017



  • It wouldn’t be a school board election season without some controversy springing out of the Christina School District.  Hot on the heels of the district’s crushing loss in their...

  • McGuiness Rewards Election Fix With A BIG Job

    4 hours ago
  • Remember last year when Kathy McGuiness won the election for State Auditor?  Remember all the public smearing of Kathleen Davies that the News Journal unabashedly did?  Remember...

  • Was the Common Core Successful?

    2 days ago

    • Originally posted on Diane Ravitch's blog: ? It is probably far too soon to know whether the Common Core succeeded or failed, but the studies are beginning to appear. The adoption of...

      Have You Heard



  • TweetNo excuses-style charter schools, known for rigid discipline and a college prep focus have seen explosive growth in urban areas over the past decade. And supporters of the model...

  • Unmaking the Ontario Model: Austerity Comes to Canada

    17 days ago
  • TweetDeep spending cuts and ballooning class sizes are coming to Ontario. Have You Heard talks to parents, students and teachers in Toronto about what controversial changes proposed...

  • Wild Wild West: Arizona’s Charter School Experiment

    a month ago

    • 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...

      Din Merican: the Malaysian DJ Blogger



  • ttps://www.forbes.com/sites/victorlipman/2019/04/15/the-barr-cover-up-call-it-what-it-is#21396f1d3638April 18,2019 https://www.forbes.com/sites/victorlipman/2019/04/15/the-barr-cover-up-call-it-what-it-is#21396f1d3638Barr...

  • Razali’s resignation regrettable

    18 days ago
  • April 17, 2019 https://www.thesundaily.my/opinion/suhakam-chairman-razalis-resignation-regrettable-EJ795987 Razali’s resignation regrettable Letters / 17 Apr 2019...

  • Book Review: Participation without Democracy: Containing Conflict in Southeast Asia

    20 days ago

    • April 16, 2019 Book Review: Participation without Democracy: Containing Conflict in Southeast Asia Garry Rodan (Cornell University Press, New York, 2018)   by REVIEWER: Meredith...

      Chicago Boyz



  • This article in a macroeconomic exploration of President Trump's domestic energy development policies

  • America, the Land of the Free Lunch and the Home of the Brave Easily Traumatized

    2 days ago
  • As a Boston area baby boomer, I belted out the National Anthem in my youth with conviction at sporting events. Massachusetts educators emphasized its role as the birthplace of the...

  • Sweden Is Capitalist

    2 days ago

    • I try not to use the word “capitalist” anymore, as it seems to prevent thinking.  I prefer “free market.”  Despite the title, the writer of Sweden is Capitalist over at National...

      Centinel2012



  • Gen Z Economics Published on Apr 29, 2019 SUBSCRIBE 1.2K Historian and author of the new book The Case for Trump, Victor Davis Hanson analyzes Joe Biden’s 2020 campaign and its...

  • “Political Corruption: Can the Swamp Be Drained?” – Kimberley Strassel

    an hour ago
  • Hillsdale College Published on Feb 27, 2018 SUBSCRIBE 56K This lecture was given as part of the April 2018 National Leadership Seminar, “What is American Greatness?” Hillsdale...

  • Victor Davis Hanson talks Omar, Tlaib, AOC, rural California on The Howie Carr Show (04–30–19)

    an hour ago

    • Gen Z Economics Published on May 1, 2019 SUBSCRIBE 1.2K Howie talks to Victor Davis Hanson about Democrats, illegal aliens, and more. Broadcast date: 04–30–19. All the videos...

      The BRAD BLOG



  • North Korea billed Trump $2 million for Otto Warmbier's hospital bills 'Recipe for Disaster': Trump guts offshore drilling rules put in place after Deepwater Horizon spill * * * Perry...

  • Former House Judiciary Committee General Counsel Warns 'We're In a Constitutional Crisis': 'BradCast' 5/3/2019

    2 days ago
  • Our guest today, the former U.S. House Judiciary Committee's longtime General Counsel warns on today's BradCast, that we are already in the midst of a Constitutional Crisis and that...

  • 'Chicken' Barr Skips House Judiciary Hearing After 'Lying to Congress': 'BradCast' 5/2/2019

    3 days ago

    • On today's BradCast: Following a shameful performance in the Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday, Trump's Attorney General (and personal fixer) William Barr failed to even...

      bluebird of bitterness



  • It’s the birthday of pianist and composer Ola Gjeilo, born in Norway in 1978. He earned his bachelor’s degree in composition from the Royal Academy of Music in London and his...

  • Happy International Firefighters’ Day

    a day ago

  • Caturday funnies

    a day ago


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  • POWER STRUGGLE CONTINUES -- Nuclear Power Series on Facebook Live in May Free Speech TV will host POWER STRUGGLE CONTINUES, a four-part series of half-hour Facebook Live conversations...

  • The Chernobyl nuclear disaster 33 years on

    9 days ago
  • The 33rd “anniversary” of the world’s worst nuclear disaster is upon us as we remember the April 26, 1986 explosion and meltdown at Ukraine’s Chernobyl reactor. Many papers...

  • Beyond Nuclear speaks out against bailouts for dangerously old atomic reactors in Ohio

    12 days ago

    • As posted at Beyond Nuclear's SUBSIDIES website subsection: Testimony of Beyond Nuclear, Before the Ohio House of Representatives – Energy Generation Subcommittee, Committee...

    BlackListed News



  • But the U.S. government’s human rights record doesn’t compare favorably to Cuba’s. And the Trump administration, which ignores notorious human rights violators like...

  • Analysts Confirm North Korea Launched First Ballistic Missile Since 2017

    15 hours ago
  • Analysts have studied a report from North Korea's Korean Central News Agency, which was accompanied by a few images, and determined that the "projectile" fired by North Korea Saturday...

  • JFK Confronted Israel Over Its Secret Nuclear Program

    15 hours ago

    • Avner Cohen and Bill Burr are two of the best historians on the secret Israeli nuclear program of the 1960s, which made Israel the Middle East’s first nuclear power...

      Research Digest



  • This is a bonus episode of PsychCrunch, the podcast from the British Psychological Society’s Research Digest, sponsored by Routledge Psychology. Download here.…...

  • “Skunk” Cannabis Disrupts Brain Networks – But Effects Are Blocked In Other Strains

    3 days ago
  • By Matthew Warren. Understanding that not all strains of cannabis are created equal is important in a time where the drug is becoming more widely accepted...

  • Researchers Identify Sleep As A Key Reason Why Personality Traits Predict Longevity

    4 days ago

    • By Christian Jarrett. People with certain personality characteristics are more likely to sleep too little, or too much, or to experience greater sleepiness during the day, and in...

      Atlas Obscura - Latest Articles and Places



  • While most visitors flock to Ben's Chili Bowl on U Street for its signature half-smoke sausage, the beloved Washington, D.C., landmark also boasts a spectacular mural that celebrates...

  • Van Kleef Museum and Distillery in The Hague, Netherlands

    2 days ago
  • According to local legend, when Vincent van Gogh wanted a little liquid inspiration during his time living in the Hague, the artist had one favorite place: Van Kleef. The only remaining...

  • Skull-Shaped Beer Steins Were Once Popular Graduation Gifts

    2 days ago

    • It’s the late 1800s in Germany, and you’re graduating with a medical degree. You’ve got your robes, your anatomical sketches and, of course, your trusty skull stein. You grab...

      Accidental Deliberations



  • This and that for your Sunday reading.- Mike Benusic points out that the success of public health programs is found in the absence of preventable illnesses and dangers - meaning that...

  • Saturday Afternoon Links

    21 hours ago
  • Assorted content for your weekend reading.- Ethan Cox reports on the massive public support in Canada for a wealth tax. David Hetherington writes that the wealthy few go out of their...

  • Musical interlude

    21 hours ago

    • The Black Lotus - Eon
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    5 May - iGoogle Portal - Tab 7 - MSM


  • From HBO Now to Hulu to good old-fashioned cable, you've got no shortage of ways to get your Winterfell fix.

  • Tesla Raises Money, Drones Get Certified, and More Car News This Week

    6 hours ago
  • Telsa says it will raise up to $2.7 billion in new capital, and Uber prepares for its IPO.

  • Trump's Bank Lawsuit Tops This Week's Internet News Roundup

    6 hours ago

    • The president, his family, and company are trying to stop the banks from responding to congressional subpoenas.

      NYT > Home Page



  • Here’s what you need to know about the week’s top stories.

  • The Trip I Hope All African-Americans Can Take

    a day ago
  • I saw the sense of connection that Birthright nurtured in my Jewish friends and planned my own life-changing journey.

  • Trump Dials Up the Pressure on Iran

    16 hours ago

    • The latest set of sanctions on Tehran could make a bad situation worse.

      India News, Latest News in India, Live News India, India Breaking News - Ti




  • Slain BJP leader’s car recovered from Dooru in Anantnag

    an hour ago

  • Voters scared, disillusioned at terror ground zero as Pulwama resonates across country

    an hour ago


    •   BBC News - UK



  • The shadow chancellor accuses Theresa May of an "act of bad faith" as the prime minister renews her appeal for cross-party compromise.

  • Treasure find man unearths rare brooch in Norfolk

    19 hours ago
  • Tom Lucking found a £145,000 pendant in Norfolk in 2014 - and has uncovered more hidden treasure.

  • Tax-dodging puppy farmers targeted in HMRC operation

    11 hours ago

    • More than £5m in lost taxes is recovered from hundreds of breeders selling dogs on the black market.



      National Geographic News




  • The Trump administration has promised vast changes to U.S. science and environmental policy—and we’re tracking them here as they happen.

  • Military whales and dolphins: What do they do and who uses them?

    2 days ago
  • For all our advanced technology, nothing beats the ability of marine mammals to find things in the ocean.

  • How to see the Lyrid meteor shower

    13 days ago

    • One of the oldest annual showers on record, the Lyrids put on a show each spring.


      Reuters: World News




  • At least 13 people on board a Russian Aeroflot passenger plane were killed on Sunday when the plane caught fire mid-air and made an emergency landing at a Moscow airport on Sunday, Russian...

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