- newJohn Oliver torches Musk for restoring extremist accounts and calling it "free speech"
"It is worse than you think," says John Oliver about Elon Musk's supercharged Nazi bar. John Oliver took a flamethrower to Elon Musk's Xitter this week, explaining what was once a flawed but functional platform has become a pay-to-play megaphone for…
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- newThis Kentucky hatter shapes cowboy dreams out of felt and steam
I have been enthralled watching the hatters at Wild Hats in Louisville, Kentucky, make beautiful hats. Their YouTube channel is full of fantastic hats, and I have not seen them make one I did not want. While I have a number of felt fedoras and other…
- 49 mins ago 25 Feb 26, 8:32pm -
- newMaking disease great again: HHS funds discredited vaccine research
Today on "What Could Possibly Go Wrong," RFK Jr's Department of Health and Human Services is funneling federal money toward researchers proposing to withhold a routine hepatitis B vaccine from thousands of newborns: all in the name of "asking questio…
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- newSouth Carolina measles epidemic nearing 1000 infected
Showing that the MAHA movement is a complete success, measles rages out of control in South Carolina.Measles cases in South Carolina surged to 979 on Tuesday, state health data showed, including six additional infections since Friday.Here ar…
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- newLA stopped repaving streets to avoid building wheelchair ramps
Every mile of LA street has about 14 curb ramps that need to meet federal ADA standards. A single crew needs roughly three months to build them. Repaving that same stretch of road? A weekend or a week, tops. That mismatch explains why the city has es…
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- newBill Gates admits affairs with Russian women, blames Epstein fallout
Among the Justice Department documents from the Epstein investigation is an email Epstein sent to himself, claiming Gates had asked for antibiotics after contracting an STI from "Russian girls." Gates has now confirmed at least part of that story. Sp…
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- newLarry Summers used racist language in messages to Epstein
Larry Summers used racist language in messages to pedophile Jeffrey Epstein about a woman he was pursuing romantically. "I'd be happy to have a rational affair w yellow peril," he wrote, minutes after telling the pedophile he was "way smitten with he…
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- newMore than 1 in 10 meditators report serious adverse effects
Meditation is one of those things that seems like it can only help. Sit quietly, focus on your breath, feel calmer. But more than 1 in 10 regular practitioners report significant adverse effects — problems like anxiety, psychotic episodes, and depe…
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- newNewly found letters show Georg Cantor stole his famous infinity proof
Georg Cantor's 1874 proof that infinity comes in different sizes reshaped mathematics. It also appears to have been stolen. Newly discovered letters show that Cantor's colleague Richard Dedekind provided key proofs that Cantor published under his own…
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- newScientists complete the first full wiring diagram of a fruit fly brain
Scientists have completed the most detailed map ever made of an adult animal brain by charting every cell and connection in a fruit fly's brain (the fly brain map is ridiculously cool-looking). Despite being smaller than a pinhead, the fly's brain c…
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