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What’s the deal  with the measles? ( Offered in the tone and tempo of Jerry Seinfeld, of course. ) Measles outbreaks are taking up a lot...

OKAY I’m a fan of etymology and semantics and, really, everything to do with language; still, somehow I never gave much thought to the...

The West Vancouver Streamkeeper Society  was established in 2001 to restore and sustain local aquatic wildlife populations in 22...

Somehow I missed obelisks . Well, I suppose everyone missed it — or them . Discovered in human gut and oral bacteria, researchers...

We’ve never really known a lot about blue whales  ( Balaenoptera musculus ); yes, despite our long history near and on the sea, blue...

Ziggy : I don't know. Is it just me? Tolga : What? Ziggy : Seems all the same people we all watched dedicating the last decade of...

CONTEXT WHAT IS DOGE? Executive Order - ESTABLISHING AND IMPLEMENTING THE PRESIDENT’S "DEPARTMENT OF GOVERNMENT EFFICIENCY " "DOGE...

After landing in Washington to start his second term, Trump created the Department of Government Efficiency under a temporary contract...

Much is being said about this US election and the folks coming to power. The only thing worth noting that I can spot, and something...

Nuclear power stations are like stars that shine all day long. We shall sow them all over the land. They are perfectly safe! — Mikail...

A 2021 study out of Denmark estimated the proportion of cases of schizophrenia associated with cannabis use in that country doubled in...

Kyagulani Mutumbo : Swift can't sing. Matudana Kyninyi : Totally. No one in the music industry can sing. Kyagulani Mutumbo : Yeah....

Previously, I’ve tried to understand the circumstances surrounding our local homeless and overdose catastrophes. And I’ve relayed my...

One famous finding from social psychology is that intergroup contact is the most highly effective tool for reducing prejudice. The more...

Maybe twenty years ago I was writing about the strangeness of finding myself labelled an ‘atheist’. To begin with, I argued that...

A team of researchers from Conservation International conducted a survey in the heart of Peru during the summer of 2022. Their rapid...

So many such odd things these days. So many such things and so very odd that it’s hard to differentiate what is normal and what is...

I was perfectly happy to disregard the “drone” reports as media-induced mass panic. And then government officials began assuring the...

A paper was just quietly published showing several independent large language models, all the latest versions of the big ones from all...

CANDISS:  But you could be setting fire to things while adding fuel. BARTHALAHMEU:  What do you mean? C:  Well, you have no information....

The UN Office of the High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) just published "Women and girls bear the brunt of conflicts..." In the thread...

NOAH: Someone was telling me how the Gospel of Mark, according to Mark, St. Mark the Evangelist, was originally transmitted by itinerant...

I don’t even know how you would explain to future generations what has taken place over the last decade. So much context is needed just...

Late one night my wife returned home And my wife, she was without her shoes And so I asked my wife “Wife, where are your shoes?”