From the BBC: Overcrowding: School doesn’t understand why I fall asleep in class The argument is made that a 16-year-old falls asleep in class because his house is too small and is over-crowded, and that his family has been unable to find a bigger one. But… nowhere in the story does it say that the…
A magic trick performed on Russian TV some years ago went kinda wrong. I can’t help but compare this to a more recent bit of Russian adventurism, with Putin playing the role of the incompetent magician and the Russian people as the TV presenter who got enstabbenated for trusting him.
A political test in any science other than “political science” is an abomination. So, of course, here comes the United States Federal Government instituting political tests: you have to pledge allegiance to a scientifically irrelevant political ideology *and* do a performative written struggle session explaining just how much you love Dear Leaders wise policies and…
This happens in both the UK and the USA (and elsewhere): people with some sort of cause decide that they way to get their point across is to block traffic. This isn’t merely an inconvenience; this can cost people jobs and, in the case below, doctors appointments, and quite possibly worse.. In the US, it…
Study links in utero ‘forever chemical’ exposure to low sperm count and mobility The Danish study shows a link between PFAS chemicals, often used in plastic products including food packaging, and now found in *rain,* and drastically reduced sperm counts. This is a possible explanation for why the developed world’s sperm counts have crashed while…
It’s possible that this is a joke only for oldsters like me. But even if so… it’s a good one: McDonald’s staff harvesting apple pie filling https://t.co/7g6bhOiYAN — Paul (@bingowings14) October 8, 2022
And do not drop your battlefield missiles off the back of a truck: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_A4-vke0mEQ Heck, you drop ’em on the streets of Russia, you can’t sell ’em to the Ukrainians.
It baffles and distresses me to know that people who were born *after* the religious attacks of 9/11 are old enough to vote and join the military and be screwed over by the tax system. I didn’t see this now nearly year-old remastering of the Jules Naudet video of the first airplane impact until just…
