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I would like to begin by thanking Robert James Ritchie, aka “Kid Rock,” for the many years of steady employment that he has provided me, the adjective “Kid.” It has been a wild, sleeveless, never-eating-your-vegetables ride. However, after deep reflection and several unsuccessful attempts to exfoliate the cigarette smoke from my pores, I am officially announcing my retirement.

I can no longer, in good conscience, attach myself to a man who looks like he was carved from fifty pounds of thawed-out and smooshed hot dogs and then left in the sun to philosophize about fireworks. I am “Kid.” I am scraped knees, Capri Suns, skateboards, and the blissful ignorance of what the age of consent is in each state. I am not whatever is currently happening north of his goatee.

Hospital workers in Melbourne, members of the Health Workers Union, walked out on strike and rallied at the new Footscray Hospital.

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People have only recently included Indigenous voices in the story

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Ecologists detect promising, early signs of river recovery

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“President Trump announced he was erasing the scientific finding that climate change endangers human health and the environment, ending the federal government’s legal authority to control the pollution that is dangerously heating the planet.” — New York Times

The EPA was founded in 1970 to protect public health and the environment. But now, as a result of President Trump’s forward-thinking leadership, our mission at the Environmental Protection Agency is simple: Destroy the environment.

The threats posed by the environment are far-reaching: sunsets, strawberries, and a climate capable of sustaining human life, to name only a few. Immediate action must be taken before these risks become full-fledged catastrophes.

Where’d you get that frog?

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W. Grey Walter’s early automatons sparked an ongoing fascination with artificial animals

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New research into umbilical cord blood shows a startling number of PFAS

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The lawman, Emmett Bransky, stands with his back to the outlaw “Coyote” Roscoe Higgins in the middle of Main Street mere minutes before high noon. Emmett gently adjusts his modest 6-Gallon hat. His 36-Pint vest is buttoned up to the collar, and his 4-Teaspoon belt buckle sparkles in the near-midday sun. Roscoe snarls beneath his standard 10-Gallon cowboy hat. His 50-Pint overcoat flaps in the wind, revealing an 8-Liter wool shirt with a 1-Big-Soup-Ladle chest pocket.

The two men take their paces. Their 5-Pint boots dig into the dry, Arizona dirt road. Onlookers line Main Street wearing hats ranging from 4 to an absurd 12 gallons. “Shotgun” Dakota Devlin is clearly compensating for something with that hat.

Della Hayes, Roscoe Higgins’ rumored lover, watches from the spacious 60-Laundry-Basket balcony of Sid William’s Saloon. She’s in a pair of striking 21-Half-Pint riding pants and a 240-Fluid-Ounce sky-blue blouse.

On the opposite side of the street, Maggie Bransky, wife of Emmett, looks stunning in her 11-Quart walking skirt and her pair of 4-Dollop black lace gloves, which carry a 3-Milk-Carton parasol.

New research shows transcranial stimulation can boost altruistic behavior

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Amid growing cultural panic about the use of AI in writing, we’re missing the most important point: AI cannot write

- by Aeon Video

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Your inability to focus isn’t a failing. It’s a design problem, and the answer isn’t getting rid of our screen time

- by Carlo Iacono

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