New research into umbilical cord blood shows a startling number of PFAS
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The 1996 Doctor Who TV movie starring Paul McGann is getting a new 4K Blu-Ray release, remastered from the 35mm camera negative with extras.
Virginia Giuffre alleged she was raped by Andrew when she was 17. Key emails in the Epstein files - first revealed by Byline Times - add weight to these claims
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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Agent-based banking models impose hard capital constraints and lack market-priced equity issuance, overstating credit rationing relative to empirical evidence on proactive seasoned equity offerings.
Amid growing cultural panic about the use of AI in writing, we’re missing the most important point: AI cannot write
- by Aeon Video
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
As the eighth in line of succession to the British throne is arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office, Hardeep Matharu explores how elite impunity is built on creating a sense of powerlessness in the many – in her editorial first published in the latest monthly print edition of Byline Times
I am late today because I am writing this in London after travelling the last 24 hours. The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) released the latest labour force data today (February 19, 2026) – Labour Force, Australia – for January 2026 – which showed that the labour market was essentially steady in that employment kept…
If you’ve been following the rapid rise of AI‑driven chatbots and ‘assistant‑as‑a‑service’ platforms, you know one of the biggest pain points is trustworthy, privacy‑preserving web search. AI assistants need access to current information to be useful, yet traditional search engines track every query, building detailed user profiles.
Enter SearXNG - an open‑source metasearch engine that aggregates results from dozens of public search back‑ends while never storing personal data. The new Drupal module lets any Drupal‑based AI assistant (ChatGPT, LLM‑powered bots, custom agents) invoke SearXNG directly from the Drupal site, bringing privacy‑first searching in‑process with your content.
Trump’s Department of Homeland Security is weaponizing a little-known legal tool to crack down on free speech — and Big Tech is complying.
Scientists in Berlin performed a battery of tests on a 3,400-year-old weapon
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Picture it: Los Angeles in 1985. I’d moved there two years earlier to make it as a model, but all I had to show for it was a couple of car shows, one page of a local JCPenney circular, and a weekly “session” at Chateau Marmont with a freaky rich dude who I can’t say more about because of the NDA.
So when I met this guy with the most perfect curly mullet who promised me a little pink house in one of the flyover states, it sounded pretty good. Forty years later, I’m still not even sure what state we’re living in, but I do know that I hate this goddamn place with the fire of a thousand California suns.
As the Olympic committee searches for new revenue streams, profit-gouging private equity firms move to expand their influence over global sports.
Palestinians accuse the President of attempting to "pacify the victim" while overseeing a "slow genocide" in Gaza
You’ve Always Been This Way is a column written by Taylor Harris, a late-diagnosed neurodivergent woman and 1980s preschool dropout, who identifies every moment from her past that filled her with shame, and mutters, “Yep, that tracks. I see it all now.”
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“I’ve been thinking about it all wrong,” said the town’s perimenopausal autistic woman every day, upon waking and going to bed. And sometimes whilst she sat alone upon the chamber pot, flipping through daguerreotypes from her bestie.
“What is it, my dear?” her husband asked. He’d once read a pamphlet on the four humors and feared she’d gone mad, oversaturated with black bile. “You’ve been all in a dither for a fortnight now. Shall I send for the doctor? Although… he is most adept at watching patients burn with fever before declaring the deceased, dead.”
“IT is everything, Peter. Don’t you understand?”
“Clearly not, for if I had understood, why would I—”
FREETHOUGHT TODAY January-February 2026 “Spiritual but Not Religious”? Are You Sure? By Alfie Kohn Have you ever come across someone who qualifies her opinions about gender-related issues by assuring her listener that she’s “not a feminist or anything”? That comment wouldn’t be surprising coming from denizens of the Bible Belt or the MAGAverse who are all in for women’s subservience ... Read More
- Glad I went with ominous drumbeats as the beckoning call, all four players looking upon the game with wonder and dread. Woodwinds/sitars would have been a mistake.
- Game instructions clear enough to be understood by players, vaguely threatening enough to unnerve them. Struck a great balance there.
- Two youngest players mystified by the enchanted game tokens. An excellent sign, as I’ll be pitching Jumanji as a game for wayward youths looking to escape the tedium of their daily lives / learn a few things the hard way.
- Turn up sadism levels in monkeys. Antics are WAY too on the playful side. Don’t be afraid to go overboard here either. I’d rather have them throwing knives and stealing police cars than—Jesus—tickling each other.
- Giant flesh-eating plants went smoothly. Creeped into the room through the ceiling and power outlets, went straight for the weakest player, players fought back with fireplace tools / wept uncontrollably.
Defying time and colonial power, a landscape artist layers the deep histories of his ancestors to create hopeful futures
- by Aeon Video
The Liberals have a new leader. But they’re still stuck with their old problems—and Angus Taylor isn’t going to dig them out of a deep hole.
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Violence against protests is not the result of rogue officers. It is part of the basic role of the police.
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Tens of thousands of dockworkers across Europe and the Mediterranean shut down 21 major ports in a co-ordinated day of strike action in support of Palestine on 6 February.
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While Israel continues to massacre Palestinians in Gaza during the so-called “ceasefire”, at times killing over 20 people a day, it is also stepping up the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians in the West Bank.
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The Epstein files expose the corruption and depravity of some of the world’s richest and most powerful people.
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