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This week, a resurfaced video of Donald Trump’s running mate, J. D. Vance, calling childless cat ladies like me miserable and uncaring went viral, making me more concerned than I already was about what my life might be like under an administration so hostile to women’s sexual, reproductive, and pet-related choices.
But then another viral story about Vance humping furniture (which turned out not to be true, surprisingly) made me realize, even if it would be too dangerous to have sex with men, and probably illegal to have sex with anyone else, maybe if they win, things wouldn’t be so bad after all. Because if Trump and Vance are elected, I can just start fucking my couch.
Earth’s meteorology could explain what’s behind the great red whorl’s waning.
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Jenny Graves tired of singing about Adam and Eve. So she wrote a creation oratorio based on science.
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“Will Chamberlain, a conservative lawyer who worked on Ron DeSantis’s presidential campaign, posted on X that Harris ‘shouldn’t be President’ because she doesn’t have biological children; ‘becoming a step-parent to older teenagers doesn’t count,’ he said." —New York Times, 07/23/2024
1. Integrating into a structure with a history that began way before you ever came on the scene.
2. Finding the balance between respecting time-honored traditions, and having the courage to create new ones.
3. Winning over the members of the house whose objections can be loud, and sometimes downright offensive.
4. Attending a lot of sporting events.
5. Pretending to like them all.
6. Adapting to your new digs, which still contain a lot of memorabilia from former occupants, such as questionable Christmas decorations, and family portraits featuring the “First Lady.”
Higher education is perhaps Britain’s last truly world-leading sector. In many towns, not least those ravaged by deindustrialisation, universities function as social anchors, generating tens of thousands of jobs and reams of secondary economic activity. It is bitterly ironic, then, that successive governments have decided to expose the higher education sector — an unparalleled public […]