250 years ago, a theologist looked under a microscope and discovered the “most peculiar” creature
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My evening under the influence of metaphysics
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Scientists are getting better at predicting marine heatwaves. But is it enough to save ecosystems and vulnerable species?
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Keir Starmer has accidentally given us four years in which to build a new political system. We should seize the chance. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 27th May 2025 This feels terminal. The breaches of trust have been so frequent, so vast and so decisive that the voters Labour has already lost are […]
In a paper submitted directly to the Trump administration, OpenAI outlines a Cold Warrior exhortation to divide the world into camps.
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But perhaps there was no event, which tended farther to the improvement of the age, than one, which has not been much remarked, the accidental finding of a copy of Justinian’s Pandects, about the year 1130, in the town of Amalfi in Italy.—David Hume History of England, 23.34 The modern university is in a grave […]
The Northumberland Line, a £300 million project led by the county council, opened in December 2024 to little fanfare. But it was recently revealed to have had five times as many riders as expected in the first five months. It is not alone in massively exceeding its ridership predictions. These figures remind us of the […]
Early in President Trump’s first term, McSweeney’s editors began to catalog the head-spinning number of misdeeds coming from his administration. We called this list a collection of Trump’s cruelties, collusions, corruptions, and crimes, and it felt urgent to track them, to ensure these horrors—happening almost daily—would not be forgotten. Now that Trump has returned to office, amid civil rights, humanitarian, economic, and constitutional crises, we felt it critical to make an inventory of this new round of horrors. This list will be updated monthly between now and the end of Donald Trump’s second term.
What’s left of the Greens political party have called upon the Prime Minister, Anthony Albanese, to join them on the lawns of parliament house for a drum circle in order to hash out the recent defection of Senator Cox to... Read More ›
“Animal rights and environmental groups have committed more acts of terrorism than Al Qaeda,” warned an FBI agent who met with Big Ag groups.
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My journey towards bowing to the feet of the Lord of Darkness has been a long one. I can’t be sure exactly where it began, if it was when I started using coconut flour to cut gluten out of my family’s diet, or if the seeds of demon worship were planted in me when I was forcing my kids to drink chlorella-and-milk-thistle smoothies to detox their livers. But I am pretty sure that by the time I threw out all our pediatric Tylenol and replaced it with colloidal silver, my love of Ammit, the eater of souls, was already being well established.
The fish oil to Mammon pipeline is surprisingly short. One minute you’re fermenting your own cider, and next thing you know, you’re pledging the souls of your offspring to Gruumsh, he who never ceases in human destruction. I admit that it must have been part of my online algorithm, because it was within weeks of buying that anti-fluoride chelating solution that I started getting targeted ads promising me a seat at the right hand of the Fallen One.
Private equity firms and major health insurers are taking over the home care industry, with deteriorating outcomes for patients.
Donald Trump has signed an Executive Order nominally aimed at “Restoring Gold Standard Science”. Setting aside the absurdity of “restoring” something that never existed, what does that purport to mean? Gold Standard Science means science conducted in a manner that is: (i) reproducible; (ii) transparent; (iii) communicative of error and uncertainty; (iv) collaborative and interdisciplinary; (v) […]
As South Korea heads toward a snap presidential election on June 3, the far right is following the Trump playbook (and aesthetic).
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Nigel Farage's party accused of running a "decision-free" administration, after being forced to scrap a third of its upcoming scheduled meetings
“Republican Sen. Joni Ernst faced a number of agitated constituents at a town hall on Friday who expressed concerns that the Republicans’ cuts to Medicaid under their major legislative effort to advance President Donald Trump’s agenda would cause people to die. Her response: ‘Well, we all are going to die.’”
— ABC News
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All flesh is but wheat chaff scattered by the breeze. And wheat chaff, as your claims specialist will inform you, is not covered under your mini-med limited-benefits plan.
You are an insulin drop trembling on the tip of an out-of-network EpiPen. Glimmering. Pure. Bankrupting.
Medicaid expansion is clinging, and clinging is the enemy of inner peace. The truly enlightened refuse coverage, choosing to drift from urgent care to urgent care like cherry blossoms on the wind. Like their pulse, thoughts of single-payer systems soon fade.
"I spent most of the early hours of Saturday in my hallway feeling the walls shake as the ballistic missiles exploded", Chris York reports from Kyiv
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