A new study of bonobos shows that they grin during vigorous socio-sexual interactions
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He lives with your family, and he’s sort of your brother.
Not a red flag. Because he’s not your actual brother, and everyone has already met the parents.
He is repeatedly bullied by your actual brother.
Not a red flag. Kids are resilient, and there is no evidence that individuals who were persistently dehumanized by a jealous/racist quasi-sibling are more likely to become Byronic antiheroes than those who were not.
He keeps track of the number of days you spend with him and the number you spend with the boy next door.
Not a red flag. Keeping track of the household calendar is unpaid labor, and if this is new information for you, what else have you been taking for granted?
He hurls a tureen of boiling applesauce at the boy next door.
Not a red flag. A good reminder that commenting on another person’s hair is not without risk, and a testament to the dangers of serving applesauce unchilled.
Over the past fortnight, Keir Starmer’s government has been rocked by scandal — a sentence that could have been written at any point since Labour’s 2024 landslide win. The latest, however, threatens to be the most damaging yet, not only because the prime minister has been weakened by nineteen months of self-inflicted crisis, but because […]
If our ethical beliefs come from our social environment, how do some people find the moral courage to defy convention?
- by Dane Leigh Gogoshin
. While the United States often symbolises extreme wealth concentration, the perception of Sweden as an egalitarian utopia requires re-examination. In recent decades, economic inequality in Sweden has grown at a rate that, in some respects, rivals that of the US. Although Sweden maintains a robust social safety net, the underlying income inequality has surged. […]
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.
Based on Disney+'s monthly listing, Doctor Who spinoff The War Between the Land and the Sea isn't on the streamer's March 2026 calendar.
Ever since Leslie and I started publishing Beatlefan magazine, friends, family and readers have been asking me when I was going to write a book about The Beatles. It turns out, that’s part of what I’ve been doing over the … Continue reading
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
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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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The president and his son are seeking a betting app fortune as his administration goes to war for prediction markets.
Cooling my heels at the drugstore.
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W. Grey Walter’s early automatons sparked an ongoing fascination with artificial animals
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As states moved to cap sky-high interest rates, Republican lawmakers awash in finance industry campaign cash are spearheading legislation to outlaw those protections nationwide
New research into umbilical cord blood shows a startling number of PFAS
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So we have an ongoing genocide in Gaza. The death toll, as estimated by scientists, is probably north of half a million. (The official toll is laughable and obviously wrong, growth slowing over time.) Trump was able to use oil piracy and a kidnapping to bend Venezuela to his will. Now he’s cut off oil […]
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.