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Speculation has emerged that penguins may be aliens after scientists found traces of a chemical from Venus in their droppings. Experts are struggling to explain how phosphine exists on Earth – 38 million miles away from Venus. Scientists in the UK who believe alien life forms may have already been detected say studying penguins could …
At this time of the year it’s difficult to know what to say without offending someone ? So I’ve checked with my legal adviser and on his advice I wish to say the following to all my friends and relatives: Please accept with no obligation, implied or implicit, my best wishes for an environmentally conscious, …
Duck recorded speaking to human Scientists have recorded the first known instance of a duck that has learned to mimic human speech. The duck in in Australia – called Ripper – said: “You bloody fool.” Parrots, songbirds and hummingbirds were thought to be the only birds thought to be able to mimic human speech, though …
There were fewer than 475 potential cases of voter fraud in the six battleground states that former President Donald Trump disputed, far too few to change the results of the 2020 presidential election, The Associated Press reported Tuesday after a review of every flagged ballot. President Biden beat Trump in Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, Pennsylvania, …
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Poetry (when calming and evocative) is very Epicurean. All the more so, I maintain, when it is rhymed. Why is that? Is it personal preference? Poets now despise the rhyme, Or that’s the affectation. But nonsense is as nonsense does And what is worse Than bad blank verse? – Gibberish strung a word a line, …
“A man without mirth is like a wagon without springs, in which one is caused to jolt disagreeably by every pebble over which it runs.”. Henry Ward Beecher, clergyman and abolitionist. (quoted in the Montreal Gazette) My comment: Hard as it surely is to keep a sense of humor in these rather grim and hate-filled …
“Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city”. (George Burns, quoted in Goodreads.com) My comment: Witty this is, but Epicurus would have demurred. He coveted his friendships and liked nothing better than to invite friends and acquaintances round for a simple meal and an intelligent discussion (free of party politics).
The soft, pink clouds hang over the distant horizon. The glazed water gently rolls towards the beach. A breeze-less, tranquil, tropical morning. A man in a punt moves over the unruffled surface. You can see that he has used a punt before By the way he raises the long, wooden pole And drops it noiselessly …
It has been another record year for renewable energy, despite the Covid-19 pandemic and rising costs for raw materials around the world, according to the International Energy Agency (IEA). About 290GW of new renewable energy generation capacity, mostly in the form of wind turbines and solar panels, has been installed around the world this year, …
“The Science of Meditation” is collaboration between the Dalai Lama, Richard Davidson and Daniel Goldman. It makes clear what works in meditation and what doesn’t, and explains why focusing our attention minute by minute on a single facet of consciousness (a mantra, our breath, stray thoughts) has such a dramatic impact on our well-being and …
Along with various inalienable rights and governing principles, the tendency for men to talk over women has now been officially recognised by the US supreme court. Newly introduced rules to the structure of oral arguments are in place to address the issue of male justices and attorneys (extremely regularly) interrupting their female colleagues. Far from …
Paper Truths is a weekly newsletter that combs some of the darkest corners of the internet for disinformation and misinformation, analyzing the strategies and tactics, providing the tools needed to fight back against bad actors’ narratives. Every week it focuses on the issues that are at the center of American politics, outlining the facts that …
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At a Senate Judiciary Subcommittee Hearing on Competition Policy, Antitrust, and Consumer Rights, competition and consumers on September 21, Josh Hawley (Rep.Missouri) is quoted as opining that “The effort to combat toxic masculinity in the US has led men to consume more pornography and play more video games”. Later, speaking at the National Conservatism Conference …
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“If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to”. Dorothy Parker, quoted in the Montreal Gazette
A Danish artist who was given $83,000 worth of Danish kroner by a museum to use in a artwork, pocketed the cash and submitted two blank canvasses entitled “Take the money and run”. For an exhibition on money and labor the Kroger Museum of Modern Art commissioned artist Jens Haaning to recreate a previous artwork …
