As you might imagine, I do a lot of searches on Google. Say what you will about Google’s politics, but I’ve long preferred it as a search engine. In the past, if you chose your search terms very carefully—and I … Continue reading →
I wrote a post yesterday about Nancy Pelosi’s statement, “I myself have always been for lowering the voting age to 16…I think it’s really important to capture kids when they’re in high school…” But today I want to emphasize that … Continue reading →
…before they decide they’re not good for you again. That article, about the back-and-forth and back-and-forth on eggs and cardiovascular health, illustrates what’s wrong with most nutritional research in humans. Way too many uncontrolled variables. A reliance on self-reports. No … Continue reading →
I really don’t see how this reaction will have any real effect on curbing violence: The estimated quarter of a million gun owners across this largely quiet, peaceful South Pacific country, many of them dedicated hunters, are bracing for what … Continue reading →
This experience must be enthralling: After the groundbreaking test flight, we caught up with Moses to learn about what it was like to see the curvature of the Earth and experience weightlessness in actual space. We also wanted to know … Continue reading →
Nancy Pelosi says [emphasis mine]: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) voiced her support on Thursday for lowering the federal voting age to 16, telling reporters during a press conference that doing so would be a boon to voter engagement in … Continue reading →
What’s more, I don’t think I’ve ever personally known anyone who does. Unlike this professor, who seems to think too many people (that is, too many women in particular) say “sorry” far too often. And she’s definitely not talking about … Continue reading →
Ever since the news of the New Zealand mosque killings, I’ve been wondering how the killer was stopped and captured. Various rumors have gone around, and I suppose that this story might be just another one, but it seems pretty … Continue reading →
The wreckage of the doomed Ethiopian flight of a Boeing 737 Max is starting to tell the tale: A screwlike device found in the wreckage of the Boeing 737 Max 8 that crashed last Sunday in Ethiopia indicates the plane … Continue reading →
I’ve noticed—around the blogosphere in general as well as on some comments at yesterday’s thread about the twelve Republican senators who voted to block Trump’s declaration of a national emergency at the border—that quite a few people on the right … Continue reading →
Congress tried to block Trump’s emergency declaration: The Senate passed a resolution Thursday to overturn President Trump’s declaration of a national emergency at the U.S.-Mexico border, with 12 Republicans joining all the Democrats to deliver a rare bipartisan rebuke of … Continue reading →
A terrorist mass murderer went on a shooting spree in two New Zealand mosques, killing 49 people. He left a lengthy manifesto, and even livestreamed the attack. This event is extremely terrible in human terms. But in terms of firearms … Continue reading →