Links for you. Science:
An asteroid will not destroy Earth today. But let’s consider that for a moment.
Giraffes must be listed as endangered, conservationists formally tell US
Why Are Some Mice (and People) Monogamous? A Study Points to Genes
Poverty, open sewers and parasites: ‘America’s dirty shame’
Medieval medical books could hold the recipe for new antibiotics
Other:
How I Got a Tampon Dispenser Installed in the West Wing
Sorry, Republicans, but most people support single-payer health care
No, Mr. President, you can’t do what you want
Trump and the Trumpists
Educated Evangelicals, Academic Achievement, and Trumpism: On the Tensions in Valuing Education in an Anti-Intellectual Subculture
Sorry, Republicans, but most people support single-payer health care
Stop swooning over Justin Trudeau. The man is a disaster for the planet
We’re Now In the Second Biggest Housing Boom of All Time
These photos show what it’s like being a punk in Burma
The couch surfing provacateur
Trump’s private spook
A Millennial Feminist Explains the New Feminism to a Boomer Feminist Philosopher (a little long-winded but good)
PALIN, BREITBART, AND FOX SEEM TO BE STRUGGLING WITH THE CONCEPT OF LINEAR TIME
The House Democrats Would Likely Have Had Much, Much Worse Leadership Without Pelosi– And When She Finally Goes, They Will
Chechens tell of prison beatings and electric shocks in anti-gay purge: ‘They called us animals’
What makes Sanders so significant is that he’s the first left (visible) politician in decades to offer a political analysis of the economy.
mikethemadbiologist
Prince says re the Phoenix Program:
“It was a vicious, but very effective, kill/capture program in Vietnam that destroyed the Viet Cong as a military force”.
So those were Viet Cong refugees dangling from helicopters, Saigon, 1975? Who’d a-thunk it?