While most 14-year-olds are folding paper airplanes, Miles Wu is folding origami patterns that he believes could one day improve disaster relief.

Did you know that BG3 players exploit children? Are you aware that Qi2 slows older Pixels? If we wrote those misleading headlines, readers would rip us a new one — but Google is experimentally beginning to replace the original headlines on stories it serves with AI nonsense like that.

Given his age when he first came to the world's attention and assuming continued good health in the intervening decade and change, Marine Todd would be in his late 30s today. That would be if he was a real person, though, and Marine Todd was the invented hero in a classic bit of dippy Obama-era conservative memecraft. In the original story, Marine Todd knocks out a cocky atheist college professor in front of his classmates to prove the existence of God. There are many other versions of this fable; the evangelical God's Not Dead franchise, now at five films, should probably give it an onscreen story credit. It's more accurate to say that Marine Todd, as a conservative figure of fantasy and the beefy personification of a foundational urge that runs through that movement, is both very old and very current. That fantasy is about violence, but it is also about impunity—"God was busy protecting America’s military," Todd tells his professor, once he comes to, "who are out protecting your right to say stupid shit like that, so he sent me to fill in." Righteously smashing whoever and whatever offends or just inconveniences you is something like the essential reactionary fantasy; the great work of the conservative movement, then and now, is creating the circumstances and structures that make it possible for the right type of smasher to get away with doing that. Samantha Fulnecky, a junior at the University of Oklahoma, is currently trying this out. In November, Fulnecky submitted an assignment for a psychology class at OU and received zero of a possible 25 points. The assignment was to write an essay on perceptions of gender in society; Fulnecky wrote 742 words of online-evangelical lorem-ipsum claptrap in which she gestures at but never actually cites the Bible, uses the word "demonic," and barely mentions the text to which she is supposed to be responding beyond noting that it was "very thought provoking" and that she did "not necessarily" agree with that essay's understanding of gendered bullying as "a problem." Both the teaching assistant and the professor in charge of the class agreed that Fulnecky's work did not fulfill the assignment, and that it was weird besides.

Federal authorities are preparing an immigration enforcement operation in Minnesota, focusing on Somali immigrants living unlawfully in the U.S.

An officer with Hanover County Animal Protection found the ransacker splooted out next to the toilet on Saturday morning, according to the agency's Facebook post.

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The father and son were detained at an ICE check-in on Nov. 26, advocates say. The son’s location is currently unknown, while the father is being held at an upstate ICE facility.

Leaked emails show how Act for Israel, led by Noa Tishby, worked on behalf of Israel to advance its interests in the United States

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Spotify stands by ICE recruitment ads despite artist backlash

Weeks after a Waymo killed legendary Mission District bodega cat, KitKat, its vehicle hit another animal in San Francisco.

The wholesaler is the latest company to sue a federal agency over the president's signature economic policy.

The “contrarian” journalist’s new vision for CBS News appears to just mean reinventing Crossfire.

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The tendency to move in rhythmic synchrony with a musical beat (e.g., via head bobbing, foot tapping, or dance) is a human universal [1] yet is not commonly observed in other species [2]. Does this ability reflect a brain specialization for music cognition, or does it build on neural circuitry that ordinarily serves other functions? According to the “vocal learning and rhythmic synchronization” hypothesis [3], entrainment to a musical beat relies on the neural circuitry for complex vocal learning, an ability that requires a tight link between auditory and motor circuits in the brain [4, 5]. This hypothesis predicts that only vocal learning species (such as humans and some birds, cetaceans, and pinnipeds, but not nonhuman primates) are capable of synchronizing movements to a musical beat. Here we report experimental evidence for synchronization to a beat in a sulphur-crested cockatoo (Cacatua galerita eleonora). By manipulating the tempo of a musical excerpt across a wide range, we show that the animal spontaneously adjusts the tempo of its rhythmic movements to stay synchronized with the beat. These findings indicate that synchronization to a musical beat is not uniquely human and suggest that animal models can provide insights into the neurobiology and evolution of human music

A sprawling data center in eastern Oregon has been linked to a huge rise in rare cancers, muscle conditions, and miscarriages.

Jordan Bardella, leader of France’s far-right National Rally party, was hit on the head with an egg Saturday, just days after another incident in which a protester threw flour at him.

The King and Queen pay tribute to a "dear friend who wore his genius lightly".

A Globe investigation into the provincial health agency’s dealings with a company whose contracts have come under scrutiny