Scientists discovered “obelisks” described as a new biological “entity” in the human body. “It's insane,” one researcher told Science Magazine.

Mr. Hughes, looking very much his age, testified to the House subcommittee that not paying reparations after the Civil War was “one of the greatest injustices ever perpetrated.” [b]But,[/b] he continued, they should not be paid now. “There’s a difference between acknowledging history and allowing history to distract us from the problems we face today,” he said, pointing to endemic problems that affect Black Americans, such as poor schools, dangerous neighborhoods and a punitive criminal justice system. [e: "I wonder how/why these endemic problems for Black Americans are endemic? Ah, who cares, racism is over"] “Even those who are still well off financially still suffer from racism,” said Monnica Williams, a psychologist, in an online debate that Mr. Hughes participated in. Mr. Hughes, in turn, has a harsh assessment of progressives who he says see American society in terms of white and nonwhite, with white people as historical oppressors. In his book, he calls them “neoracists.” “Neoracists,” he writes, “are the most likely to insist that someone with European ancestry must not open a Mexican food restaurant.” He described feeling social castigation, and sometimes isolation. There was the time, for instance, when he matched with a classmate on Tinder only to be rejected once she discovered his writings. “Right before the date,” he recalled, “she said to me: ‘I just read your Quillette piece. I could never go on a date with someone who doesn’t believe racism exists.’” [e: lol] (archive link to avoid going to NYTimes.com: https://archive.is/1MR70#selection-831.0-835.150)

The Messenger is shutting its doors eight months after the digital news site launched, with the startup having burned through $50 million in funding. "All I know is that if I were to launch a media start-up I'd be sure to rent an entire floor of a downtown Manhattan skyscraper that was 9/10ths empty all day … and then fail to tell my employees they were laid off until they read about it in the New York Times," Jordan Hoffman, a senior writer and critic at The Messenger, wrote in a post on X (formerly Twitter). As of Wednesday afternoon, The Messenger's website had been fully wiped, showing only the logo and an email address (info@themessenger.com). Staffers received their final paychecks and were paid for remaining vacation time but are not receiving any severance payments. "I just got laid off… there is no severance," James LaPorta, formerly national security reporter for The Messenger, wrote on X. "Healthcare will cease. I have to go clean out my desk from the DC office."

Many nurses admit: They feel repulsed by our bodies and do not want to touch us. Doctors are more likely to view us as a waste of their time and have less desire to help us. We are hence, unsurprisingly, far more likely to die with serious health conditions that have gone undiagnosed. We are people who live in larger bodies. And the discrimination we face is incredibly harmful. Despite the fact that weight is largely out of our control — in large part because of genetics and the food environment, among other unchosen factors — there’s a prevalent sense that, when fat people are teased and bullied, we have only ourselves to blame. We have no willpower, people believe. We attract some of the most disgusted reactions of any group of human beings. When it comes to the health-care system, this all leads to serious injustice, from hostility to outright negligence. Many fat people recall going to the doctor with symptoms unrelated to their size yet being summarily told to lose weight, when a thin patient with the same symptoms would receive treatment and medication. In addition to facing misdiagnosis, or no diagnosis whatsoever, larger people are often mistreated during the medical encounter. One study showed that fat patients were rated more negatively by doctors on 12 out of 13 indexes, including “this patient would feel like a waste of my time” and “this patient would annoy me.”

Online conspiracy theories have created a new age of fringe medical treatments and supposed miracle cures.

Thousands of frontline workers may have survived the COVID-19 pandemic if the US regulatory system had better protected them, report the authors of an analysis published yesterday in BMJ.

Virginia is also a co-plaintiff in the latest lawsuit against the association

Christopher Rufo recommends a newsletter to his readers that has published several supporters of discredited genetics theory

Satellite imagery and open-source evidence lay bare the destruction to civilian infrastructure by Israeli ethnic cleansing

Between 5% and 10% of patients “colonized” with C. auris will eventually develop “invasive” infections that can be serious, Bostrom-Smith added. More than 45% of people with invasive infections die within the first 30 days, Bostrom-Smith said.

On Tuesday, Governor Tate Reeves (R-Miss.) signed legislation to finalize the largest economic development project in Mississippi history. Last week, Mississippi lawmakers approved a $44 million incentive package. Most of the state money, $32 million, will go toward job training programs. Officials said the data centers will enable customers of all sizes and across all industries, such as healthcare, manufacturing, automotive, financial services, public sector, telecom, and more, to transform their businesses. The new data centers will contain computer servers, data storage drives, networking equipment, and other forms of technology infrastructure used to power cloud computing.

An investigation is underway after police say a body was discovered in a home in Middletown Township.

With elections postponed and no end to the war with Russia in sight, Volodymyr Zelensky and his political allies are becoming like the officials they once promised to root out: entrenched.

The family is planning to sue the state of Alabama

Sinema’s office spent $116,000 on private flights in 2023 alone.

Abigail Thorn, aka Philosophy Tube, says "the goal is liberation, not celebrity".

No space, no supplies, and harrowing life-and-death decisions.

A member of the pro-Nazi group White Lives Matter was sentenced to 18 years in federal prison for firebombing an Ohio church that had been planning to host two drag events. Aimeen Penny, a 20-year-old far-right extremist from Ohio, was arrested last year after he made Molotov cocktails and threw them at the Community Church of Chesterland in Chersterland, Ohio, on March 25, 2023. Penny pleaded guilty in October to a church arson hate crime as well as to using fire and explosives to commit a felony. Judge Bridget Meehan Brennan sentenced Penny to a total of 216 months in prison on Monday.

What year is it again?

Former Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan and senior leader of his Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party Shah Mahmood Qureshi have been jailed for 10 years in a case where they were charged with leaking state secrets. The sentencing in what is called as the cypher case comes less than two weeks before the general elections. Khan, who is already serving a three-year jail term in a corruption case, has been barred from standing in the elections on February 8.