A Revised Measurement of the Paper's Fixation: Trans Kids Are a Bigger Problem Than Climate-Change Obstruction

Why Neutral Milk Hotel’s biggest fans are often those who understand it least.

Stunt drivers and performers recall their toughest days on the job — and why they never want to waste Michael Bay’s time.

During a multicultural day event on Wednesday, students wore clothing representing their cultures. However, students of Palestinian descent were singled-out and told to remove what they had on.

Port and Starboard are the names of two infamous orcas that swim off the coast of South Africa. Their names come from their rare collapsed dorsal fins: Port’s bends to the left and Starboard’s bends to the right. The pair went on a killing spree last week, attacking and killing at least 17 broadnose sevengill sharks in a single day (February 24, 2023). The whales ate only the sharks’ livers and left their bodies to wash up on the beach.

And it is not just Europa. Jupiter possesses three other large moons: Io, Ganymede and Callisto. Galileo data also showed that Jupiter’s moon Ganymede and maybe even Callisto have interior oceans. At Saturn, the Esa/Nasa Cassini-Huygens mission revealed something similar for the moons Enceladus and Titan.

The treatment of an Alabama girls' basketball team has sparked outrage after the mom of one of the players claimed they were denied a trophy for winning a championship because they were not boys. The fifth-grade girls' team has been representing Spain Park High School in Hoover City, in the suburbs of Birmingham, Alabama, but were given an ultimatum about their practice facility—either play in the boys' championship or lose the opportunity to use the facility, according to the mom, who addressed the situation on Facebook. The girls' team went on to beat the boys' teams on the way to winning the championship, only to find that they were denied the trophy. (Not sure why they're using images of older girls in NY when this is about fifth graders in Alabama)

Michal Gutowski, the investigator behind the broadcast, said that Karol Wojtyla, as he then was, knew of cases of paedophile priests within the church while still a cardinal in Krakow. He transferred the priests to other dioceses -- one as far away as Austria -- to ensure no scandal ensued, he said. Wojtyla, who was pope for 27 years from 1978 until his death in 2005, wrote a letter of recommendation for a priest accused of abuse to Vienna cardinal Franz Koenig, without mentioning the accusations, says Gutowski. During his investigation, Gutowski says he spoke to victims of paedophile priests, their families and former church diocese employees.

“Tiny D” is apparently under consideration for the Florida governor.

Florida Sen. Jason Brodeur (R-Lake Mary) wants bloggers who write about Gov. Ron DeSantis, Attorney General Ashley Moody, and other members of the Florida executive cabinet or legislature to register with the state or face fines. Brodeur’s proposal, Senate Bill 1316: Information Dissemination, would require any blogger writing about government officials to register with the Florida Office of Legislative Services or the Commission on Ethics. In the bill, Brodeur wrote that those who write “an article, a story, or a series of stories,” about “the Governor, the Lieutenant Governor, a Cabinet officer, or any member of the Legislature,” and receives or will receive payment for doing so, must register with state offices within five days after the publication of an article that mentions an elected state official.

Streaming’s golden age has been ending for a while, but it’s only now become clear what’s replacing it.

Liana Shanti is the online guru of a conspiracy-riddled spiritual community. Her critics say it’s a cult, and that she’s a catfish.

CPAC showed how the MAGA movement still can’t decide whether its problem is too much Silicon Valley or not enough faves

The FDA has long blocked the importation of cheap medicine, saying it opens the door to opioids. The agency’s own data shows that rarely happens.

Unable to seize power electorally in a city where more than 80 percent of residents are Black, Republicans in Mississippi are pushing legislation that would put the capital city of Jackson under the thumb of unelected judges and a notoriously aggressive state police force that answers to controversial state officials rather than local leaders. The legislation is part of a package of bills that put Jackson City affairs under state control and rapidly expanded the state-run Capitol Police force, which is responsible for a rash of recent shootings that killed or injured Black residents and left families demanding answers. Community activists and the city’s firebrand progressive mayor, Chokwe Antar Lumumba, describe the proposed state takeover with words like “racism,” “apartheid” and “power grab.” Republican lawmakers, virtually all of them white, claim race has nothing to do with their proposals and they are only trying to help Jackson with a backlog of court cases and an understaffed police department. However, in a deeply Southern city with a long history of segregation, white flight and simmering tensions between Black city leaders and state politicians maneuvering to siphon off resources to whiter suburbs, politics are never so simple.

I’m talking about the Xerox Alto, which debuted in the early spring of 1973 at the photocopying giant’s newly established R&D laboratory, the Palo Alto Research Center (PARC). The reason it is so uncannily familiar today is simple: We are now living in a world of computing that the Alto created.

To some, watching someone work on a laptop might seem as boring as watching paint dry. And others might find it unsettling, considering the workers are strangers. But with more people struggling with ADHD and a loneliness epidemic, body doubling is seen as a way to assuage both conditions.

With a disregard for losses, the paramilitary group’s penal battalions have advanced at the time when the regular Russian military remains largely stalled.

Royal Navy can’t even kill a single whale anymore. Sad, really.

A joke is doing the rounds among the US officials who deal with Europe. What, they ask, is the fastest way to bring something to President Putin’s attention? The answer: give it to the Germans. Germany’s foreign intelligence service, the BND, is having a rough time. One of its officers stands accused of leaking secrets to the FSB, a Kremlin spy agency, and its efforts to uncover who carried out the bombing of the Nord Stream 1 and 2 gas pipelines last September are understood to be proving fruitless. Yet the most potentially serious of its problems is also the least discussed in public: the steady erosion of trust in its competence. The BND is a peculiar organisation. Founded after the Second World War as an unruly private espionage network of former Wehrmacht officers, Gestapo agents and sleazy aristocrats, its initial purpose was primarily to spy on the enemies of Konrad Adenauer, the first West German chancellor.