"But they’re honeybees, so the sting isn’t as severe as some other bees, so, so far, everybody is fine,”
Small comfort.
"Don't go anywhere near them" sounds like good advice.
Miranda Devine is a New York Post columnist who's been on the leading edge of every conspiracy theory of the last decade, as far as I can see — and she's nowhere near alone. Certain social media is flooded with this kind of talk. And here's Kash Patel, chief intern at the FBI, complaining about serial seashells.
It should go without saying any talk of assassination, of anybody, for any reason short of all-out war (and then, grudgingly) is out of bounds.
But here we are.
The state still needs to acquire some additional land along the river bank to be able to build the barricade. It’s got its eye on a piece of land nearby where a coal fired power plant once stood, but there’s a problem: The ground is contaminated by coal ash, a byproduct of burning coal to generate electricity that is known to cause cancer.
Power — energy — has always been relatively cheap in the U.S. because the true cost of producing it — cleaning up the land, water, and air polution it creates, for starters — isn't included in the price of the product. The government, which is to say taxpayers, get stuck with it in the end.
And in this case it's not just the cost of cleaning up contaminated land, it's also the cost of further environmental damage if it's not cleaned up.
“Most of them are unaware that this is about to happen,” Amodei told Axios in a Wednesday interview. “It sounds crazy, and people just don’t believe it.”
…we're gonna need a whole lot of people to screw all those little screws into those U.S.-made iPhones. Which are gonna be using that AI. Unless, of course, the AI. learns to screw the screws in too.
But that could never happen, could it?
There’s an 80% chance the world will break another annual temperature record in the next five years, and it’s even more probable that the world will again exceed the international temperature threshold set 10 years ago, according to a five-year forecast released Wednesday by the World Meteorological Organization and the U.K. Meteorological Office.
The U.S. government, of course, believes all this is a hoax and advocates for burning more [big beautiful] coal. [Everything is big and beautiful in the U.S. now, we are told.] So there's that.
A general requirement to overhaul Harvard governance would involve its form of incorporation under the Commonwealth charter of 1650 and subsequent interpretations—a significant legal matter, not a snap of the fingers. The Corporation was enlarged and its internal operations were strengthened in 2010, but this new government request is a singularly sweeping, ill-defined demand, not susceptible to “immediate” change.
It's nearly incomprehensible, but then it's the government. And Harvard Magazine. Here's a somewhat less rigorous report from the New York Post, a decidedly right-leaning publication.
Meanwhile, about the Speaker of the House, Mike Johnson, a Republican and second in line of succession to the throne presidency.…
The unofficial Cooper's Hill Cheese-Rolling and Wake in the English county of Gloucestershire drew thousands of spectators and scores of competitors to chase a speeding wheel of dairy product down a steep grassy slope.
The "chaotic but beloved annual fixture" was officially discontinued 15 years ago — for safety reasons. of course — but has been unofficially continued by rebels. Rebels. Police no longer intervene, they only observe.
There'll always be an England.
Not only found in residential neighborhoods like Little Havana, Little Haiti and Wynwood, the fowl families are also making their home among the high-rises and government buildings downtown. And while some people find the crowing to be a nuisance, many have adopted the rooster as an unofficial mascot for the city.
That will put the music past the moon in 1 ½ seconds, past Mars in 4 ½ minutes, past Jupiter in 37 minutes and past Neptune in four hours. Within 23 hours, the signals will be as far from Earth as NASA’s Voyager 1, the world’s most distant spacecraft at more than 15 billion miles (24 billion kilometers) in interstellar space.
Vienna tourist board calls it a fix to a cosmic mistake.
On April 1, the staff of the CDC's Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention Program was terminated as part of the agency's reduction in force, according to NPR. The staff included epidemiologists, statisticians, and advisors who specialized in lead exposures and responses.
The current administration's Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) initiative, headed by the unable Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., is based not only on junk science but on junk execution as well.
Real-world damage is occurring right now.
Exposing kids to a well-understood threat like lead poisoning is abhorrent.
Leonardo García Venegas, a Florida-born U.S. citizen with a REAL ID, was forcibly arrested by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) at an Alabama construction site after agents claimed his identification was "fake," Venegas told Noticias Telemundo in Spanish on Friday.
REAL ID cards (we were told they were foolproof) just became — on May 7 — officially required to fly on commercial airlines and to enter certain federal buildings in the U.S.
And now, less than a month later, ICE is claiming this guy's REAL ID is fake? I'd like to know how many other fake ones are floating around already. Am I going to need another ID to prove my REAL ID is real?
Or is there something unreal about ICE?
The US Treasury Department announced Thursday that it plans to start winding down production of the one-cent coin it has been minting for more than 230 years. But the penny will still remain legal tender, and will still be in use at thousands of retailers around the country for sometime to come.
I was hoping that giant bowl of pennies on my chest of drawers would suddenly become more valuable. Like rare coins. Actually be worth something.
But no.
