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I remember hearing about this a few years back and thinking it would be cool if it actually led to changes to our understanding of gravity and modifications to relativity. Turns out it is far more mundane than that.
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An Intriguing Link Between Police Shootings and Black Voter Registration What we found was staggering. The number one determinant of over-representation in fatal police shootings—after controlling for all other aforementioned indicators—was the percentage of eligible black Americans registered to vote within the state in question. In other words, the ...
Great White Snark
Alabama’s ‘Ten Commandments Judge’ Suspended for Rest of Term for Defying Federal Judiciary Over Same-Sex Marriage The Alabama Court of the Judiciary today suspended Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore for the rest of his term in office. The Court ruled that Moore violated the canons of judicial ethics by ordering Alabama's probate judges to defy ...
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Trump Foundation Lacks the Certification Required for Charities That Solicit Money Donald Trump’s charitable foundation — which has been sustained for years by donors outside the Trump family — has never obtained the certification that New York requires before charities can solicit money from the public, according to the state ... Thanos
USA TODAY’s Editorial Board: Trump Is ‘Unfit for the Presidency’ In the 34-year history of USA TODAY, the Editorial Board has never taken sides in the presidential race. Instead, we’ve expressed opinions about the major issues and haven’t presumed to tell our readers, who have a variety of priorities ... Thanos
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Trump’s Debate Performance Matches Symptoms of Early-Onset Dementia At the risk of joining all the tinfoil-hatted, swivel-eyed loons who focus on minutia to try to long-distance diagnose this year's candidates, I think maybe we might want to wonder if Trump is starting to suffer from dementia. If ...
Khal Wimpo (no longer entitled to his own facts)
The Nature of Human Violence We may be living in one of the most peaceful periods in human history, but one need only glimpse the daily news to be confronted with humans’ propensity for violence. Such reminders inevitably prompt questions about the nature of ...
Birth Control Works
Where the Public Stands on Religious Liberty vs. Nondiscrimination Two-thirds say employers should provide birth control in insurance plans, but public is split over same-sex wedding services and use of public bathrooms by transgender people The U.S. public expresses a clear consensus on the contentious question of whether ... Birth Control Works
Hate Group Family Research Council Joins a Chorus of Anti-LGBT Voices Challenging the ‘Johnson Amendment’ The anti-LGBT hate group Family Research Council is planning to announce legislation today pushing for the repeal of the amendment to the U.S. tax code that prohibits certain nonprofits and churches from weighing in on elections. The so-called “Johnson ... Birth Control Works
Trump’s Rise Shows White Supremacists Are Now Republican Party Political Mainstream David Duke worked the Louisiana gun show like a preacher pursuing souls, cornering potential voters as they picked over firearms and ammo. The robes are gone and the rhetoric is softer than during his grand wizard days. But Duke ... Great White Snark
Autonomous Vehicles Will Mean the End of Traffic Stops So "Riding While Black" becomes the new DWB. Or will it? No more broken brake lights, alleged unsafe lane changes etc. What will they do to make up the revenue from real and imagined violations? Losing the pretext stop—where ... Great White Snark
Donald Trump’s Cuba Problem Comes With Big Risks Today, Trump’s campaign manager made a television appearance in which she appears to have made the story quite a bit worse for her boss. The Washington Post noted: Donald Trump’s campaign manager denied Thursday that one of the GOP ... Thanos
OneRepublic - A.I. (Audio) Ft. Peter Gabriel Preorder OneRepublic’s new album, ‘Oh My My,’ out October 7th, and get ‘A.I.,’ ‘Wherever I Go,’ ‘Kids’ and ‘Future Looks Good’ instantly: smarturl.itListen to the complete OneRepublic playlist on Spotify: smarturl.it Music video by OneRepublic performing A.I.. (C) 2016 ... Thanos
GOP Blocks Probes Into Trump-Russia Ties Suspicion is mounting about Donald Trump’s ties to Russian officials and business interests, as well as possible links between his campaign and the Russian hacking of U.S. political organizations. But GOP leaders have refused to support efforts by Democrats ... Thanos
Jewish Leaders React to Rodrigo Duterte Holocaust Remarks Jewish leaders have reacted angrily after Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte compared his anti-drug campaign to the Holocaust. The comment - wrongly citing numbers killed by the Nazis - was inhumane and deeply offensive, they said. Mr Duterte said he ... Thanos
Rosetta Spacecraft Collides With Comet, as Planned After more than a decade of roaming tirelessly across the solar system, the comet-watching Rosetta spacecraft has gone to its eternal rest at last. In a deliberate act of self-sacrifice, Rosetta plowed into the surface of comet 67P at ... Thanos
What Meerkat Murder Tells Us About Human Violence Here are the 30 mammal species most likely to kill their own kind. #1 might surprise you. https://t.co/qdprrwBjvl pic.twitter.com/vB0e6NjdbZ — Ed Yong (@edyong209) September 28, 2016 ReplyReply w/ QuoteImages A new study of violent behavior in more than 1,000 ... Thanos
SPLC: United States Crime Rates Still at Historic Lows MONTGOMERY, Ala. – The following statement regarding the FBI’s Uniform Crime Reporting program’s annual Crime in the United States report, released September 26, 2016, is from Lisa Graybill, deputy legal director at the Southern Poverty Law Center. "The FBI’s ... Birth Control Works
Advice She Didn’t Ask For"Save us from fascism but don't be a bitch about it." Thanks for weighing in, but it looks like Hillary Clinton is doing just fine without the help of body language experts. Watch Full Frontal with Samantha Bee next week ... Thanos
Actual Scientific Polls Show Big Win for Hillary Clinton in First Debate The consensus is in: viewers overwhelmingly thought Hillary Clinton was the winner of the first presidential debate. Four polls — from CNN/ORC, Politico/Morning Consult, NBC/SurveyMonkey, and Public Policy Polling — all showed that respondents felt Clinton bested Donald Trump ... Thanos
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