Announcing: Coming to PBS on April 1!
LIFE UNEARTHED with Ariel Waldman is a visually striking science-driven nature series that reveals Earth’s ecosystems through radical shifts in scale—from microscopic wildlife to the planet’s most iconic species, and even the potential for life beyond Earth. 🧪🦠
What does this imply for those of us who are not Christian, and who labor under the assumption that we're protected by the First Amendment?
"Within a year, he said, the government would announce that medical schools offering too little teaching about nutrition were “not going to be eligible for our funding.”
French President Emmanuel Macron today said France would increase the size of its nuclear arsenal — breaking a major taboo in a landmark speech on the country's atomic doctrine.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/28/u... “The statesman who yields to war fever must realize that once the signal is given, he is no longer the master of policy but the slave of unforeseeable and uncontrollable events.” - Churchill
DEAN: “What’s the tariff on bananas?” #cdnpoli
NUTLICK: “10%.”
DEAN: “Walmart already raised banana prices by 8%.”
NUTLICK: “Well, if you build in America, there’s no tariff.”
DEAN: “You can’t build bananas in America.”
It seems all Kansas-issued trans drivers' licenses are invalid, effective tomorrow
It is now illegal for trans people to drive a car until they surrender their license at a DMV (that most will need to drive to) and have it reissued with the wrong gender marker
This was never about woman's sports
The floor plan for the planned ICE concentration camp in Social Circle, Georgia:
There's a legitimate argument about whether Germany and other European governments are too aggressive in banning hate speech. But I don't see a reason US taxpayers should finance a website so that racists, misogynists and Nazis can charge their batteries with hate speech and terrorism content.
Some Swedish hockey players demonstrate various winter Olympic sports. 😁
(sound on)
#Olympics
ICE has completely broken our social contract.
They manipulate social trust and are creating lasting damage to our most basic social foundations
As part of its established procedures, ICE sends agents to pound on the doors of protesters at home and tell them "We know who you are and we're coming for you." The tactics of incompetent state terrorism.
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Federal immigration officers have repeatedly used lethal or near-lethal force in ways that appear to violate their own published policies or general policing guidelines. The pattern is so consistent that it signals that published policies have been superseded by unpublished ones encouraging violence
Rand Paul: "I see not even a hint here of anything aggressive on [Pretti's] part. I don't think this should take months and months. There needs to be a conclusion ... the public needs to know, if I go to a protest and shout something at people, could I be killed?"
As a historian of science, I was raised to think rejecting science was a pathology of anti-democratic governments. Well, this might be the proof of that.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/12/c...
Remote Greek culture has been a genetic ‘island’ for 4500 years
The Mani Peninsula, off the southern coast of Greece, is home to a group of genetically isolated people called Deep Maniots.
A new DNA analysis links them to Greece’s premedieval past.
Learn more: https://scim.ag/4qrtW7k
"The American media makes things that are abnormal seem normal. The European press doesn’t do that. So you’ll see when they report on Trump’s rambling Davos speech, they will say it made no sense. In the US press, you’ll just see excerpts and an attempt to sanitize it." — @anneapplebaum.bsky.social
ΠΑΕ Παναθηναϊκός: "118 χρόνια σύλλογος μεγάλος, το άλφα και το ωμέγα στην καρδιά και την ψυχή εκατομμυρίων ανθρώπων"
Ian McKellen performs “The Strangers’ Case” speech from “Sir Thomas More” on Colbert.
US revs up efforts to elect fascist political parties across Europe. www.ft.com/content/f869...
Powerful stuff.. it's worth your time
More attention here, please.
"A 2-year-old boy was breastfeeding in detention. One 6-year-old boy had leukemia. An 8-year-old girl began wetting the bed. A 14-year-old girl engaged in self-harm...None of these children or their parents had a criminal history anywhere in the world." www.nytimes.com/2026/02/01/o...
"Among the hires at CBS News announced by Weiss is a doctor who claims he reduced his biological age by 20 years with cold plunges; that cod liver oil treats autism; and that Alzheimer’s and dementia can be reversed with supplements he sells on his online store."
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
