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Monday April 21, 2025. 08:34 PM
Yawning is contagious, not just among humans but also animals. Contagious yawning is thought to be linked to mirror neurons—cells in the brain that fire both when we do something and when we see someone else do it. These neurons help us mimic behaviors, and in the case of...
Nothing says 'we love liberty' quite like hiring private muscle to manhandle citizens at a public town hall hosted by Idaho's Kootenai County Republican Central Committee. As reported in the CDA Press, Paul Trouette, Russell Dunne, Christofer Berg, and Jesse Jones from Lear...
The Federal Trade Commission filed suit against Uber on Monday, alleging the transportation giant violated federal consumer protection laws through deceptive billing and cancellation practices for its Uber One subscription service. According to the complaint, Uber violated...
Along with lawlessly abducting international students and resisting court orders to return a Maryland man mistakenly shipped off to an El Salvador prison, the Trump administration has also unleashed a surge in phone searches for anyone traveling into the country. And by...
Olo is the name of a color that, so far, has only been seen by a handful of scientists. The UC Berkeley researchers fired laser pulses into their eyes to energize specific retinal cells. The technique expanded visual perception to reveal a kind 'blue-green' hue that they've...
'I don't like them. I wouldn't read them. I'll be honest I've read the reviews on some of them…' With these words at a public meeting, Tennessee's Rutherford County School Board member Stan Vaught admitted to banning books he hadn't read — a revelation that kicked off a...
Embattled Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth may soon have more time to spend with a plastic bottle of Highland Mist, if NPR's anonymous official is right. Hegseth was exposed by the New York Times this weekend as having shared 'war plans' online in a second chatroom—this one...
It's now hitting govt, enterprise targets On March 11 - Patch Tuesday - Microsoft rolled out its usual buffet of bug fixes. Just eight days later, miscreants had weaponized one of the vulnerabilities, using it against government and private sector targets in Poland and...
Google is confronting an existential threat as the U.S. government tries to break up the company as punishment for turning its revolutionary search engine into an illegal monopoly. From a report: The drama began to unfold Monday in a Washington courtroom as three weeks of...
For a man who made millions writing about supernatural horrors, Neil Gaiman sure seems terrified of mortal women speaking their truth. As reported in New York Magazine, the Sandman author is demanding $500,000 from Caroline Wallner, a former property caretaker who claims he...
Puppy-slayer and Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem lost a lot of cash when her purse was snatched out from under the watchful eyes of the Secret Service. Unkind to animals DHS Sec. Kristi Noem lost her passport, $3,000 in cash, some blank checks and a her ...
Verizon Consumer CEO Sowmyanarayan Sampath has declared that net neutrality regulations 'went literally nowhere.' Sampath claimed he couldn't identify what problem net neutrality was attempting to solve, despite Verizon's history of aggressive lobbying against such rules. 'I ...
Remember when 'Aloha' meant 'hello' instead of 'up against wall'? As reported in The Independent, two German teenagers got a crash course in American hospitality when border agents decided their spontaneous vacation planning was clearly a sign of something sinister. ...
Major scholarly databases have removed dozens of academic journals after researchers discovered they had been purchased by questionable companies and transformed into predatory publications. A January 2025 study identified 36 legitimate journals acquired by recently formed...
Ruth Aisling's YouTube travels are entertaining, educational, and full of the joys and horrible lows of van camping. I've been enjoying Ruth Aisling's travel videos. I'm learning a ton about Scottish history and culture that I didn't know, seeing some charming, as well as...
Bluesky’s new verification process launches today. It mixes the old-school, Twitter-style blue check bestowed by the platform with a more decentralized option for trusted organizations.
And the gaslighting continues, as Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt claims with a straight face that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is doing a 'phenomenal job.' 'The president stands strongly behind Secretary Hegseth, who is doing a phenomenal job leading the Pentagon,' the...
Racist, sexist, antisemitic or homophobic? Bigots gotta catch 'em all. Prejudices are becoming more intercorrelated, according to a study published in Social Pschological and Personality Science. The authors of The Evolving Nature of Generalized Prejudice Toward Marginalized ...
The FBI says it is unable to find records related to its purchase of a series of hacking tools, despite spending hundreds of thousands of dollars on them and those purchases initially being included in a public U.S. government procurement database before being quietly...
Former Tesla engineer Christina Balan has secured the right to sue Tesla in court and plans to proceed accordingly. Her story is incredible, and sadly, all too believable. Christina Balan, following a company directive issued by Musk to escalate concerning issues until they...
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