Rebecca Brannon describes herself as an independent photojournalist covering Minnesota politics, protests, and riots. Rebecca has the nerve to do much of her reporting from the inside. If I have the chronology right, Rebecca got inside the “two hour black bloc Antifa protest” on Lake Street in Minneapolis, and the perpetrators are not happy about it. They don’t really want the exposure.
Say this for the Star Tribune. The paper’s nonfeasance is appreciated. Indeed, the Star Tribune’s nonfeasance is a critical component of the bizarre hellworld that Minneapolis has become.
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But what really bothered me was Ms. Wolf’s reflex to spend her career arguing that humans can create a heaven on earth through leftism, but once we achieve leftism, it’s so horrible that it must be God’s fault. A God which she doesn’t believe in. That makes no sense to me, and I’m sure it makes no sense to Ms. Wolf.
Perhaps if we could thaw out someone who got frozen a century or two ago, this change in prevailing zeitgeist would become more apparent. “It’s a good thing he’s in charge, otherwise something worse would have happened…” has fallen off the table. We have a President of the United States who has done nothing good — and yet, he’s the right guy for the times. He speaks with great force, and creepy whispers, and if he knew where he was he’d be like a Terminator robot — can’t be reasoned with, won’t show pity, remorse or fear. That’s today’s “leader” for you, there’s no point discussing anything with him. There’s an impulse to just knuckle under and do what he says, like in times of old. But back then you did what the leader said because that was your best hope of coming through the battle in one piece. Nowadays, it’s more like a depressed sort of resignation. “Oh well, one year down, three to go.” And this is what we have accepted as leadership.
The Russia collusion hoax is the dirtiest trick in the history of American politics, but if the latest filing by John Durham is correct, the Steele dossier wasn’t the half of it.
f you’re rethinking your education these days, rest assured: You are not alone. Through a global pandemic, all-time high student debt, a “Great Resignation,” and a less-than-certain economic outlook –– more people than ever are questioning their career path, and the education required to get there.
Amid all of this uncertainty, a question emerges: Is a college degree really worth it?
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Giulianotti is a pioneer in robotic surgery, his Italian accent and well-tailored suits giving him the air of an orchestra conductor, even when he’s not behind a console. It is his mission to create a world in which the “dream surgery” — one enhanced by digital technology and robotics — is a reality. This reality, according to Guilianotti, would provide for safer, faster, and better surgical procedures.
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My life has changed substantially over the last 2 years, and the biggest change has been where I live, and how I use my time.
I moved out of Austin to a ranch 45 minutes away (in a town called Dripping Springs), and now spend most of my time with my family, working on the ranch and building my immediate community.
The easiest way to describe it would be to call me a “Doomer Optimist.”
What is Doomer Optimism? My favorite way to describe it:
The shit’s gonna hit the fan, but if I do my work, it’ll be OK.
Seriously, read the whole thing.
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Writing about something, even something you know well, usually shows you that you didn’t know it as well as you thought. Putting ideas into words is a severe test. The first words you choose are usually wrong; you have to rewrite sentences over and over if you want to get them exactly right. And your ideas won’t just be imprecise, but incomplete too. Half the ideas that end up in an essay will be ones you thought of while you were writing it. Indeed, that’s why I write them.
Words of wisdom.
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A new bionic pacemaker bested normal heart implants in a recent study — by causing the heart to beat irregularly.
That may sound like a flaw, not a feature. But by matching the pacemaker to the lungs, the heart beat more naturally — dramatically improving blood flow.
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As expected, there has been a brisk traffic in bogus “vaccination” certificates wherever vax passes and mandates have been imposed. In the following case from Germany, it’s not clear whether the doctor who was busted acted out of pecuniary motives, or because he believes that the mandates are morally and ethically wrong.
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Almost six decades later, from Massachusetts to Colorado, Jim Crow is being resurrected in public schools — this time through euphemisms such as “affinity circles”, “affinity dialogue groups” and “community building groups”. Centennial Elementary School in Denver, for instance, advertised a “Families of Color Playground Night” earlier this winter, on a marquee board outside the school. Last week, the Wheeler School in Providence, Rhode Island, hosted a “meet and talk” with actress Karyn Parsons from “The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air” — exclusively for its “Students of Color affinity group”. “If you are a student of color or multiracial, please join us!” the invitation from a seventh grade teacher read.
Using the Find My Friends feature of our iPhones, I can watch my wife’s car move along the streets between her workplace and our home. I know exactly when to put supper on so that it will be hot when she walks in the door. So far she hasn’t complained.
We have the technology.
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Christine Schreyer, a linguistic anthropologist at the University of British Columbia’s Okanagan campus in Kelowna, Canada, has studied invented languages and the people who speak them, a topic she writes about in the 2021 Annual Review of Anthropology. But Schreyer brings another skill to the table: She’s a language creator herself and has invented several languages for the movie industry: the Kryptonian language for “Man of Steel,” Eltarian for “Power Rangers,” Beama (Cro-Magnon) for “Alpha” and Atlantean for “Zack Snyder’s Justice League.”
Schreyer spoke with Knowable Magazine about her experience in this unusual world, and the practical lessons that it provides for people trying to revitalize endangered natural languages.
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“It really has required a lot of soul-searching, a lot of reading of the literature to try to think of what were plausible reasons that might account for this.”
And by “this,” she means the outcome of a study that lasted more than a decade. It included 2,990 low-income children in Tennessee who applied to free, public prekindergarten programs. Some were admitted by lottery, and the others were rejected, creating the closest thing you can get in the real world to a randomized, controlled trial — the gold standard in showing causality in science.
Farran and her co-authors at Vanderbilt University followed both groups of children all the way through sixth grade. At the end of their first year, the kids who went to pre-K scored higher on school readiness — as expected.
But after third grade, they were doing worse than the control group. And at the end of sixth grade, they were doing even worse. They had lower test scores, were more likely to be in special education, and were more likely to get into trouble in school, including serious trouble like suspensions.
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Enthusiasts of “the new economy” long cherished the notion that it would be different from the unenlightened, sluggish, and piggish older one. Yet our economy seems increasingly to resemble not some hippy capitalist utopia, but the deeply concentrated economy of pre-war Japan.
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But what if instead of strapping on a FitBit or Apple Watch every day, you could pull on a T-shirt or pair of pants that instantly tracks health metrics as you move?
That’s the future that designers of E-textiles, or smart textiles, want to build.
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What you’re seeing here is the equivalent of a skateboard, only for cars. It contains the underpinning features such as an (unspecified) battery which should recharge by induction, a LOT of electronics, and what appears to be four moons on each corner of the car.
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In 2020, we saw more lawsuits filed over election laws and rule changes than in any prior year of American history. And with the congressional midterms fast approaching, litigation and other developments just keep coming.
Democrats, having successfully stolen the last Presidential election, say to themselves ‘Hey, that was easy’ and are eager to try it again.
I was under the impression that regular duct tape worked perfectly well for medical purposes; certainly I have seen it used to hold wounds closed. Ah, well.
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Mexican authorities said they had discovered a new killing field in the border state of Tamaulipas, just south of the Texas border, an area known for widespread territorial disputes between drug cartels, according to Breitbart Texas’ Cartel Chronicles.
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