University of Birmingham.

In ‘Physiological responses and cognitive behaviours: Measures of heart rate variability index language knowledge’ published in the Journal of Neurolinguistics, Professors Dagmar Divjak, Professorial Research Fellow in Cognitive Linguistics and Language Cognition at the University of Birmingham, and Professor Petar Milin, Professor of Psychology of Language and Language Learning, discovered a direct correlation between instances of bad grammar and subjects’ Heart Rate Variability (HRV).

Steve Sailer.

I can see why Egypt or Turkey would like to own a U.S. Senator — the U.S. is the world’s most powerful country, so it makes sense to bribe a senator — but I don’t get what paying off the mayor of New York, and a rather buffoonish mayor at that, would get you.

ScienceAlert.

In an unexpected twist, researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) think they have discovered a whole new source of evaporation, and its transformative effect on liquid water could eclipse even that of heat.

Light itself.

Nature.

Tumour-targeting antibodies coupled with toxic chemicals are an unprecedented success in treating bladder cancer.

ALSO: New drug shows promise in killing cancer cells with genetic vulnerability

ALSO: Triple-Negative Breast Cancer Approach That Targets Translation Looks Promising

ALSO: New cancer therapy using antibody could offer a less toxic treatment option, study shows

I Lived Abroad For 11 Years. This Is The Thing That Shocked Me Most When I Moved Back To The U.S. (Huffington Post) I’m shocked that all of these ‘America isn’t sufficiently socialist’ haters persist in coming back.

Speaker Johnson’s hypocritical First and Second Amendment contradictions (The Hill)

Before he became a politician, House Speaker Mike Johnson partnered with an anti-gay conversion therapy group (CNN)

Mike Johnson was part of push for Louisiana’s fifth law school (Greater Baton Rouge Business Report)

Speaker Mike Johnson made his name fighting abortion in Louisiana. Will he do it in Congress? (NOLA.com)

House Rejects Effort to Expel Rep. George Santos of New York (NewsMax) Sometimes the witch-hunt works, and sometimes it does not.

Democrats scrap plans to vote on Greene censure resolution (The Hill)

PBS’s Frontline Portrays Senate Leader Mitch McConnell as Sinister Supreme Court Svengali (NewsBusters)

What’s “Extreme Right Wing”? (House of Eratosthenes)

Post: AI Doesn’t Watch Enough TV Commercials

Nancy Mace’s Staff Guide Shows Her True Priority: Nancy Mace (Daily Beast) The Beast would never write such a hit-job concerning a Democrat, of course.

On Colbert Show, Kinzinger Compares Mike Johnson To The Taliban

Barbara Lee hits California Senate opponents Schiff, Porter on Santos expulsion vote (The Hill)

Tuberville staffer asks anti-abortion groups to float primaries against Republicans who oppose military holds (Politico)

Pelosi launches an all-out attack against No Labels (Politico)

CNBC Host Smears Conservatives as ‘Bigoted People,’ Downplays Boycotts of Woke Companies

Tuberville Staffer: Primary GOP Sens Who Oppose Military Hold

I Grew Up in Mike Johnson’s District, Where Kindness Can Mask Cruelty (N.Y. Times)

From 9/11 to Benjamin Netanyahu: The world is learning that toxic masculinity can’t keep us safe (Salon) Amanda Marcotte loses her shit.

Climate’s ‘Catch-22’: Cutting pollution heats up the planet (Reuters)

America’s Most Powerful Nuclear Reactor Makes a Landmark Revival (Power Magazine)

CNN Peddles Alarm About Western Antarctica Melting

COP28 Organisers Already Accused of Greenwashing

Will China pay climate change “loss and damage”?

COP28: European Anti-Coal Crusade on Collision Course With China

Why EVs Aren’t The GreenTech Panacea

Colorado River Flow Data Disproves “Climate Change Warming” Computer Model Flow Reduction Claims

The Army Suddenly, and Chaotically, Told Hundreds of Soldiers They Have to Be Recruiters Immediately (Military.com)

Rep. Comer to Newsmax: ‘100 Percent Confidence’ Biden Got 40K From China

PEKING DUCK: Media Suppress Coverage of New Biden Bribe Revelations (NewsBusters)

US to Financially Support Countries Hosting Migrants

Kamala’s AI plan isn’t smart  Much like Kamala herself.

Quinnipiac Poll: RFK Jr. Pulls 22 Percent in Biden, Trump Race

‘I Will Object’: JD Vance to Continue Holding Up Biden DOJ Nominees Over Politicized Trump Indictments

HarrisX Poll: Trump Leads Biden by 6 Points in Full ’24 Field

Harris Calls for AI Censorship, Assumes Americans Too Dumb to Tell ‘Fact from Fiction’

GOP ‘Strongly’ Eyes Subpoena of Hunter Biden in Impeachment Probe (The Messenger)

5 Democratic Mayors Plead With Biden for Help With ‘Asylum Seekers Being Brought to Our Cities’

USA Today Runs INSANE Op-Ed From Hunter Biden Blasting ‘Denigrating’ Media Coverage

Quinnipiac Poll: 63 Percent of Dems Open to Another Candidate

Health misinformation and lack of confidence in vaccines continue to grow, years after the Covid-19 pandemic, survey shows (CNN) In the Narrative media, ‘health misinformation’ means anything that doesn’t push the Narrative.

FDA Defends COVID Vaccine Against Smoking Gun Claims (Newsweek)

How AI played an instrumental role in making mRNA vaccines

California Counties Making Mask Mandates Grate Again

Black Lives Matter activist sentenced for fundraiser fraud; took thousands for expensive lifestyle: report (Fox News)

Black Lives Matter organiser Xahra Saleem jailed over £30k fundraiser fraud (BBC News)

Fraudulent BLM activists hoodwinked the British establishment (UK Daily Telegraph)

Black Lives Matter statue protest organiser jailed for charity fraud (UK The Times)

BLM Activist Xahra Saleem Gets Prison for Fraud (NewsMax)

Post: “Dozens of Bird Names Honoring Enslavers and Racists Will be Changed”

Racial politics infect Kentucky governor’s race

Ex-Gang Leader Pleads Not Guilty in Tupac Shakur Killing

Biden’s Menthol Cigarette Ban Called Discriminatory

Reid Hoffman-backed PAC may fund primary campaign against progressives Rashida Tlaib, Cori Bush (CNBC)

F.B.I. Raids Home of Eric Adams’s Fund-Raising Chief (N.Y. Times)

Outlaw BLM in Schools

Judge Sets Guidelines on Potential Jurors for Trump Election Interference Trial

France moves closer to banning gender-inclusive language (EuroNews)

French senate aims to ban ‘inclusive writing’ (The Local France)

Macron rejects gender-inclusive writing to ‘protect’ French language (UK Telegraph)

$1 trillion in unpaid corporate taxes sparks UN tussle (The Hill)

Two downtown S.F. businesses closing after three decades (S.F. Chronicle)

FiDi 24-Hour Fitness and McDonald’s Both Announce Closures Amidst Record Office Vacancy (SFist)

24 Hour Fitness in downtown SF closing (KRON 4)

After 29 years, SF McDonald’s closes permanently (SF Gate)

GOP Senators Turn on Tuberville on Approval of Biden’s Military Promotions (Daily Signal) This is why Republicans can never get anything accomplished.

Senate Republicans erupt in anger over Tuberville’s military freeze (Washington Poop) I’m sure they’d like you to believe that.

Homeschooling Trend Is More Than Passing Fad (The Foundry)

Nancy Pelosi Subpoenaed in Husband’s Calif. Attacker Case

All Your Euros Are Belong to Us

California Senate hopeful Rep. Adam Schiff claimed primary residences in Maryland and California (CNN)

What we still don’t know about Paul Pelosi attack (Politico)

New Analysis Shows Homeschooling Is Here to Stay (NewsMax)

Ilia Calderón Cites Lack of Abortions As Cause For Increase In Infant Mortality

Fans Note That Only MLB Team Not to Celebrate ‘Pride’ Just Won World Series

Student Protesters Walk Out of Hillary Clinton’s Class at Columbia (N.Y. Times)

Western Europe Pushes To Abolish EU Veto Rights

California Proposes Another Minimum Wage Increase So People Can Afford Products Made More Expensive By Previous Minimum Wage Increase (Babylon Bee)

Maine Law Author: Shooter’s Guns Could Have Been Seized

The BorderLine: New York’s ‘Right to Shelter’—a Socialist Blank Check Aliens From Around the World Are Cashing

Donald Trump Jr’s courtroom debut: Chuckles, smiles and mispronunciation (BBC News)

Donald Trump Jr. takes the stand in NY Attorney General civil fraud case (MSNBC)

Judge Denies Trump ’24 Removal Dismissal

Florida Judge Might Delay Trump Classified Docs Case

Don Jr. Has a Conveniently Fuzzy Memory of Trump Org Finances: “I Leave It to My CPAs” (Vanity Fair) Conveniently!

Trump Jr distances himself from documents at center of fraud trial: ‘I don’t recall’ (The Guardian)

Court to decide if 14th Amendment case over Trump’s Minnesota ballot eligibility proceeds (ABC News)

Trump Derisively Celebrates Rep. Buck’s Departure

Mary Trump says Ivanka Trump will throw her father ‘under the bus’ in fraud trial testimony (The Hill) She hopes, she hopes, she hopes….

Minn. Justices Appear Skeptical of States Deciding Trump’s Eligibility for Ballot

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President Joe Biden says 24 million Americans “suffer from food insecurity!”

News anchors were shocked that there is “food insecurity in the richest country in the world!” ABC hosts turned “insecurity” into “hunger.”

But in my new video, Rachel Sheffield, who researches welfare policy at The Heritage Foundation, explains, “Food insecurity is not the same thing as hunger. It just means that they had to rely on cheaper foods, store-brand alternatives … or reduce[d] variety.”

Really? The alarm about “food insecurity” is based on that? Well, yes. Even the U.S. Department of Agriculture, in its fine print, admits that “for most food-insecure households, the inadequacies were in the form of reduced quality and variety of food rather than insufficient quantity.”

“They always want to create a crisis,” I say to Sheffield.

“Government programs want to keep themselves going,” she replies.

Read it.

If, of course, that’s what you want to do.

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The American Mind.

The aggressive promotion of gender ideology has coincided with a sharp rise in children identifying as transgender. As with the eugenics movement of a century ago, doctors are subjecting these young and vulnerable children to harmful drugs and irreversible surgeries that can leave them permanently sterilized.

Since most of their parents are progressives, I’d say this was a self-correcting problem.

ZMan breaks out the popcorn.

Some movies are on the top-100 list because they are great stories told very well, while others are on the list for their great technological breakthroughs. Some are on the list for their cultural impact. That is the case with Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner, a comedy about race mixing from 1967. The film had two legends, Spencer Tracy and Katherine Hepburn, and a big star at the moment in Sydney Poitier.

The film was viewed at the time as groundbreaking because it featured a mixed-race couple in a positive light. Right around the time the movie was released, the Supreme Court had struck down anti-miscegenation laws in Loving v. Virginia. Of course, the civil rights movement was at its peak, so this was just what white liberals wanted to see, which was white liberals being celebrated for their goodness.

The movie itself is pretty simple. It opens with the couple in question, generic rich white girl and her much older black boyfriend, Sydney Poitier, getting off an airplane and strolling through an airport like lovers on a walk in the park. Keep in mind that this is 1967, but no one in the airport notices, because you see, this is the glorious future where race no longer matters, so get used to it you terrible bigots.

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The Democratic Party is undergoing a civil war over Gaza and Israel. Traditional Democrats like Joe Biden, Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer are pro-Israel. Possibly this has something to do with the fact that American Jews contribute a large portion–last time I saw the numbers, more than half–of all campaign funds for Democratic candidates. To be fair, however, it may also reflect basic human decency.

But the newer generation of Democrats, represented by the Squad, is not impressed. They hate Israel and don’t much like Jews. And the Squad speaks for lots of Democrats: Joe Biden’s approval ratings have fallen among Democrats, apparently because many object to the pro-Israel stance he has taken in connection with the Gazan massacres.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, never a team player, weighed in yesterday with an over-the-top attack on AIPAC, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee. AIPAC is a grass roots and lobbying organization that supports Israel. It is bipartisan and has endorsed many Democrats, but is seen as relatively conservative in orientation, by Washington standards.

Richard Epstein.

For the past few years, many progressives have made it a high priority to impose on the superrich an annual wealth tax that takes hold even on those whose wealth declines in a given year—or, failing that, to impose a tax on unrealized income (i.e., simple accretions of wealth by people who have not sold or otherwise disposed of their property). These proposals looked to be off the table until the decision of the Supreme Court to hear Moore v. United States (2023) put the matter into high relief.

Moore started out as a technical tax dispute when the government sought to collect $14,729 in taxes from Charles and Kathleen Moore under the mandatory repatriation tax (MRT) part of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) of 2017 on income trapped in a corporation by the MRT’s regulations. But the case quickly attracted greater attention because the Moores claimed that the MRT tax was unconstitutional because gain had not been realized—that is, distributed from the corporation to the Moores.

Read it.

According to one estimate I have seen, in 1973 there were only about 13,000 children being homeschooled. Today the number is over 5 million—and may be much higher, as many states do not track the numbers very carefully.

The Washington Post has noticed, and you can tell they are worried about it. (The left has always hated homeschooling, and the teachers unions rightly understand what a threat homeschooling is to their gravy train, as most public schools derive their revenue by how many students are enrolled.)

Me, during football season.

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Several days ago, in a post I called “Distinctions Without a Difference,” I expressed several questions that were floating around the back of my mind regarding whether there are really meaningful distinctions of intent between “Palestinians” and “Hamas.” I raised those questions because everywhere we turn, both explicitly and implied, we’re being asked to believe that Hamas is one thing but Palestinians are another. I said in that post that I can imagine that such distinctions are meaningful, but that I always seemed to lack actual evidence.

One of the arguments I often hear for the lack of evidence for the existence of non-genocidal Palestinians is the fact that peaceful Palestinians are oppressed by Hamas and, if they were to openly push-back on acts of terror, then they would themselves be targeted. It isn’t hard to imagine that possibility, but there’s something about it that feels a wee bit too convenient for my comfort. We’re just supposed to take their word for it. Such an explanation is crafted in a way that forecloses the possibility of ever having any empirical evidence. We are expected to take it completely on faith.

The narrative for the existence of peaceful Palestinians goes something like this: “By golly, those meany people in Hamas are terrible, but Palestinians aren’t like Hamas. All those secret peace-loving Palestinians would really tell it like it is if they weren’t afraid of those meanies in Hamas. Otherwise, boy, they’d really let loose with their anti-genocidal views.”

GOP Governors Lean On NCAA To Keep ‘Biological Men’ Out Of Women’s Sports

Sen. Josh Hawley To Introduce Bill Reversing Citizens United

Bachelors Of Advocacy: The Rise Of Activism Over Academics In US Higher Education

CA Funding LGBTQ+ Group Fighting Parental Notification

Home schooling’s rise from fringe to fastest-growing form of education (Washington Poop)

Mesa high school teacher on administrative leave after students say he dressed up as devil, said ‘hail Satan’ to students (NBC)

29 Cities In Los Angeles Sue County Over Zero Bail Policy

The Evangelical Church of Germany Calls For More Cultural Enrichment

The U.N.: What Is It Good For?

Pro-Family Groups Take a Stand Against EU Parenthood Certificate

Hungary bans teens from visiting World Press Photo exhibition over LGBTQ images (NBC News)

Elon Musk: “Twitter Was Completely Controlled By The Far Left”

Sarah Huckabee Sanders Bans ‘Woke Nonsense’ Language From Arkansas

Chipotle Will Be More Expensive in California Next Year as Minimum Wage Hike Takes Effect, CFO Says

Elon Musk Exposes How Soros ‘Hijacked’ US Cities Without Changing Any Laws

Biden Administration Approves Biggest Offshore Wind Farm Yet, in Virginia (N.Y. Times)

The Great ‘Green Energy Transition’ That Wasn’t (The Foundry)

World’s Largest Offshore Wind Farm-Developer Abandons Two Major US Projects As Renewable Bust Erupts

The EV transition trips over its own cord

Ørsted Abandons New Jersey Wind Projects

Trump grouses that his indictments took years. Here’s why that is. (Washington Poop) They wanted to time it for the election, of course–forget the Narrative BS.

Mike Johnson’s Satanic panic: How evangelical delusions trained Republicans to love Trump’s lies (Salon)

Supreme Court to Determine Legality of ‘Trump Too Small’ Trademark (NewsMax)

Trump’s Allies Want a New Style of Lawyer if He Returns to Power (N.Y. Times)

Trump fights loom large for a Supreme Court that has tried to ignore him (Politico)

Trump Attorney Alina Habba: Jail is ‘Not Even Something We Think About’ (The Messenger)

Untested Legal Imagination’s the Mother of Trump and Jan. 6 Prosecutions

Trump to Judge: Leave My Kids Alone

Speaker Johnson taps veteran GOP operative as chief spokesperson (Politico)

Sen. McConnell Warns Dems on ‘Inappropriate’ Subpoenas (NewsMax)

Tesla Wins First Jury Trial Over Fatal Autopilot Crash (NewsMax)

EXCLUSIVE: House Speaker Mike Johnson Opens Up About Intersection of Faith, Politics (The Foundry)

Missouri Court Rejects GOP’s Abortion Summary Language (News Max)

Was That Bernie Sanders In A Scarborough Halloween Outfit Proposing A ‘Billionaire Tax?’

House Ethics says update on Santos investigation coming as possible expulsion vote looms (CBS News) Let not the new witch-hunts distract us from the old witch-hunts.

Republicans Out to Impeach Biden Have a Friend in House Speaker Mike Johnson (The Messenger)

RFK Jr. Renews Plea For Secret Service Protection After Second Stalker Arrest

Dinesh D’Souza’s Film ‘Police State’ Is Warning Cry for Americans: ‘We’re in Danger’

The Latest Target for California Conservatives? Local School Boards (N.Y. Times)

Idaho’s first ‘abortion trafficking’ arrest (Abortion, Every Day)

False Claims Haunt Family Of Woman Who Died On Jan. 6

Adam Kinzinger Rewarded for Denouncing the GOP ‘Terrorist Caucus’ (NewsBusters)

The Virginia voter purge (Popular Information)

RFK Jr.’s 2024 bid is a threat to Republicans — and donor data shows it (Politico)

Before he became a politician, House Speaker Mike Johnson partnered with an anti-gay conversion therapy group (CNN)

Does New Speaker of the House Mike Johnson Have a Bank Account? (Daily Beast) I’m certainly glad they have nothing more important to write about.

As the World Smolders, the New Speaker Trolls Biden (N.Y. Times)

Democrats launch attack ads against vulnerable Republicans over election of Speaker Johnson (Washington Examiner)

Christian Nationalism ‘Is No Longer Operating Beneath the Surface’ (N.Y. Times)

The GOP voter suppression jamboree comes to North Carolina (Public Notice) In the proglodyte media, ‘voter suppression’ means ‘making sure voters aren’t fraudulent’.

“Faith and Family” vs Democracy (Democracy Americana)

“A kind of Stepford wife”: It’s more than a prayer keeping Mike Johnson’s wife suddenly out of view (Salon) Amanda Marcotte loses her shit.

Scarborough: House GOP Plans Please Jew-Haters, Tax Cheaters, Illegal Aliens and Putin

Democrats quickly seek to make Speaker Johnson a boogeyman (Washington Poop)

Musk Doubles Down on Soros Criticism: ‘He Fundamentally Hates Humanity’

A Virginia GOP State Rep. Built Her Political Career On A Story That Doesn’t Add Up. (Huffington Post)

G.O.P.’s Buck Won’t Seek Re-Election, Citing His Party’s Election Denialism (N.Y. Times) Some RINOs are a self-correcting problem.

12+ Churches Targeted As Ohio Pro-Aborts Demand Unrestricted Abortion Bill

House Republicans Subpoena Biden Administration For Afghan Refugee Records Amid Rising Terror Threats (Washington Free Beacon)

5 Takeaways as Senate Grills FBI, DHS Chiefs on Terrorism, Antisemitism, Border, Big Tech (The Foundry)

White House: Saudi Arabia is still interested in pursuing mega-deal

BAD NEWS FOR BIDEN: Kamala Harris Predicts Victory in 2024 (Washington Free Beacon)

Hawley, Mayorkas Spar Over Antisemitism in DHS

US Sanctions Guatemalan Officials for Post-Election Crisis

Psaki Knocks Speaker Johnson as ‘Christian Fundamentalist’

Judge Blocks Biden Administration From Damaging Razor Wire Along US–Mexico Border

White House Warns Biden Would Veto House GOP Standalone Israel Funding Bill  The Deep State laid bare for all to see.

White House Will Develop an Anti-Islamophobia Strategy

Rep. Comer Shows Proof of $40K Biden China-Tied Check

5 Mayors Want to Discuss Migrants With Biden

Biden’s COVID-19 Vax Mandates Spawn Lingering Bad Results

“Pharmageddon” Strikes US Drugstores As 5,000 Workers Walk Off Job

Pfizer To Shut Down Two Facilities Amid Major Cost Cuts

NIH-funded US Lab Tested SARS-like Virus on Bats in 2018

Lifehacker.

When confronted with the need to tie something off, most people resort to simply tying as many half-assed knots as they can in the vague hope that the sheer frictional complexity will stymie the natural forces of entropy.

This approach can work, as long as you’re okay with sacrificing your dignity and the effectiveness of said knots—but it’s much better to learn how to tie some of the most useful of the roughly 4,000 knots known to humankind.

Here are 11 knots every adult should know how to tie.

Marriage is apparently not one of the essentials.

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Primates other than humans, that is. Monkeys and chimps don’t have government regulations to wade through.

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Banana equivalent dose (BED) is an informal unit of measurement of ionizing radiation exposure, intended as a general educational example to compare a dose of radioactivity to the dose one is exposed to by eating one average-sized banana. Bananas contain naturally occurring radioactive isotopes, particularly potassium-40 (40K), one of several naturally occurring isotopes of potassium. One BED is often correlated to 10?7 sievert (0.1 ?Sv); however, in practice, this dose is not cumulative, as the potassium in foods is excreted in urine to maintain homeostasis.[1] The BED is only meant as an educational exercise and is not a formally adopted dose measurement.

Happy Birthday to My Brother the Socialist.