Why are we seeing so much early-onset colorectal cancer?
The correlation with pesticide exposure and its epigenetic signature, adjusted for all known risk factors. (doesn't establish cause and effect)
nature.com/articles/s41...
There’s some good news in that, although Blue Origin has experienced a delay, they are increasingly looking like a viable competitor to Elon’s Spacex which has had a near monopoly for years.
Trump’s approval on prices hits a record -46 — and he’s underwater on everything else, too open.substack.com/pub/gelliott...
As a matter of principle, you can either have a dinner that celebrates the First Amendment or you can have a dinner that features Donald Trump. You can’t have both because the president holds the freedom of the press in contempt. www.mediamatters.org/donald-trump...
Kratos completed initial flights of the J85-powered Mk1 Firejet drone developed with U.S. Army TSMO, marking its first tactical jet UAS under $500,000.
defence-blog.com/kratos-compl...
Too low.
🇺🇸🇮🇷 Donald Trump:
“It appears that Iran has replenished some of its missile stockpiles and relocated them.
But we can deliver a very powerful strike against their infrastructure. We can hit their bridges and power plants.”
⚡ Zelenskyy on US envoys Witkoff and Kushner: "It's disrespectful [for them] to come to Moscow and not Kyiv, it's just disrespectful."
Remember the unvaccinated boy who contracted tetanus in 2017, hospitalized for months at a cost of almost $1M? The boy who was a patient of (former) antivax doctor Paul Thomas?
He's not the only recent case. 4 kids, unvax'd, none received immunoglobulin when symptoms developed. Those poor kids.
Good critical analysis of the idea that AI could end humanity by @lizziegibney.bsky.social
Many "warn that raising the alarm unnecessarily could be harmful" by distracting from well-documented risks of AI — such as misinformation and mass surveillance.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Millions of Canadians are taking GLP-1 drugs to lose weight. How skinny became the new normal.
https://macleans.ca/longforms/the-end-of-fat/
It’s a sign of how bumblefuck chaotic this admin is that Seb fucking Gorka’s presence has mostly passed beneath the collective radar
The negotiations with Iran would be considerably hastened if Trump were to transfer the negotiating portfolio to Secretary of State Marco Rubio and whatever Iran, energy, and nuclear experts remain at the State Department after various political purges. bit.ly/4dZga9v
New in PN: Speaker Johnson's beginning of the end
"Johnson has such a small majority he can’t afford to alienate anybody, & he has nonetheless managed to alienate everybody. The coming months will be brutal for him & are likely to end w/his speakership destroyed in a humiliating, titanic blue wave"
What’s happening in Ukraine and Iran? This might help. My latest in the @thebulwark.com
www.thebulwark.com/p/will-wins-...
Billie Little had worked for Thomson Reuters for about two decades. She was fired after questioning whether federal immigration agents unlawfully used their products. n.pr/3Ovl8k8
This doesn’t happen when the vaccination rate is high enough to prevent outbreaks.
5-month-old baby girl gets measles before being eligible for the vaccine, recovers, dies a decade later as a result of the infection. Infrequent but well-known condition caused by measles. VACCINATE YOUR CHILD.
Gift article; tissues no included.
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/21/o...
Toddlers may say they do not want to brush or buckle up, but adults overrule them because they know best. Why not so with spinach or fish?
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Global clean power growth points to permanent shift, analysts say-FT
The new logo for Infowars has been revealed.
The Onion has successfully landed a deal to take over Alex Jones' site after 17 months of legal issues.
Tim Heidecker will serve as the site's creative director.
After Netanyahu's office claimed that Peter Magyar had invited him to visit Hungary, the PM-elected says that he will enforce all ICC arrest warrants once the country re-enters the Rome Statute.
[Hungary will] "have a legal obligation to enforce the ICC rulings and I'm sure [Netanyahu] knows this".
In 1964, Groucho went to East Berlin with a group that included his radio show director Robert Dwan and his 16-year-old daughter Judith Dwan Hallet. They visited the village of Dornum, where his mother Minnie had been born. and discovered that all the Jewish graves there had been obliterated by the Nazis. Groucho hired a car with a chauffeur, and told the driver to take the group to the bunker where Adolf Hitler was said to have committed suicide. Wearing his trademark beret he climbed the debris and then launched himself, unsmiling, into a frenetic Charleston dance routine. The dance on Hitler's supposed grave lasted a couple of minutes. "Nobody applauded," Hallet recalled. "Nobody laughed."
Hey, it's Hitler's birthday.
Found by our delighted son, not sure where.
M57, The Ring Nebula, is a planetary nebula located about 2600 ly away in the constellation of Lyra.
Kinematic studies of M57 suggest that it is barrel shaped. It appears as a ring to us because we are looking down the barrel. #astronomy
OSSOFF ALSO CLAIMED BUSINESS INTERESTS LINKED TO ERIC TRUMP AND DONALD TRUMP JR. ARE PITCHING DEFENSE-RELATED PRODUCTS IN THE REGION DURING THE CONFLICT, CALLING IT AN UNPRECEDENTED LEVEL OF ALLEGED CORRUPTION. - SOURCES
