Sex and the City meme, "And I couldn't help but wonder who assigned so many things to grade?"

These Five Quick Tricks Could Help Boost Your Memory As a researcher investigating how electric brain stimulation can improve people's powers of recollection, I'm often asked how memory works – and what we can do to use it more effectively.

Smartphones reduce your working memory capacity. Even just having a phone nearby – no matter if it's face down and on silent. The reason is that part of your brain is still subtly monitoring it which is why researchers call smartphones a "brain drain."
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Actually, he may not know the answer since USDA eliminated the Food Insecurity Survey in September 2025. www.usda.gov/about-usda/n...

Pope Leo XIV: "Even the holy Name of God, the God of life, is being dragged into discourses of death. A world of brothers and sisters with one heavenly Father vanishes, as in a nightmare, giving way to a reality populated by enemies"

UW graduate student deported through SEA as protesters demand answers A union representing University of Washington graduate student workers says Kennedy Orwa’s student visa was rescinded without explanation.

Our PhD student Kennedy Orwa, who studies applications of AI to health care, was hastily deported today to Kenya along with his 13-year-old son without opportunity to speak to legal counsel.

King 5 reports that he held a valid visa that was rescinded without explanation.

Cardinal Robert McElroy, Archbishop of Washington, Calls for Immediate End to Escalating Violence in Iran WASHINGTON, D.C. – I join my voice in support of the statement of Archbishop Paul S. Coakley, president of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, and all the bishops of the United States calling for the immediate cessation of hostilities. Any nation which undertakes war with the intention of ending an entire civilization has lost its moral compass, and I call upon all of my fellow citizens to join together in bringing us home to the principles upon which our nation was founded.

INBOX: Cardinal Robert McElroy, Archbishop of Washington (i.e., DC), issues statement decrying the escalating war with Iran and condemning Trump's recent remarks:

"Any nation which undertakes war with the intention of ending an entire civilization has lost its moral compass…"

“A whole civilization will die tonight” is the most vile thing a US president has ever said, certainly during the post-1945 era when they’ve had the power to kill civilizations with the dropping of a bomb. I’m staring into the darkness. May this not be one of the most fateful days in human history.

I feel sick to my stomach waiting around to see what atrocity Trump has in mind for the people of Iran this evening. It's hard to fathom our other elected leaders aren't able to check him in any meaningful way. It's an indictment not just of voters but of our whole system. We're ruled by a mad king.

“Hey babe. I love you. From the moon.”—Astronaut Victor Glover, the smoothest man alive, to his wife in the viewing room at Johnson Space Center

Pope Leo XIV at the Stations of the Cross: "Every person in authority will have to answer to God for the way they exercise their power." Jesus says. "Whatever you do to another human being, especially to the small and vulnerable, you do unto me. And it is to me that you will one day give an account"

Donate to Support Jingyi Wang's Healing and Future, organized by Yafei Wang On the morning of March 12, Jingyi Wang, a 25-year-old PhD student in economics at… Yafei Wang needs your support for Support Jingyi Wang's Healing and Future

Econs: a grad school classmate, currently at ISU, shared this. Here is a chance for our community to use our resources to do some good for one of our own:

gofund.me/48df0fcd5

That whole greater area is pretty cool. Traverse City is pretty awesome. Great wine country. Cherries like you didn’t know existed. The beaches are nice—and the water isn’t salty! Sleeping Bear Dunes is cool. Good craft brews.

I Work Very Hard, And I Would Like To Try Cake By A Horse Hello. I am a horse. I work very hard at my job of being a horse. When humans say move the heavy thing, I move the heavy thing. When humans sit on top of me and pull on my head, I carry them where they want to go. The main food the humans give me is hay and oats. But I am thinking it would be nice to have a different food. I am thinking I would like to try cake. Yes, yes. Cake. I know all about it. When humans eat cake, it is in glad times. It is the food for a celebration, such as when a woman becomes 47. I have seen cake on the Fourth of July. When humans have a cake, they stand around it and clap hands and smile and say happy birthday at each other. Sometimes there are beautiful markings on a cake, such as balloons or a pink shape. Sometimes the top of a cake is on fire and a boy must blow on the fire with mouth wind. This is the scariest cake. I do not want this kind. But I will eat any other cake. Any cake that is not the fire cake that tries to kill the boy. Please understand: I do not get money for doing work. I do not get to go inside the house. All I am either doing my horse job or standing in my pen or eating food off the floor. I always do these things. But I have never once gotten cake and I would like it very much. I have noticed that human children get to eat cake. But I am bigger than the children. I am more helpful to the farm. Children do not move the heavy things like me or let anyone ride on them. And yet they get cake. Maybe the humans will realize this. Maybe they will say, "You know who deserves cake? That horse. That horse whose back we are always on." Every day I dream about what it will be like if I get to eat cake. Here is what will happen. First, I will walk to the cake and putt my nose at it like hrrfff to make and stomping my hooves to make sure it is not a snake. Then I will trot in a circle to show that I am a horse and I am large. After that, I will nuzzle the cake to …

The horse op-ed is an instant classic. I can't tell you how much joy this piece gives me.

It should be taught in every introductory writing class in no small part because the horse arguments are so compelling. "I have noticed that human children get to eat cake. But I am bigger than the children."

The NSF 2027 budget has noted that they will close out the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Science Program (SBE). This is not a good thing. nsf-gov-resources.nsf.gov/files/FY-202...

It’s not just Ms. Rachel.

The biggest names in children’s educational programming are coming out in force to call for kids to be freed from ICE detention.

Here’s “Reading Rainbow” host @mychal3ts.bsky.social outside the Dilley Immigration Processing Center.

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CENTCOM told me Iran keeps hitting their high-value assets so I asked how many they have and they said they just go to the Pentagon and get new ones afterwards so I said it sounds like they're just feeding high-value assets to the Iranians and then INDOPACOM started crying

Always wondered whether visiting UChicago in April played a role in going there

You love to see it

Congratulations!! Although very sad to have you leave the Buckeye state.

Aesop: I TOLD YOU

“The death and pain caused by these wars is a scandal for the entire human family.”

I see @econprachi.bsky.social 🙌

I lied im still posting. Smart farming people tell me India needs to run procurement for fertilizer probably around may so it can be ready for sale for monsoon planting season

The biggest game of the first round is on Friday, when Long Island battles Arizona for iced tea supremacy

Important Miami facts:

Miami (Ohio) was founded in 1809.
The city of Miami, Fla. was settled in 1858.

The Miami Valley in Ohio was named after the Miami people.
The city of Miami, Fla. and Miami river were named after the Mayaimi people, no relation to the Miami people.

Pentagon seeks more than $200 billion in budget request for Iran war That figure would far surpass the costs of the U.S. airstrike campaign to date and aims to boost production of critical weapons depleted in the conflict, people familiar with the matter said.

$200 billion could fund the National Science Foundation for 20 years.

Genuinely just bonkers to watch the USA do this to one of the most successful and innovative hubs of scientific research the world has ever seen. All those years of Free Speech On Campus debates and it turns out they actually wanted less cancer research. Absurd.

Diane Warren has lost her 17th consecutive #Oscars  nomination, extending her record for the most losses without a win.

Keep thinking about this story, which in its way is heartwarming