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Environmentalists, What Are You Asking From Dedmoroz Lenin For Earth Day This Year?

Tomorrow is Earth Day. It is also Lenin's birthday. That's not coincidence. The leader of the first Earth Day was not a politician, as the movement has greenwashed Democratic U.S. Senator Gaylord Nelson into being, yet credible journalists and an alarming number of commenters will invoke the Earth Day site or some anonymous Snopes blogger or even Wikipedia(!) and claim the primary...

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No Danger, How A Stranger Can Be A Game Changer – A New Book About Making ‘Small’ Talk

The future career arc for my house is a library bed-and-breakfast. It will be just like it sounds; every bedroom is also a library, as is the house. Except not a government library, with sterile walls and floors that echo, the whole thing will be comfortable.Because some readers are less social than others, when they reserve a room people will be able to choose to designate Book Club or Book...

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Berkeley STEM Teacher Peyrin Kao Criticized Israel – Was He Wrong To Get Suspended?

With criticism due to an overspending frenzy funded by student loan debt still in full swing, some universities want to get back to education and not be social justice platforms for its employees to groom children to their beliefs.read more

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How Things Are Made

If the supply chain collapsed tomorrow, could you build a toaster? Would you really even want to try? People make homemade jam and all-natural weedkillers that are ironically stuffed with chemicals but no one makes their own toaster. It would be among the first things dismissed as unimportant in a post-apocalyptic world.read...

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‘Here Is The Letter That Has Destroyed My Universe’ And 4 More Astrophysics Revolutions

‘Here Is The Letter That Has Destroyed My Universe’ And 4 More Astrophysics Revolutions

On this day, April 25, in 1929, the world learned how astronomer Edwin Hubble had discovered that the universe was much larger than we had believed. On this day in 2025, you can preorder a book and on the 29th learn about this and four other Astrophysics discoveries that changed how we see the universe - and ourselves - in The Story of Astrophysics in Five Revolutions.By Ersilia Vaudo, translated...

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Are Infectious Diseases A Social Justice Issue? A History Of The World In Six Plagues Has Answers

As we approach the fifth anniversary of the COVID-19 lockdowns, there has been ample time to look at what went wrong, and perhaps how we didn't learn much from history.There are many examples and while politicians ignored it, storytellers have not. In "The Division" game, for example, eco-terrorists spread their pathogen using cash. That made sense. If you are a zealot, disease can do what...

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