This week we’ve got stories on the beginning of the end for Cassini, an out-of-body experience for lambs born too soon, and Jimmy Wales’s new take on journalism. It’s the news roundup for Sunday, April 30, 2017!
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My home state of Wyoming claims to hold to a “live and let live” ethos. The idea is that everyone just goes along doing what they want to, minding their own business, and not bothering anyone else. In this way we supposedly can accept all cultures, creeds, etc. In reality, this is mostly bullshit. The way that it actually works is “you can do whatever you want, as long as you don’t do it in front of me.”
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This week we’ve got stories about yesterday’s March for Science, Bill Nye’s new series on Netflix, and the sad story of a high-tech juicer that isn’t. It’s the news roundup for Sunday, April 23, 2017!
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Choudhry admitted to hugging and kissing Sorrell, and in general touching his female employees in ways he would never touch a male employee. He had his pay docked and had to step down as dean, but kept his position as a professor. You will be so glad and shocked to know that a year later, with a lot of additional wokeness and a sexual predator in the White House, he will continue to face basically no consequences for his actions! Btw, it’s Sexual Assault Awareness Month, everybody. That just felt relevant for some reason.
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This week we saw an invention that can draw liters of water per day from even desert air, the Event Horizon Telescope taking its first snapshots, and Elon Musk hyping Tesla’s future plans. It’s the news roundup for Sunday, April 16, 2017!
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Image: Flea Market Socialist Every once in a while, I have the thought “Dear Lord, who I basically don’t believe in, please let us go at least one week without white feminists doing something really, […]
This week we’ve got news of a crowdsourced science project helping to look for Planet Nine, a new license for 23andMe to tell you about your disease risks, and more evidence describing why you can’t walk from Dover to Calais anymore—it’s the weekly roundup for Sunday, April 9, 2017!
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The Killing Joke movie takes a problematic storyline and makes it worse.
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It’s been a week, so this is more of an “I can’t even” and a link to something the inimitable Kevin Folta has written. Long story short: the whiskeys Wild Turkey, Buffalo Trace, and Four Roses are now being marketed as GMO-free.
Think about that for a moment.
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In which our own Prudence explains that if a few people wearing bunny suits saved lives, Americans probably still wouldn’t.
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