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It’s been a few weeks of craziness for physicists and chemists scrambling to make sense of a grandiose claim that popped up in late July: the purported discovery by a team in South Korea of a material that conducts electricity at normal room temperature and air pressure — without losing any...

For two decades, the United States has pursued a far-reaching global agenda to fight HIV and AIDS, an initiative credited with saving more than 25 million lives. But the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, better known as PEPFAR, has been abruptly bogged down in a domestic political...

Are the Istari a sub-group of the Maiar, or something completely different?

If you recollect the book, in the end Frodo did the same thing Gollum did: claimed the ring as his own. Gollum got a lava bath, Frodo was celebrated and revered as a hero and went to eternal bliss in the closest thing Tolkein's world had to heaven. What's fair about that? Maybe Tolkein's god...

My preferred brand of espresso is available in steel cans with plastic tops, or in those vacuum-sealed aluminum "bricks." Both are 10 ounces (283 grams). Every now and then, presumably for inventory reasons, one or the other will be offered for about 35% off. Now, being a scary non-White...

Manchester City 1 - 0 Inter Milan Congratulations to you and all your fellow Manky people, Blackleaf.

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Apparently, in Disney's new The Little Mermaid, a Black actress playing Ariel is causing quite the stir. Question: What race are non-existent myths supposed to be?

Is six bits U.S.! Damn! I remember when it hit parity! Good thing I'm going north next week.

The model city for transforming downtowns? It’s in Canada. By the Editorial Board May 18, 2023 Almost every direction one looks in downtown Calgary, there’s a crane. The downtown transformation that so many other cities are desperate for is underway in Calgary, a city of 1.4 million in Alberta...

Megan Fox says she has body dysmorphia. What to know about the disorder. Body dysmorphia can harm people’s mental health and self-esteem By Lindsey Bever and Annabelle Timsit May 17, 2023 Megan Fox spoke in a recent interview about her struggles with body image and the challenges of living...

Prince George’s Co. students built their 46th house. It sold in a day John Domen May 11, 2023 For 46 years, Prince George’s County high school students learning different trades have teamed together to build a house. Think of it as a class project on a massive scale. On Thursday, the students...

in the U.S. in April was down to 4.9% from a high of 9.1%. Nice to see the old tricks still work.

Frederick Co. man accused of sexual solicitation of a minor Abigail Constantino May 10, 2023 A Frederick County, Maryland, man is accused of inappropriately chatting with who he thought was a child and requesting to meet in person. Maryland State Police arrested Michael Vance Culpepper, 55, of...

Jury in civil trial finds Trump sexually abused, defamed E. Jean Carroll Jurors award $5 million to E. Jean Carroll, who accused Donald Trump of raping her at Bergdorf Goodman in the 1990s By Shayna Jacobs, Kim Bellware, and Mark Berman Published May 9, 2023 NEW YORK — A civil jury in New...

Why is a pencil feminine, but a pen masculine? As for those of you who say there are only two genders, fuck off. German has three.

By Alexandra Petri Everything I read about the monarchy in Britain bewilders me and fills me with confusion. I keep seeing headlines like “King Not Greeted With Expected Lamprey Pie (He Would Find It Distasteful to Be Presented With Lampreys Under the Circumstances),” and I have to ask the...

Shoulda done this earlier. . . Would you support a law, provincial or national, making it a crime to enter a washroom designate for the opposite sex? Feel free to babble as much as you like, but please, give us a simple Yes/Oui or/ou Non/No first.

Y'all should move to Montana, where the legislature is currently proposing to expel (or censure) a duly-elected member who just happens to be trans. For "conduct."

Disney is suing Floriduh Governor Ron DuhSantis for violating its Constitutional rights, to wit: retaliating against it for its free speech.