On Thursday, POLITICO reported that House Republicans are in conflict with each other over a 3-page document supposedly outlining the back-room deal cut between House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) and an insurgent group who tried to block him, mostly from the ultra-right Freedom Caucus — and that furthermore, the document might not even exist at all.
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The Olympus 8x42 Pro are a great choice for bird watchers and nature lovers.
Nevada has long had a fascination with the extraterrestrial that goes beyond the Area 51 mythology.
Emissions from a fossil fuel-based power plant have been measured from space for the first time.
Future Baseball Hall of Famer Adrián Beltré has put his huge vacation home in Big Bear, CA, on the market for $2,389,000.
The shares now look cheap given the strength of the company’s core brands
HBO's adaptation of the beloved PlayStation game begins on Sunday.
The cloning of competition and thoroughbred horses has been practised in several countries since the early 2000s, particularly for genetic improvements. Born last June from a surrogate mother, "Zhuang Zhuang" was produced by the Beijing laboratory Sinogene and is a clone of a horse imported from Germany. The black animal is the first from the "warmblood" group of breeds to be born in China and to be officially approved by the China Horse Industry Association. "Warmbloods" are generally light horses with a lively temperament. Читать дальше...
Ideas Have Consequences
Various bloggers and article writers have done an excellent job of laying out the many mistakes of Stanford professor Paul Ehrlich, whom CBS recently devoted a segment to on “60 Minutes.”
So I won’t bother to repeat their cogent criticisms.
Yesterday I went to the Wall Street Journal to see a letter by my friend and economist colleague Francois Melese in which he took on Ehrlich. It’s an excellent letter. Then I read one of the other letters and felt profoundly sad for the writer... Читать дальше...
Dear Jane's in Marina del Rey is the winning seafood-focused successor to Culver City's soon-to-close Dear John's
A dugong in the Philippines has two sets of companions, streamlined remoras and striped golden jacks. The golden jacks grab small shrimps that the dugong stirs up and don’t bother the creature. The remoras, on the other hand, are irritating.
Читать дальше...“He’s the best I’ve ever coached.” Luke Baker throws 46 touchdown passes as San Ramon Valley reaches a state final.
Among the American Cancer Society's findings: Prostate cancer is increasing while cervical cancer has seen an "astounding" drop among young women.
The East Asian finless porpoise (Neophocaena asiaeorientalis sunameri) is a small, freshwater cetacean species. This species is a group of small-sized, toothed whales that are mainly distributed in southern and eastern Asia. Their distribution includes the coastal waters of the western Pacific Ocean, Indian Ocean, Sea of Japan, and they also appear in the Bohai Sea, Yellow Sea, East China Sea, South China Sea, and middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River in Chinese waters. Previous research... Читать дальше...
It's soon time to enjoy some playoff football!
Dezeen Courses: interested in studying architecture at university? Check out six undergraduate architectural degree courses located in Australia, Spain and the UK. Covering cultural, social and environmental topics related to interiors and the built environment, these courses prepare students for the first steps in their architectural education. The courses equip students with a range of
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“Tournament of Champions” Season 4 is finally set at Food Network. The new batch of episodes will fire up Sunday, Feb. 19 at 8 p.m. The fourth season of the Guy Fieri-hosted bracket-style cooking competition will include a “randomizer wild card” twist, which “progressively get harder and harder in each round.” For the “Tournament of Champions” […]
You may have heard that highly productive people wake up at 4 am, run 10 miles, and attain enlightenment before sunrise. But that’s not always true. Rather, they come in...
By JM McNab Published: January 12th, 2023
In the first Lost Women of Science Shorts podcast, host Katie Hafner dives into the life and work of Leona Zacharias—a brilliant researcher who, before reporting this story, Hafner only knew as her grandmother
It seems like we might never stop talking about fast food chicken sandwiches, but even amid the biggest boom of the now popular menu item there’s been a glaring void. Even as chains try to (quite literally) spice things up with items like the Mexican Chicken Sandwich or offer DIY variety with choose-your-own sauce…
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