Stephen Hawking is at it again, filling our hearts with optimistic predictions about humanity’s boundless potential. Just kidding. His latest estimation gives us about 100 years to leave the planet or die. Although, given the Trump administration’s latest attack on health care, a 100-year window to set ourselves straight seems pretty generous. Last year, the…
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Laura Loomer Banned From Uber And Lyft After Making Bigoted Comments About Muslim Drivers
Sayfullo Saipov, the suspect in custody for the recent attack in New York City, is a 29-year-old former Uber driver. Originally from Uzbekistan, he reportedly was inspired to commit the attack after watching by ISIS propaganda videos. After the tragedy, far-right activist Laura Loomer responded with this tweet criticizing the ride-share company. Loomer followed up with more anti-Muslim tweets,…
Michelle Obama Says Her Husband’s Presidency Was Like Having ‘The Good Parent’ At Home
Speaking at the Simmons Leadership Conference in Boston on Thursday, April 5, former first lady Michelle Obama used a parenting metaphor to compare her husband’s time in the oval office to Donald Trump’s. She said that when Barack Obama was in the White House it “was like having the ‘good parent’ at home. The responsible…
The mystery of the Russian planes that never were
An overhead view of Admiral Kuznetsov, aircraft carrier, August 2012. Wikicommons, Ministry of Defence. Some rights reserved.Most analysts blame Vladimir Putin’s aggressive political stance for the renewed hostility between Russia and the western states of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (Nato). The deteriorating relationship has been evident for a decade and more. The fallout from…
Benji Lives
On the South Side of Chicago, Ben “Benji” Wilson was more than a high school basketball star — he was a lightning rod of unstoppable hope, crossing over crack pipes, spinning around rat-infested sewers, and dunkin’ over abandoned buildings that stand as ghetto tombstones. At the freshly plucked age of 17, he was a messiah,…
American carnage, fighting the forever war
The Forever War by Joe Haldeman, 1974 St. Martin's Press hardcover first edition. Wikicommons. Fair use.In his inaugural address, President Trump described a dark and dismal United States, a country overrun by criminal gangs and drugs, a nation stained with the blood seeping from bullet-ridden corpses left at scenes of “American carnage.” It was more…
Fear Of Black People And Economic Anxiety Are Causing White Men To Stockpile Guns
Click:visa free travel to china THE GOOD NEWS: Identifying the people who stockpile guns and their reasons for doing so can help reduce gun violence. There’s a bizarre trend in American gun ownership: Over the past 40 years, the percentage of households with guns has declined from 51% to 36%. But since the…
The Egyptian Army’s violent trail of breadcrumbs
Egyptian security officials inspect the site of a bomb blast, in Giza, Egypt, 09 December 2016. NurPhoto/SIPA USA/PA Images. All rights reserved.“The army is a killing machine.” – These were words chosen by Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi to address his soldiers as minister of defense. In a video leaked nearly three years ago, he…
What’s Under These Solar Panels Could Solve World Hunger
Solar panels may be old news when it comes to scientific innovations, but Japanese farmers are repurposing them in a novel way. In an attempt to revive aging farming communities and contribute clean energy to the local grid, two farms in northeastern Japan are growing cloud-ear mushrooms underneath the solar panels. Together, the farms will…
Ayotzinapa three years later: new light, few answers
Credit: Forensic Architecture. The third anniversary of the the disappearance of the 43 Ayotzinapa Rural Teachers' College students (known as normalistas) in Iguala, Guerrero, Mexico has come and has brought new developments with it. Forensic Architecture, a London-based agency that conducts research on behalf of international prosecutors, human rights organizations, and political and environmental justice…