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I post a weekly diary of historical notes, arts & science items, foreign news (often receiving little notice in the US) and whimsical pieces from the outside world that I often feature in "Cheers & Jeers". OK, you've been warned - here is this week's...

Good morning, Newdists! I’ve been on a “journey” as of late...a journey with beans. If my self-care was a train, that train derailed sometime around November 2024. I wonder if anything ...

Animals’ intelligence continue to surprise humans, whether the realization arises due to focused study or observational evidence. As the NY Times writes, “evidence of tool use by octopuses, crows, fish, elephants, crocodiles and insects has dislodged...

We begin today with� G. Elliott Morris �of the “Strength in Numbers” Substack looking at polling data showing that a plurality of American voters are not ideological at all. In this excerpt from ...

On Thursday, Ezra Levin made his usual announcement of ten new Indivisible groups created in the last week, out of the ever-expanding list. One of those was Indivisible Burnsville, a short drive from home. So today they had a rally in downtown...

Seventeen lives were lost in the Washita Flood of 1934, that brought about the flood prevention system for the surrounding area. Little known is this flood with its impact and death toll. Less known than that, is the Cheyenne and Arapaho band that...

recently mentioned that the house unanimously rebuked thune’s subpoena measure (handing out free money to some R senators) he slipped into the ‘clean’ cr. I hoped a Dem would put it up for unanimous consent assuming no R senator would be crazy enough...