People Who Actually Live In Ohio Reject Trump/Vance’s Racist Dog-Eating Bait
While VP candidate JD Vance’s racist efforts to dehumanize legal immigrants from Haiti who are living in his state might…
Voting Rights Groups Fight Youngkin’s Sweeping Last Minute Non-Citizen Voter Purge
A group of Virginia voting rights groups filed a federal lawsuit this week against GOP Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin’s recent…
Malcolm Gladwell’s New Take on Tipping Points
A conversation with author Malcolm Gladwell updating popular ideas about virality and human behavior…
Can AI really compete with human data scientists? OpenAI’s new benchmark puts it to the test
OpenAI’s new MLE-bench challenges AI systems with real-world data science tasks, revealing both the progress and limitations of AI in machine learning engineering compared to human experts…
Underwater Caves in Sicily Show Signs of Early Humans From 17,000 Years Ago
Underwater cave discovery indicates the island was likely a stepping stone for early humans to settle the Mediterranean…Climate change boosted Helene’s deadly rain and wind and scientists say same is likely for Milton
Scientists say human-caused climate change boosted the rainfall of deadly Hurricane Helene by about 10% and intensified its winds by about 11%. The rapid analysis by World Weather Attribution comes just as another big hurricane, Milton, is taking aim at the Florida coast less than two weeks after Helene hit…
Parasitic worms cause terrible diseases — could the viruses they carry be to blame?
Roundworms harbor viruses, which could be responsible for these parasites’ painful symptoms in humans, scientists theorize…
A second ex-Arkansas deputy was sentenced for a 2022 violent arrest
A former Arkansas deputy has been sentenced to a year in prison for a civil rights violation related to a violent 2022 arrest caught on video…
“Loony tunes”: House GOP infighting erupts over Marjorie Taylor Greene’s hurricane comments
Even while they are scattered across the country campaigning for reelection in the final weeks before Nov. 5, House Republicans are still, somehow, at each others’ throats.Why it matters: Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s (R-Ga.) repeated social media claims that humans can control the weather — in the midst of a series of deadly hurricanes —…