Best Cartoons This Week -of May 27, 2024
Urine in the air; Fake News; Hey Google; Czar Trek; Biden’s Foreign Policy, and more:
If an Asteroid Hit Earth and All the Humans Died, Would the Dinosaurs Come Back?
at The Conversation‘s Curious Kids series: Many, many years ago dinosaurs roamed the Earth. Six-year-old Aga knows that a meteorite wiped them out… but could another meteorite bring them back?
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This is Called Freedom
by Rebecca Baumgartner at 3 Quarks Daily: A little over a year ago, in Allen, Texas, we saw the precise moment when a “good guy with a gun” became a
Freedom from the Internet
by Santiago Ramos at Wisdom of Crowds: I’m moving, which means I’ve spent the last few days disoriented between pillars of boxes, lost without my daily routine and familiar living
Tuesday Poem: The Breaks
To learn more about your new Kenmore washer, break the plastic seal.—from the manufacturer’s instructions I’ve a friend who says, “Treat anything mechanicalas if it’s just about to break.”I’ve a
Australians Abandon Physical Cash and the Freedom It Protects
J.D. Tuccille at the Reason: “Cash was once a staple in the economy, but it’s fast becoming a relic of the past,” according to an April report on Australia’s financial
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Carl Jung: Where Love Stops, Power Begins, and Violence, and Terror
at Poetic Outlaws: Nothing has a more divisive and alienating effect upon society than… moral complacency and lack of responsibility, and nothing promotes understanding and rapprochement more than the mutual
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AI Chatbots are Intruding Into Online Communities Where People are Trying to Connect With Other Humans
Casey Fiesler in The Conversation: A parent asked a question in a private Facebook group in April 2024: Does anyone with a child who is both gifted and disabled have
Why is the West Defending Israel After the ICC Requested Netanyahu’s Arrest Warrant?
Ken Roth in The Guardian: In a terse statement, Joe Biden called the charges “outrageous”, stating that “there is no equivalence – none – between Israel and Hamas”. The German government, while saying it
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America Still Has Heroes
Joe Nocera at The Free Press: It was early afternoon, the Thursday before Memorial Day, and Oneida Oliver-Sanders and her husband Shawn Sanders were driving from Atlanta to their home
Biden’s Age is Now Unavoidable
By Helen Lewis at The Atlantic: As an outsider observing the U.S. presidential election, I have been wondering for months when Joe Biden’s age would become a thing. Biden is
When Margaret Thatcher Refused to Jump
Douglas Murray at The Free Press: Welcome to Douglas Murray’s column, Things Worth Remembering, in which he presents great speeches from famous orators we should commit to heart. To listen