Research: 38% of train passengers offer a pregnant woman their seat. But if a man dressed as Batman enters the carriage, 67% offer the woman their seat. via@ beyondeuclid.substack.com nature.com/articles/s4418…

Trump dozes while Marco Rubio speaks to him directly next to him. Just insane optics.

Under Secretary of State Sarah B. Rogers The Reporters Without Borders ranking of press Freedom for 2024. Please note, Under Secretary of State Sarah B. Rogers. From your friendly ex-president of Estonia:

"My family might be able to enjoy three meals a day, but what would become of my self-respect? At the end of the day, I want to feel good about the marketing professional I see staring back at me in the mirror." theonion.com/id-sooner-let-…

Today at the European Parliament, people couldn’t hold back tears as 11-year-old Roman Oleksiv described surviving russia’s July 14, 2022 strike on Vinnytsia. russia destroys children. Ukrainian kids are forced to inspire an indifferent world instead of simply living.

Sickening and shameful.

Wherein adults reward child violence with cheering and retweets

🚨"This is nuts! What the f*ck is going on, this is insane! ICE is just trying to scare people; they tell you it's only immigrants—it's f*cking anybody!" -furious Minneapolis resident tells our @ZDRoberts after ICE shot a man in the leg tonight. LIVE NOW ⬇️

The crowd noise

“9 Seconds to Glory”

Trump in Davos, Switzerland: "Without us, right now you'd all be speaking German". German is the main language of Switzerland.

Massive breakthrough for corn kernels.

BREASTMILK She thought she was studying milk. What she uncovered was a conversation. In 2008, evolutionary anthropologist Katie Hinde was working in a primate research lab in California, analyzing breast milk from rhesus macaque mothers. She had hundreds of samples and

1/ America's democratic backsliding under Trump has been far faster and steeper than in Russia under Putin, Hungary under Orban, Venezuela under Chavez, and Turkey under Erdogan, according to this remarkable graph and report from John Burn-Murdoch in the Financial Times today.

I think 'because the Dow is over 50,000' is my default answer to any new question.

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An economist friend passes along this graph of energy costs. He says, "Given this history, it is more than a little ironic that renewable energy is derided by fossil-fuel proponents as 'unreliable.'”

GOES-16 Satellite gets a nice view of the Artemis II launch...

April 1945: In the final days of World War II, the Führer obsesses over absurdly large monuments for his reimagined Berlin, focusing on an idealized future rather than the reality of his collapsing Reich.