‘Humpty Dumpty’ does not explicitly state that the subject is an egg.

A guide at the Mark Twain museum in Hartford once told a friend of mine during a tour: "Did you know Mark Twain dropped out of school in his teens to work in print shops and on a river boat? Just think how much greater a writer he would have been if he'd finished high school!"

Did you ever wonder what baseball writers before 1900 looked like? I did.

RFK Jr says he won't publish in renowned medical journals then he publishes his own AI generated report with fake references

Mark Zylka et al. find that facial grimacing in mice is more pronounced when cutaneous and visceral tissues are injured during laparotomy surgery compared to cutaneous injury alone. Learn more in #PainReports bit.ly/4kyDQ4G

Musk has no understanding of life as it's lived or politics as it's practiced. Money insulates him from that but touching the third rail electrocutes everybody.

‘You can’t keep from getting soiled if you fight with a skunk’ is a 19th century proverb warning that associating with unpleasant characters will eventually have disastrous consequences.

This kind of shit is how you KNOW the government isn’t hiding aliens from us

The signs which were ignored…

Before the presidential election I was worried that a Trump loss would lead to a wave of right-wing terrorism. As it turned out, a Trump victory led to a wave of right-wing terrorism.

BREAKING: A federal judge in Massachusetts (the Reagan-appointed William Young) has declared the Trump administration's cuts to NIH grants — ostensibly over Trump's EOs on gender ideology and DEI — are "illegal" and "void." He's ordering many grants restored.

Ominously warning a city of 10 million people to flee is rife with serious, obvious danger

Who Really Invented Basketball? The ‘Human Calculator’ Thinks He Knows. nytimes.com/2025/06/17/nyr…

1. Stan Lee -- father of the Marvel universe or one of the biggest cultural frauds of recent history? A terrific piece that helps advance a longstanding question about Stan Lee's alleged authorship (or non-authorship) of 1960s Marvel comics. This deeply researched article --

President Trump, who ran on making Juneteenth a national holiday in 2020, has a Juneteenth message for the masses

Accidental discovery: from sheet music for "Chicago Quickstep," 1882. Note the ballfield of the Chicago White Stockings! Called Lake Park, it hosted the club from 1878 to 1882. Same site as Lake Front Park (I), which burnt in The Great Fire of 1871, but oriented differently.

A common virus once thought harmless to humans might be linked to Parkinson's disease, a new study says. The germ, Human Pegivirus (HPgV), was found in half the autopsied brains of patients with Parkinson's, but not in any brains from healthy people. 1/

(But the “factoid” was manufactured by snopes.com’s David Mikkelson in 2001. There was no 1993 article. More at snopes.com/lisa-birgit-ho…. Be sure to click the links.)

“David Ginty probes pleasure and pain to shed light on autism, other conditions” news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/…

When you’re explaining, you’re losing.