This is Grauman's Egyptian Theatre in Hollywood, built in the 1920s.

Why so grand? Because Hollywood was making 800 films per year and 75% of the American population went to the movies weekly.

What were they watching? Well, 1920s cinema was much stranger than you realise...

Missouri law requires women seeking divorce to disclose whether they're pregnant — and state judges won't finalize divorces during a pregnancy npr.org/2024/05/03/124…

wait until Senator John Fetterman sees the thing that makes beer

10. Photographer Barbara Jensen Voster accidentally dropped her camera in Botswana where she was photographing a lion pride.

The lioness picked it up, played with it, then took it to her cubs to play with. A very expensive toy.

Hero scientist

Zhang Yongzhen is a scientific hero who should receive an international medal for advancement of science and eternal recognition for human bravery.

Congressional hearings held for the purpose of putting scientist heads on spikes largely proceeded according to their predetermined agenda.

As a reminder, egghead punching is a popular right wing spectator sport. Far be it for Democrats to interfere.

WIRED has been extremely solid overall

Seriously, a lot of people in the streets of Tbilisi tonight video by Radio Tavisupleba (I think)

If the police don't start arresting more of those college protesters, I'm going to become an even bigger libertarian.

A whooping crane named “Animal”, one of the world’s rarest birds, got lost on her first trip back to Wisconsin.

She wound up in a lakeside suburb north of Chicago. A conservation project leader dressed up as a crane, fed her grapes, and got her home.
patch.com/illinois/evans…

Baric’s thinking has on the whole been measured and credible throughout this sorry affair. Note that the point here is to avoid foreclosing viable hypotheses while refusing wild speculation.

How can you *not* be a Paradise Lost person? I mean it’s just so metal

“
Hurled headlong flaming from th’ ethereal sky
With hideous ruin and combustion down
To bottomless perdition, there to dwell
In adamantine chains and penal fire,
Who durst defy th’ Omnipotent to arms.”

Yeah well my pagan European ancestors ritualistically complained about the crap weather of Norway, so take that smarty pants.

MAGAs are dumping on Noem for shooting her dog because it isn’t the right kind of cruelty

It’s been awhile, but as a younger man I raised gun dogs and hunted with them, and participated in the bird dog community.

Noem’s story doesn’t wash. Gun dogs are bred for hunt instinct. Training is owner’s responsibility. 100% of this is on Noem, who’s clearly just posing.

Russian pigs.

Bill Barr set up a system via which Joe Biden was framed -- an effort that affected two different presidential elections.

How Barr gets to waltz in and out of CNN's studio w/o questions about that boggles my mind.