A study reaches the very obvious conclusion that when effective HIV treatments were approved in 1996, this led to changes in sexual behaviors among gay men in particular that drove up STD rates, syphilis in particular. eurekalert.org/news-releases/… dx.doi.org/10.1002/hec.70…

Finland gave every homeless person a house and within 6 months 85% had a job and were financially independent. Less crime, less hospital visits, less suffering and even including the cost of the house, LESS COST than the UK/USA method of abandoning them on the streets.

The discipline of Piers Morgan to just sit there silently for the excruciating 90 seconds of page turning without interjecting at all…props

In 1970, an Australian wheat farmer got into a dispute with his government over how much wheat he could sell. So he declared his farm an independent country. The government ignored him. He ruled it as a prince for the next 50 years. His name was Leonard Casley. He owned a 75

Another win for AI cartoonery!

Today I have cleaned up a rather beautiful autochrome study of a windmill at sunset - taken in colour about 116 years ago - by the Belgian painter and photographer Alfonse Van Besten (1865–1926). It is an early colour glass-plate process and not colourised.

Take the wheel Jesus

Israeli newspaper Maariv, 1984: "Khomeini's atomic bomb is entering the final stages of production with German assistance"

Even the Kremlin’s top trolls have had enough of putin. For years, Ilya Remeslo was one of the Kremlin’s most loyal Z-bloggers, used by the regime to smear Alexei Navalny and the FBK. But even for a man who made a career out of defending the indefensible, the reality of

Wild story by the great Canadian Broadcasting Company: A network of about 20 YouTube channels pushing Alberta separatism was actually run by a small group in the Netherlands. They used hired actors and “faceless” videos to make it look real. And these weren’t small and

🇿🇦 JUST IN: Xenophobic mobs in South Africa are now turning attacks into content, hunting down foreigners, forcing them to shut their businesses, and chasing them as they run for their lives.

pussy analytics is the end of the road for me brother

France made this wastefulness illegal cause it’s cruel and only causes more waste issues. Any food market or restaurant over 400 square meters has to donate all their good unsold food to charities and are fined if they do anything like this. That law should be applied everywhere

De NOS heeft het weer eens gedaan. Nu met een artikel over de beleving van onveiligheid rond asielcentra. Allemaal ideologie! zeggen de critici. Of vergissen zij zich?

Vernietigende recensie van het boek dat Dieuwke Wynia schreef over haar jaren als eindredacteur van DWDD.👇Als rechterhand van Matthijs van Nieuwkerk geen wezenlijk woord over haar eigen genadeloze gedrag tegenover ondergeschikten. Zie je vaker: assistenten die “de baas” imiteren

A binman in Turkey’s capital found a bag of thrown-away books on his rounds and couldn’t bring himself to take it to the dump. He kept it. Other workers started doing the same. The pile has now grown into a public library of over 9,000 books, run by sanitation workers, in an old

I had no idea Michael Jackson simply copied Bob Fosse almost to a "T".

Racists in comments still complain: This Syrian refugee fled 6 years ago to Bavaria. Since then he got a job, fully developed an authentic Bavarian accent (so thick I can barely understand him) and he bought his own horse to take part in the traditional Catholic easter ride out.

British journalists tracked down the person behind a viral Islamophobia and anti-Black Facebook account (Britain Today), used by racists and far right extremists. It's a Pakistani man based in Pakistan.

It’s incredible that this 2017 caricature has become reality.