George Peabody Library, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

"During the interview Burchett said conservative lawmakers are being blackmailed after being caught naked in a bed with a honeypot. That’s why they are voting so crazy."
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/12/gop-rep-burchett-conservative-lawmakers-are-being-blackmailed/

This robot solves a Rubik's cube in 0.38 seconds!!! 🤯😮

NEW - Mass of thousands of migrants waiting to be processed by Border Patrol after they crossed illegally into the United States in Texas today.

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Ehrlich et al, Ecoscience, 1977, p. 999. The evidence is mixed. https://www.drhardick.com/stevia-infertility But I'd stay away from stevia if you're actively trying to conceive.

By Any Means

China has been watching NATO encroach on Russia’s borders over the last two years and it is clearly not inclined to permit a similar process take place in or anywhere near its own territory: Beijing will use “any means” to prevent the secession of Taiwan, Chinese President Xi Jinping said on Tuesday, adding that the […]

https://voxday.net/2023/12/27/by-any-means/

Eternal meme.

We've talked about Francis Bacon. Time to take a look at his less-well-known predecessor, Roger Bacon (~1220–1292), and contemporaries like Albert of Cologne, Robert Grossteste, and Thomas Aquinas.

"There is a school of thought that the medieval period was a time of stagnation and superstition as progress lay dormant awaiting the renaissance and the enlightenment. “It will, therefore, be unnecessary to go into any detail respecting the history of the school philosophy of the thirteenth, fourteenth, and fifteenth centuries,” argued historian of science, William Whewell (1794–1866). “We may suppose it to have been, during the intermediate time, such as it was at first and at last” [[vi]]. Another writes, “The history of science in the Middle Ages makes but sorry reading. It was, so far as science is concerned, a period of ignorance, misunderstanding, and neglect” [[vii]]. Ernst Mach (1838–1916) in his classic The Science of Mechanics cites no authority after Archimedes (287–212 BC) and before Leonardo (1452–1519) [[viii]]."

They are wrong, by the way. Completely wrong. There's some seriously under-appreciated science history, here. The thumbnail is Roger Bacon working on an optics experiment.

https://aetherczar.substack.com/p/22-early-and-medieval-ages

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The Democratic Boston Mayor who planned to throw a ‘no whites’ Christmas party for “electeds of color” is married to a white man.

https://modernity.news/2023/12/14/boston-mayor-who-planned-no-whites-christmas-party-is-married-to-a-white-man/

Obsidian ball versus press

Obsidian is a massive dark volcanic glass. Obsidian is formed by the rapid cooling of acidic lava at the surface (lava) or by the rapid cooling of magma in near-surface conditions (dikes, rods or other cutting magma bodies).
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JUST IN - Poland's President Duda has vetoed the 2024 spending bill after the new Tusk government seized control of the country's public media.

https://www.pap.pl/en/news/polish-president-vetoes-budget-related-bill-over-public-media-changes

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Russian Textbooks Say Trump Lost in Rigged Election

Dec 26, 2023 at 7:33 PM EST

https://www.newsweek.com/russian-textbooks-say-trump-lost-rigged-election-1855656