The blood-soaked history of Scotch-Irish settlers on the early American frontier—and its echoes in today’s politics. Source: Hillbilly Legacy | Washington Monthly
History’s Lessons on Anti-Immigrant Extremism The New Yorker
Tristan da Cunha The most remote inhabited island on Earth, forged from a supercontinent breakup
2024 was first calendar year with warming above 1.5°C with unprecedented extremes putting humans and ecosystems at risk Source: Global temperatures passed critical 1.5°C milestone […]
“Homo juluensis” Scientists Claim To Have Discovered New Species of Humans
Source: DOJ: 200 Jan. 6 cases pending as Trump prepares to retake office – POLITICO en: What to remember about Jan. 6 – The […]
The president-elect and his allies have spent four years reinventing the Capitol attack — spreading conspiracy theories and weaving a tale of martyrdom to their […]
a summary of The Illiad and why it remains so important a work
He traveled the spine of the United States. Source: Photographer Documents Overlooked Communities in America’s Heartland | PetaPixel
The Oscar-tipped film Nickel Boys adapts Colson Whitehead’s novel about two boys at an abusive “reform” school and shoots it from their point of view. […]
Outraged by the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, a wilderness survival trainer spent years undercover climbing the ranks of right-wing militias. He didn’t tell police or […]
Evolution was fueled by endosymbiosis, cellular alliances in which one microbe makes a permanent home inside another. For the first time, biologists made it happen […]
According to Amanda Vaill’s findings, Hemingway may well have based the love affair in “A Farewell to Arms” on his first marriage. Source: Ernest Hemingway’s […]
The sex guru Nicole Daedone is on trial for alleged abuse at her ‘orgasmic meditation’ retreats. Today a woman who says she was groomed to […]
During covid-19 a preacher lured thousands of people into a remote forest. Then he told them to stop eating Source: Inside the Kenyan cult that […]
