1+ week, 5+ day ago   (196+ words) The organism in question is a protozoan, meaning a single-celled animal, and it’s called Toxoplasma gondii. It’s one of the most successful parasites on the planet. Depending on which country’s serology data you look at, somewhere between eleven per cent…...

1+ mon, 4+ week ago   (869+ words) This week I grabbed three copies of the Gazette-Mail at random from the recycling box in my garage. I went to the obituary pages, writing down the ages of the deceased. One person died in their late 40s, the youngest age…...

4+ mon, 2+ week ago   (84+ words) WKOW After a gunman tried to storm the ballroom of the Washington Hilton, where the White House Correspondents’ Dinner was taking place Saturday night, social media was flooded with conspiracy theories about what was still unfolding in real time. Watch…...

4+ mon, 3+ week ago   (1291+ words) I did not grow up thinking about antisemitism. I did not study it in school. It was not part of my professional life. For nearly a decade after law school, I was a management-side employment lawyer — I defended large employers…...

5+ mon, 1+ week ago   (846+ words) When you think about conspiracy theories or theorists, you probably imagine a crazy person with a tin foil hat going on about how people in the government are lizards. You might also think about that meme from “It’s Always Sunny…...

5+ mon, 3+ week ago   (201+ words) By Andrew Miiller • March 20, 2026 Within 24 hours of resigning as director of the National Counterterrorism Center on March 17, Joe Kent appeared on Tucker Carlson’s podcast to discuss America’s war with Iran. In his resignation letter and interview, he brought up two…...