- To Stop Illegal Fishing, Send a Seabird (Nautilus) By tracking seabirds with GPS, you can see patterns that reveal shipping operations.
- Obama Wanted to Cut Social Security. Then Bernie Happened (The Intercept) People forget about this. There is a wing of the Democratic Party, the Clinton/Obama wing, who have been trying to roll back social security for years?
- Why Are There So Many Black Wolves In Yellowstone? (Forbes) It appears that black coats are associated with a gene that improves resistance to canine distemper virus (CDV).
- Crows Perform Yet Another Skill Once Thought Distinctively Human (Scientific American) Crows exhibit, "Complex linguistic recursion." Respect corvids.
- James Bennet and the rewriting of 2020 (Jonathan Katz) A number of media critics are now saying that James Bennet was unfairly fired as Editorial Editor of the New York Times for the OP/ED by Tom Cotton that he published, but that they were too scared of the "Woke Mob." His firing was completely justified. He never bothered reading the editorial before publication.
- Fossils Upend Conventional Wisdom about Evolution of Human Bipedalism (Scientific American) A reexamination of fossil footprints shows an Australopithecus with a foot in an intermediate stage between gripping and walking foot.
- Peter Thiel Has No Clue What Makes America Great (The New Republic) Nope, he just hates America.
John Oliver is the best of the comedy commentators out there:
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