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Per @cdrsalamander, our longtime ally, this appalling stat which sheds light on US women's fertility: I don't have similar stat...

The UK elections are over. As expected, the Tories got - rightly so - a clobbering, and Farage's Reform did well. However, the UK electo...

Fine-Structure Constant (approx. 1/137) is a dimensionless constant that characterizes the strength of the electromagnetic interaction betwe...

With 33% of the vote, Marine Le Pen's rightwing Rassemblement National (RN) seems to have won the first round of France's parliamen...

Chris Rea with Shamrock Diaries . From the eponymous 1985 album. The least one can say about Rea is that he's a survivor. The man...

Shocking ending to the Trump vs Biden debate, what most people didn't see. This says it all. pic.twitter.com/ryE6qEIdpt — Alex Jones (@R...

First The Human League with Life On Your Own . From their 1984 album Hysteria . English synth pop band which formed in 1977 in Sheffiel...

One of the best technological accounts on X is Jordan Taylor's. In this thread, which dates from two years ago already, he focuses on th...

I am against EVs for several reasons, and the most obvious ones are in all likelihood the ones that spring to mind right away: limited auton...

It's been 13 years since my father died. I visited my father's grave a couple of hours ago. It was overcast, cold, windy, and ...

Er, highly recommended! Please, watch it in full! Here it is! The full speech I gave at #CPACHungary that the establishment is losing i...

pic.twitter.com/bZd58Cjtwn — 🇮🇹 RadioRoma (@RadioRoma_) April 21, 2024 Afghan migrants have been vandalizing Paris and clashing with...

The Police with Darkness . From the 1981 album Ghost in the Machine . Imho their best. The cover art depicts the band members, with fro...

Mac DeMarco with Moonlight on the River . From his 2017 album This Old Dog . Canadian singer/songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. He...

To all my followers, like every year I wish you a heartfelt Happy Easter! At least those of the Christian faith, the others I wish a nice we...

A fascinating journey to our closest celestial neighbor! If you follow this link , you can explore the Moon yourself! Good night. ...

An interesting video by Space Matters on neutron stars, the collapsed cores of massive supergiant stars which had total masses of between 1...

Three appalling tidbits of info that show how much the rot has already set in in the United Kingdom: An adhan in the Houses of Parliament...

Manfred Mann's Earth Band with Davy's on the road again . It's on the 1978 album Watch , although it came out as a single in 197...

Foo Fighters with Monkey Wrench . From the album The Colour and the Shape (1997). In the elevator, Grohl hears a muzak version (i.e...