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The Harvey Weinstein trial is novel because it is based on the testimony of witnesses who had a subsequent relationship with the accused.
Prosecutors declining to try rape cases where a legitimate relationship is present is like refusing to try a shoplifting case because the accused had actually paid for something from the store.
Illinois wants to become the third state to criminalize pumping your own gas (OR, NJ).
"Equality" is among the reasons listed for the change; low-income people cannot afford gasoline pumped by stations with attendants and are forced to pump their own gas. Under the proposed bill, low income people would be forced to buy gas they cannot afford so they can be equal.
Stop voting, people. It only makes things worse.
Glutamate is an amino acid and neurotransmitter that has been monitored in action for the first time.
A well-known salt of glutamate is monosodium glutamate (MSG). It breaks down into sodium and glutamate ions during digestion.
MSG attained urban legend status after a letter submitted to the New England Journal of Medicine ascribed various symptoms to MSG and was published as "Chinese Restaurant Syndrome".
The Harvard University Chair of Chemistry and Chemical Biology was indicted for working with the Chinese government (Wuhan Institute of Technology) while holding contracts with NIH and DoD.
If you haven't been following along, Wuhan is the reported origin of the Coronavirus outbreak.
DoD + NIH + China + Chemical Biology Professor = ?
With little fanfare and less justification, Trump resurrected the USAF Space Command last year.
Zero originality points for the logo design and a ten point penalty for the nerd pandering.
"The world’s richest 2,153 people controlled more money than the poorest 4.6 billion combined"
Capitalism may provide more upward mobility than other systems, but that doesn't mean we should avert our eyes from the inevitable imbalances.
Anyone who has played Monopoly or real-time strategy games knows that eventually the power players control the board.
Someone told me “I watch all of the news channels to make sure I get all of the news.”
If you are getting your news from television (or their online appendages), you're not getting news, but ‘news-like product’ to make you believe whatever one of the six corporations who control the major news outlets want you to believe.
The news is dead. Long live the narrative.
