The essential idea behind string theory is this: all of the different ‘fundamental ‘ particles of the Standard Model are really just different manifestations of one basic object: a string. How can that be? Well, we would ordinarily picture an electron, for instance, as a point with no internal structure. A point cannot do anything but move. But with strings…More>>
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The Guardian- ‘We don’t have another country to run to’: Kenyans fear US plan for Ebola quarantine site
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- Musket balls and a burnt hull: evidence of real pirates of the Caribbean found in Bahamas
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- Trump admirer’s surprise first-round win is a blow to Colombia’s traditional conservatives
Talking Points Memo- Republican Who Has Mysteriously Gone Missing From Congress Gets a Dem Challenger
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- Drip, Drip, Drip: Grand Jury Misconduct Edition
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- Trump Makes Bill Pulte the Acting Director of National Intelligence
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- DOJ Trumpets That It Will ‘Abide by’ Slush Fund Court Order After GOP Balks At Funding ICE, Ballroom
- Iowa Dems Mull ‘Electability,’ the ‘Establishment’ in Tuesday Primary as They Try to Pull Off the Unthinkable
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The Intercept- The Pentagon Is Running an AI Propaganda Mill Targeting Latin America
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- New York Comptroller’s Trip to Israel Raised Ethical Concerns, State Commission Said
- A Gay Palestinian Fled to Israel’s “Safe Haven.” Israel Tried to Exploit Him for Intelligence.
- Richard Glossip on Life After Decades on Death Row
- The Los Angeles Left Is at War With Itself Over the Mayor’s Race
- ICE Pepper-Sprayed, Beat Detainees for Protesting “Horrific Conditions” in Delaney Hall Jail
- After Uvalde, Texas Stuffed Schools Full of Cops. They Brutalized Students.
- The Race to Build AI Data Centers — Before the People Can Protest
- Graham Platner Is Forcing Centrist Dems to Reckon With “Vote Blue No Matter Who”
France24- Trump to speak at rescheduled White House correspondents' dinner
- Russia 'trying to prevent Armenia's diversification of connectivity', expert says
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- 2026 World Cup: Are US stadiums unprepared? Viral Senegal ball bounce clip sparks pitch fears
- Football violence is about 'excitement' and 'proving one's masculinity', expert says
- EU strikes migration deal for more deportations and detention centers abroad
- Macron unveils Rwanda genocide memorial in Paris, marking 'quest for truth'
- 'I can't breathe': Protesters attack police at UK rally over student murder
- Trump's acknowledgment of Hezbollah 'utterly humiliating' for Netanyahu
- The Macron method: How to deal with Putin's Russia?
Media Matters For America- Sean Hannity on CBS News: “There’s only one way to clean it up and that’s to clean house”
- Fox stands behind Trump policies that are hurting America's tourism industry
- Greg Bovino: "Immigration and remigration, mass deportations, are the number one issue for the preservation of our culture, the preservation of our society, our values, our customs, our beliefs"
- Right-wing media are using an IPCC climate scenario revision to attack climate science and climate policy
- Ben Shapiro praises Nick Bilton and Bari Weiss and says that CBS should fire Scott Pelley from 60 Minutes
- Steve Bannon and Jack Posobiec celebrate the appointment of Bill Pulte as DNI, saying he will "start digging in on the domestic side of terrorism"
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- On The Weeknight, Angelo Carusone discusses the conservative takeover of media infrastructure
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- Sean Hannity on the Iran war: "Can I put a timeline on it? I can't."
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