One dead baby duck was caught floating in the pool over the weekend, though the cause of death was unclear.

Did they charge it with vandalism too?

The rest of its brood had already dissolved.

Relevant article (PDF):

Mussolini, Sacco-Vanzetti, and the Anarchists: The Transatlantic Context

I agree, but I also see a tradeoff: people instinctively feel a greater sense of agency when the effects of their actions are closer to the cause; if it comes weeks later it can seem more random even if it’s more reliable. Even if people know their votes counted, it can feel disempowering and depress future turnout.

Depends on your position on philosophical realism.

“All I got is one subcutaneous memory chip with a site license for Autodesk?”

It should be considered a universal law of corporate behavior: any information that has theoretical value will eventually be sold.

Even if current management has no intention of exploiting it, they’ll be replaced by the board, or the division and its data will be spun off and sold for its IP—that’s just corporate nature (i.e., the purpose of a system is what it does).

You turn to the side and talk to the camera.

The platform combines two proprietary technologies. One is a high-resolution multiphase parallelized two-photon microscope, which enables researchers to reconstruct a neuron's brain-wide projection pattern without cutting brain tissue. The other is a dual-color expansion fluorescence in situ hybridization technique, which precisely maps gene molecules within cells and can detect six genes simultaneously.

Both of these seem a bit wild in their own right.

Math Olympiads (if the horses had to answer the questions, like Clever Hans).

Right—settlements result when both parties agree on the likely outcome of a court case (with the advice of their lawyers).

Trials result when each side’s lawyers convince their clients that the other side’s lawyers have misjudged the likely outcome.

If the plague started in Siberia and gradually spread west over a few hundred years before decimating the early European farming communities, that might explain why Yamnaya steppe herders were able to move in from the Pontic steppe and repopulate: they would already have recovered from the plague a generation or two earlier.

• King James didn’t write the New Testament—he commissioned an English translation of both testaments from originals that had already existed for over a thousand years in Hebrew, Greek, and Syriac.

• Most Christians hold that both the Old and New Testaments were “divinely inspired” but created through human intermediaries.

They tried to take down Moby Wick.

So I assume this study was meant to narrow down the previously-established association between gun ownership and household lead levels by focusing on gun storage. But couldn’t it also be the case that lead exposure (from guns) is causing caregivers to store their guns less carefully?

(Or in other words—maybe the danger of elevated household lead due to gun ownership is independent of storage practices; but lead exposure also leads to more dangerous storage practices, which causes the correlation.)

The U.S. Web Design System (USWDS) provides a comprehensive set of standards which guide those who build the U.S. government’s many websites. Its documentation for developers borrows a “2% rule” from its British counterpart:
. . . we officially support any browser above 2% usage as observed by analytics.usa.gov.

Reminder to self to always use FF when visiting .gov sites.

Idealistic people work harder than anyone—for idealistic causes.

They don’t work so hard for companies that betray their idealism.

Pope Francis: ”Today the ugliest danger is gender ideology, which cancels out differences ... Erasing differences is erasing humanity.”

St. Paul: ”There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Jesus Christ.”

The thought of a nuclear reactor running on Windows is terrifying.

“This code is too dangerous for me to look at, so it must be fine.”