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Welcome to the New Day Cafe! This is an open thread. Via my favorite BBC 6�host, Cerys Matthews, I was introduced to an album I’m loving right now. It’s a collaboration between the British ...

New York Times : Lawmakers Suggest Follow-Up Boat Strike Could Be a War Crime Top Republicans have joined Democrats in demanding answers about the escalating military campaign the Trump ...

"The true father of our national literature." That's how H.L. Mencken described the force of nature that was Samuel Langhorne Clemens, aka Mark Twain. If ever there was a person whose bullshit detector went to 11, it was him. Also in his corner:...

The Obesity Epidemic: What Really Happened in the 1980s You've seen the arguments. Seed oils are poison. Sugar is the devil. Fast food destroyed America. The government ruined everything. Or maybe it's all Big Pharma's fault. Everyone's got a villain....

Welcome to Street Prophets Sunday Coffee Hour.� This is an open thread so grab something to drink and sit a spell and let us know what is new with you. I have always said the most important person ...

Automobiles were first developed in Germany in the late nineteenth century. During the first decade of the twentieth century, automobile manufacturing began moving from hand-made cars to mass ...

Sleep Maybe it’s my age, but I�hear complaints about sleep problems from most of the people with whom I speak. It’s recommended that adults get 7-8 hours of sleep per day. Cats should get ...

We like our stories to have beginnings, middles, ends. History gives us none of these. It provides instead repetition, variations on a theme, and something we might�call entanglement. --Brandy ...

Good morning, Newdists! Last week, I gave you beanspiration . This week, I’m asking you to give me beanspiration. In my quest to eat more beans—and thanks to some nudging from members of this ...

When we last left our intrepid hero, he was crossing the Nefud Desert of Saudi Arabia. However, unlike his pseudo-namesake, Lawrence of Arabia, who crossed the Nefud on a camel (at least according to the movie), our hero did it on Saudia Airlines…and...