The Left has been rewriting history for decades, since it took over academia in the sixties.
News On The Asteroid Bombardment
The B612 Foundation is going to have a press conference at the Seattle Museum of Flight at 2:30 EDT. It will be live streamed.
Obama Lawyering Up
He knows he’s going to lose the Senate, or at least thinks there’s a high enough probability of it that he’d better get ready. And he’s got a lawyer with a lot of experience with a corrupt Democrat in the White House.
An Alinsky For Liberty
The youth strike back.
Public School Is Child Abuse
Example #15437.
The cop should be charged with false arrest, and the school officials should be sued within an inch of their lives. This kind of idiocy will continue until it causes pain for the idiots.
“Affirmative” “Action”
SCOTUS has stricken a blow against decades of institutionalized racism by the Left.
Earth II?
My thoughts on the latest discovery from the Kepler data, over at PJMedia.
A “Tenuous Grasp Of Science”
That’s certainly a polite way to describe these fools:
A half-liter of urine dumped in a 143 million-liter reservoir would get a urea concentration of about 3 parts per billion, according to Slate. (We calculated it would be a 50 nanoMolar solution.) Meanwhile, the EPA allows concentrations of arsenic in drinking water up to 10 ppb. Salt water has a salt concentration of around 35,000,000 parts per billion, or 600 milliMolar.
Do these morons have any idea how many birds poop in that lake every day? In drought-stricken California, that wouldn’t be just a firing offense — they’d be strung up. But I’ll bet he’s all on board with battling climate change.
As Glenn says, the nation is increasingly being run by chuckleheads.
Cats
What are they thinking?
Miklósi, I was surprised to learn, had also conducted the pointing test with felines. Like Agrillo, he had a hard time getting cats to cooperate in his laboratory—so he went to their homes instead. Even then, most of the animals weren’t interested in advancing science; according to Miklósi’s research paper, seven of the initial 26 test subjects “dropped out.” But those that did participate performed nearly as well as dogs had. Cats too, it appears, may have a rudimentary theory of mind.
But when Miklósi took the study a step further, he spotted an intriguing difference between cats and dogs. This time, he and his colleagues created two puzzles: one solvable, the other impossible. In the solvable puzzle, the researchers placed food in a bowl and stuck it under a stool. Dogs and cats had to find the bowl and pull it out to eat. Both aced the test. Then the scientist rigged the exam. They again placed the bowl under a stool, but this time they tied it to the stool legs so that it could not be pulled out. The dogs pawed at the bowl for a few seconds and then gave up, gazing up at their owners as if asking for help. The cats, on the other hand, rarely looked at their owners; they just kept trying to get the food.
Now before you conclude that cats are dumber than dogs because they’re not smart enough to realize when a task is impossible, consider this: Dogs have lived with us for as many as 30,000 years—20,000 years longer than cats. More than any other animal on the planet, dogs are tuned in to the “human radio frequency”—the broadcast of our feelings and desires. Indeed, we may be the only station dogs listen to. Cats, on the other hand, can tune us in if they want to (that’s why they pass the pointing test as well as dogs), but they don’t hang on our every word like dogs do. They’re surfing other channels on the dial. And that’s ultimately what makes them so hard to study. Cats, as any owner knows, are highly intelligent beings. But to science, their minds may forever be a black box.
As another recent study showed, cats recognize our voices. They just don’t care.
The Left’s War On Women
Taking a page out of the Clinton playbook in the nineties, the left is attacking Sharyl Atkisson (as they do anyone who tells the truth about them), as “crazy.” Hope she understand what she’s letting herself in for her multiple crimes of committing acts of journalism in a Democrat administration.