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by Keith Lamparter | November 27, 2021 | My Blog Posts | 0 Comments

I have had some down-time over Thanksgiving and decided to update my web page. It was a shock to realize that other than some videos and a lot of shares of posts by others, I hadn't posted anything personal since 2017. I had tried writing a very long and involved...

2020 WRR Trek – Part 2 – Cook Lakes to Golden Lakes

by Keith Lamparter | November 26, 2021 | Featured, You Tube Video Creations | 0 Comments

On August 8, 2020 Melissa Berger and I departed on another of backpacking trips into the Wind River Mountains in Wyoming. The trip is broken into 3 videos. This is part 2 of the trilogy. The video takes us from Cook Lakes, where we spent our first night, across Bald...

2020 WRR Trek – Part 1 – Elhart Park Trailhead to Cook Lakes

by Keith Lamparter | November 26, 2021 | Featured, You Tube Video Creations | 0 Comments

On August 8th 2020, Melissa Berger and I embarked on another of our trips into the wilderness of the Wind River Mountains in Wyoming. This video is Day 1 of that 7-day trip, taking us from Elkhart Park Trailhead 14-1/2 miles to Cook Lakes.

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Is Reliably Dem Nevada Slipping From Biden's Grasp?

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Three Reasons Black Voters Are Moving To Trump

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Trump's Trials May Help, Not Hurt, His Shot at WH

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Biden, Fauci & Butker Deliver Starkly Different Speeches

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The graduating class of 2024 has been treated to three very different commencement speeches in recent days. Only one was not self-serving, dishonest and destructive. [...]

The Worst Best Economy Ever

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Family Wealth Soared Under Trump, Stagnated Under Biden

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Iran's President Is Dead. The Cruel Show Goes On

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A Judicial Pogrom

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The ICC's threat of arrest warrants against Israel's leaders is an affront to democracy and humanity. [...]

If Black Men Are Being Killed in the Street, What's Democracy?

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President Biden waxed poetic about race in America during a commencement address Sunday at Morehouse College, an HBCU in Georgia: [...]

Biden's Racist, Patronizing Speech to Morehouse Grads

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The Democratic playbook is to reassure our victimhood status, not overcome it. [...]

After Almost a Decade of Trump, America Is Tired & Scared

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It seems hard to believe, but there was a time when we Americans could go days, or even weeks, without hearing about Donald Trump. That ended nearly a decade ago, when Trump decided he wanted to be president. Now, he is a constant presence on the evening news and in the morning newspaper. He ensures it by manufacturing turmoil, threats and constant controversy. [...]

Even Some Dems Think Biden's Green Crusade Is Madness

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While Democrats and Republicans converge on perceptions of climate change, there is still no clear consensus for Biden's policies [...]

Is Reversing Biden's Working-Class Slump Even Possible?

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A new survey of key swing states shows how it could be done, but-granting its necessity-it sure sounds difficult. [...]

Don't Let the Media Lie to You About Election Integrity

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When will the media start asking democrats if they will accept the outcome of the 2024 election if Trump wins? [...]

The Supreme Court Is No Longer Honorable or Functional

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The upside-down flag at Samuel Alito's house after the Capitol attack reveals how disgraceful our supreme court has become [...]

Why the Alito Recusal Calls Are Ridiculous

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It would be unethical for Alito to recuse because the Code of Conduct says a justice 'has an obligation to sit unless disqualified.' [...]

The Crisis of Confidence in Higher Education

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Another day, another no-confidence vote for a university president. [...]

Higher Ed Has a Progressive Disease. Can It Be Reversed?

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The prognosis seems grim, but I found signs of life as a proud father at Notre Dame's commencement. [...]

Northwestern Received $4B From Taxpayers Since '18

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Plus, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and others gave $1 billion to the university in foreign gifts (2007-2022) [...]

7 Theories for Why Biden Is Losing (And What He Should Do)

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It's not the poll numbers that worry me, exactly. It's the denial of what's behind them. [...]

Funerary procession to be held for late president in Iran's northwest

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Iranians gathered on Tuesday to mourn at the funerary procession of president Ebrahim Raisi in the northwestern city of Tabriz, the capital of East Azerbaijan province where he died unexpectedly in a helicopter crash.The helicopter lost communication while it was on its way back to Tabriz after Raisi attended a joint inauguration of a dam with his Azeri counterpart, Ilham Aliyev, on their common border. [...]

Women's tennis signs 'multi-year partnership' with Saudi investment fund

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The women's tennis tour (WTA) on Monday announced "a multi-year partnership" with the Saudi Arabian sovereign wealth fund (PIF), emulating a deal made by the men's tour (ATP) in February.The WTA said in a statement that it shared with PIF an "ambition to grow women's professional tennis and inspire more women and girls around the world to take up the game." [...]

Amal Clooney helped ICC weigh Gaza war crimes evidence

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Amal Clooney helped the International Criminal Court weigh evidence that led to the decision to seek arrest warrants for top Israeli and Hamas leaders, the human rights lawyer said Monday.The high-profile British-Lebanese barrister posted a statement on the website of the Clooney Foundation for Justice, which she founded with her husband, American actor George Clooney. Both she and the foundation had previously been criticized on social media for not speaking out over the civilian death toll in Gaza. [...]

ICC prosecutor seeks Gaza 'war crimes' arrest warrant for Netanyahu, Hamas leaders

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The prosecutor of the International Criminal Court on Monday applied for arrest warrants against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and top Hamas leaders on suspicion of war crimes and crimes against humanity.Netanyahu rejected the landmark request "with disgust", while Foreign Minister Israel Katz slammed it as "a historical disgrace that will be remembered forever."The United States also firmly criticised the prosecutor's move. [...]

US says Iran sought help over president crash

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The United States said Monday that arch-enemy Iran sought assistance over a helicopter crash that killed president Ebrahim Raisi, as Washington meanwhile offered condolences despite saying he had "blood on his hands."The State Department said Iran, which has had no diplomatic relations with Washington since the aftermath of the 1979 Islamic revolution, reached out afer Raisi's aging chopper crashed in foggy weather Sunday."We were asked by the Iranian government for assistance," State Department spokesman Matthew Miller told reporters. [...]

Turkey's fastest drone plays key role locating Iran helicopter crash site

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The location of the helicopter crash site was identified by Turkey’s Akinci drone, according to Turkish officials, after Ankara sent teams to help Iran's search mission. [...]

Turkey's fastest drone plays key role locating Iran helicopter crash site

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The location of the helicopter crash site was identified by Turkey’s Akinci drone, according to Turkish officials, after Ankara sent teams to help Iran's search mission. [...]

Turkey's fastest drone plays key role locating Iran helicopter crash site

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The location of the helicopter crash site was identified by Turkey’s Akinci drone, according to Turkish officials, after Ankara sent teams to help Iran's search mission. [...]

Turkey's fastest drone plays key role locating Iran helicopter crash site

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The location of the helicopter crash site was identified by Turkey’s Akinci drone, according to Turkish officials, after Ankara sent teams to help Iran's search mission. [...]

Israel's Defence Minister Gallant: Netanyahu ally turned critic

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Israeli Defence Minister Yoav Gallant, whose arrest warrant was sought at the International Criminal Court on Monday, was long a staunch ally of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu but has become a vocal critic.While the former general remains grimly committed to destroying Hamas over its October 7 attack, he has clashed with Netanyahu on the issue of Gaza's post-war governance. [...]

Biden says Israel's Gaza offensive 'not genocide'

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US President Joe Biden denied Monday that Israel's war in Gaza was genocide, as he slammed an "outrageous" request by the International Criminal Court's prosecutor for an arrest warrant for Israeli leaders."What's happening is not genocide," Biden told a Jewish American Heritage Month event at the White House as he discussed the conflict sparked by Hamas's October 7 attack on Israel. [...]

As Iran heads to elections after Raisi’s death, hard-liners face legitimacy crisis

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While the Iranian president's death in a helicopter crash may pose immediate questions about the country's future trajectory, little significant change is expected, as the ruling establishment's key workings remain strictly in the supreme leader's tight controls. [...]

As Iran heads to elections after Raisi’s death, hard-liners face legitimacy crisis

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As Iran heads to elections after Raisi’s death, hard-liners face legitimacy crisis

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Worry in Damascus, joy in rebel areas at Raisi's death

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Syrians in Damascus voiced concern Monday at the impact on their country of the death of Iranian president Ebrahim Raisi, as some in Syria's last main opposition bastion were celebrating.Tehran has been a key ally for Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, and housewife Hazar Mazhar said "everybody is talking about the news, but I don't know if what happened will impact us, or what the coming days will bring.""I'm afraid of the impact on the economy... I hope this incident doesn't affect our livelihoods," the 49-year-old said. [...]

Israel's hawkish Netanyahu faces global isolation

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Israel's hawkish right-wing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is treading increasingly thin ice after the International Criminal Court's prosecutor on Monday sought an arrest warrant for him over "war crimes" in Gaza.The silver-haired 73-year-old, known by his nickname "Bibi", has dominated his country's politics for decades but now faces mounting isolation both at home and abroad over his handling of the war against Hamas in Gaza. [...]

Meet Iran's Mokhber and Bagheri Kani, interim president and FM after crash

- Adam Lucente

Iran’s President Ebrahim Raisi and Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian died in a helicopter crash on Sunday along with a number of other officials. [...]

Meet Iran's Mokhber and Bagheri Kani, interim president and FM after crash

- Adam Lucente

Iran’s President Ebrahim Raisi and Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian died in a helicopter crash on Sunday along with a number of other officials. [...]

Meet Iran's Mokhber and Bagheri Kani, interim president and FM after crash

- Adam Lucente

Iran’s President Ebrahim Raisi and Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian died in a helicopter crash on Sunday along with a number of other officials. [...]

Meet Iran's Mokhber and Bagheri Kani, interim president and FM after crash

- Adam Lucente

Iran’s President Ebrahim Raisi and Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian died in a helicopter crash on Sunday along with a number of other officials. [...]

Sam Bankman-Fried & Exaggerated Losses

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Richard Dewey & Aaron Brown, City Journal Financial fraud is a serious crime, but unfounded estimates of losses often influence public opinion—and criminal sentences. [...]

Jared Bernstein's Critics Are as Ridiculous as Jared Bernstein

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John Tamny, Forbes If you're laughing at Jared Bernstein you're likely the butt of the joke yourself. [...]

AI Looking Less All-Powerful, More Unreliable Intern

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Julia Angwin, New York Times A.I. is looking less like an all-powerful being and more like an unreliable intern. [...]

The Myriad Ways That AI Could Enhance Medicine

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Vivek Wadhwa, The Times of India Technology News: Vionix Biosciences' AI technology enables early disease detection. HD Steth by HD Medical provides immediate cardiac insights. Qure.ai's AI [...]

Household Debt Delinquency Rising, But Still Low

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Market Minder, Fisher Investments Delinquency rates are rising, signaling some stress—but overall, they remain historically low. [...]

Sorry Mr. Biden, Lina Khan Doesn't Deserve a Raise

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Charles Sauer, RealClearMarkets One of the most outrageous items in President Biden's Fiscal Year 2025 budget is his proposed $389 million raise for the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), an [...]

The Myth That Immigrants Drive Wages Down Is Petering Out

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Ali Velshi, MSNBC The myth that immigrants, documented or otherwise, drive wages lower and crime higher thankfully seems to be petering out. That's not enough. [...]

The Steps To Help You Find Meaning As You Make Money

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Ken Coleman, Fox News There are some practical ways to make more money (and find more meaning in the process). Here are a few different approaches you could take to increase your income. [...]

A Hidden Advantage To Roth IRAs That Few Talk About

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Ryan Vanzo, The Motley Fool Roth IRA and 401(k) accounts have attractive tax benefits but also a hidden advantage few people talk about. [...]

Why Los Angeles Has the Most Unaffordable Housing

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Susan Shelley, New York Post A new study reveals that Los Angeles has the most unaffordable housing in America. [...]

As Ozempic Grows In Popularity, Searching for What It Does To Us

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Sean Illing, Vox Ozempic has become hugely popular. Researchers are racing to learn more about what it does to us. [...]

Critical Minerals Tax Credit Should Prioritize U.S. Production

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Gregory Wischer, RCM The Inflation Reduction Act established the Section 30D New Clean Vehicle Credit, which includes a $3,750 critical minerals tax credit for taxpayers who purchase [...]

An Ugly Fall for Stocks?

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Roben Farzad, BusinessWeek September is that cruelest month for the stock market. It's the only month that has dropped on average since the Roaring Twenties. Come Monday night, when Wall [...]

How Romney Can Save the Economy

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Donald Lambro, Washington Times Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney has to do two things really well at his convention: Lay out in dramatic terms how bad the Obama economy is and [...]

A Safer Way to Invest in Foreign Bonds

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Carla Fried, CNNMoney Income-starved investors looking to amp up their portfolios have been turning to foreign bonds -- for obvious reasons. The 4.2% payout on the average foreign [...]

Remembering the Republicans' Stimulus

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Ezra Klein, WonkBlog I see that the Republican convention will feature a debt clock ticking away behind the speakers. It will also, as I understand it, consist entirely of speakers who [...]

Social Security's Woes Are Worse Than Imagined

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R. Ponnuru, Bloomberg While the Romney and Obama camps have made increasingly bitter accusations about each otherâ??s plans for Medicare, a bipartisan consensus on entitlements has emerged [...]

Could the Economy Win Obama the Election?

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Rick Newman, US News By now, everybody knows what's wrong with the economy: There aren't enough jobs, Europe is stuck in a financial quagmire and Washington is playing chicken with tax and [...]

Obama and Romney Need to Get Real On Jobs Policy

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Doug Schoen, Forbes It's a testament to how bad the American employment market has gotten that the most recent jobs report was met with applause. The Labor Department's July jobs figures [...]

Fiscal Cliff Fears Chill Corporate Hiring & Investment

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Jason Ma, IBD Corporations are scaling back investment, hiring and inventories ahead of steep year-end tax hikes and spending cuts, the most concrete sign to date that uncertainty over the [...]

Over 800 Stolen Artifacts Are Still Missing From the British Museum

- Tobias Carroll

Whether real or fictional, thefts of art and artifacts from museums remain an ongoing cultural fixation. We might read about the real-life theft of paintings from the Isabella Stewart Gardner museum or watch the planning of a Louvre heist in Lupin with equal amounts of suspense. One actual case of theft from a museum is […] The post Over 800 Stolen Artifacts Are Still Missing From the British Museum appeared first on InsideHook. [...]

The Bleak Reason No One Says “BRB” or “GTG” Anymore

- Tanner Garrity

New York-based humorist Fran Lebowitz once described the peculiar sensation of walking through the city in the smartphone era: “In New York, at a certain point, I felt I had the streets all to myself because I’m walking down the street looking up. [It’s like] the entire city [was] handed over to me.” She continued […] The post The Bleak Reason No One Says “BRB” or “GTG” Anymore appeared first on InsideHook. [...]

This Has Become One of Our Favorite Solo Workouts

- Tanner Garrity

Last month, as part of InsideHook’s series on the male friendship crisis, I wrote an essay on the potency of tennis partnerships. Simply put: adult men who play a weekly tennis match have got it made. It’s rare to have such a reliable blend of fitness and social interaction — and it’s little wonder that […] The post This Has Become One of Our Favorite Solo Workouts appeared first on InsideHook. [...]

FDA Cracks Down on the Gray Market for Human Poop

- Tobias Carroll

There’s a long history of breakthrough medical discoveries taking place around substances that most of us would consider, well, disgusting. No one much likes cleaning up mold, and yet mold played a huge role in the discovery of penicillin, which went on to save countless lives. More recently, a process known as fecal microbiota transplantation […] The post FDA Cracks Down on the Gray Market for Human Poop appeared first on InsideHook. [...]

In “The Substance,” Aging Is the Ultimate Body Horror

- Mark Asch

This is the third installment of the 2024 edition of the French Dispatches, our on-the-ground coverage of the Cannes Film Festival. I did say, at the beginning of this festival, taking in Furiosa and the Opening Night tribute to jury president Greta Gerwig, that women’s rage and strong female characters would be a theme of […] The post In “The Substance,” Aging Is the Ultimate Body Horror appeared first on InsideHook. [...]

BMW Is Among the Automakers Under Fire for Ties to Forced Labor

- Tobias Carroll

In 2022, Sheffield Hallam University’s Forced Labour Lab announced an unsettling set of findings about some of the globe’s most prominent automakers and the origins of certain components of their vehicles. That dovetailed with the release the same year of a U.N. report on forced labor in Xinjiang, a region in northwestern China. In the […] The post BMW Is Among the Automakers Under Fire for Ties to Forced Labor appeared first on InsideHook. [...]

The Boston Celtics Are Officially at Risk of Becoming the Buffalo Bills

- Evan Bleier

Although the Celtics did not take the floor on Sunday, there was no bigger winner from what transpired on the court in the NBA than Boston’s basketball team after the Pacers beat the Knicks at MSG and the Timberwolves came from behind to knock off the defending champion Nuggets in Denver. Thanks to those victories, […] The post The Boston Celtics Are Officially at Risk of Becoming the Buffalo Bills appeared first on InsideHook. [...]

All the Memorial Day Sales Worth Shopping Through the Long Weekend

- The Editors

Just because you might find yourself on a boat or at a barbecue this holiday weekend doesn’t mean you should neglect the time-honored tradition that is shopping the Memorial Day sales. Yet, seeing as many of us will likely be out and about this weekend, we’ve taken it upon ourselves to highlight the Memorial Day […] The post All the Memorial Day Sales Worth Shopping Through the Long Weekend appeared first on InsideHook. [...]

Review: Courant’s Latest Charger Is a Sleek Addition to Your Home

- Kirk Miller

Courant pitches its tech wares this way: “more than a charger, it’s a design choice.” And their wireless charging pads, stands and trays are certainly eye-catching. I’ve been buying and recommending Courant’s stuff as gifts for years, but I’ve never actually owned one of their products myself. As someone obsessed with both organization and phone […] The post Review: Courant’s Latest Charger Is a Sleek Addition to Your Home appeared first on InsideHook. [...]

The Products Fair Harbor Founder Jake Danehy Can’t Live Without

- Paolo Sandoval

Welcome to our series where we sit down and chat with cool, influential and interesting people who have great taste, to hear about the products they love the most. Jake Danehy grew up going to Fair Harbor, a small beach community out on New York’s Fire Island, and credits his affinity for the ocean and […] The post The Products Fair Harbor Founder Jake Danehy Can’t Live Without appeared first on InsideHook. [...]

Lifeguard Shape: Your Blueprint for the Ultimate Summer Body

- Tanner Garrity

Welcome to the InsideHook Guide to Summer, a collection of recommendations on everything worth doing, drinking, eating, watching and otherwise enjoying between now and Labor Day. Don’t forget the sunscreen. There’s an insane scene in Baywatch — the 2017 remake, which has a 17% critic rating on Rotten Tomatoes — where Zac Efron’s trying to […] The post Lifeguard Shape: Your Blueprint for the Ultimate Summer Body appeared first on InsideHook. [...]

An Underrated Travel Destination Is Just Off the Coast of Cornwall

- Tobias Carroll

If you board a ferry in the Cornish town of Penzance and head west for just shy of three hours, you’ll find yourself in the Isles of Scilly. This archipelago consists of dozens of islands, five of which are inhabited — and the experience of being there is like little else in the U.K. In […] The post An Underrated Travel Destination Is Just Off the Coast of Cornwall appeared first on InsideHook. [...]

Could the Next Big Thing in Fast Casual Involve Eggs?

- Tobias Carroll

The rise of fast casual dining has pushed American diners’ palates to unexpected places over the last few decades. Had you told me a decade ago that I’d be a dedicated consumer of savory-yet-spicy tofu, I’d have done a double-take — but now, I freely acknowledge that Chipotle’s sofritas are, in fact, delicious. Now, a […] The post Could the Next Big Thing in Fast Casual Involve Eggs? appeared first on InsideHook. [...]

The Blueprint For Lionel Messi’s Barcelona Contract Sells For Almost $1 Million

- Tobias Carroll

Earlier this week, Major League Soccer released its salary information for the current season — and if you’ve ever wondered how much Lionel Messi is making for his first full season at Inter Miami, your question now has an answer. ($20.4 million, according to The Athletic’s analysis.) If you don’t have eight figures of dollars […] The post The Blueprint For Lionel Messi’s Barcelona Contract Sells For Almost $1 Million appeared first on InsideHook. [...]

Frontier Announces a Big Fare Structure Change

- Tobias Carroll

When it comes to booking air travel, it can sometimes be challenging to understand exactly what you’re getting for a given type of fare. Different airlines have different policies around the fare categories that allow for seat selection, carry-on bags and change fees — and even experienced travelers can be challenged by the array of […] The post Frontier Announces a Big Fare Structure Change appeared first on InsideHook. [...]

What’s It Like to Run for Nike…While Coaching High Schoolers?

- Andy Cochrane

After a busy 2023, Tyler Green, a professional ultrarunner for Nike, started this season’s build slowly and intentionally. But even with an abbreviated training block before the Hong Kong 100, he still managed to make the podium, which set him up well for the journey ahead — a grueling half-year of racing that includes some […] The post What’s It Like to Run for Nike…While Coaching High Schoolers? appeared first on InsideHook. [...]

Jake Gyllenhaal and “SNL” Took On the Ethics of Fast Fashion

- Tobias Carroll

Where do the clothes that you buy come from? That’s a question that can have a lot of different answers in 2024; for some, the answer can be found in domestically-produced, high-quality goods. For others, fast fashion is the preferred route, despite some high-profile companies in that category coming under fire for unethical labor practices […] The post Jake Gyllenhaal and “SNL” Took On the Ethics of Fast Fashion appeared first on InsideHook. [...]

An Ocean Pool Is the Crown Jewel at This Luxe Caribbean Resort

- Amanda Gabriele

“I’m going down again!,” I said to my husband as I climbed out of a slightly rough Caribbean Sea this past winter. It was my birthday, and the staff at Wymara Resort and Villas surprised me with an afternoon in one of the property’s spectacular villas. Not only did it have two pools and a […] The post An Ocean Pool Is the Crown Jewel at This Luxe Caribbean Resort appeared first on InsideHook. [...]

Ford Is Reckoning With EVs’ Affordability Issues

- Tobias Carroll

It’s been said before, but it bears repeating: there are significant barriers for the American auto market to overcome in order for EVs to be widely used. One of them relates to charging infrastructure; another has to do with the gulf between what buyers want and what actually exists. And there’s also the question of […] The post Ford Is Reckoning With EVs’ Affordability Issues appeared first on InsideHook. [...]

The Next Neil Young Archival Release Revisits the Early Days of Crazy Horse

- Tobias Carroll

You may recall that last year, Neil Young and Crazy Horse played most of their album Ragged Glory in a small Toronto venue as part of a billionaire’s birthday celebration. For those who weren’t there to witness the event, Young subsequently released a live recording under the title Fu##in’ Up, and it’s gotten positive reviews […] The post The Next Neil Young Archival Release Revisits the Early Days of Crazy Horse appeared first on InsideHook. [...]

The Battle of Crete Changed the Course of WWII

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Archaeologists Believe They've Uncovered Revolutionary War Barracks

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The Last World War II 'Triple Ace,' Dies at 102

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Nicholas Slayton, Task and Purpose Anderson shot down 16 German planes in World War II, flew bombing missions in Vietnam and served as a test pilot alongside Chuck Yeager. [...]

Arendt's Warning About How Totalitarianism Takes Root

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The Escaped Dissident Still Pursued Decades on by China

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Gordon Corera, BBC Three decades ago, Chinese dissidents were being smuggled out of the country in a secret operation called Yellow Bird - but as one of them tells the BBC, [...]

Georgia's Battle To Control the Past & the Present

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Daniel Boffey, The Guardian [...]

The U.S. Air Force's Forgotten Bomber

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Christian Orr, The National Interest The B-50 Superfortress, a successor to the B-29 Superfortress, was a significant part of U.S. military aviation history. [...]

Secret Behind Construction of Egypt's Pyramids

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Arjun Sengupta, Indian Express Scholars have long wondered how ancient Egyptians moved multi-ton blocks of stone through the desert to build the [...]

The True Story Behind The Big Cigar

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Olivia B. Waxman, Time Fifty years ago, talks began for a movie inspired by real Hollywood bigwigs who helped a leader of the Black Panthers flee America. It never got made…until [...]

Columbia's Jewish Commencement

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How a Military March Became the Sound of Graduations

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Joshua Fagan, Military [...]

Why Do Humans Sing? Traditional Music in 55 Languages

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Thorsberg, Smithsonian [...]

Odysseus at Home

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Michael Scanlon, SSRN This is a near-author's cut of an essay entitled "Odysseus Lost" that was published by Chronicles on January 26, 2024. The Chronicles version, which benefited f [...]

Deconstructing U.S. Mistakes in Afghanistan

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Andrew J. Bacevich, New York Times An implicit question haunts this illuminating and richly detailed memoir by Michael G. Vickers, the senior intelligence official at the center of [...]

The Bomb That Changed Everything

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Sean Durns, Washington Examiner "Someday science may have the existence of mankind in its power," the American intellectual Henry Adams wrote in 1862, "and the human race commit suicide, [...]

Did Nazis Love Yoga?

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Jonathan Jarry, McGill University Did Nazis love yoga? That is the provocative title of one chapter in the recently published book Conspirituality: How New Age [...]

Square Where Caesar Was Killed Opening in Rome

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Reuters History buffs will be able to stroll close to the spot where legend says Julius Caesar met his bloody end, when Rome authorities open a new walkway on the ancient site on [...]

What Tore Off Head of Massive Ancient Sea Monster?

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Hannah Osborne, Live Science A giant predator that lived 240 million years ago was decapitated with a single, brutal bite from a deadlier creature, scientists have said. [...]

Submersible Exploring Titanic Wreck Disappears

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Christine Chung, New York Times A submersible craft carrying five people in the area of the Titanic wreck in the North Atlantic has been missing since Sunday, setting off a search and [...]

Uruguay to Melt Down, Recast Nazi Bronze Eagle

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Agence France-Presse MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay — Uruguay will melt down a bronze eagle found on a sunken World War II-era German destroyer off its coast 13 years ago, and recast it as a dove [...]

A Cool Rare Decay

- Tommaso Dorigo

By and large, particle physicists confronted with the need to awe and enthuse an audience of laypersons will have no hesitation in choosing to speak about the Higgs boson and its mysteries - undoubtedly a fascinating story that requires one to start with the 1960ies and the intuition of a handful of theoretical physicists, and then grows epic in a crescendo of colliders that sought and missed the Higgs boson, and then the LHC which finally found the elusive signal of production and decay of that particle.read more [...]

45 Percent Of People Try Diets And That's A Good Thing, Even If They Fail

- Hank Campbell

Most people who try a diet don't succeed in keeping weight off long-term and that is trumpeted as a huge failure of dieting by people who, wait for it, are often selling a competing diet.The health truth is that even if you fail, you improved your health. Claims that people whose weight go up and down are dying earlier are just the same bad epidemiology that has journalists lamenting that International Agency for Research on Cancer activists claim pickle juice and aloe vera cause cancer.(1)read more [...]

Declaring War On Frappuccino And Diet Soda Is Not A Valid Government Nutrition Guideline

- Hank Campbell

You're not a Frank-people because you eat Doritos, despite what people writing lifestyle/diet books and New York Times journalists who gush over them want you to believe.Such claims are pure food populism by rich white people for rich white people. It's not science, it's instead not even right enough to be wrong.read more [...]

States Sue President Biden Over 2036 Truck Ban

- Hank Campbell

To bolster declining electric car sales, President Biden told EPA to create a new emissions standard. The agency put epidemiologists to work and declared that X (fill in any number you like, it's epidemiology, that's what they did) life-years have been lost without electric cars and trucks, and created a new emissions-standard that is effectively a ban on their competitors.read more [...]

Physician Burnout Is Common - And Informal Rationing Is One Big Cause

- Hank Campbell

If the government promises every home a great gardener, most people recognize they won't get a great gardener at all, they will probably get someone who couldn't get a better job while the lawn service they used to use is priced out of reach.There has always been disparity in health care, but that was aggravated when President Franklin Roosevelt instituted wage caps during World War II. Companies who wanted to compete for quality workers could no longer offer more money so they offered "benefits." Like health insurance. read more [...]

The Northern Lights Seen As Far South As Arizona. G5 Magnetic Storm To Continue Through Sunday.

- Hontas Farmer

The northern lights as one would expect and see them if they were in the frozen reaches of Canada, Scandanavia, or Russia, maybe and maybe not. However, a glow in the sky unlike anything most of us will see in the 48 contiguous United States of America was visible last night, and may be visible again tonight, and Sunday night. For the first time since 2003 a G5 geomagnetic storm is predicted to hit us. There have been a series of solar flares emitted in the correct direction and timing for the charged particles released to interact with Earths geomagnetic [...]

Environmental Groups Sue Biden Administration Over TVA Replacing Coal Plant

- Hank Campbell

The Tennessee Valley Authority couldn't be done today. When it was done, it transformed an area mired in poverty. With affordable electricity, they had water. With water, they could farm. With farming, food became affordable. In a generation, the area was transformed and soon had libraries, schools, and much better quality of life.Environmentalists need to be needed, it is how they feed their $3 billion-per-year appetite, and so TVA could never happen today. Environmental lawyers are so obstructionist and culturally corrosive, TVA can't even replace a coal plant without a lawsuit.A coal plant. When activists claim they care about climate change.read [...]

Cancel Culture Prevents The Best Researchers From Engaging With The Food Industry

- Hank Campbell

After Chris Wild took over the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), a UN-funded body in France that looks for statistical links between food/chemicals and cancer, they made a switch in their policies regarding participation; an epidemiologist who had ever consulted for industry could no longer vote on what to label a carcinogen.Even though it was hypocritical - epidemiologists working for trial lawyers or environmental groups were recruited - few inside IARC objected. Nor did anyone think they might. Environmental groups have manufactured an ethical halo so well that even their lawyers look like better people than other lawyers. [...]

DEI Without Compromise: Embracing Diversity in the LISA Global Scientific Collaboration. A ESA NASA Project.

- Hontas Farmer

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) have become buzzwords often debated within the United States, sometimes controversially perceived as a redistribution of opportunities. However, in a global context—such as in the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) project, led by the European Space Agency and NASA—DEI adopts a unique significance. Here, it is about creating a welcoming and safe environment for all qualified researchers from across the globe.read more [...]

Bizarro Vegan Dr Paul Saladino Gives Diet Advice Just As Dangerous For Babies

- Hank Campbell

If you are a vegan and opt your child out of a nornal diet, they are going to suffer from malnutrition and you may end up in jail.Dr. Paul Saladino, on the other end is just as dangerous, because he claims science doesn't exist so infants should be eating honey, raw milk and even meat.read more [...]

The Fall Of Scientific American Redux

- Hank Campbell

For around 15 years, I have joked 'that's why they got sold for a dollar' when nonsense got published in Scientific American and my statement was both funny and factually correct.They've been in decline for a while, their only hope for survival lay in what The Atlantic and Washington Post also got - a rich progressive (well, 'progressive' when it comes to other people paying taxes while they hide money offshore) who wants to say they own it as a vanity project. They have had that, thanks to the Holtzbrinck family of Germany, since 1986.read more [...]

Move Over - The Talk I Will Not Give

- Tommaso Dorigo

Last week I was in Amsterdam, where I attended the first European AI for Fundamental Physics conference (EUCAIF). Unfortunately I could not properly follow the works there, as in the midst of it I got grounded by a very nasty bronchial bug. Then over the weekend I was able to drag myself back home, and today, still struggling with the after-effects, am traveling to Rome for another relevant event.read more [...]

With EV Sales Flatlined, Tesla Cancels Its Supercharger Network

- Hank Campbell

President Biden was thrilled when Tesla announced it was creating a Tesla Supercharger network, because electric cars were not legitimate until they stopped needing government hand-outs, and few wanted electric cars until they were sure they could charge them on trips.Which no company wanted to do because there were no government handouts. Tesla believed it could solve the problem, and President Biden was going to add to an alarming federal deficit to give them handouts, but the problems seem insurmountable, because Tesla pulled out.read more [...]

EPA Sets Timeline For Ban Of Non-Industrial Use of Methylene Chloride

- Hank Campbell

As announced a few years ago and stated every few months in preparation, EPA has created a timeline for a ban of non-industrial uses of methylene chloride. It was used in the past as a paint stripper but could also be found in things like automotive cleaners and various other consumer products. In home use, acute deaths did occur but only after shocking violations of common sense and boldly stated safety precautions. If you used it to strip a bathtub in a closed room, well, you need to learn to read. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has long had [...]

Vermont Should Stop Showing Leadership In Overruling Scientists On Farming

- Hank Campbell

Despite Vermont's Agricultural Innovation Board (AIB), created to inform regulatory recommendations using science, flatly stating there was no basis for a ban on a class of safe pesticides called neonicotinoids, and agreement by Vermont’s Agency of Agriculture, Food and Markets, the Vermont Senate just passed House Bill H706, which will ban such insecticides despite decades of safe use.read more [...]

Congressional Panel Recommends Wuhan Envoy Dr. Peter Daszak Be Formally Debarred

- Hank Campbell

In the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, the science community was right to openly wonder about the Wuhan labs next to the wet market where the disease took the world by storm. A Chinese government researcher had been arrested and found guilty of selling lab animals and everyone with any experience knew that a biosafety rating in America and in China were much different levels even if a the communist government slapped any number they wanted on there.read more [...]

Evolutionary Psychology: Your Parents Income During Pregnancy Made You Gay

- Hank Campbell

Evolutionary psychology, the discipline that claimed we're being manipulated by flowers and evolved to like the appearance of black men, also made the bold assertion that the income of your parents during pregnancy made you...gay?read more [...]

With Skittles Banned, California Democrats Are Targeting Froot Loops and Doritos Next

- Hank Campbell

California Democrats know to strike when the anti-science iron is hot, so hot on the heels of banning red dye No. 3, using nothing but the same suspect epidemiology that turned the state into a laughing stock with Prop 65 'may cause cancer' warnings on 65,000 products, they are going after red dye 40.Think of all the lives being saved by all those bans. There must have been corpses lining the streets!read more [...]

Opioid Addicts Are Less Likely To Use Legal Opioids At The End Of Their Lives

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With a porous southern border, street fentanyl continues to enter the United States and be purchased by recreational drug users, all while the U.S. government continues to treat suffering cancer patients like criminals when it comes to legitimate pain medication access. It isn't much better in Canada, according to a new study.read more [...]

More Like Lizards: Claim That T. Rex Was As Smart As Monkeys Refuted

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A year ago, corporate media promoted the provocative claim that dinosaurs like Tyrannorsaurus rex had so many neurons they had to be substantially more intelligent than assumed, since these high neuron counts could directly inform on intelligence, metabolism and life history.They even added that T. rex was monkey-like in some of its habits and may even have used cultural transmission of knowledge as tools. Corporate media sells ads so they love such 'scientists are baffled by' narratives and a scenario where dinosaurs could be ruling on other planets. Other scientists were instead baffled that it got by peer-review.read more [...]

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