Men with beads and long hair have smaller testicles, scientists claim. Men with longer hair and beards may have smaller testicles than those who struggle to grow facial hair, a study claims. It found that humans, and more than one hundred other primates, face an evolutionary dilemma when it comes to their genitals. Teams from …
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The army of the damned
With the country’s economy in meltdown, an estimated 300,000 fortune hunters have descended on this mineral-rich jungle area to earn a living pulling gold-flecked earth from makeshift mines. Their picks and shovels are helping to prop up the leftist government of President Nicolas Maduro. Since 2016, his administration has purchased 17 tonnes of the metal …
Carbon taxes to be imposed directly from Brussels
BERLIN (AP) — The European Union’s executive branch is proposing that individual member countries drop their right to veto decisions on energy taxes, a move that could facilitate the introduction of a carbon tax across the whole bloc. The EU’s energy commissioner, Miguel Arias Cañete, said Tuesday that no longer requiring unanimous votes would allow …
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Spying
On Wednesday, Attorney General William Barr insisted that intelligence agencies under former President Barack Obama spied on the Trump campaign during the 2016 election. He did not declare that this spying was illegal, but the spying is unsettling regardless. “I think spying on a political campaign is a big deal. It’s a big deal,” Barr …
Venezuela gradually dying from entropy
As Central Bank slowly shuts down Most of the bank’s 2,000 employees were sent home when the lights went off in Caracas on March 25 — and haven’t been able to return since, said the people on condition of anonymity. The emergency group has been working from a library with the help of water tanks, …
Ex-Obama White House counsel Craig to be charged as part of Mueller probe
Lawyers for former Obama administration White House counsel Greg Craig say they expect their client to be charged in a foreign lobbying investigation that grew out of the special counsel’s Russia probe. … The scrutiny of Craig stems from an investigation of former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort and his work on behalf of a …
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Will we ever know?
Chicago Boyz interprets some of the infighting that makes Washington so deadly. Some version of power struggle is going on. One hopes some account will emerge in the future. I am more and more coming around to the opinion of David Goldman and Michael Ledeen. The Russia hoax was aimed at Michael Flynn and his …
Netanyahu wins
I wonder what J Street and Beto will say? “We have a long night and a long day ahead of us waiting for the real results but I already thank you, citizens of Israel, Likud voters and activists,” Netanyahu thanked the public. “Almost everyone already said publicly that they would recommend me to the president.” …
The secrets of the F-35
During WW2 they forbade the use of proximity shells over land until late in 1944 out of fear the Axis could reverse engineer it. The same worry now surrounds the F-35. There was a similar concern round the Norden bombsight. “We recovered the wreckage and determined it was from the F-35,” a spokesman for the …
UK could cancel Brexit if it interrupts business as usual
British finance minister Philip Hammond raised the prospect of lawmakers revoking Article 50 this week rather than allowing Britain to leave the European Union without a deal if talks collapse, the Telegraph reported on Tuesday. Hammond warned that the value of the pound could fall significantly if Prime Minister Theresa May fails to reach agreement …
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UOI — debt diplomacy
You Owe I. China and Russia are now deeply invested in maintaining an incompetent regime in Venezuela. The Venezuelans are caught between two fires. The head of U.S. Southern Command says Beijing is using disinformation and debt diplomacy to dig in as Maduro clings to power. … As U.S. President Donald Trump’s national security team …
What went through Noor’s mind?
This shooting is a case about motive and state of mind. The facts seem simple. Assistant Hennepin County Attorney Patrick Lofton told jurors that Noor fired across his partner, Matthew Harrity, through an open driver’s side window “without saying a word.”A Minneapolis police officer acted recklessly when he fatally shot a woman who had called …
Thirty Minutes over Tokyo
Retired Air Force Lt. Col. Richard “Dick” Cole, the last surviving member of World War II’s Doolittle Raiders, died Tuesday in Texas at the age of 103. The president of the Doolittle Tokyo Raiders Association told The Air Force Times that Cole died in San Antonio on Tuesday morning with his son and daughter by …
“He may be pro-life”
The online fashion magazine [Nylon] warns readers that Strange Planet’s Nathan Pyle is maybe pro-life and “we should be more careful with what we’re sharing.” Reason Cartoonist Nathan Pyle, whose Strange Planet alien drawings you’ve definitely seen everywhere, was discovered to be anti-abortion today, which serves as a valuable reminder that you should know about …
Suppose the climate could either warm OR cool?
My own personal view is that we don’t know enough to literally bet the farm on it. The key feature of all these climate change solutions is they require total commitment. The therapeutic dose has to be global, massive and expensive or else it’s no good. Listen to Beto O’Rourke: “Let us all be well …
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They didn’t know better
College admission scandals yields guilty pleas Felicity Huffman and a dozen other wealthy parents swept up in the far-reaching college admissions scandal have agreed to plead guilty after being charged in the scheme, according to court records. The actress and 12 other parents, including Los Angeles marketing guru Jane Buckingham, will plead guilty to one …
Do-over of Erdogan’s electoral loss
Turkey’s ruling party said Sunday it will appeal for a full recount of all votes cast in Istanbul’s mayoral election, which the opposition narrowly won in a major setback for President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. The opposition’s mayoral candidate urged the ruling party to accept defeat. In the March 31 local elections, the opposition not only …
We remember to forget
That the UN was warned about the Rwanda massacre and told the peacekeepers not to intervene. Rwanda’s president said the country had become “a family once again”, while marking the 25th anniversary of the genocide that killed 800,000 people. Paul Kagame, who led a rebel force that ended the slaughter, lit a remembrance flame in …
We lied
Three American service members and one contractor were killed Monday after a bomb exploded near Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan, Defense Department officials said. In a statement, the Defense Department said that three additional troops were wounded in the blast. They were evacuated and are being treated. A United States military official said that the …
Putin’s Stalingrad
Yo soy un perdedor … I’m a loser baby A beleaguered dictator barely hanging onto power against a rising tide of popular unrest. An economy in shambles, both from years of economic mismanagement and the crushing weight of U.S.-imposed sanctions. With a long-time client on the brink of collapse, the Kremlin injects troops and supplies …