Renée Good and Alex Pretti were murdered for daring to interfere with the Trump administration’s efforts to normalize abductions and state violence.

He was taken to the Allegheny County Jail, where he is being held.

As we are on the topic of science and credible people who had doubts about the theory of evolution by natural selection, one figure whose work I've found thought provoking was Imre Lakatos. Like many really clever people of the 20th century, he was Hungarian and Jewish. He died at the age of 51 and his most influential work Proofs & Refutations was published posthumously. I used to have a copy but I haven't read it in years. The book uses a dialogue approach to show how mathematical ideas and mathematical proofs happen.

There have been incidents of harassment and threats. But there are no apparent incidents in which identified ICE officers have been assaulted off-duty.

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A treasure trove of Cambrian fossils has been discovered in southern China, providing a window on marine life shortly after Earth’s first mass extinction event