800 MILLION YEAR OLD AIR: New research on the rise of oxygen in Earth’s atmosphere. Here’s to breathing.

ANALYSIS: TRUE. Bill Weld Has Nothing to Lose.

DISASTER PREP: Here’s what the German government is telling citizens to keep on hand against an unspecified disaster. My own suspicion is that ISIS is the excuse, but Putin is the real reason for this. Not that it isn’t good advice in general.

FALLEN ANGELS IS JUST A SCIENCE FICTION STORY, RIGHT GUYS? RIGHT? GUYS? The North Atlantic: Ground Zero of Global Cooling.

KURT SCHLICHTER: The Inauguration Speech America’s Corrupt and Incompetent Ruling Class Will Make A Reality.

WELL, THIS IS THE 21ST CENTURY, YOU KNOW: Iraq Is Preparing an Armed Robot to Fight ISIS.

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS DISCOVERS CLINTON DONORS RECEIVED SPECIAL TREATMENT AT THE STATE DEPT: The AP publishes a rather detailed look at The Clinton Foundation, its donors, and Hillary’s State Dept shenanigans.

Here’s the AP’s claim:

The AP’s findings represent the first systematic effort to calculate the scope of the intersecting interests of Clinton foundation donors and people who met personally with Clinton or spoke to her by phone about their needs.

I think there have been several attempts to conduct a systematic analysis, but those attempts encountered stonewalls. The AP has examined phone logs and email traffic and come up with some interesting numbers.

THE IRIDIUM SATELLITE NETWORK IS GETTING OLD: Customers are worried that service will degrade. The Pentagon is an Iridium customer. The company wants to replace its entire fleet by the end of 2017.

I REMEMBER WHEN ZERO TO SIXTY IN FIVE WAS SO AMAZING THAT IT INSPIRED A SONG: Ludicrously quick Tesla Model S is now quicker, apparently; Records 2.65-second zero-to-sixty time.

CULTURE OF CORRUPTION: More than half the people outside the government who met with Hillary Clinton while she was secretary of state gave money — either personally or through companies or groups — to the Clinton Foundation. “It’s an extraordinary proportion indicating her possible ethics challenges if elected president.”

SADLY, THIS IS EXACTLY THE 21ST CENTURY I’VE COME TO EXPECT: A special task force has been set up to try and stop the drones from dropping off contraband to prisoners.

WHY ARE DEMOCRAT-RUN CITIES SUCH CESSPITS OF DEGRADATION AND DESPAIR? Prostitutes dancing on the sidewalk, fires in the street and a man being run-down by a car: Chilling video shows what it is like driving through Detroit at night.

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Also, bestsellers in Health & Personal Care.

TWITTER IS IN YAHOO-LEVEL TROUBLE

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE, LEGAL EDUCATION EDITION: Minnesota (-33%), Oregon (-43%) Law Schools Welcome Much Smaller 1L Classes Compared to 2011.

LOVE WAITS: How Cupid’s arrow strikes at fourth sight: The more we see someone, the more attractive we find them, say researchers.

THERE WERE PLANS TO DO THIS WITH SPACE SHUTTLE EXTERNAL TANKS: NASA Funds Plan to Turn Used Rocket Fuel Tanks Into Space Habitats.

NASA is very good about being on the cutting edge of space exploration, but it’s less good about making non-cutting edge space exploration efficient and cost effective. The agency is acutely aware of this, which is why it’s been trying to get commercial carriers to handle deliveries of (now) supplies and (soon) astronauts to the ISS.

The next step is for private companies to take over space station construction for (soon) Earth orbit and (eventually) deep space. To that end, NASA has selected six partner companies to develop full-sized ground prototypes and concepts for deep space habitats, with the eventual goal of deploying habitats near the moon as a stepping stone to Mars.

Five of the partners, including Bigelow Aerospace, Boeing, Lockheed Martin, Orbital ATK, and Sierra Nevada will be designing habitats that are built on Earth and launched into space on rockets. It makes sense to do this, because it’s how habitats have always been sent into space. The sixth partner, NanoRacks, is teaming up with Space Systems Loral and United Launch Alliance to try something completely different: taking empty fuel tanks from the upper stages of rockets and turning them into space habitats on-orbit.

Faster, please.

THUS, THE RISE OF TRUMP. Report: 30k Illegal Immigrants Came From Countries of Terrorist Concern.

EVERYTHING OLD IS NEW AGAIN. Germany: If We Ban The Burqa, We’ll Have To Ban Father Christmas Too.

Well, it wouldn’t be the first time a socialist Germany did so.

SPACE: SpaceX’s Elon Musk Set to Unveil Master Plan for Mars in September.

GREAT MOMENTS IN ELECTION YEAR JOURNALISM: Colonel Sanders’ nephew discloses KFC’s secret ‘11 herbs and spices’ to reporter.

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MAYBE WE SHOULD KEEP VACCINATING PEOPLE: Could an 1890s Smallpox Outbreak Come Back to Haunt Us?

21ST CENTURY AILMENTS: Beware of “Bagpipe Lung.”

RICH WHITE LADY SCAPEGOATS BLACK VETERAN: Clinton’s pathetic ‘Colin Powell made me do it’ defense.