DIVIDER-IN-CHIEF: Who Made America Hate Again?

SO ALL BLUE-EYED PEOPLE share a common ancestor? Of course, brown-eyed people with a recessive blue-eye gene do too, it just doesn’t show.

UNEXPECTEDLY! The Target boycott is costing more than anyone expected.

IS THERE ANYTHING IT CAN’T DO? Beer-testing Lab Helps Students Learn Chemistry.

UM, NO. NO, THEY CAN’T. Men Can Now Be Body-Positive in Briefs From Aerie.

WHEN NANNY-STATE INTERVENTIONS FAIL: Digital baby dolls encouraged teen pregnancy.

Digital baby dolls that wake up crying in the middle of the night and need feeding, rocking and nappy changes are supposed to deter teenagers from falling pregnant.

But in an ironic twist, researchers have found they have the opposite effect.

The findings of a 10-year program and study involving more than 1250 girls and costing more than $1.5 million has found the dolls are actually more likely to encourage motherhood.

The study’s author, Sally Brinkman, from the Telethon Kids Institute, said the program to give babies mimicking the behaviours of a six-week-old to more than 1250 girls aged 14 and 15 had turned popular thinking on its head by proving they encouraged teenagers to fall pregnant.

“The most alarming figure is girls are 1.36 times more likely to have pregnancies if they were exposed to the babies,” Dr Brinkman said.

Oops. I thought the behavioral science was settled.

JEFF CARTER ON the University of Chicago and free speech.

YEAH, SHUT UP YOU STUPID WHITE PEOPLE. This Funny And Awkward Video Reminds Self-Righteous White Allies To Watch Their Hypocritical Asses.

NEWS YOU CAN USE: A Guide to Help Pregnant Women Reduce Their Zika Risk.

ELIZABETH NOLAN BROWN: Non-Religious Fundamentalists: Secular and socially-liberal Americans are blasting the French burkini bans. Yet when it comes to spreading “tolerance” here, will we get the message?

GREAT MOMENTS IN SOCIALIZED MEDICINE: Canadian Health Care System Forcing Couple Married 62 Years to Live Apart.

SO WE TAX SODA TO DISCOURAGE SODA-DRINKING. And we tax earnings to. . . . ?

MY LATEST NY OBSERVER ESSAY: The Clinton State-Foundation’s Global Bribery and Crony Access Scam. (bumped from yesterday).

THE DEBATE OVER THE WORLD’S LARGEST PYRAMID: A real pyramid, not a crooked scheme-type pyramid. The largest pyramid, in terms of the size of the pyramid’s base, is located just outside the city of Puebla, Mexico. Here’s more detailed information on The Great Pyramid of Cholula.

MORE TECHNOLOGY IS BETTER FOR THE PLANET THAN LESS, LUDDITES NOTWITHSTANDING: The human impact on the natural environment is actually slowing down.

21ST CENTURY HEADLINES: Robot Babies Not Effective Birth Control.

But real babies are.

NEWSPAPER: IF SHE WANTS TO BE PRESIDENT HILLARY SHOULD COME TO LOUISIANA.

Related: “The report, titled ‘Between Iron Man and Aqua Man: Exosuit Opportunities in Maritime Operations,’ notes that the potential value of exosuit technology ‘extends beyond the land environment,’ something that has been ‘largely neglected’ by existing programs and analyses. The authors predict that exosuits could ‘take up a meaningful role in maritime operations’ within the next five years…Conventional exosuit technology, of course, would ensure that Clinton does not require canine assistance to walk along a sandy shore. New maritime exosuits, as described in the CNAS report, could help Clinton expand her horizons and make that crucial leap from shore to sea.”

BACK TO THE FUTURE: No refrigerator? Try an evaporative cooler. They work well where it’s dry, not so well where it’s humid.

PAST PERFORMANCE IS NO GUARANTEE OF FUTURE RESULTS:

Shot: Dr Drew’s show [on CNN spinoff channel Headline News] is canceled after he speculated about Hillary Clinton’s ‘dangerous’ and ‘concerning’ health

—The London Daily Mail today.

Chaser: “CNN medical correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta, whom President-elect Barack Obama has reportedly asked to take an administration post as Surgeon General and top health policy adviser, last year thought it noteworthy that the release of John McCain’s medical records ignored the Senator’s ‘mental health,’ any ‘mention of post-traumatic stress disorder’ or of ‘substance abuse.’”

—NewsBusters, January 7th, 2009.

Related: Nets Skeptical of McCain Health in 2008, Worried About Mental Fitness.

NBC REPORTEDLY UPSET WITH AL ROKER’S OUTBURST OVER RYAN LOCHTE’S LIES:

The world sided with Al Roker when he went in on Ryan Lochte after the Olympic swimmer’s elaborate lies about his Rio “robbery.”

“He lied to you, he lied to Matt Lauer, he lied to his mom,” Roker said to co-host Billy Bush on the “Today” show last week. “He left his teammates hanging while he skedaddled. There was no robbery, there was no pull over. He lied.”

Roker wasn’t wrong, but according to Page Six, “Today” show executives and on-air talent are unhappy with the way things went down.

Yes, you really don’t want to be discussing lying at a network that counts as its employees Brian Williams, Andrea Mitchell and Al Sharpton, and is tasked with helping shove Hillary’s military-grade exoskeleton over the finish line in November.

AT AMAZON, save on Cellphones And Accessories.

I WAS JUST WATCHING AN EMPTY KAT BUS GO BY AND THINKING ABOUT THIS: Uber & Lyft As Extensions/Replacements For Public Transit.

FROM BRIANA ROSENBAUM: The RICO Trend in Class Action Warfare.

DISPATCHES FROM THE EDUCATION APOCALYPSE: Back To Campus, Where Due Process Is a Myth. “As your kids head off to school, they should be aware that sexual assault isn’t the only situation where college officials now figure silly things like due process should be completely ignored.”

What could go wrong?