HMM: Human Skin Didn’t Always Fear The Sun, Not Until A Huge Change 10,000 Years Ago. “Human beings evolved under the Sun. Sunlight was a constant in people’s lives, warming and guiding them through the days and seasons. Homo sapiens spent the bulk of our prehistory and history outside, mostly naked. Skin was the primary interface between our ancestors’ bodies and the world. Human skin was adapted to whatever conditions it found itself in.”

FASTER, PLEASE: How a single protein could unlock age-related vision loss.

READER FAVORITE: Multi-Function Jar Opener for Weak Hands. #CommissionEarned

I REMEMBER WHEN THEY CALLED THEMSELVES “THE REALITY-BASED COMMUNITY:” Poll: More than 1 in 5 Democrats believe men can get pregnant.

WHEN NARCISSISM MASQUERADES AS SCIENCE: ‘Precision of thought and economy of expression’: Anthony Fauci reflects on career.

RACHEL MADDOW IS ALEX JONES WITH AN INSIDE VOICE:

Nothing was really the same for Maddow after she had her Geraldo moment. Back in 2017, she claimed she had obtained Trump’s tax returns. It was a huge story that trended to the top of Twitter and had almost the entirety of the national media tuning in. How did she get these documents when the left had been obsessing over them for years like they were the lost ark? As it turned out, she hadn’t. She obtained only two pages from the president’s 2005 1040 form. Golden Donny T had slipped through her fingers once again!

From that point on, Maddow seemed to fade into the background. The Resistance is not a forgiving bunch.

Flashback: Judge Rules Rachel Maddow’s ‘Statements Cannot Reasonably Be Interpreted As Allegations Of Fact.’

WAIT, I THOUGHT “HEALTH CARE” WAS SUPPOSED TO BE JUST BETWEEN A PATIENT AND HER DOCTOR: Appeals court upholds Washington State’s conversion therapy ban.

BIG WIN FOR RELIGIOUS FREEDOM: An Obama federal district court appointee comes down hard on woke New York child and family services ideologues.

WHAT HAPPENS IN VEGAS…IS SOMETIMES PERMANENT: Speeding woman on cocaine kills drunk driver high on meth in North Las Vegas, police say.

TO BE FAIR, IT’S THE ONLY BLASTER THAT EVER HITS ANYTHING: Han Solo Blaster Sells At Auction for More than $1 Million.

CHRISTIAN TOTO: Jennifer Lawrence’s Intolerance Hurts the Country. Here’s Why. “We’re living it, day by day, fractured friendship after fractured friendship. The country is splintering from tribalism run amok, fed by a corrupt press and hyperbolic pols on both sides of the aisle.”

SWITCH TO SOLAR, THEY SAID. IT’S SAFE AND CLEAN, THEY TOLD ME: Amazon temporarily took all rooftop solar energy systems offline in 2021 due to fires.

COOL: This Florida teen is making a business out of rebuilding old-school auto tech.

JUST THINK OF THE MEDIA AS DEMOCRATIC PARTY OPERATIVES WITH BYLINES, AND IT ALL MAKES SENSE: Why Are Journalists Hiding These Radical Democrats Who Support Abortion Up Until Birth?

Whatever happened to “safe, legal, and rare?”

UKRAINE WAR: Kyiv on the Counteroffensive? “Something remarkable appears to be developing in the Ukraine War these last few days, as Kyiv’s long-promised counterattack towards Kherson in the south now looks more like a general counteroffensive all along the front.”

Update: More from BattleSwarm Blog.

There are indications that Ukraine, in addition to the Kherson counteroffensive, is conducting a counteroffensive in Kharkiv Oblast, and has apparently captured Volokhiv Yar, Balakliya and Yakovenkove, towns between Kharkiv and Russian-occupied Izyum.

It’s unclear whether this is a feint, a spoiling attack or a full-blown counteroffensive, but the scale of the initial success suggests it’s too large to be a mere probing attack.

Lots going on, too soon to be sure of anything.

THE DEEP: New 8K video footage showcases Titanic shipwreck in stunning detail.

FASTER, PLEASE: Researchers identify multiple causal genes that drive type 2 diabetes risk.

BE CAREFUL WHAT YOUR SHARE, COMRADE: Chinese Social Media Sites Are Quietly Putting Digital Fingerprints on Screenshots. “Some Chinese internet users recently discovered the covert watermarks on screenshots taken on Zhihu, a question-and-answer site similar to Quora. By tweaking the colors of the screenshots, the users found strings of numbers plastered across the page. Some suspect it is information that could be used to identify who took the screenshots.”

Related: White House, Big Tech colluded to censor ‘misinformation.’

FLORIDA MAN: Florida highway driver ties giant dead alligator to back of SUV.

THE UKRAINIANS ARE INVENTIVE: Escaped chimp wheeled back to Ukrainian zoo on a bicycle.

THE TROUBLE WITH OUR LIBERAL FRIENDS IS NOT THAT THEY’RE IGNORANT; IT’S JUST THAT THEY KNOW SO MUCH THAT ISN’T SO: Nearly 25% of Democratic Voters Believe Men Can Get Pregnant.

NEWS YOU CAN USE: Study: Walk 3,800 to 9,800 steps daily to reduce dementia risk.

WOW: When Storage Wars Meets Gun Hoarders. “Anyway, people still bid on abandoned storage units, and a guy who has a YouTube channel bid a princely $5,786 for a unit because he saw some gun cases in there.”

YES. NEXT QUESTION? If Conservatives are the New Punks, are Progressives the New Puritans? “Today, it is rightwing personalities like The Daily Wire’s Michael J. Knowles, comedian and Fox News host Kat Timpf, Mary Katharine Ham and Vic Matus on the Getting Hammered Podcast, and Twitter sensation ‘Comfortably Smug,’ who seem to be having all the fun. Shows featuring online shock jocks like Louder with Crowder and PragerU revel in entertaining their audiences by trolling liberals and mocking the bizarre beliefs held by extreme progressives. Between the copious amounts of Bang Energy drinks, the irreverent speeches, and the presence of adult film stars, companies like Turning Point USA have conferences that can almost resemble a rock concert. Further, compared to the straightlaced image of former Republican presidents, Donald Trump’s opulent lifestyle, crude demeanor, and ridiculous memeablity seem to have been attractions, not drawbacks, for many voters. All of this has led some commentators to declare conservatism the new ‘punk rock,’ a sentiment that has been echoed and embraced across much of the MAGA right.”

JAMES LILEKS ON NETFLIX’S THREE-EPISODE MINISERIES WOODSTOCK ’99:

I don’t remember any cultural impact of the event, aside from eye-rolling at trying to reprise the “Woodstock Spirit,” which means “swaying to hippie sounds or tripping to Hendrix while you stink worse than you’ve ever stunk before, then tottering off to a nearby copse to squat out whatever beans you ate the day before. The whole mystique is lost on me. It seems like the original was a nightmare of bad hygiene and music of varying qualities, subsequently regarded as a utopian moment for the high holy Boomer movement. I have an allergic reaction to all that stuff.

The 90s was when I lost touch with contemporary rock, so the bands mean nothing to me. They’re mostly angry. Very angry. Loud and tight and tuneless. You look back and wonder: I don’t remember the 90s being this feral. But you get the sense of a youth culture that had completely decoupled from the civilization that gave them life and food and purpose. Just RAAAAHHHHWWWWW dude culture, like the last horrible yawp before the internet fixed them all with a pin and everyone was anesthetized by a gaming console or a phone.

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