A GOOD SONG FOR THIS TIME OF YEAR: A Hazy Shade of Winter.

SCIENCE: Researchers find brain mechanism behind ‘flashes of intuition.’

HMM: Analysis-Hims’ $49 weight-loss pill rattles investor case for cash-pay obesity market.

NOT ALL HEROES WEAR CAPES: Local barbecue smoker tends the fire overnight to fire up brisket.

FOLLOW THE SCIENCE (CONT’D):

Sometimes climate scientists get cross when you point out their claims have become unfalsifiable.

If any kind of weather is proof of a trend in climate rather than variability in weather, then it’s not science. pic.twitter.com/cGqjGAftvY

— Matt Ridley (@mattwridley) February 8, 2026

FOLLOW THE SCIENCE:

Hang this WaPo in the Louvre pic.twitter.com/0LZgvLUXrt

— Gray Connolly (@GrayConnolly) February 8, 2026

LOSERS DEMAND ACCOUNTABILITY FOR OTHERS: Arkansas State U. protesters want ‘accountability’ following alleged racist incidents: Want a ‘commitment’ administrators ‘will not use the First Amendment to defend ‘derogatory’ speech.’

“Reports of racist incidents” on campus are usually hoaxes.

DISCIPLINE AND PUNISH: University of Minnesota arrests 67 at hotel protest, leftist student group slams school. “The University of Minnesota arrested 67 people at an anti-ICE protest outside of a campus hotel. The school’s chapter of Students for a Democratic blasted the school in multiple social media posts, calling for it to ‘LET THE GRADUATE PROTESTERS THE F*** OUT.’”

Lock them up and expel them.

#JOURNALISM:

Exactly. Which is why they deserve no sympathy when they continue to destroy the institution they claim to love.

— Shooting News Weekly (@SN_Weekly_) February 8, 2026

ICYMI: “But now that we are learning that hundreds of billions—at least—of government expenditures go to fake nonprofits and businesses, and that likely a similar amount is sent out in inflated costs attached to legitimate government contracts, it has been dawning on me and others that some significant fraction of our apparent economy amounts to storefronts that provide little to no actual goods and services.”

MESSAGING: Trump Officials Have Been Working Hard to Alienate a Critical Core Constituency They’ll Need in November – Gun Owners.

Know your core constituencies.

JOSHUA TREVIÑ0: England As It Really Is. “On the one hand, this is ordinary. England is under no obligation to meet an American standard. On the other hand it is deeply out of the ordinary, because the England we find is increasingly alien even to the English. . . . This does not strike the American as a cause for celebration, but perhaps we love England more than its academics do.”

NEWS YOU PROBABLY CAN’T USE: How to cross the Atlantic in short hops.

OPEN THREAD: You know what to do.

ALIENS ACTIVATE THRUSTERS: NASA space telescope sees interstellar visitor comet 3I/ATLAS flare up while exiting the solar system.

LUFTEN: ‘Burping’ Your Home Really Could Be Good For Your Health, Says Expert. “In Germany, this trend looks less like a revolution and more like everyday life. Lüften – literally “airing out” – and Stoßlüften, or “shock ventilation”, have long involved opening windows wide for a few minutes to let fresh air race through, even in the depths of winter. Some German rental contracts even mention regular airing as part of looking after the property, mainly to prevent damp and mould.”

The 1920s dorms I lived in in law school had such powerful steam heat that you had to leave windows open in the winter. I thought that was a flaw, but I later discovered that they were designed that way on purpose, to force people to leave windows open and bring in fresh air, which was thought to prevent tuberculosis. It may even have worked.

DEMOCRATS’ CORE CONSTITUENCY ACTING AS USUAL: Ohio man charged with threatening to kill Vice President JD Vance and possessing child abuse files.

OUT: HIDE THE DECLINE. IN: HIDE THE FRAUD.

Tulsi Gabbard must be so close to the target it’s not even funny. The amount of heat on her and her team is being revved up to unforeseen levels.

BS hit pieces to be sure. But they smear who they fear.

And filth media is going hard in the paint right now. https://t.co/o0vnLjP6Ak

— InfantryDort (@infantrydort) February 7, 2026

FASTER, PLEASE: Simple Airflow Shift Cuts Indoor Infection Risk by Up to 90%.

IT’S LIKE THIS ALL OVER:

Q: What is it that has driven the rise of the French far right in the past 20 years?

Michel Houellebecq: “Immigration, and also, the total scorn of the elites.” pic.twitter.com/xOqWIyh7yS

— Mark W. (@DurhamWASP) February 7, 2026

I SUSPECT THEY HAVE MORE GAPS THAN THAT: California state court judges found to have gaps in their understanding of autism.

HMM: No More E-ZPass? Your Car May Soon Be Able to Pay Its Own Tolls. I mean, I’ve already done toll-by-plate in Florida.

I LOAD MINE WITH BULLETS. IS THAT NOT OKAY? You’re Loading Your AR-15 Wrong!

WELL, THIS IS THE 21ST CENTURY, YOU KNOW: Why Darren Aronofsky thought an AI-generated historical docudrama was a good idea. Production source says it takes “weeks” to produce just minutes of usable video.

In a few years it will take minutes.

FASTER, PLEASE: Experimental bioadhesive patch sticks to wet brain tissue and wipes out most glioblastoma cells.