BUT WOMEN’S GROUPS HAVE BEEN LARGELY SILENT: Blinken Says Hamas Sexual Violence Unlike Anything He Had Ever Seen.

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE:

[A]ntisemitic and anti-Israel protests on campuses — and the university presidents’ lawyerly responses at last week’s hearing — were akin to… the ‘Zoom moment’ during the pandemic when some parents first listened closely to what their children were learning in school and concluded it was ‘subpar in quality and radical in content.’ ‘One of those things we’ve struggled with, those of us who want to reform higher education, is convincing people that there’s a problem… Historically, they look around and say, “Huh, this seems fine.” Everything they’re seeing right now is that things are not fine.

If only someone had warned them.

DON SURBER: FAFO War update: Americans finally back Israel in wiping out terrorism from the river to the sea. ““It should be obvious by now that so many of the creeps who purport to weep for Palestine don’t really care about Palestinians, dead or alive, or about Israelis, or about the historical and moral intricacies of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. What they want is an excuse to indulge in something deeper, more libidinal, ancient, and indeed erotic — hating Jews.”

And hatred of the West.

EVERYTHING IS GOING SWIMMINGLY: White House Report Card: Biden ‘clown car’ crashes to 37% approval.

EVERYTHING IS GOING SWIMMINGLY: US Embassy in Baghdad Attacked With Mortars as Forces Targeted Across Region.

AN IDEA SO CRAZY IT JUST MIGHT WORK: Universities Must Preserve American Values: Freedom, Faith And Self-Governance — Leavened With Humility.

I mean, if it were tried, which seems dubious.

LOL:

It ain’t demonizing if they are actually possessed by demons! https://t.co/Ef2iXIZtQP

— Larry Correia (@monsterhunter45) December 10, 2023

IN THE OLD DAYS, THE RESPONSE TO SUCH THINGS WAS BRUTAL AND INVOLVED MASS HANGINGS, THE BURNING OF VILLAGES, AND THE CONVERSION OF WOMEN AND CHILDREN INTO REFUGEES:

Houthis to world. Our Red Sea maritime interdiction has worked so well that we'll expand it.https://t.co/oZ4S8JNTcz

— wretchardthecat (@wretchardthecat) December 9, 2023

OUR DISINFORMATION GUARDIANS SEEM TO BE PURVEYORS OF SAME: Biden State Department Paid NewsGuard to Smear Conservatives.

OPEN THREAD: This time I remembered!

THE NEW SPACE RACE: China’s Landspace launches third methane Zhuque-2, targets 2025 launch of new stainless steel rocket.

PLAGIARISM PROBLEMS FOR HARVARD PREZ CLAUDINE GAY?

First, Gay lifts an entire paragraph nearly verbatim from a paper by Lawrence Bobo and Franklin Gilliam’s, while passing it off as her own paraphrase and language.

This is a direct violation of Harvard's policy: "When you paraphrase, your task is to distill the source’s ideas… pic.twitter.com/t6enHp3dN9

— Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) December 10, 2023

Some general thoughts of mine on plagiarism can be found here.

SUGAR IS ACTUALLY AS BAD FOR YOU AS THEY TOLD YOU FAT WAS: A Troubling Trend: The Steady Global Climb of Sugary Drink Consumption.

FOLLOW THE SCIENCE: But where did it go?

LEARNING ABOUT SOME OF THE FORMERLY UNKNOWN UNKNOWNS: Hidden Impacts of Ferocious Volcanic Eruption Finally Revealed.

Undersea volcanic eruptions account for more than three-quarters of all volcanism on Earth, but rarely do we see the impacts.

The Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai eruption of 2022 was a dramatic exception. Its furious explosion from shallow waters broke the ocean surface and punched through the stratosphere, generating supercharged lighting and an atmospheric shock wave that circled the globe several times. . . .

Their analyses show at least 6 cubic kilometers (km3) of seafloor was lost from within the caldera – 20 times the eruptive volume of the 1980 Mount St. Helens eruption – and an additional 3.5 km3 of material was blasted out of the Hunga volcano’s submerged flanks.

To put that in perspective, previous studies of the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai eruption estimated that 1.9 km3 (or 2,900 megatonnes) of material was ejected into the atmosphere.

That leaves roughly four-fifths of the ejected material in the ocean; material that was funneled into fast-moving density flows that scoured out tracks 30 meters deep in the seafloor and accumulated 22 meters (72 feet) thick in some places.

Almost as destructive to the planet as my SUV.

IT’S IMPORTANT TO REMEMBER THIS: Biden in Hollywood: “You’re the Reason that Donald Trump is a Former President.”

MARK JUDGE: Maestro and Hollywood’s retroactive repression.

THE RISE OF ARMED JEWS: For many, own­ing a gun was ta­boo. Now they’re buy­ing them.

ASKING THE IMPORTANT QUESTIONS: Should you have a backup gun?

TO BE FAIR, THEY’RE EVERYONE’S FAVORITE: ‘Appetite for drumsticks’: First prey found in a tyrannosaur stomach. Although how they ate them with those tiny arms continues to baffle scientists. . . .

FASTER, PLEASE: Researchers are upbeat about cardiac regeneration.

HMM: Weight-loss drug Zepbound now available at U.S. pharmacies.

A MARS-SHATTERING KABOOM: Listen To A Meteor Slam Into Mars and Watch The Aftermath.

THE IVY LEAGUE DEBACLE HAS REACHED THE “REPUBLICANS POUNCE” STAGE: As Fury Erupts Over Campus Antisemitism, Conservatives Seize the Moment. But not entirely: “Republicans have been attacking elite universities for years. After a tense congressional hearing last week, many on the left are joining them.”

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: NIU hosts seminar on ending ‘White Linguistic Hegemony.’