HMM: These 3 Personality Traits Are Linked to a Lower Risk of Dementia.

SMART. “THERE GO THE PIANO LESSONS!” IS AN OLD NEUROSURGEONS’ JOKE. Musician plays guitar while surgeons remove his brain tumor.

SHOOTING ILLUSTRATED interviews Larry Correia.

ABOLISH QUALIFIED IMMUNITY: Police in Elyria, OH Toss Destructive Devices At Wrong Home, Injuring Baby.

NOTE THE NEW MADRID IN THE CENTER OF THE COUNTRY: New map shows where damaging earthquakes are most likely to occur in US.

DISRUPTION: Axiom and SpaceX are disrupting Europe’s traditional pathway to space.

SPOILER: IT’S NOT PARTICULARLY LARGE OR CAPABLE. Harvard and Sundance Share the Same Brain: 8 things the elite institutions have in common.

WELL, GOOD: Magnetic zaps to the brain may relieve severe depression.

EVERYTHING IS GOING SWIMMINGLY, “SMART DIPLOMACY” EDITION:

How it started: How it's going: pic.twitter.com/4EHZ6N3p39

— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) January 16, 2024

THEY CAN’T EVEN MAKE THINGS WORK FOR THE APPARATCHIKS ANYMORE: Woah: Blinken’s 737 Breaks Down after Davos. “The incident happened when Antony Blinken flew from Davos on helicopters and boarded the modified Boeing 737. He was then informed that the aircraft had been deemed unsafe to fly as an oxygen leak detected previously could not be remedied.”

TO BE FAIR, WHO COULD HAVE EXPECTED COLD WEATHER IN CHICAGO? Tesla owners run into battery charging trouble in Chicago’s bitter cold.

Plus: Chicago-area Tesla charging stations lined with dead cars in freezing cold: ‘A bunch of dead robots out here.’

Related: Electric vehicle drivers find charging ports not working in extreme cold weather.

CONSEQUENCES: UMass students arrested for illegal sit-in complain they now aren’t allowed to study abroad.

WHY IS HIGHER EDUCATION SUCH A CESSPIT OF HATRED? Dept of Ed opens investigation into Temple University over anti-Semitic incidents.

GOOD: Amid National Backlash, Colleges Brace for Fresh Wave of Anti-DEI Legislation.

INSURRECTION: USCP Arrested 130 Pro-Palestinian Mennonites in the Cannon Rotunda.

Since it’s a lefty-approved cause they’ll get a slap on the wrist instead of solitary confinement, which is what our corrupt “justice” system metes out to its opposition.

EVERY INSTITUTION HAS BEEN CORRUPTED: Don Surber: State-sanctioned protest: Only lefties are permitted to rally in Washington, DC.

#JOURNALISM: Another Bogus Border Story Goes Viral And Most Outlets Aren’t in a Hurry to Issue Corrections.

ENEMIES OF CIVILIZATION: Disgusting: Anti-Israel Protesters Harass NYC Cancer Hospital, Taunt Child Patients Watching From Windows.

COVERUP: “An aide to Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin asked a 911 operator that an ambulance retrieving the secretary not use lights and sirens to keep things ‘subtle.'”

MY NEW YORK POST COLUMN: The white-collar class derided mass layoffs among the blue-collar workers. It’s about to feel their pain.

THEY’RE ALL NONESSENTIAL ANYWAY: Snow Thwarts Anti-Israel Government Employee ‘Walkout.’

THE FREE PRESS: What Really Happened to George Floyd? 2020 featured a lot of “push narratives.”

GOOD: Oral Argument in Devillier v. Texas Suggests Victory for Property Rights Likely: Both conservative and liberal justices seem to oppose letting states get away with violating the Takings Clause merely because Congress hasn’t enacted a specific law enforcing it against them.

REALCLEARINVESTIGATIONS: How Moderna Came Up With a Vaccine Against Vaccine Dissent. “Like the Twitter Files, the Moderna Reports highlight the push by powerful entities – especially government, Big Tech, and Big Pharma – to identify and brand dissenting opinions about establishment narratives as risky forms of speech. The growing network these efforts rely on shows the growth of what has been called the censorship industrial complex. Moderna’s faltering financials also suggest, at least for now, the limits of that project.”

OPEN THREAD: Party on.