I THINK CHESTERTON’S FENCE MAY APPLY TO ORGANS: A ‘Useless’ Organ That Doctors Often Remove May Actually Fight Cancer. “In a study in 2023, US researchers found that those who get their thymus removed face an increased risk of death from any cause in the five years following the surgery. They also face an increased risk of developing cancer during that time.”

THE NOBLE SAVAGE WAS MORE SAVAGE THAN NOBLE, IN PREHISTORY AND MORE RECENTLY: Nearly 80 Headless Human Skeletons Discovered At A Spooky Stone Age Site.

HERE’S THE LINK TO RUPERT LOWE’S HORRIFYING BRITISH RAPE GANG REPORT.

More:

Here are eight essential quotes from @RupertLowe10's Rape Gang Inquiry.

1) This was a nationwide, not merely local, phenomenon.

"…that this was never a series of isolated local failures. It was a coordinated, nationwide pattern of organised child sexual exploitation that… https://t.co/nNOv8rdlLd

— Jamie Bambrick (@j_bambrick) June 16, 2026

UPDATE:

Keir Starmer should be publicly tried then executed. https://t.co/J4qwraGwRO

— 🇺🇸 Mike Davis 🇺🇸 (@mrddmia) June 17, 2026

WORKING AS AN UNDERWATER STUNT PERFORMER: An article by my old dive guide and teacher Liz Parkinson on her underwater stunt work for the Avatar movies and the Thai Cave Rescue mini series on Netflix. You can see her film credits here.

WELL, GOOD: Popular Weight-Loss Drugs Like Ozempic Linked to Lower Breast Cancer Risk.

FASTER, PLEASE: Copper drug restores memory and clears toxic Alzheimer’s proteins, preclinical study finds.

NOW OUT FROM FRANK MINITER: Cool Heroes for Boys: 20 True Tales of Adventure. I blurbed it — it’s good and recommended!

IT LOOKS LIKE A BATMOBILE: Genesis Reveals Its Badass Magma GT3 Racing Concept Ahead of the 24 Hours of Le Mans.

I’M ENJOYING THE LEFT’S UNHAPPINESS WITH THIS ADMINISTRATION’S DOINGS: Panic Setting In As Administration Moves to Bolster Americans’ Gun Rights Advance.

MICROBIOME NEWS: Your gut talks to your liver: Study reveals how microbes influence liver function through DNA ‘switches.’

21ST CENTURY WARFARE: Ukraine’s one-time test used fully autonomous drones to kill Russian soldiers: Full autonomy is rare, but Ukraine is installing AI modules on drones and robots.

I MEAN, WHY BOTHER EVOLVING IF YOU’RE NOT GONNA GET LAID: 574 million-year-old fossils reveal a lack of sex delayed evolution for millions of years.

21ST CENTURY TREATMENTS: I tried the Las Vegas Strip’s first AI-powered robot massage — here’s what it was like.

AMERICAN EXCEPTIONALISM:

Only the U.S. could host the World Cup, UFC 250, the Stanley Cup and the NBA Finals all in one weekend with no problems. 🇺🇸 💪 😎

— HausenKS 🌾🇺🇸 (@HausenKS) June 15, 2026

Related:

We didn’t build any of these stadiums. They were just extras lying around. https://t.co/PGr5aVWewJ

— Jon Gabriel (@exjon) June 15, 2026

CDR SALAMANDER: Requiem for a Frigate: It Didn’t Have To Be Like This. “Of all the disastrous series of failures this century to build a surface combatant, none were as unnecessary and avoidable as the failure of the Constellation Class FFG.”

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Bachelor’s Degrees Aren’t Cool Anymore. “In a new research brief, The Pell Institute for the Study of Opportunity in Education found that only 44 percent of American high school students expected to earn a bachelor’s degree in 2022, down from 72 percent in 2002. The study also revealed a parental gap among high school students, with only 33 percent of first-generation students aspiring to a bachelor’s degree in 2022, compared to 60 percent two decades earlier. . . . Pundits typically cite ideological bias, social disaffection, rising costs, credential inflation, and poor labor market returns. Each contributes something, but none has been quite as ignored as this: the internet has effectively dismantled the cultural bottlenecks that historically upheld the fiat value of a college education.”

Matt Damon’s character in Good Will Hunting summarized the problem: “You wasted $150,000 on an education you coulda got for $1.50 in late fees at the public library.”

Related demographic irony:

Irony: Universities since the 1960s have been the center for 'the world is overpopulated! Don't have kids!'

Now the number of universities far outnumber the available students and they're slowly going out of business.

This is referred to as an 'own goal.' Good job there.

— John Ringo SF Author (@Jringo1508) June 15, 2026

HE’S RIGHT. IT IS BAFFLING.

One of the more baffling parts of right wing politics in the USA is that Republican state officials have direct authority over their state universities, yet have consistently chosen not to reform their politics & hiring policies despite complaining about them for 50+ years. https://t.co/MbEwiOAasG

— Nemets (@Peter_Nimitz) June 16, 2026

MASSIVE RESISTANCE: Idaho, Minnesota universities stonewall public records requests for controversial course syllabi.

FIGHT BACK: Jewish undergrads in New York react to Cornell student’s viral antisemitic insult against business owners.

SO THE SPLC WAS BASICALLY JUST A TERRORIST FRONT GROUP THEN? SPLC boss funneled $1.2 million to lover in neo-Nazi group — pair even had joint bank account.

UPDATE:

The notion that the anti-hate left was funding the hate itself, as a business model, is not just about a few data points; it invites a rethinking of decades of distortions of American public life. To understand the implications is to rethink so very much. https://t.co/5MS9AHnI93

— Jeffrey A Tucker (@jeffreytucker) June 16, 2026

What if — hear me out — we’ve had it backwards? What if the Nazis secretly set up the SPLC as a funding channel? Just sayin’.

WELL, GOOD: FBI arrests 5 people in connection with drone attack plot against White House UFC Freedom 250 event. “The multi-phase terror attack allegedly involved using explosive-laden drone aircraft to strike buildings in the vicinity of the event, sparking mass panic and driving the fleeing crowd toward a sniper team poised to pick them off, officials told Fox News Digital. A ‘second wave’ of attackers then allegedly planned to storm the White House gate, officials said.”

WEAPONIZED GOVERNMENT: Joe Biden’s Anti-MAGA Task Force.

MEHDI HASAN WOULD BE LAUGHABLE IF HE WEREN’T SO EVIL:

46 Americans that your buddies killed on Oct 7 also can't watch Seinfeld anymore. pic.twitter.com/oaDIlbWvMh

— Prof. Math & CS (@Zeev81309559) June 15, 2026

THANK YOU, PEOPLE WHO ACTUALLY MAKE THE WORLD BETTER:

This remarkable outcome made possible by:

1- Hydraulic fracturing
2- Horizontal drilling
3- Gut instinct and good geology
4- Huge risk tolerance of US shale producers and backers…. https://t.co/Eh9Tkf4cfS

— US Oil & Gas Association (@US_OGA) June 15, 2026

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE, LEGAL EDUCATION EDITION: A Majority of Law Professors Say Legal Education Is Heading in the Wrong Direction.. “Conservative law faculty experience a sharply different climate than their liberal colleagues: 61% of conservative faculty say their law school is hostile toward people with their political beliefs, compared to 11% of liberal faculty, and three times as many hide their political beliefs to keep their job (52% versus 17%).”