STARLINER AND SLS DON’T REALLY WORK, BUT SURE:

How do you draw a pride flag? 🤔

With SCIENCE!

This flag is a composite of NASA imagery of phenomena from Earth and far, far beyond it. Details below ⬇️

Credit: Rachel Lense pic.twitter.com/Cpth3jWyO4

— NASA Sun & Space (@NASASun) June 13, 2024

WELL GOOD: Risk of secondary cancers after CAR-T cell therapy low, according to large Stanford Medicine study.

WHO DOESN’T: Researchers wonder what if you just put a robot in the driver’s seat instead of automating the car?

IT’S ALL PETER BENCHLEY’S FAULT: A scientific mission to save the sharks: Despite protection measures, these fish are among the most endangered animals.

WELL, GOOD: People with type 1 diabetes are living longer.

FOLLOW THE SCIENCE: Premier scientific journal Nature takes on ‘climate of fear’ surrounding research on sex and gender.

ENEMIES OF CIVILIZATION: Meet the UC Santa Cruz students arrested at Hamas-endorsed encampment.

HAHA, WEENIES. Henny Penny Alert: UK to Be ‘Blasted’ By Heatwave of Up to…79°.

We were there summer before last and they were having a similar panic with warning signs in the train stations, and temperatures hitting a high of . . . 81.

STANFORD DISINFORMATION PROJECT collapses under scrutiny.

I salute the name, “Stanford Internet Observatory.” I think of astronomy and the clean pursuit of star systems, with the telescope instead focused on something infinite and microscopic: the galaxies of the internet.

However, it was just a run-of-the-mill political op, small and grubby, gussied up to sound fancy.

An apt summary of a lot of “academic” efforts lately.

BUT OF COURSE: Liberal Media Scream: ‘The View’ says black people not allowed to leave the Democratic plantation.

Flashback: Chelsea Handler says 50 Cent ‘can’t vote for Donald Trump’ because he is Black.

Related: Donald Trump receives strong support from black voters in immigrant-weary Detroit: ‘Taking your jobs.’

IVY LEAGUE DELENDA EST: ‘It Feels Hopeless’: Jewish Students at Columbia Say Disparaging Texts Reflect Administration’s Indifference Toward Anti-Semitism.

Flashback: Jewish students, come here to the South — where you’ll be safe.

WELL, YES: Hunter Biden is His Father’s Son. “Hunt has a better pedigree than Joe — Yale Law, not Syracuse. And, credit where it’s due, he’s highly appealing to a certain kind of young lady. (For a while this was the kind who planned to read her Yeats just as soon as the cocaine ran out. Eventually even those girls got wise to Hunter and he moved to a more transactional type.) But Hunter’s defining attribute is his selfishness.”

STEPHANIE GUTMANN: Just walk away, Caitlin (while you can still walk) or prepare to be made a whipping girl for the sins of White and Hetero Privilege for the rest of your WNBA career.

REMEMBER, MAKING YOUR LIFE WORSE ISN’T A SIDE EFFECT, IT’S THE GOAL: Their Strategy in the War on Food.

SHOCKER:

Puerto Rico’s primary elections just experienced hundreds of voting irregularities related to electronic voting machines, according to the Associated Press.

Luckily, there was a paper trail so the problem was identified and vote tallies corrected.

What happens in jurisdictions…

— Robert F. Kennedy Jr (@RobertKennedyJr) June 15, 2024

I’ve been calling for paper ballots since 2002.

UPDATE:

I was assured that this doesn’t happen. https://t.co/FsfxX6uXXX

— Brant Hadaway (@BrantHadaway) June 16, 2024

OPEN THREAD: You oughta know how all the pros play the game.

UPDATE: Sorry, didn’t publish on time. Fixed now.

THE NEW SPACE RACE: Moon ice in the Artemis era: what we still don’t know.

Also: China’s Chang’e 6 spacecraft finds long-sought particles on far side of the moon.

RULE OF LAW: Speaker Mike Johnson Fights to Enforce Merrick Garland Subpoena.

THE DEEP SEVENS KNOW WHAT IT’S FOR. Earth’s Core Seems to Be Wrapped in an Ancient, Unexpected Structure.

SPACE: NASA’s Voyager 1 resumes full ops, transmits valuable data after overcoming malfunction.

More: Houston, we no longer have a problem: NASA’s Voyager 1 back in operation.

Impressive.

WELL, GOOD: AI Transforms Sepsis Care With Faster, More Effective Treatments.

EDUCATION: What City Kids Learned on My Farm: ‘Hens don’t lay on demand. Tomatoes aren’t ripe in June. And animals don’t care about your feelings.’ “Overprotected as they are, a lot of city kids are missing out on so many important encounters with material reality: with death or danger or manual labor. These encounters can be unpleasant, even painful. It’s understandable that we want to save our children from them. But they lose something essential when we do.”

Plus: “Here’s one thing I’ve learned: children like being useful. They get a lot of freedom on the farm, but there’s one rule: everyone has to do chores. We use real tools and do real work. I teach them how to scrub a water trough, haul hay, muck a stall. They discover that manual labor is enjoyable, especially when you’re taking care of something other than yourself. Parents often tell me later that their children boast about the work they’ve accomplished. . . . Children like becoming competent, even the ones who have to be cajoled into working. When they come for return visits, as so many do, they dive in with even more enthusiasm, eager to go through the motions of the work they now know so well. ‘We have to fill the waters, right?’ they’ll say. Or, best of all: ‘When do we get to shovel the poop?'”

DON SURBER: Highlights of the Week.

STEPHANIE GUTMANN: Just walk away, Caitlin (while you can still walk) or prepare to be made a whipping girl for the sins of White and Hetero Privilege for the rest of your WNBA career.

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