DEEP SEVENS: Floridians feel magnitude 4 earthquake with epicenter off state’s east coast.

DEI ISN’T ABOUT DIVERSITY, IT’S ABOUT CONTROL: Troy University Proves You Don’t Need DEI to Achieve Campus Diversity.

THIS ISN’T THE JETSONS 21ST CENTURY I WAS HOPING FOR: Best at-home syphilis tests of 2024, according to health experts.

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Two more research misconduct scandals hit Harvard.

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: University removes ‘Introduction to Bondage’ from ‘Healthy Relationships Week’ after backlash over presenter’s disturbing online activity.

WHY IS THE NEW YORK TIMES SUCH A CESSPIT OF SEXISM? “Why is it okay to articulate these stereotypes… and what’s so bad about them? Anyone who hopes to be seen as a possible President must be steely and no-nonsense. What’s ‘demeaning’? These adjectives only sound demeaning when attached to the nouns the New York Times writer chose: ‘vixen’ and ‘broad.’ Those terms are used to divide the women into 2 groups based on looks. And Trump is supposed to be the sexist here? The writer is expressing contempt for women if they glam up and if they don’t. And that’s in a column expressing the hope that all the female options are rejected.”

Of course, it’s a female writer, Pamela Paul. Because no one puts down women like other women.

THE RECRUITING CRISIS CONTINUES: ‘We Take Old People’ – Air Force Trying Anything to Get Somebody in a Uniform These Days.

SO THE SECRET SERVICE IS PRO-ASSASSINATION NOW? Secret Service orders ‘no response’ to RFK Jr.’s protection plea.

YA THINK? House Democrats Worry Immigration Will Overshadow Abortion in the Coming Election.

SOON THE REST OF US WILL BE TRYING TO FORGET WHEN HE WAS PRESIDENT: Biden Can’t Remember When He Was Vice President Or When His Son Died: DOJ.

ICYMI: I REMEMBER WHEN THE BABYLON BEE WAS A SATIRE SITE, NOT STRAIGHT NEWS:

Man Ruled Too Senile To Stand Trial Still Fine To Run Country https://t.co/vFcfq36IwW pic.twitter.com/CY4EFh8a8F

— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) February 8, 2024

Plus:

Biden Calls For The President To Step Down https://t.co/eovUyl0fOl pic.twitter.com/vuMmLyRK6R

— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) February 8, 2024

HEH.

"The president spoke powerfully … like an old man trying to send back soup in a deli" https://t.co/QUAgSgaRI7

— Fusilli Spock (@awstar11) February 9, 2024

OPEN THREAD: Enjoy!

SEEMS FAIR: Amir Ali, who leads a leftist police-defunding group, shouldn’t be a judge.

THE NEW SPACE RACE: Small launch companies seek niches to compete with SpaceX rideshare.

CLIMATE SCIENTIST MICHAEL MANN WINS HIS LAWSUIT, with $1 in compensatory damages from Rand Simberg and Mark Steyn. However, the jury awarded $1000 punitive damages against Simberg, and $1 million against Steyn. D.C. Jury. People on the right need to come up with a similarly reflexively sympathetic jurisdiction.

Rand’s thoughts: “I am pleased that the jury found in my favor on half of the statements at issue in this case, including finding my statement that Professor Mann engaged in data manipulation was not defamation. In over a decade of litigation, the sanctions levied against Professor Mann dwarf the judgment against me.”

HMM: Rare 3D Fossil of Trees Older Than Dinosaurs Reveals Bizarre Alien-Like Ancient Forests.

I’m pretty sure the people standing under the tree in the illustration didn’t coexist with the dinosaurs.

I REMEMBER WHEN THE BABYLON BEE WAS A SATIRE SITE, NOT STRAIGHT NEWS:

Man Ruled Too Senile To Stand Trial Still Fine To Run Country https://t.co/vFcfq36IwW pic.twitter.com/CY4EFh8a8F

— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) February 8, 2024

Plus:

Biden Calls For The President To Step Down https://t.co/eovUyl0fOl pic.twitter.com/vuMmLyRK6R

— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) February 8, 2024

FASTER, PLEASE: Unlocking Bacterial Self-Destruction to Combat Infections.

21ST CENTURY HEALTH: Can an experimental cell phone app screen coughs for TB? Scientists say ‘yes.’

IVY LEAGUE UPDATE: Columbia Law Student Senate Denies Approval Of Students Against Antisemitism Group; Yale Law Students Protest IDF Soldier On Campus.

DRIVING DYSTOPIA: Driving Dystopia: Europe’s Low Emission Zones Aren’t Going Over Well. “These strictly enforced Ultra Low Emission Zones never resonated with the public. The very first cameras received complaints, as some local residents realized there was almost no way for them to leave their driveway without encountering one. Before long, cameras started being vandalized or destroyed overnight by individuals wearing masks. This was followed by a 66-percent disapproval rate in a referendum asking whether or not citizens wanted to see ULEZ expansion in 2023. Londoners very clearly did not. But the government moved on with the program anyway and created a situation that now literally requires the hiring of armed guards to protect enforcement cameras from damage.”

This is the spirit of resistance the world needs today.

I HOPE IT WON’T MAKE STUFF UP: Scientists code ChatGPT to design new medicine.

HMM: Researchers estimate survival chances during CPR for cardiac arrest.

ALSO THE REST OF THE TIME: Women more likely than men to use antidepressants during late-life divorce.