HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Penn State may cut 47 programs over low interest, employment opportunity.

HOW MANY GOVERNMENT-PUSHED TECHNOLOGIES ARE LIKE THIS? The old light bulbs are coming back. “LED light is altogether different, making light through a narrow electronic process that spikes strong in the blue part of the light spectrum, and emits almost no infrared at all. Even worse, it flickers rapidly, switching on and off hundreds of times per second. The flicker is too fast to register with our conscious eye, but it is not too fast to wreak havoc on our nervous system.”

The government pushed incandescent bulbs out. Now the Department of Energy is backing their return. Why? The science around artificial light, blue-light exposure, and what it may mean for our eyes and health is becoming impossible to ignore..https://t.co/mNUS7m01oV

— Tracy Beanz (@tracybeanz) October 13, 2026

I should say that the quality of the light doesn’t bother me, and I notice flickers — I can literally see the flicker in fluorescent lights even when they’re working properly — and I appreciate how long they last. The InstaWife, however, doesn’t much like any non-incandescent light.

NOT WITHOUT REASON: Islamic Non-Profits Could Be Investigated for Terror Ties, Abuse of Taxpayer-Funded Grants.

DAVID STROM: Does Reality Matter? Not in the ‘Mattress Girl’ Case, and Not in Cornell 7 Case Either. It’s all pre-election agitprop for lefty women. “What is striking about these cases, as with the case that Theo Jordan refers to (the hoax of residential school mass graves), is the willingness of the cultural elite institutions, and especially the media, to ignore the evidence and stick with a Narrative™ despite the complete lack of evidence to support it.” Truth-seeking isn’t their job, and they don’t see it as their job.

BUT OF COURSE: NY Democratic Socialists Boss Railed Against Landlords. His Rich Parents Rented Out Their Florida Mansion for $18,000 a Month, Bought Him a $1 Million NYC Home.

SOUNDS ABOUT RIGHT: Socialism And Islam Are Both Religions Based On Pillaging The West.

THE USUAL PRE-ELECTION BS:

The funny thing is that this is ALL fake.

The Cornell 7 thing turned out to be scuzzy on all sides, but no kind of prosecutable rape. The other #NewMeToo cases ("62 million man rape academy") ALL fell apart or duly ended with the men in jail. Gillis didn't say women ARE working… https://t.co/DqgdVGg10C

— Wilfred Reilly (@wil_da_beast630) October 13, 2026

OPEN THREAD: I disagree with your philosophy. What killed the cat’s not curiosity.

GROUND THYSELF: The moon could turn astronauts into ‘walking, high voltage capacitors’ that accidentally zap spacecraft.

SAME: “I can’t imagine looking to Hillary Clinton to satisfy a hunger for real conversation.”

SCIENCE: Scientists Collected Deep-Sea Rocks. They Spontaneously Caught Fire in The Lab.

MICROBIOME NEWS: Your Mouth’s Bacteria May Be Linked to How Quickly You Think.

THE NET OF A MILLION LIES:

Following Ukrainian strikes on Russian data centers:

Tucker Carlson's views dropped 71%
Douglas Macgregor's views dropped 62%
TCN views dropped 34% https://t.co/bzlx2QKUfG pic.twitter.com/ekkReqo33O

— Matt Tardio (@angertab) October 13, 2026

OBESITY WILL BE A LIFESTYLE CHOICE: Beyond Ozempic? New Weight Loss Drug Shows Stunning Results in Major Clinical Trial.

THE OUTER SPACE TREATY BANS SOVEREIGNTY, NOT PROPERTY: A new space race asks the question: Can anyone own the Moon?

REVIEW: 2025 Honda Civic Hybrid Sedan Yearlong Review Verdict: A Lesson Learned.

NEWS YOU CAN USE: Silencer 101: What’s the Best Suppressor Material for Me?

JUMPING GENES: Large dog breeds die younger. Biologists think they finally know why.

COMBATTING To Combat Academic Fraud, Scholars Confront Hallowed Tradition.

CHANGE: Overdose Deaths Declining: HHS Continuing the Momentum.

SO MANY HEALTH RECOMMENDATIONS AREN’T: The 10,000-step rule wasn’t based on science — here’s what experts say to do instead.

TEACH WOMEN NOT TO RAPE! (CONT’D): “A jury took just two hours to find Melanie Rock, 34, guilty of sexual grooming and sexual activity with a child by a person in a position of trust, the Telegraph reported.’

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Publisher removes 200 papers University of Chicago statistician wrote in under 1 year.

A tenured professor, Polson’s papers primarily focus on advanced math and statistics such as statistical parameterization and financial markets. Some of his research highlighted on the University of Chicago’s website includes measuring the “energy cost” of using AI and analyzing the odds of cheating.

Recently, however, concerns about the large number of articles Polson was producing prompted SSRN, a pre-print server for academic papers, to retract 253 papers that he wrote or co-wrote within the past year, The Washington Post reported.

In comparison, he wrote 10 published papers in 2018, 14 in 2017, and 12 in 2016, according to the “Research” page on his website.

When asked why it removed his papers, SSRN told the Post, “The most significant issue was the unusual submission activity.”

Hmm.

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE:

Divinity Schools have shown the same radical shift to the left as other schools in higher education. That was evident this week at Point Loma Nazarene University, where Dean of Students Jason Cha warned students that saying “in Christ alone” is a sign of “white privilege.”…

— Jonathan Turley (@JonathanTurley) October 13, 2026

“BLACK MARXISM.” So it’s stupid and vicious, but also flavored with blackness.