NEWS YOU CAN USE: 7 ways toilets have killed people.

SCIENCE: Why are so many people right-handed? New study sheds some light.

VITAMIN D UPDATE: Higher vitamin D intake in pregnancy linked to some cognitive benefits in children.

FUTURE TECH: The Next War Will Be Won — or Lost — in Orbit.

HEY, IT’S NOT LIKE HE DID A DONUT ON A RAINBOW CROSSWALK:

"In America, if you're stupid enough, you're allowed to shoot people in the head" pic.twitter.com/VxM9Rn8Obt

— skepticalifornia (@skepticaliblog) May 21, 2026

SCIENCE:

As summer comes into view, always remember that more Europeans regularly die in heat waves than Americans die in guns violence. pic.twitter.com/xwBpUaZm5E

— Werner Zagrebbi🇦🇿 (@zagrebbi) May 21, 2026

MASSIVE RESISTANCE: U. Florida’s presidential finalist boasted about injecting DEI into classes.

THAT WAS OBVIOUS FROM THE BEGINNING: Cornell trustees clear president after activist confrontation.

DON SURBER: Thune Joins the Resistance.

COLOR ME UNSURPRISED: Phone ban in classrooms has caused ‘jaw dropping’ change in students’ attention.

JUSTICE: Lawsuit Against Virginia Tech Alleging Anti-Male Bias in Title IX Proceedings Can Go Forward in Part. “Johnny has alleged abundant facts that, if true, raise grave concerns about the way VT, through these administrators, conducted the investigations of Pauline’s and Jane’s sexual-assault claims, as well as the ultimate outcomes of those inquiries. Simply put, Johnny has alleged facts that, if true, raise a plausible inference the VT discriminated against him in these investigations because he is male and, in so doing, violated Title IX.”

SECURITY & CIGARS: So You’ve Got the Gear… Now What? Training, Practice, Preparedness, and Mindset.

CHANGE: Trump Administration Forcing Big Changes to $1.7 Billion in Biden-Era Auto Grants, Scaling Back Electric Vehicle Production and Boosting Hybrids.

YOU MEAN AN ARMY OF DAVIDS, I BELIEVE: “[A]n army of fans [are] now competing to produce the catchiest and most outrageous videos supporting [Spencer Pratt’s] campaign.”

THIS GUY IS SUCH A TWO-FACED JERK:

Tillis voted for a $500,000 per senator fund for senators who were illegally spied on by the Biden. It wasn’t available to any normal Americans whose rights had been violated—just senators. But now Tillis is mad that actual American citizens might receive restitution. What a… https://t.co/M5GZER43yI

— Sean Davis (@seanmdav) May 21, 2026

THE SUICIDE OF EXPERTISE (CONT’D): Trust the Experts. “Some Experts™ are worse than others, because they not only believe they know everything, but they work assiduously to destroy those who actually have good ideas about the way things work in the real world. They aren’t bad engineers; they are cult leaders who think they know everything. Such was the case with the economists who campaigned to destroy Javier Milei and prevent him from becoming President of Argentina. Milei was a dangerous crank, they said, and would destroy the already sputtering economy of Argentina. What the country needed wasn’t more capitalism, but more socialism.”

Economists endorsing socialism is like chemists endorsing Phlogiston.

Related:

This is one of the keys of his campaign. Nonprofits pay a lot of people to not solve the problem they claim to be solving. Remember when Mr. Beast went to Africa and built two clean water wells, and the NGO nonprofits over there criticized him for it, as some white savior complex… https://t.co/m8z8wKDlwR

— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) May 21, 2026

SET FOR 5:30 AM TOMORROW: Watch Rocket Lab launch private Japanese Earth-observing satellite early on May 22.

OPEN THREAD: Do your best.

SIGNS IN THE SKY: Manhattanhenge 2026 is coming this month: Here’s when and where to see the sunset spectacle.

THEY’RE GETTING SMARTER: A Beluga Whale Showed a Sign of Intelligence Once Thought Unique to Humans.

SCRUBBED FOR TONIGHT:

Standing down from today’s flight test

— SpaceX (@SpaceX) May 21, 2026

GOOD ENOUGH TO SUCCESSFULLY REPRODUCE: The Human Body Isn’t Perfect – It Was Improvised by Evolution.

“GENOCIDE:”

The best ׳genocide׳ ever!

The number of Arabs from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea has grown tenfold over the last 80 years. That's true for Gaza, that's true for Israel, and that's true for the West Bank.

And here's another surprising fact that nobody talks about:… pic.twitter.com/g3MLmxeuzu

— Traveling israel (@travelingisrae1) May 21, 2026

DIVERSITY PROBLEM:

The most striking part of this chart is how much bluer the bluest occupations are than the reddest are red. Progressives & liberals are far likelier to live in a monopartisan/monocultural bubble. pic.twitter.com/ZO4DlKzQjp

— Dan McLaughlin (@baseballcrank) May 19, 2026

THE REAL NIGHTMARE IS RUNNING OUT OF CHEESE: Scientists confirm cheese can really cause nightmares — and one type is the worst offender.