Thomas R. Webb, PhD

Why did NPR build an archive of January 6th documents? : Consider This from NPR NPR investigative reporter Tom Dreisbach talks about how and why he led an ambitious team effort to preserve a comprehensive record of the events of January 6th, 2021.For sponsor-free episodes of Cons...

We need this…

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Maureen Dowd from the NYT on Trump regarding his loss on Tarriffs🤣🤣

"He may need a distraction even bigger than bombing Iran and releasing secret files on U.F.O.s and aliens. He may need to produce Marvin the Martian for an Oval Office meeting and install him on the “Board of Peace.”"

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A great example of how, with our new technologies, guarding the planet is cheaper than trashing it.

He’s trying to channel Svengali, or maybe Mesmer?

Mark Twain's denunciation of King Leopold II's exploitation of the people of Congo, and its unforgettable photographs of atrocities, was among the most important documents of the early 20th century: and a caution for all time.

The United States should have done the same to Donald Trump in Jan 2021.

Scientists Discover How To “Switch Off” Cancer Genes for Good A new study shows that targeting key epigenetic proteins may permanently switch off cancer genes. Scientists at Monash University, working with Harvard University, report they have found a way to perm...

Oh, my goodness, this is a huge breakthrough in cancer research. This is another example of why it is crucially important to fund basic scientific research.
Scientists Discover How To “Switch Off” Cancer Genes for Good share.google/WFhMJP5m3AK4...

“.. We could spend the whole day reacting to every buffoonish spectacle coming out of the White House, but that's exactly what they want: for us to lose focus …
Don't be distracted by the noise; watch what they are doing to your rights while you stare at the screen.”

It’s so disgusting that we went from distinguished Doctors leading US Health to the depraved conspiracist heroine addict RKF Jr and it’s disgusting that we went from a decorated 4 star General leading the Pentagon to the trashy drunkard rapist Pete Hegseth. How far we’ve fallen.

They're calling it a "FORECLOSURE BLOODBATH" under Trump. He has f*cked up the economy so much that tens of thousands of Americans just lost their homes.

🚨 Banks seized 40,534 properties in January 2026, a *32%* increase year-over-year. 🚨

The Breaking Boundaries at the Bottom of the World website where you can follow the extraordinary Sea Women Expeditions journey taking place February 14 – March 10, 2026. The Daily Journal features expedition reflections, creative moments and scientific field notes from the 25 explorers. Use the purple filters to narrow in on a specific explorer or boat and click on a point to learn more about their experience.

The most wonderful expedition you've probably never heard about, but need to cheer on NOW. Follow 25 female indigenous & non-indigenous scientists, explorers, storytellers, artists & ocean advocates from 9 countries as they explore "the bottom of the world."
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Are the Mysteries of Quantum Mechanics Beginning To Dissolve? | Quanta Magazine Columnist Philip Ball thinks the phenomenon of decoherence might finally bridge the quantum-classical divide.

🧪 Quantum Darwinism and decoherence seem more plausible as physicists are still trying to engineer a common sense explanation of what quantum theory actually means! www.quantamagazine.org/are-the-myst...

Massie: "Donald Trump told us that even though he had dinner with these people in NYC and West Palm Beach, that he would be transparent. But he's not. He's still in with the Epstein class. This is the Epstein administration."

Wow! I worked for Orgel at the Salk in the early 80s and I’ve been waiting for this since then.

For this and many other reasons we must remove RFK, jr. from office asap, before more people die from his insane policies!

Blue flowers and glossy leaves of California native tree Ceanothus

Tree Ceanothus is endemic to California. Glossy leaves, fragrant and abundant flowers, blooming now. Grows up to 30’ tall. One of my favorites.

Holy Shit! 🌊🩸🦈

Rep. Massie staff receiving threats from the 🦧 & Kash goons?

M@G@Ts, you still want to call MTG a liar?

There’s worse than we know to be uncovered in those Epstein Files.

SO many jaw dropping revelations in this, from them firing 80% of the career ICE field leadership, to Noem's appeals to Republicans to write op-eds backing her, to Lewandowski firing people who wouldn't authorize a gun, to hiring back the fired pilot because they had no one else to fly them home.

💯 it is so much harder to build such a science ecosystem than to destroy it. Decades of work.

Destruction of a national treasure.

Unfathomable national loss.

We are watching the unraveling of our scientific human resource infrastructure in real time. Do voters want the collective collapse of what used to be the world’s highest quality government science centers? I guess we’ll see in November!

NBC news picture, perfectly showing the smug hautaine disdain of the US government towards the victims of Epstein. One for the history books

The victims raised their hand to show they had not been asked to meet with the DoJ.

They are excellent! The tree is over 36 years old and has significant woodpecker damage but that doesn’t seem to slow it down.

Pink and yellow flowers of the California native red honeysuckle

Wonderfully fragrant! Our native California red honeysuckle, shown here, also blooms in the winter. It’s not as fragrant as winter honeysuckle but it attracts our year round hummingbirds and is not invasive.

Yes, my Beverly Hills and multi-variety low-chill grafted apple trees are blooming early. We didn’t get much of a chill here in Northern San Diego county this ‘winter’!

Dozens of researchers will move to France from US following high-profile bid to lure talent Large proportion worked at Columbia University, which had its grants cut and frozen by the administration of US President Donald Trump.

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Not surprised that the US braindrain has started, it’s accelerating by the looks of things! www.nature.com/articles/d41...

A group of Buddhist monks has finally reached Washington, D.C., on foot, completing a 15-week trek for peace from Texas apnews.com/article/budd...

Wow!