Up through the 1930s, State Fairs across America featured head on collisions between trains. The first occurred at the Iowa State Fair in 1896 before a crowd of 20,000. This video is from the Minnesota State Fair during the Great Depression, as featured in the poster below:
Russell Vought's OMB is continuing to hold up funds at NIH.
www.medpagetoday.com/publichealth...
If you haven't seen the hilarious videos promoting the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History, imagine if "Chappelle's Show" did a spoof of "The Office" that aired on The History Channel
The day begins with a former Fox host turned Trump administration official ranting at the media over his own failings and ends with a former Fox host turned Trump administration official ranting at a judge over her own failings.
Oh my god
The Strait of Hormuz is open for transit
My guess
What songs were going through your head while in the CT?
By CT, do any of your internal organs resemble olde timey cartoon characters?
If the government really is worried about Iranian sleeper cells, then it was probably a mistake to systematically reorient the majority of US counterterror resources toward arresting immigrant grandmothers and five-year-olds in bunny hats
Damn. You're good.
(Force) Lightning round:
What would you rather toss - a jawa or an ewok?
What would you rather fight - a bantha or a tauntaun?
Who would your rather face in a winner-take-all hand of poker - C3PO or Jar Jar Binks?
What would you want to fly into battle - a TIE Interceptor or an A-Wing?
And, I know we can all agree Luke was a dumbass for throwing away his lightsaber before facing Palpatine, so then how long would you have to wait between your CT and surgery?
If things go well with your CT today, do you think Vader should have force choked the emperor instead of tossing him down the shaft?
From the vantage point of someone managing a grant portfolio, is there any benefit to meeting the quota of MYF awards earlier in the FY vs. later? Just wondering what prudent portfolio management would look like in the data, given the requirement for MYF.
An effective long term strategy for those who care about independent and credible news would be to fund nonprofits to enable nonpartisan journalism. We can see where CNN is going, we need more ProPublicias.
planning a war out is gay as shit. logistics? well thats trans and woke. mission objectives? beta cuck nonsense
we are sparta baby
Sec. Flopsweat having a normal one.
Getting one of these and wearing it to work in the robot dismantling factory so the bots can learn of the fragility of life and futility of existence
My priorities:
every “serious analyst” needs to get it through their heads that there is no plan and anything that passes for one can be tossed out at the mad king’s whim
A heads down approach will not save science. We need to speak up, live our values, and demand integrity.
www.statnews.com/2026/03/12/n...
Good coverage of new "Scientific Freedom Lecture" series at NIH from @arstechnica.com
arstechnica.com/science/2026...
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Coming from a bear that regularly dines on medical waste, this must be really bad!
This is a good op-ed.
Academic science leaders measure the health of the research enterprise by annual appropriations and university finances. This makes them cowards.
Best partial victory out of western Maryland since Antietam
As a British MP once said, "To walk the road of peace, sometimes we need to be ready to climb the mountain of conflict"
Probably because you have only two kids?
I don’t believe the president can spell “chess” much less play it.
