There was some worry, but not enough to dim the party atmosphere. Said one man: “Maybe it’s only a problem if there’s a big swarm. I’m pretty chill.”

When isn’t the sight of the New York Times a beautiful thing? On Saturday, the newspaper reached new heights as a quick scan of the front page gave proof that women had finally torn through the paper ceiling, in 2016, at a newspaper that’s well known for celebrating its own progressive leanings.

What a terrific sight. Check out this front page. Read the bylines. https://t.co/llkjZRLUK4
— John Schwartz (@jswatz) August 20, 2016

OK, just this once … as long as we’re not obligated to read the articles…

The major battles of the past have long captured our imaginations. We think of thousands-strong armies lining up and then charging at each other in an unimaginable wave of fury, unleashing their wrath upon each other. History and popular culture have both greatly romanticized many of the weapons used in the past, and while this […]
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Details are still scarce, but reports are coming in of a bomb blast at a wedding hall in Gaziantep, Turkey, that has left many dead. The city is near the border of Syria.

#BREAKING: bomb blast/Suicide bomber hits near wedding hall in #Gaziantep #Turkey, Many casualties reported pic.twitter.com/Lhvp3XeV7Q
— Amichai Stein (@AmichaiStein1) August 20, 2016

BREAKING: Turkish Red Crescent confirms "large number" of casualties in wedding hall bombing, appeals for blood https://t…

Even though their portrayals are often inaccurate, TV shows like CSI and Bones have popularized forensics among the general public. Some techniques have proven their worth after hundreds, even thousands, of cases. Newer forensic methods struggle for recognition while older ones are falling out of favor. Regardless, these cases probably wouldn’t have been solved without […]
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Infections have surged, and an out-of-whack ecosystem may be to blame.

As Twitchy reported, a photo of a 5-year-old Syrian boy injured during an airstrike on Aleppo went viral this week, blanketing social media and ending up on the front page of the New York Times. The boy’s name, Omran Daqneesh, quickly became a trending hashtag, with many asking why so little has been done to prevent such tragedies.
Others, like Sally Kohn, saw an opportunity to score some cheap political points for the Hillary Clinton campaign…

GOP nominee Donald Trump hosted a private campaign fundraiser at the Minneapolis Convention Center Friday night, where dozens protested forcefully and yelled at Trump supporters attending the event, reported the Star Tribune.

VIDEO: Dozens protest forcefully, yell at supporters at Trump fundraiser in Minneapolis. https://t.co/vk5QoOLvMG pic.twitter.com/SYxLM5uIsr
— Star Tribune (@StarTribune) August 20, 2016

Without a doubt, that was some of the most forceful yelling we’ve seen, as the casual observer watching the linked video on the Star Tribune website might think he was seeing one protester throwing several punches at an attendee until other demonstrators physically restrained him…

Every generation likes to think they’re special. Every generation is wrong. Even the Greatest Generation, who grew up in the Depression and kicked Hitler to the curb, were just doing what their own ancestors did with the Kaiser a generation before. Yet for some reason, millennials think they’re different. Maybe it’s because the media keep […]
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Like other outbreaks, this one has exposed glaring weaknesses in how the world confronts infectious diseases.

Following from this great list, here are 10 more of the greatest works ever written in prison. It seems that some of the most influential literature in our history has been penned during the author’s imprisonment. Many of the books mentioned below—in no special order—are written by political or religious prisoners who would go on […]
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Tweet from Team Hillary, because irony is dead and chutzpah has lost all meaning. https://t.co/hbToFTBwFT
— Seth Mandel (@SethAMandel) August 18, 2016

Ho. Lee. Crap. If this isn’t nerve, we don’t know what is.
John Podesta tweeted this out tonight:

Already hearing from people who have been contacted by reporters with knowledge of the content of their interviews in FBI 302's…

An uneasy truce between the government and insurers appears to be fraying as some of the large companies say they are leaving or sharply scaling back.

These days, much of the history of the Americas before Europeans arrived has been lost or forgotten. This is a shame because the great civilizations of Central America hold stories as epic and intriguing as those of Ancient Greece and Rome. Take the cities of Tikal and Calakmul, which spent four centuries locked in a […]
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A study finds that errors were made because earlier research linking genetic traits to illness did not include enough blacks.

It’s normal for parents to want their children to become more successful than them. These 10 entries stacked the deck pretty high but not high enough. Despite the parents’ achievements and fame, their offspring became more successful than them and are far better remembered today, decades or even centuries after their deaths. 10 Mary Wollstonecraft […]
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Burning coal caused 366,000 premature deaths in the country in 2013, Chinese and American researchers concluded.

Sometimes, the stripping forces of nature remind us how much incredible stuff is still out there. Whether artifacts are deeply under sand or sea or sitting shallow, wild weather can reveal them in one powerful sweep. On occasion, storms raze the landscape and unmask rare, bizarre, or historical finds, saving archaeologists and fossil hunters a […]
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As Twitchy reported earlier, Olympic swimmer Ryan Lochte apparently made it back to the United States Wednesday after a judge in Brazil had ordered that he and James Feigen stay put while authorities looked into their claim that they had been robbed at gunpoint. The order to seize his passport was as good as a starting pistol as far as Lochte was concerned.

Ryan Lochte leaving Brazil pic.twitter…

Green Party candidate Jill Stein might regret this tweet later after checking out the results of a new poll by Public Policy Polling.

Real democracy needs more than 2 choices on the menu. Glad more people are starting to get this. #GreenTownHall https://t.co/Bb7S5s445b
— Dr. Jill Stein (@DrJillStein) August 17, 2016

PPP is one of the few pollsters out there that’s willing to present the full menu of choices, as well as some side dishes the chef has hidden in the back…

More than 10,000 cases have been confirmed on the island, including infections in over 1,000 pregnant women, and dozens more are reported each day.

Time for a second look at Corey Lewandowski? Maybe.
Monday’s New York Times has a bombshell of an article on current Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort that accuses him of taking millions of dollars in cash payments from former Ukrainian President Viktor F. Yanukovych. Here’s the opener:

KIEV, Ukraine — On a leafy side street off Independence Square in Kiev is an office used for years by Donald J…

The world isn’t perfect, so there will always be a certain number of tragedies that could be prevented. But in some cases, they are caused by glaring errors that could easily be stopped by the slightest degree of attention. When it comes to medicine and treatment, there are many safeguards to keep tainting and infections […]
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Older organ donors, living or dead, are desirable for older recipients, who represent a growing proportion of transplant patients.

CNN’s Brian Stelter asked Trump spokesman Jason Miller Sunday morning about the memes the GOP nominee has started using at his rallies, asking if anyone in the campaign fact-checks them. Miller didn’t really answer:

Where are Trump's charts from? Sometimes @FoxNews, but here's an example of a chart taken from a conspiratorial site https://t.co/d2AQ47eptI
— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) August 14, 2016

One of the memes Stelter highlighted was this one he linked to the “fringe right-wing website” Before It’s News, which specializes in alternative stories on things like UFOs:

But it’s worse than that…

Remember when Donald Trump hammered pundits for not understanding that what he was saying about President Obama founding ISIS was just “sarcasm”?

Ratings challenged @CNN reports so seriously that I call President Obama (and Clinton) "the founder" of ISIS, & MVP. THEY DON'T GET SARCASM?
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 12, 2016

Yeah … about that…

Sexual-minority teenagers are at far greater risk for depression, bullying and many types of violence than their straight peers, the C.D.C. has found.

We tend to think of history as a collection of abstract facts that have no bearing on the “real world,” but everything connects across the timeline. Big, world-changing events don’t just change things when they happen; they send out shock waves that reverberate into the present. Like William Faulkner said, “The past is never dead. […]
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As civilization evolved, the written word became absolutely necessary for proper documentation—whether for governmental operations or retelling myths. Rediscovering ancient or extinct languages is an arduous process, often dictated by luck, but it is an invaluable tool in the study of our growth as a species. 10 Gothic Bible Photo via Wikimedia Language: Gothic The […]
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No, CNN … Great Britain has not overtaken China in the medals table:

Great Britain overtakes China in the medals table; the US continues to lead. #USA #GBR #CHN pic.twitter.com/zRD7ulTeUg
— CNN Sport (@cnnsport) August 14, 2016

Greater than vs. less than — how does it work?

Someone help me out here. Why is 35 > 42? https://t.co/EIOcmef2bV
— jenitals (@mtsjen) August 14, 2016

Um, @cnn, since when is 35 greater than 42? https://t…

The discovery dashed the hopes of global health authorities who had hoped to declare the continent polio-free soon.

The emails that the State Department did allow to trickle out in monthly batches provided some insight into what it was like to work for the “often confused” Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. Some days she might email asking you to call an aide to fetch her iced tea, or show her how to work the fax machine, of find out if the hotel had sent up her special breakfast.
Not every errand Clinton delegated to her staff was quite so trivial, though…

If the American legal system seems far from perfect, perhaps it is because we expect it to do the impossible—effectively administer justice individually on a case-by-case basis while also establishing precedent on future less clear-cut issues that affect society. From entertainment law to criminal cases to the world of politics, establishment of legal precedent can […]
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The use of chlorine gas against civilians in the Syrian city of Aleppo should be investigated as a “war crime,” a United Nations diplomat said Thursday.

Medieval medicine involved beliefs and remedies that seem bizarre to us today. Understanding the beliefs behind the cures makes them seem less so. Medieval physicians believed the human body to be a microcosmic version of the macrocosm, or the universe. This belief was central to philosophical traditions dating back to ancient Rome and Greece. It […]
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Louis XVI (1754–1793) is generally known mainly as the French king who was guillotined when his country fell into chaos during the French Revolution in the late 1700s. The French Revolution was inspired by the American Revolution, Enlightenment ideals, economic problems, and conflict between the aristocracy and bourgeoisie. It resulted in mass executions, upheaval, and […]
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An announcer for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation calling the 200-meter individual medley featuring Americans Michael Phelps and Ryan Lochte got his lanes mixed up, and the result was just a little off base:

Lololol, CBC commentators mixed up their USA lanes and were SCREAMING about Lochte winning #Rio2016 pic.twitter.com/7N2ccxMMMB
— Bryan (@NachoHelmet) August 12, 2016

So @FriedgeHNIC (calling Phelps v Lochte for CBC) picked a bad time to get his lanes mixed up pic…

Here’s a story we’ve been sitting on deliberately for a couple of days, but the dust now seems to have settled enough that a clear picture has emerged of a shooting in Ferguson, Mo., Tuesday night at a gathering to remember Michael Brown on the second anniversary of his death.

Shots fired during protest in Ferguson on 2nd anniversary of #MichaelBrown's death https://t.co/UAyOnRukeA pic…

The agency decided not to reclassify marijuana from a Schedule 1 drug to a Schedule 2 drug, but removed a roadblock to medical studies of marijuana.

The Cold War was a period of great tension, and with all the posturing, stockpiling, and military maneuvering by the US and the Soviet Union, there came a rich history of obscure stories and eyebrow-raising tales. While the standoff between the superpowers was very much conventional, some of their top secret projects and undercover missions […]
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Last week, before clearing himself and his family out of the White House for summer vacation, President Obama commuted the sentences of 214 nonviolent drug offenders, 56 of whom had been convicted of firearms violations as well. That single day’s work brought the president’s total number of commutations to 562 … so far.
The effort to empty out the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, is going strong as well…

Remember that bounce that Donald Trump got from the Republican National Convention?

Trump is now down 7.7 points to Hillary on the RCP avg. At this point, McCain trailed by 3.6 and Romney by 3.8.
He's doubled their deficit.
— Josh Jordan (@NumbersMuncher) August 9, 2016

After the Democrats brought out four days worth of speakers ranging from Lena Dunham to Barack Obama, who can say why Trump decided to zero in on a pair of Gold Star parents for criticism? Was it because Khizr Khan called him out personally with his pocket Constitution?

Here’s how badly Trump lost his battle with the Khans https://t…

As Twitchy reported, police in Chicago were bracing for civil unrest following the release of videos related to the fatal shooting of 18-year-old Paul O’Neal, whom police believed was armed when he rammed a patrol car with a stolen Jaguar July 28.
The Chicago Sun Times reported Monday that the Chicago Police Department had alerted officers to a threat to shoot cops following a meeting of three gangs…

It’s not easy to applaud PETA, but it appears the one time the organization did something useful, it’s being slammed for collaborating with police.
Police in St. Louis, Mo., have been operating an initiative called Operation Polar Cops, a community outreach program that gives free ice cream bars to kids.

Love is in the air. Ice cream just brings people together. #SamSafety #STLPolarCops @FOX2now pic…

Judaism is one of the world’s oldest practiced religions, and from it came the two largest faiths on the planet: Islam and Christianity. Despite its rich history, many people do not fully understand the faith. Because of this, several misconceptions have sprung up over the centuries about Judaism and its people. 10Jews Cannot Be Buried […]
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America’s Wild West was a time of cowboys and gunslingers, of the fight for freedom, of westward expansion, the hunt for gold, and the struggle to secure new-found wealth against bank robbers. Unfortunately, a lot of what we think about the Old West comes not from history, but from the romanticized version of those—like Buffalo […]
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A movement toward largely nonmedical approaches, focused on holistic recovery rather than symptom treatment, is growing in the United States.

An ancient Chinese therapy called “cupping” is leaving its mark — purple, bruise-like dots — on Olympic athletes in Rio.

Colombia revised a 30-year-old drug law and embraced medical marijuana; now private companies are betting that cannabis could be a market leader.

The Roman Emperor Nero is enjoying a newfound respect these days. At this point, it’s almost common knowledge that the stories of him playing a fiddle while Rome burned are almost certainly untrue. Still, there are stories about Nero’s excess and depravity that go beyond anything imagined in the most gruesome horror stories. Although there’s […]
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