What I Learned While Eavesdropping on the Taliban

I thought gender was a social construct. Why sports concussions are worse for women

U.S. forces can’t help Americans flee to Kabul airport, Pentagon chief says

Masks redux

Israeli data: How can efficacy vs. severe disease be strong when 60% of hospitalized are vaccinated?

Seattle Hospital to Heart Transplant Patient: Get a Covid Shot or Drop Dead

Windows 11 Is Making It Absurdly Difficult to Change Browsers

MSNBC rails against the “fantastically corrupt elite” on the ground that ruined the Afghan mission, but the real corruption was our own

The Taliban have no compunction about carrying out targeted killings as the case of a DW journalist shows.

Survey: 1 in 5 medical researchers reports pressure from funders to change study results

Something Is Wrong with the President

De Blasio’s plan to give a grand a month to violent offenders is insane

You can read the article without having to watch the video. Video shows desperate Afghans trying to escape country by jumping on air-bound US planes, falling from hundreds of feet: ‘No words can describe these scenes’

More than one in ten COVID-19 patients infected in hospital in first pandemic wave

The Taliban Air Force – An Inventory Assessment

The Great Barrier Reef Is Doing Well, Despite What the Alarmists Have Said

The bitterness of those who fought.

Gamers in China respond to curbs

Is Lebanon on the Verge of a Military Coup?

American Medical Association, Descending Into Wokeness, Calls for Eliminating Sex on Birth Certificates

The Co-Founder Of Snopes Wrote Dozens Of Plagiarized Articles For The Fact-Checking Site

Australia: New South Wales ‘in worst ever Covid situation’

‘No beds anywhere’: As COVID wards expand, Louisiana’s small hospitals have nowhere to turn

Taliban Take the Presidential Palace

Taliban’s Lightning Afghanistan Advance Could Win Billions of Dollars in U.S.-Made Weapons

Scottish Schools Will Allow Kids as Young as Four to Change Gender Without Asking Parents

Aged skeletal stem cells interfere with healing and promote ‘inflamm-aging’

‘Smacks of hypocrisy’: Alberta slams White House for demanding more OPEC oil after cancelling Keystone XL

Lebanon’s Energy Crisis Worsens As Central Bank Cuts Subsidies

Marines Prepare to Evacuate Kabul Embassy ahead of Possible Taliban Assault

Western Afghanistan is fully under Taliban control.

Siberian wildfires dwarf all others on Earth combined

College professor held in wildland arson spree near California’s massive Dixie Fire

CDC Took Mistaken Data on Delta Variant Transmissibility From a New York Times Infographic

I would have preferred if they acknowledged that it will get worse before it backs down again but they are right that this is data nobody sees. Three Charts The Delta Variant Scaremongers Don’t Want You To See

Europe Could Face A Natural Gas Crisis This Winter