Letter from a Pakistani Homeschooler: “He told me you have homeschooled your own children, which came as a shock to me because we Pakistanis consider US schools the epitome of education.” Well, if you grade on a curve, the US might very well be close to the top. But should you grade on a curve?

Nothing to worry about: “France says the ID system won’t be used to keep tabs on residents. Unlike in China and Singapore, the country won’t be integrating the facial recognition biometric into citizens’ identity databases. In fact, the interior ministry, which developed the Alicem app, says the facial recognition data collected will be deleted when the enrollment process is over.”

New Studies Warn of Cataclysmic Solar Superstorms. They be saying this for awhile now. Then again, they were saying for awhile that New Orleans was at risk for going under in a big storm. Eventually they were right.

May be in the news? In the case of the Georgian man shot to death in late August in a Berlin park, evidence is mounting that the crime may have been a hit contracted by the Russian state.

In 2014 California passed Proposition 47, which made theft of property valued at less than $950 a misdemeanor offense. This is how it is working out……

You’ve likely seen the videos on social media or the local news: groups of people rushing into a store, grabbing armfuls of merchandise. The brazen crimes are on the rise and CBS13 has learned, in most cases, the crooks get away from authorities.

After searching police reports and arrest records, CBS13 found that while the rate of these grab and dash crimes is on the rise, the rate of arrest is down. We turned to law enforcement and the retail industry for answers. Both blame a California law intended to make “neighborhoods safe.”

In a New Study on Bird Loss, Some Scientists Say Subtlety Is Lost, Too That is code for “they totally misrepresented things to get more publicity.”

Spiders Can Fly Hundreds of Miles Using Electricity