“During the routine mail operation, a shipment manifested as an 'Antique Teaching Specimen' was targeted for inspection. Upon opening the shipment, CBP officers found the package to contain a human brain specimen inside of a clear glass mason jar without any paperwork or documentation in support of i…”
— Ken Haddad, Human brain inside jar seized at Blue Water Bridge in Port Huron
“Strikingly, all indicators of industrial capacity utilisation – coal power plants, blast furnaces, coking, steel products, refineries – deteriorated further in the week commencing 10 February, when business was officially expected to resume.”
— Carbon Brief, Coronavirus has temporarily reduced China’s CO2 emissions by a quarter!!
“All of a sudden, really crazy things are starting to happen all over the world. Giant swarms of locusts are absolutely devastating entire regions, extremely unusual storms are confounding meteorologists, earthquake and volcanic activity are both on the rise, and five very dangerous diseases are swee…”
— Michael Snyder, 10 Plagues That Are Hitting Our Planet Simultaneously
“That decision said that government employees, like Meriwether, have limited free speech rights when they are performing their jobs and that the First Amendment doesn’t protect them from disciplinary proceedings.”
— Alex Bollinger, Professor who said he had a “free speech” right to misgender trans students loses court case
“Scale for some reason has this odd, negative connotation to it. If there’s one thing Vox Media believes, it’s that scale and quality can coexist — and doing that across platforms. Especially in the advertising industry, the biggest advertising platforms in the world don’t believe they’re making a sc…”
— Ryan Pauley, Vox Media CRO Ryan Pauley on acquiring NY Mag