- Today's comic by Tom Tomorrow is The routine:
What you may have missed on Sunday Kos ..
A newly displaced centrist Republican's guide to third parties, by Mark E Andersen
Remembering Thurgood Marshall, and fighting to ensure the future of SCOTUS, by Denise Oliver Velez
Straight outta physics, by DarkSyde
The 2016 Presidential polling is deeply weird (but does that matter?), by Steve Singiser
'My body, my choice' is not true for women in poverty, in federal employment or in the military, by Susan Grigsby
Unicornomics, by Jon Perr
Tea Party and Trump supporters can't accept people like Jorge Ramos and Barack Obama as Americans, by Ian Reifowitz
Immigration is all the GOP has and Donald Trump is the canary in the mine, by Egberto Willies
The Boston city councilors pushing hardest for significant raises, arguing that their service has been “undervalued,” have had the poorest attendance at City Council hearings since January 2014, a Globe analysis shows.
Council President Bill Linehan, who has been the public face of the battle for six-figure salaries, attended 15 percent of hearings, the fewest of anyone on the 13-member body.
[...] a painstaking yearslong effort to reproduce 100 studies published in three leading psychology journals has found that more than half of the findings did not hold up when retested. The analysis was done by research psychologists, many of whom volunteered their time to double-check what they considered important work. Their conclusions, reported Thursday in the journal Science, have confirmed the worst fears of scientists who have long worried that the field needed a strong correction.
The coal companies have made only the most meager efforts to reclaim this devastated land by planting quick-growth pine trees, black locust, grass seed, and other plants that can live with high levels of acids in the soil. Keaton wanted to know how long it would take for these stands of identical pines to be transformed into a diverse rainforest, so she took the expert to one of the ridges and asked him when the real forest would grow back.
“And he said,” Elise [Keaton] recalled, “‘About 100 million years.’”
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