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Did Her White Father Marry Her Black Mother for Love, or for Research?
18+ min ago (497+ words) For as far back as I can remember, my father was writing his book," Dorothy Roberts recalls in her searing memoir, The Mixed Marriage Project." Robert Roberts, an anthropologist at Roosevelt College in Chicago, spent five decades studying interracial marriage,…...
Why Did Comet 3I/ATLAS Get So Much Brighter After Flying Past the Sun?
29+ min ago (407+ words) Ah, good ol" 3I/ATLAS. How I miss writing about you a few days a week. You were a fun comet. You were a bit of a freak. You came from beyond our solar system, exhibiting all sorts of weird-o behaviors…...
The highlights and lowlights of the 2026 Winter Olympics
34+ min ago (1181+ words) At every Olympic Games, there are winners, and there are many more losers. Dozens of gold, silver, bronze'and a whole bunch of people who walk away with nothing. Officially, Norway won the most in Milan and Cortina, with 41 total medals,…...
U.S. Olympics hockey hero Jack Hughes’ immediate future includes dental implants
34+ min ago (665+ words) Milan-Cortina Olympics hero Jack Hughes is likely looking at a dental implant to replace teeth knocked from his mouth in the third period of the men's hockey final between the United States and Canada on Sunday. Once the euphoria of…...
Remember When Regular Americans Could Afford New Cars?
48+ min ago (210+ words) The conclusion is based on an analysis'by Sean Tucker, managing editor for compact and full-size vehicles at Kelley Blue Book. He thoroughly combed through the industry and found that there are no longer any mainstream new cars for sale in…...
Scientists Have a New Plan to Save the Oceans: Set Them on Fire
56+ min ago (345+ words) But what if we harnessed the awesome power of fire tornadoes" for good? This is likely the thought process that went into a real-life scientific innovation that could become a game-changer for environmental disaster cleanup" or for evil governments seeking…...
RFK Jr.’s Strange Diet ‘Cure’ Gets Brutally Debunked by Experts
56+ min ago (463+ words) Robert F. Kennedy Jr. declared a diet can "cure" schizophrenia'though the expert he likely cited says he never made that claim. Since releasing his new U.S. nutritional guidelines in January, the health secretary has been on tour promoting his new "food pyramid,…...
OpenAI’s chairman explains why he prefers to write his board meeting prep without the help of AI
57+ min ago (497+ words) Sure, ChatGPT could help a board member write up a memo ahead of a meeting. But OpenAI's chairman says there's value to going old-school. Bret Taylor, OpenAI's board chair, said in a recent appearance on the "Uncapped with Jack Altman…...
A Wake for The Washington Post’s Books Section
1+ hour, 10+ min ago (645+ words) Hundreds gathered on Saturday evening in Washington, D.C., to mourn Book World, The Washington Post's books section, which was shuttered this month amid widespread layoffs at the organization. "We find ourselves battling book bans, the trivialization of truth, the bashing of…...
Jeff and Lauren Sánchez Bezos Will Be Honorary Chairs of the Met Gala
1+ hour, 12+ min ago (508+ words) Lauren S'nchez Bezos is officially becoming a co-queen of the Met Gala. On Monday morning, the Metropolitan Museum of Art issued a news release announcing the dress code for its Costume Institute fund-raiser on the first Monday in May. A…...