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Trump eyes "Hormuz Coalition," seizure of Iran's Kharg Island oil hub Added: Mar 15, 2026
Trump eyes "Hormuz Coalition," seizure of Iran's Kharg Island oil hub
Site: Axios
Seizing Kharg Island would require U.S. boots on the ground.
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Chimps Seem To Love Crystals. It Could Solve 780,000-Year-Old Mystery Added: Mar 15, 2026
Chimps Seem To Love Crystals. It Could Solve 780,000-Year-Old Mystery
Site: SciTechDaily
Chimpanzee experiments suggest early humans were likely fascinated by crystals because of their unique transparency and geometric shapes.
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CachyOS dethrones Arch as the top desktop distro for Linux gamers on ProtonDB
Added: Mar 15, 2026CachyOS dethrones Arch as the top desktop distro for Linux gamers on ProtonDB
Site: XDA
It ended a five year streak.
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Astronomers Confirm a 'Mega-Laser' Beam Signal from 8 Billion Light-Years Away, and It Refuses to Fade Out
Added: Mar 15, 2026Astronomers Confirm a 'Mega-Laser' Beam Signal from 8 Billion Light-Years Away, and It Refuses to Fade Out
Site: The Daily Galaxy - Great Discoveries Channel
A razor-thin radio signal hit the MeerKAT radio telescope from more than 8 billion light-years away, and it was far too bright to make sense.
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Leonardo da Vinci’s DNA May Finally Prove Where He’s Buried Added: Mar 15, 2026
6 Living Men Took a DNA Test to Solve One Mystery: Whose Bones Are in Leonardo da Vinci’s Grave?
Site: Popular Mechanics
A genetic trail that stretches back to 1331 may finally confirm the resting place of a genius.
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Marc Andreessen: Humans Who Know What To Do Stay Irreplaceable / X Added: Mar 15, 2026
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Small comet seen stopping its spin, then restarting in reverse - Earth.com Added: Mar 15, 2026
A small comet baffled astronomers when it suddenly stopped, then reversed direction
Site: Earth.com
The Hubble Space Telescope saw Comet 41P stop spinning completely, and then restart, but in the opposite direction.
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Chickpeas could become the first food grown on the Moon | ScienceDaily Added: Mar 16, 2026
Chickpeas could become the first food grown on the Moon
Site: ScienceDaily
Scientists have grown chickpeas in simulated moon soil, offering a promising step toward farming on the lunar surface. Researchers mixed moon-like regolith with worm-produced compost and helpful fungi that protect plants from toxic metals. The combination allowed chickpeas to grow and produce a harvest in soil that normally cannot support plant life. Scientists now need to confirm the crops are safe and nutritious for astronauts.
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SHE WENT OFF - YouTube Added: Mar 16, 2026
SHE WENT OFF
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U.S. Targets Iran's Kharg Island, Long Airport Security Lines, "Antifa" Convictions: AM Update 3/16
Site: YouTube
America targets Iran's Kharg Island, key to their oil production, as the war escalates. Long airport security lines across the country as a result of the par...
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‘Lobstergate’ shows just how far our media have sunk Added: Mar 16, 2026
‘Lobstergate’ shows just how far our media have sunk
Site: The Hill
The internet incentivizes the very worst kind of behavior, as this shameful pile-on demonstrates.
It is a terrible time to be a news consumer. Sadly, the only way to explain today's media is to write them off as either malicious or hopelessly incompetent. Consider "lobstergate," one of the more achingly idiotic so-called controversies in recent years. This episode begins with a watchdog report from OpenTheBooks finding that, in the fourth quarter of 2025, the Pentagon spent an estimated $6.9 million on lobster tail, $2 million on Alaskan king crab, and $15.1 million on ribeye steaks. Now, if you have served in the U.S. armed forces, or you know someone who has, you know all too well what those food purchases are about. American mess halls often treat servicemen to special meals — usually right before deployments or other rough assignments, as a morale booster. Those special meals? You guessed it: lobster, ribeye, or crab. Special meals are also provided for the occasional non-deployment situation. “It’s been a tell since at least World War II for garrisoned troops,” Marine veteran and former Daily Caller editor-in-chief Geoffrey Ingersoll explained. “They come into the chow hall. There’s steaming, often poorly cooked, sometimes even boiled, ribeye. Mass-produced lobster tail basically devoid of flavor beside it. Huge signal that some tribulation is coming. Either you’re about to get hazed or shot at, one of the two. So leadership wants bellies full and morale high.” There’s a reason U.S. Navy submarines are equipped with soft-serv machines. This has been going on for the better part of a century — perhaps longer. But for some people, human history began only 11 years ago, when Donald Trump came riding down that escalator to launch his political career. After OpenTheBooks reported the expenditures on Substack, the New Republic picked up the story, claiming that Secretary of War Pete Hegseth “blew billions” on, among other things, “crab,” adding that “a good chunk of the budget wasn’t used for anything that could be considered a pertinent military expense.” Citing the New Republic article, part-time journalist and full-time nepo-baby Molly Jong-Fast claimed in a viral March 10 tweet that some of the “frivolous” September 2025 Pentagon purchases included “an astronomical amount of shellfish,” including lobster tail, which “is apparently a favorite of Hegseth’s Pentagon.” Her tweet immediately drew the attention of dozens in news media, including former MSNBC host Mehdi Hasan, Atlantic contributor Jemele Hill, and Washingtonian magazine’s Jessica Sidman, like flies to a road apple. Later that same day, the celebrity gossip website TMZ reported that Hegseth “blew billion$” on fruit baskets and lobster. This is where the story slipped the niche corners of the internet to become what can only be described as an “official narrative” for Democratic operatives in Washington. On CNN, contributor Paul Begala — an ancient Washington hand who surely knows better — shouted indignantly that Hegseth "has spent $15 million in one month for ribeye steaks, $6.9 million for lobster tail ... He has spent more in the month of September than most countries on Earth spend ... all for himself!” Speaking for the world's bewildered, fellow CNN panelist Scott Jennings responded, “Do you believe he ate all that by himself?” Mediaite joined in this shameful pile-on reporting that Hegseth’s Defense Department “blew $22M on steak and lobster in a single month.” The Daily Beast characterized the Pentagon’s expenditures as a “lavish year-end splurge.” Washingtonian’s Sidman gasped, "Almost $7 million in lobster!" On late-night television, the story scored a hat trick, earning mentions from Jimmy Kimmel, Stephen Colbert, and Seth Meyers. Each dutifully defamed Hegseth as having spent an outrageous sum on luxury items. On "The View," part of CBS’s news division, the hosts likewise repeated the charge that the Secretary of War had frittered away millions on unnecessary foodstuffs. Are we to believe that not a single one of the people responsible for spreading this talking-point has ever served in the military? Do none of them know anyone who has served, who could shed light on why the Pentagon recently bought large quantities of lobster, ribeye, and crab legs? It is truly amazing — not one of those mentioned above paused to ask what else has happened since late 2025 that might have merited such a bulk purchase of deployment dinners. For a possible explanation for this otherwise unbelievable display of ignorance, it’s worth noting that their fake story is also being spread verbatim by top-ranking elected Democrats, including Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) and Sen Adam Schiff (D-Calif.). They have seized on the story to accuse the War Secretary of waste and abuse. Schumer even called Hegseth a “grifter" — as if he had personally eaten all that lobster or somehow profited from it. Wyden actually alleged exactly this, grousing on Twitter, “The government can’t fund food stamps or health care but at least Pete Hegseth gets to eat lobster for lunch everyday [sic]." It beggars belief that Schumer, who has served in Congress for decades and through multiple wars, is unaware of "surf-and-turf night." It’s equally unlikely that either Schiff or Wyden, both of whom have spent years overseeing Pentagon budgets and spending, is in the dark. Former Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.), who served in the Air Force, and Rep. Jason Crow (D-Colo.), who served in the U.S. Army, have likewise pounced on the moment, alleging mismanagement and incompetence by the Department of War. They know exactly what they are doing. The internet incentivizes the very worst kind of behavior. Some people may just be ignorant and too lazy to ask or check, but so many of those mentioned above are simply not sincere human beings. They are faking righteous indignation for clicks, or in the service of some political agenda, or both. T. Becket Adams is a journalist and media critic in Washington.
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President Trump Participates in a Lunch with the Trump Kennedy Center Board Members
Site: YouTube
The White House
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Roots and the Meaning of Life – The Marginalian Added: Mar 16, 2026
Roots and the Meaning of Life
Site: The Marginalian
They are so far out of sight for us, creatures of the upper world, that we don’t readily think of them. But as soon as we do, as soon as we plunge the mind into the cold dark humus to which t…
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Researchers Upload Fly's Brain to Matrix, Let It Control Virtual Body
Added: Mar 16, 2026Researchers Upload Fly's Brain to Matrix, Let It Control Virtual Body
Site: Futurism
A company claims to have simulated the neurons of an adult fruit fly's brain and letting it roam inside a Matrix-like virtual environment.
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‘We’re going to have a problem’: Republicans want Trump to move on from 2020 - POLITICO Added: Mar 16, 2026
** ‘We’re going to have a problem’: Republicans want Trump to move on from 2020**
Site: POLITICO
Facing a difficult midterm landscape, there's a growing view in the GOP that revisiting election grievances risks distracting from the issues that matter most.
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President Trump Welcomes Violinist Rusanda Panfili's Performance at the 2026 Governors Dinner
Site: YouTube
The White House
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IT WAS A TOTAL LIE
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These people just make stuff up for clicks and ya know it works for them, doesn't it.The latest Erika Kirk story was more made up nonsenseBecome A Memberhttp...
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HE COULD DO IT
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What is the latest on the newly discovered Earth-sized world 146 light-years away? - Google Search Added: Mar 16, 2026
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Miles Klee 🦉 (@milesklee.bsky.social) — Bluesky
Added: Mar 16, 2026Miles Klee 🦉 (@milesklee.bsky.social)
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Elon Musk teases crazy outlook for xAI against its competitors
Added: Mar 16, 2026Elon Musk teases crazy outlook for xAI against its competitors
Site: TESLARATI
Elon Musk has never been one to shy away from crazy timelines, massive expectations, and outrageous outlooks. However, his recent plans for xAI and where he believes it will end up compared to its competitors are sure to stimulate conversation.
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BENJAMIN NETANYAHU ALLEGDLY DEAD
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We are a deeply unserious peopleBecome A Memberhttp://youtube.com/timcastnews/joinThe Green Room - https://rumble.com/playlists/aa56qw_g-j0BUY CAST BREW COFF...
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Trump’s Sunday night crashout
Site: POLITICO
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Physicists Reveal the Big Bang’s “Primordial Soup” Really Flowed Like a Liquid Added: Mar 16, 2026
Physicists Reveal the Big Bang’s “Primordial Soup” Really Flowed Like a Liquid
Site: SciTechDaily
Scientists studying particle collisions at CERN have captured new evidence of how quarks move through the early universe’s primordial plasma.
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Rep. Jill Tokuda explains why she didn't stand during Trump's viral SOTU moment | Fox News Added: Mar 16, 2026
Rep. Jill Tokuda explains why she didn't stand during Trump's viral SOTU moment | Fox News
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Necessary Losses: The Life-Shaping Art of Letting Go
Site: The Marginalian
“We cannot deeply love anything without becoming vulnerable to loss. And we cannot become separate people, responsible people, connected people, reflective people without some losing and leav…
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How Old Philosophers Are When Their Influence Peaks? - Daily Nous
Added: Mar 16, 2026How Old Philosophers Are When Their Influence Peaks? - Daily Nous
Site: Daily Nous
Philosophers of the past 100 years or so have tended to reach “peak influence” between their early 50s and late 60s, according to a new analysis from Eric Schwitzgebel (UC Riverside). To determine this, Professor Schwitzgebel looked at how frequently the authors are mentioned in philosophy journal abstracts, titles, and keywords over time—that is, their “discussion arcs,” discussed previously here. He analyzed the discussion arcs of 25 anglophone philosophers born in the 20th century who are among the most-cited in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Here’s the youngest set of them, those born between 1941 and 1945: For the charts for the other sets of philosophers, see Schwitzgebel’s post, here. Below is the overview for all the philosophers he looked at: As I’m sure Professor Schwitzgebel would agree, “discussion arcs” are just one way to capture the influence of philosophers, and a partial one, at that. For one thing, the influence of philosophers sometimes extends beyond the discipline’s professional ecology. For another, it is unclear how far the discussion arc approach could be extended to apply to philosophers who lived during a time in which nothing like the professional ecology of the past 150 years or so existed. And lastly, with enough time, some philosophers become so influential that their ideas come to be detached from their names, and in some cases come to be more like the lenses through which we see, or the tools with which we work. When did Aristotle’s influence peak? Has it?
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Trump LOSES IT After Learning Iran's New Leader IS GAY
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President Trump and Vice President JD Vance Participate in Signing Time, Mar. 16, 2026
Site: YouTube
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Tucker Accuses CIA of Spying on Him, Megyn Responds to Mark Levin, & Oscars Lowlights and Highlights
Site: YouTube
Megyn Kelly reacts to Tucker Carlson's video saying the CIA is preparing a criminal referral against him over his stance on the Iran war, what the Foreign Ag...
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Megyn Kelly Breaks Down Mark Levin's 111 Personal Attacks Against Her Since November
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Megyn Kelly breaks down Mark Levin's 111 personal attacks against her since November.LIKE & SUBSCRIBE for new videos everyday: https://bit.ly/3Aw93ywWatch fu...
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THEY ARE COOKED
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Tell me about the centennial celebration of the first liquid-fueled rocket launch. - Google Search Added: Mar 16, 2026
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Tucker Carlson Fails His Own Loyalty Test - by Eli Lake Added: Mar 16, 2026
Tucker Carlson Fails His Own Loyalty Test
The podcaster’s claim he is being ‘framed’ as a foreign agent is alarming. But he loves nothing more than questioning fellow Americans’ loyalty to their country, writes Eli Lake.
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Surreal War, Silent Media: Victor Davis Hanson Breaks It Down
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It’s the second week of the so-called Iran war, and we’re told that it’s dragging on, we’re losing, and the Trump administration has no real success plan, or...
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FULL: Watch Q&A with Trump on Iran war, fraud, more
Site: YouTube
President Trump and VP JD Vance took questions from the press, answering several about topics from Iran to fraud to which former president he spoke too about...
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What does the discovery of all five nucleobases on asteroid Ryugu mean for the origin of life? - Google Search Added: Mar 16, 2026
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Did Halley's Comet Sink The Titanic?
Site: YouTube
Two years of record warmth coincided with the arrival of Halley's Comet in 1910. This led to an excess of icebergs in 1912. Analysis by visitech.ai
