An embattled NPR editor denouncing the network’s practices fails to understand them—or the practice of journalism.
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I’ve never liked NPR. Throughout its long and venerable half-century run, the public radio network has served as a seamless delivery system for lifestyle smugness. When my mother would reflexively flip it on during long car rides in my adolescence, I’d greet its confident dispatches from the East Coast citadels
The strongest solar flare in recorded history burst into Earth’s atmosphere in 1859, bathing both hemispheres in brilliantly colorful aurorae as it wreaked worldwide havoc on telegraph systems. The celestial chaos was broadly witnessed, but lingering physical evidence of that storm, dubbed the Carrington event, has proven stubbornly elusive — until now, researchers report in the March 16 Geophysical Research Letters.
Ecologist Joonas Uusitalo of the University of Helsinki and his colleagues have identified the first known traces of
Over time, cold cases become increasingly difficult to solve as witnesses die and evidence goes stale.
But one ‘badass’ cop in California has solved an astonishing eight cold cases – cracking ‘more in three years than any single detective in the last 15’.
Using a series of ‘out of the box’ schemes, Matt Hutchison, 39, at the Sunnyvale Department of Public Safety in California, has worked his way through six decades-old murders and two sexual assaults – and all in
At 2:03 a.m. on Monday, September 26, 2022, at the bottom of the Baltic Sea, an explosion tore open one of the four massive underwater conduits that make up the Nord Stream pipeline. The pipe, made of thick, concrete-encased steel, lay at a depth of 260 feet. It was filled with highly compressed methane gas.
Pressure readings would show a sudden plunge as compressed gas screamed through the breach at the speed of sound, tearing the
Three years ago, dozens of African elephants mysteriously died in Zimbabwe. Now scientists have confirmed their killer: a rare and little-known bacterium that can cause organ inflammation leading to deadly hemorrhaging.
The bacterium, dubbed Pasteurellaceae Bisgaard taxon 45, turned up in samples from six of 15 elephants analyzed, researchers report October 25 in Nature Communications. The pathogen is closely related to Pasteurella multocida, which is known to cause hemorrhagic septicemia, or fatal blood poisoning, but Bisgaard taxon 45 had
An eerie and tantalizingly shiny ‘metallic orb’ UFO, caught on tape by the US military in the Middle East, may have finally been identified.
Footage of the object, hovering beneath an MQ-9 Reaper drone, was filmed on July 12, 2022 and played publicly for the first time before the US Senate’s Armed Services Committee last April.
But now data scientists with the controversial, but ostensibly independent ‘open-source’ investigation group Bellingcat say that they have ‘deflated’ widespread speculation that the object
Any attempt to better understand Möbius strips is bound to run into some kinks.
The twisted loops are so strange that mathematicians have struggled to answer some basic questions about them. For example: “What’s the shortest Möbius strip you can make for a paper band of a given width?”
The question hooked mathematician Richard Evan Schwartz. A mistake in a computer program almost prevented him from finding the answer. Simply messing around with strips of paper finally helped him solve
Tutankhamun is perhaps one of the most famous Egyptian pharaohs to have lived.
Despite this, the boy king’s reign was relatively short: he spent just nine years ruling over the ancient 18th Dynasty kingdom.
Having ascended the throne aged eight or nine, Tutankhamun is believed to have introduced a number of popular policies, including reinstating polytheism.
While famous today, when Howard Carter and his team of local workers discovered Tutankhamun’s tomb in 1922, he was almost unknown.
This is largely
Former Home Secretary Priti Patel has demanded that the Government has “a clampdown on lefty lawyers” who are gaming the system to prevent Britain from tackling the small boats crisis across the Channel.
Ms Patel, who was Boris Johnson’s Home Secretary, has already run into problems from leftwing activist lawyers who prevented her Rwanda deportation plan from being implemented with the first plane on the runway ready to take illegal migrants out of the country.
She made her call for
The long-running mystery of a prehistoric grave has finally been solved after years of scientific debate.
New research led by Historic England has unveiled that a 2,000-year-old Iron Age burial site on the Isles of Scilly actually belonged to a warrior woman.
Since its discovery in 1999, archaeologists have mulled back-and-forth over the sex of the individual that possessed both a mirror and a sword.
But new evidence suggests this woman may have been a leading figure – perhaps among
