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Regarding US threats to annex Greenland by force: "If you take it, we will take every single base of the Americans, from Aviano from Ramstein, from Romania to all the other military bases — [they] will be confiscated, you will lose it — if you take Greenland,"

You Knew this was Coming. An AI model that learns without human input—by posing interesting queries for itself—might point the way to superintelligence. www.wired.com/story/ai-mod...

You Knew this was Coming. www.kuer.org/education/20...

Tim Walz is mobilizing the MN National Guard, and reminds Minnesotans that the guard "is OURS - our teachers and our neighbors." He asks Minnesotans to respect them. "They're there to protect you and your constitutional rights. They don't wear masks."

Trump's Gestspto.

Goebbels Jr. Stephen Miller is now acting as an accelerant for the president’s most incendiary impulses and shaping the lives of individual Americans in nearly every realm, Ashley Parker, Michael Scherer and Nick Miroff report. www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

And they’re the greediest bastards into whom God breathed life. www.esquire.com/news-politic...

Keep Suing the Bastards!

All over Juneau, Alaska, boats have struggled to stay afloat amid a record-breaking onslaught of heavy snow.

It's Murder. Are the Minneapolis Police investigating?

A 120-year-old shingle-style house that was the centerpiece of the Hollywood Center Motel, a vacant but historic site on Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles that was the backdrop for movie scenes and a hangout for rock stars, has been destroyed in a fire, officials said.

Keep Boycotting the Bastards!

The Continuing Disaster of Trump's America.

Trump may have stolen their Oil for Now, but it won't be "Indefinitely".

If Trump Invades Greenland it will invoke the NATO Treaty and also will get America kicked out of NATO. It's Putin's Wet Dream.

It took years to bring “KPop Demon Hunters,” to life. It's now the most-watched movie in Netflix history and spawned an unexpected fandom. In interviews, members of the creative team as well as the stars let us in on the film's back story.

Despicable.

Sad News.

Little Marco couldn't run a Card Game.

WTF did the Police Leave a Crime Scene of a Woman Murdered by ICE?

Your Wednesday Mid-Day Timeline Cleanse.

Behold! Massive volcanic problems. www.iflscience.com/large-igneou...

The solar eruptions around May 2024 affected Earth and even our missions on Mars. www.iflscience.com/new-record-f...

Europa Clipper is on its way to Jupiter but it was in the perfect position to study the comet's tails after its closest approach to the Sun. www.iflscience.com/interstellar...

New research suggests people who struggle with complexity and those who believe the world is inherently unjust are more likely to subscribe to conspiracy thinking. www.iflscience.com/a-conspiracy...

A new study suggests that the bottom of Europa's ocean doesn’t have what it takes for life to thrive.

Have you ever looked at your life or the world around you, or even at the universe more generally, and wondered whether everything is exactly as it seems? The IFLScience Vault investigates. Learn more: www.iflscience.com/the-matrix-o...

Book review 📚 These women helped to shape quantum mechanics — it’s time to recognize them www.nature.com/articles/d41...

In Gorongosa National Park in Mozambique, Rassina Farassi studies how humans came to walk on two legs www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Researchers are targeting dormant tumour cells that might explain why some cancers reappear long after successful treatment www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Achieving net zero means eliminating fossil fuels, not carbon — the chemical element has a crucial part to play in powering the modern world www.nature.com/articles/d41...

This artificial skin, inspired by octopuses, can change its colour and surface texture on demand www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Based on existing models, there is no way gravity alone could generate this temperature. www.sciencealert.com/an-impossibl...

Life in the fast lane. www.sciencealert.com/darwins-head...

Why you need a "muscle savings account." www.sciencealert.com/even-mild-st...

Meet Siwarha. www.sciencealert.com/betelgeuse-i...

These lingering cells pose a puzzle for immunology, which is built around the idea that the immune system should mount an attack against foreign cells. www.sciencealert.com/millions-of-...

"Regardless of its ultimate nature, Cloud-9 is unlike any dark, gas-rich source detected to date." www.sciencealert.com/mysterious-c...

Even a boneless, gelatinous sack lacking a dedicated anus and brain needs its beauty sleep, a new study finds. www.sciencealert.com/jellyfish-sn...

Fascinating in so many ways. www.sciencealert.com/moroccan-cav...

The discovery pushes back the earliest direct evidence of poisoned arrow use by tens of thousands of years. www.sciencealert.com/earliest-dir...

Evolution doesn’t always take thousands or millions of years. Sometimes it happens right before our eyes. Such is the case with the Anna’s hummingbird, a species that has undergone a dramatic transformation in just a few generations, all thanks to the advent of hummingbird feeders.

Researchers used a brain implant to decode the Mandarin sentence “Happy New Year 2025” from a woman’s brain activity while she spoke aloud. Learn more: scim.ag/47MsN2X