Новости за 18.09.2020

(CNN) A group of scientists who put an alligator in a helium-filled box and made it shout have won an ‘Ig’ Nobel Prize, a prestigious-ish award that commemorates the science world’s more unusual experiments. The team, led by researchers from Austria and Japan, were trying to figure out if alligators’ vocal communications relate to their…

(REUTERS) Nicole West steered her bulldozer through the smoldering forest, pushing logs into the underbrush and away from the wildfires ripping through Oregon’s Cascade Mountains. Her border collie, Oink, rode shotgun as West and a volunteer crew raced to clear a fire line. Behind West, on the front lines of the 136,000-acre (55,000-hectare) Riverside fire,…

[Editor's note: This story originally was published by Real Clear Science.] By Ross Pomeroy Real Clear Science There are a variety of ways the human race might go extinct. The ozone layer could collapse, exposing Earth's surface to dangerous levels of ultraviolet radiation. Supervolcanoes could erupt across the globe, depriving food crops of essential sunlight.…

I'm a pretty open-minded fellow when it comes to debate, but I've decided I'm no longer willing to engage with anyone who makes this argument: "Antifa means 'anti-fascist.' What part of that don't you understand? If you're against anti-fascism, what does that make you?" This is an asinine argument, and it usually comes from the…

America-haters ensconced in the education industry must not be allowed to continue to twist the nation's story to warp the minds of its young people, President Donald Trump said Thursday. Trump said he plans to fight back by "establishing a national commission to promote patriotic education." During remarks at the National Archives as part of…

A white student in England has been told by her teacher she doesn't have a right to express an opinion about the race issue because she's white. Summit News reported a recording of a phone call in which the student's grandmother confronted the teacher over what the grandmother called this "BLM crap." The video: SCHOOLS…

(LONDON DAILY MAIL) An FBI agent who found the messages that led to the Hillary Clinton email investigation being reopened days before the 2016 election said the way the bureau handled the case was 'not ethically or morally right'. John Robertson feared he would be made a 'scapegoat' when he found the new emails less…

Lawyers from the Rutherford Institute have created a sample letter for parents to send to schools when their children participate in online classes. It protects the privacy and Fourth Amendment rights of the family against searches "whether by video or otherwise." Described as a precautionary "opt out" letter, it's a way for families to assert…

A sympathetic administrator at elite Vassar College agreed to put a pocket copy of the Constitution through a shredder after an undercover Project Veritas reporter posing as a student complained that its distribution on campus "triggered" her. The Constitution Day report by Project Veritas also shows a professor at Oberlin College agreeing the founding document…

[Editor's note: This story originally was published by Real Clear Politics.] By Philip Wegmann Real Clear Politics Joe Biden stands before a black backdrop in a dark room without any color, except for the American flag over his right shoulder, as the camera zooms in and then up as the broad-shouldered former vice president puts…

[Editor's note: This story originally was published by Real Clear Politics.] By Frank Miele Real Clear Politics You would think that with the miracle of modern technology and the insistence on transparency in government affairs, it would be possible for both the American people and the American president to share the same baseline on certain…

By Ethan Barton Daily Caller News Foundation Former FBI Director James Comey has agreed to testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Sept. 30, according to South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham. Graham, the Republican chairman of the Senate panel, said in a Wednesday interview with Fox News’s Sean Hannity that former special counsel Robert Mueller…

Andrew Kerr and Kyle Hooten Daily Caller News Foundation MINNEAPOLIS — A bail fund promoted by Sen. Kamala Harris helped a man accused of sexually assaulting an eight-year-old girl get out of jail in July, according to court documents obtained by the Daily Caller News Foundation. The Minnesota Freedom Fund (MFF) also helped post bail…

Andrew Trunsky Daily Caller News Foundation Confirmed coronavirus cases from Nashville’s bars and restaurants were so low that the Tennessee city’s Metro Health Department decided to withhold the data from the public, emails from the mayor’s office show. The emails discuss the low amount of coronavirus cases traced to restaurants and bars and how to…

  Federal prosecutors have indicted three state-sponsored Iranian hackers who tried on behalf of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps to infiltrate U.S. companies' networks and steal "critical information related to U.S. aerospace and satellite technology." "This case highlights the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps' efforts to infiltrate the networks of American companies in search of valuable…

By Chuck Ross Daily Caller News Foundation Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee, including Sen. Kamala Harris, are calling on the Justice Department’s watchdog to investigate whether a probe led by U.S. Attorney John Durham violates Justice Department policy. Durham is investigating the origins of the Trump-Russia probe and other intelligence-gathering activities related to Donald…

A Harvard Medical School professor has come to the defense of Dr. Scott Atlas against 98 Stanford colleagues who accused the White House coronavirus adviser of making false statements about the COVID-19 pandemic. Harvard's Martin Kulldorff, in a letter Wednesday to the editor of the Stanford Daily, was responding to an open letter by the…