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With Venus square Neptune, I’m well aware of what can happen when music is involved! I often refuse to listen to it as I don’t always want to stir my deep feelings. Today, in my stupidity, I put on some of my mother’s music; Simon & Garfunkel, specifically. I’m grateful…
The Center for Scientific Integrity, the parent nonprofit of Retraction Watch, has launched a new initiative to investigate and rapidly disseminate problems in the medical literature that directly affect human health. Thanks to a $900,000 grant from Open Philanthropy, the Medical Evidence Project will leverage the tools of forensic metascience…
Budget travelers love saving money — myself included. But one of the expenses that we shouldn’t be cheap with is travel insurance. After over 17 years of traveling the world, I still never leave home without it. Why? Because I’ve seen firsthand how useful it can be — and how…
June 5th Birthday Horoscope 2025-2026 MORE BIRTHDAYS If Today is Your Birthday: June 5th The Year Ahead Forecast for June 2025 to June 2026 If You Were Born Today, June 5: You need to have many things going on at once in order to feel satisfied in life.…
As our followers on Facebook already know, we are hiking the 2500-km-long Sultan’s Trail from Vienna to Istanbul. After Coen was diagnosed with stage 4 brain cancer last summer, we decided that the best remedy to pull ourselves together and reclaim our lives was to walk. Hence this big adventure. We’re doing…
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Welcome to your daily horoscope for June 2. The Virgo Moon kicks off the day with clear eyes, fresh focus, and a serious urge to get your life together. After a weekend of Leo Moon energy — big feels, bold moves, and a little extra heat — it’s time to…
Humans judge people quickly. Once they have their read they tend to find ways to support it rather than to be open to the idea their first hit might have been off. You can miss a lot this way. Separate but related, people get in habits with their behavior , …
https://www.lastwordonnothing.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/juncos-2.mp4 Don’t read too much into this, but I have become an obsessive bird spy. I blame LaWONian Ben Goldfarb. He wrote a post about his birdcam (and the board game Wingspan, which I still intend to try), and it made me think that a birdcam would be a great…
In an important contribution from the social sciences, Rice University anthropologists Cymene Howe and Dominic Boyer examine the societal consequences of global glacier loss in a commentary published today in Science. Their article appears alongside new research that estimates that more than three-quarters of the world’s glacier mass could disappear…