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LAPD Surveilled Gaza Protests Using This Social Media Tool

One week after Hamas’s October 7 attack, thousands rallied outside the Israeli Consulate in Los Angeles to protest the country’s retaliatory assault on Gaza. The protestors were peaceful, according to

Pluralistic: David Enrich’s “Murder the Truth” (17 Mar 2025)

Today's links David Enrich's "Murder the Truth": Making powerful people look bad isn't a crime – yet. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: 2005, 2010, 2015, 2020

Coal pollution chokes Ulaanbataar – in pictures

The toxic smog that settles over the Mongolian capital every winter has been a suffocating problem for well over a decade that successive governments have failed to dispel. In the

Wast Water provides meaning to artist and psychiatric survivor

This artwork is a photo of an A3 size original acrylic painting which I, Cathy Noble Art, made recently, and it’s of a place called The Langdales which is in

Your ultimate protein guide when costly eggs are off the menu

Across the US, egg prices have slowly come down, thanks to both supply and demand issues leveling out and a reprieve in avian influenza outbreaks. But it's a volatile industry

“Secret Pirate Site Raids” Set for 20:15 & 21:15 Sunday, Invited Journalists Report

From short-tempered exchanges to full-blown public displays of anger, Europe’s top football leagues and their broadcasting partners seem to be less than satisfied with site blocking as a piracy suppressant.

The pop-up megacity: how the Kumbh Mela prepared for 660m Hindu devotees

Hundreds of millions of pilgrims flocked to the Ganges for this year’s festival, housed in a sprawling temporary metropolis stretching across 4,000 hectares of the floodplains of Prayagraj in Uttar

EFF Joins 7amleh Campaign to #ReconnectGaza

In times of conflict, the internet becomes more than just a tool—it is a lifeline, connecting those caught in chaos with the outside world. It carries voices that might otherwise

Can you solve it? Here’s (not) looking at Euclid

A trio of triangle teasersThe ancient Greek geometer Euclid presented a list of five axioms he held to be self-evidently true. They are (or are equivalent to):You can draw a

Quackery (still) kills: A five-year-old boy dies in a hyperbaric oxygen chamber

Even as quacks and antivaxxers take over our federal government's health apparatus, let's not forget why we need stronger, not laxer, regulation of "unconventional" medical practices. The post Quackery (still)

Long Covid is the pandemic’s dark shadow. Why does no one in power in Britain want to talk about it? | Frances Ryan

Five years after the first lockdown, millions of lives are still being ruined by this debilitating disease. You wouldn’t know itImagine a disease that can render its sufferers bedbound for

Labour’s plan for benefits throws up a bigger dilemma

The debate has sparked a wider dilemma about the broader purpose of welfare ​