This is the last of the cliff dwellings at Mesa Verde National Park. It's called Spruce Tree House because.......those are spruce trees nearby? All of these dwellings, by the way, were built in the 1200s after Puebloans had been driven from their previous homes by a long and destructive drought in the 1100s.
Jonathan Haidt’s new book, “The Anxious Generation,” has become a NY Times bestseller, and he’s making media appearances basically everywhere you look, telling people that social media has “rewired children’s minds” and that it is uniquely harmful. We’ve talked about Haidt in the past, and especially his ability to consistently cherry-pick and misread the actual […]
It looks like at least one member of Journey wants to see the band play Las Vegas’ new state-of-the-art venue, Sphere.Co-founder and lead guitarist Neal Schon posted photos from Phish’s recent…
CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. -- A minor 2.1 magnitude earthquake was recorded Monday at around 3:50 a.m. near Mill Creek, Illinois. The location is just east of Cape Girardeau, Missouri. The earthquake happened at a depth of 7.8 miles. While small and unlikely to cause damage, it serves as a reminder that the Illinois Basin - [...]
Here in the People's Republic of California we like to keep things fair. And two of our legislators have had enough: A pair of Orange County state senators from opposing parties — who frequently fly between their districts and Sacramento — are both boosting a first-in-the-nation proposal critics say would ban the expedited security screening ...continue reading "California wants rich people to stop cutting the line in airports"
ST. PETERS,Mo. - What would you do if you won $1,000 per week for the rest of your life? Well, that isn't just a hypothetical question for one Missouri lottery player. It appears that state officials are still looking for the winner. Someone from St. Peters, Missouri, bought a winning Cash4Life Quick Pick ticket for [...]
WASHINGTON — Oral arguments in former President Donald Trump’s historic case in New York began Monday in a Manhattan courtroom where jurors will be tasked with deciding whether deceptive hush money payments to hide an affair amount to a criminal conviction. The first-ever criminal trial of an ex-U.S. president centers on Trump’s alleged falsified business records to […]
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