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Two young men watch a Cardinals game at Busch Stadium in St. Louis, summer 2022

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Roe Falls, and Missouri Bans Most Abortions

Missouri became the first U.S. state to ban abortion after Friday’s Supreme Court ruling overthrew Roe v. Wade.

Copi: “If You Can’t Beat ‘Em, Eat ‘Em”

Asian Carp have become a serious problem in midwestern rivers and lakes. They overpopulate; drive out native species; decimate food supplies such as plankton, algae, and endangered mollusks; and, as you have probably seen in videos, often swarm the surface and fly through the air, hitting boaters.

Second Day of January 6th Hearings More Propulsive

Former White House Political Director Bill Stepien, from the January 6th hearings, courtesy US House     The second day of hearings by the Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol was held yesterday. The focus of its argument was tighter than on…

Six Reasons the First Hearing of the Jan. 6th Committee Did Not Go Well

General Mark Milley, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, in taped testimony in the first night of hearings, courtesy US House     The first of the public hearings of the House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol aired on multiple platforms tonight.

You Can Be My Wingman Any Time

“Top Gun: Maverick,” the second movie in the now-franchise, broke the Memorial Day weekend record for a movie release and is Tom Cruise’s new “biggest domestic box-office debut,” earning $550 million globally in only a week. Somewhere there are admirals celebrating the range of their wingmen.

Babushkas of Chernobyl a Film of Iron Will

Still from ‘Babushkas,’ Chicken and Egg Pictures     The Babushkas of Chernobyl is a 2015 documentary produced and directed by Holly Morris and Anne Bogart, which emerged from Morris’ earlier journalism and TED Talk about elderly women living in the shadow of the destroyed Chernobyl nuclear plant.

Becoming Cousteau a Documentary about Emotion Shaping Stories

‘Becoming Cousteau,’ National Geographic Documentary Films     National Geographic’s Becoming Cousteau (2021), directed and produced by Liz Garbus, is an interesting and timely feature-length biography of Jacques-Yves Cousteau. (The Odyssey, a 2016 film, was a biopic on his life, based on a nonfiction book.) Becoming is not…

A Good Emergency Resource

Header from the group’s Facebook page     Think of how frantic you would be if you discovered your child had swallowed part of a mushroom they found at the playground. Or what if you caught your cat eating a new houseplant, or your dog ran through a bed of…

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