A Second World War project which involved training pigeons to pilot bombs has won this year’s spoof Nobel peace prize. The Ig Nobel gongs – awarded annually by the science humour magazine the Annals of Improbable Research – celebrate unusual areas of research that “make people laugh, then think”. Professor Burrhus Frederic Skinner, a psychologist at the University of Minnesota ...
A mega-tsunami caused by a landslide in Greenland caused the Earth to vibrate for nine days, a new study has shown. The collapse of a 1.2km-high (0.7 miles) mountain peak last September caused water in the fjord below to splash back and forth, causing vibrations right through to the Earth’s crust, researchers found. It was caused by the glacier at ...
Donald Trump and his allies have increasingly rallied around an explanation for his lopsided debate loss on Tuesday night: the lamestream media. ABC News moderators David Muir and Linsey Davis’s move to fact-check Trump on a few occasions has engendered the most pushback. Trump and his allies have pitched the event as being “three on one” rather than a head-to-head ...
When President Joe Biden announced his decision not to seek reelection, The Washington Post’s average of polls (like those of other media outlets) began to shift toward the Democrats and to their new nominee, Vice President Kamala Harris. What wasn’t clear, though, was where that movement would stop: Would Harris’s lead keep growing, giving her the sort of lead presidential ...
Former president Donald Trump has traveled the country this week accompanied by far-right activist Laura Loomer, unnerving some GOP allies with his increasing embrace of a provocateur with a history of espousing conspiracy theories and incendiary rhetoric. “The history of statements by Ms. Loomer are beyond disturbing,” Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) said in an interview Thursday. “I hope this problem ...
Almost immediately after the presidential debate ended Tuesday, former president Donald Trump proclaimed victory. This was inevitable, certainly. He did the same thing after debating President Joe Biden in June, but that was at least a contest in which he was obviously the more successful participant. On Tuesday, he was not — but then, he hadn’t been in any of ...
Former president Donald Trump appeared to close the door to another debate on Thursday, declaring on social media that the first two covered enough ground. “THERE WILL BE NO THIRD DEBATE,” Trump said on Thursday. Trump has defended his performance since the debate on Tuesday, even as some of his allies and campaign aides have conceded privately that the evening ...
The mayor of Springfield, Ohio, said a bomb threat Thursday that led to the evacuation of City Hall and numerous buildings “used hateful language towards immigrants and Haitians in our community.” “Springfield is a community that needs help,” Mayor Rob Rue said in an interview with The Washington Post. The mayor added that national leaders should provide that help and ...
Republican vice-presidential nominee Sen. JD Vance (Ohio) recently laid out a potential Trump administration’s approach to end Russia’s war in Ukraine, saying former president Donald Trump’s handling of the conflict could include establishing a “demilitarized zone” in Ukrainian territory now occupied by Russia. The approach would mark a dramatic change from the Biden administration’s policy — which is focused on ...
About two in three Americans support imposing term limits on Supreme Court justices, but only three in 10 back expanding the size of the court — a proposal offered up by congressional Democrats and court transparency advocates as a way to dilute the power of the court’s 6-3 conservative supermajority. The Annenberg Constitution Day Civics Survey also found that 69 ...