March 13 – On February 15, 1922, a Wilkes-Barre police officer seized eight barrels of alcohol worth $50,000 from a van on North Washington and… Read More »What happened to seized barrels of alcohol in 1922?
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police supp. David Brown’s Update on Mass Shootings in South Chicago
Google DeepMind has collaborated with classical scholars to create a new AI tool that uses deep neural networks to help historians decipher the text of… Read More »DeepMind’s new AI helps restore damaged old texts
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Jim Risch YouTube/screenshot sen. Jim Risch (R-Idaho) dismissed concerns over the conflict in Ukraine that escalated into a full-scale war between Russia and NATO during… Read More »GOP Senator Says NATO-Russia War ‘Would End Pretty Soon’
It seemed like a funny question, meant to provoke the star witness: “Do you think you’re good at lying?” But it is the crucial issue… Read More »The Key to a $4 Billion Fraud Case: A Banker Who Says He ‘Lied a Lot’
Neil Bradbury is a professor of physiology whose first book, A taste for poison, uses stories of poisons and poisons as a means of explaining… Read More »Learning Physiology By Watching The Poisons That Turn It Off
Most of the people you meet in everyday life – at work, in the neighborhood – are decent and normal. Even nice. But hit Twitter… Read More »The new silent majority: people who don’t tweet
you saw the many cryptocurrency-related Super Bowl ads, and you may have found them weird, or deeply dystopian, or just unsettlingly familiar. Nevertheless, you may… Read More »How people actually make money with cryptocurrencies
Long hailed by its proponents as a safe hedge in uncertain times, Bitcoin’s value has been falling steadily over the past few weeks.
As Fox News defends itself in the Dominion case and in a lawsuit by another voting systems company, Smartmatic, the network’s attorneys have argued that… Read More »First Amendment scholars want the media to lose these cases
Safin Hamed/AFP via Getty Iran launched a dozen ballistic missiles late Saturday night at the Iraqi city of Erbil near an unoccupied US consulate under… Read More »Iran hits US consulate in Erbil, Iraq with a dozen ballistic missiles: AP
Ars Technica It’s the weekend and that means it’s time for a new Dealmaster. Our latest roundup of the web’s best tech deals includes a… Read More »The weekend’s best deals: HyperX gaming headsets, ergonomic keyboards and more
