University says school should not be placed in conflict with administration of Governor Ron DeSantis The University of Florida (UF) is prohibiting three professors from providing expert testimony in a lawsuit challenging a state law MORE
Happy Friday News Viewers, welcome to Free Chat with a Halloween Theme; it is nearly Halloween, the most unscary holiday of the year.. .. .. While the standard horror tropes — ghosts, witches, fog, skulls MORE
“There’s a solid body of evidence that suggests paid leave has a positive effect on parents and doesn’t adversely affect employers. Paid maternity leave is associated with improved physical and mental health for both mothers and infants, MORE
The James Webb Space Telescope, the long-awaited successor to Hubble, is mired in controversy over its namesake. In 1999, Karen Knierman picked up a free mug at her first big astronomy conference, just before she MORE
At least two people were killed and four were injured during a shooting at a mall in Boise, police officials said Monday. The suspect, who was apprehended at the scene, was hospitalized and is in MORE
Rep. Mo Brooks (R-AL) disputed the Rolling Stone report citing him as one of the key members of Congress who spoke on planning calls for the Jan. 6 rally in Washington, D.C., tweeted CNN Capitol Hill reporter Melanie Zanona. MORE
I love the way the Atlantic says it: “Stop Shopping“. . . . . . America, the holidays are here. The supply chain is broken. Blessing or curse? Whatever we hoarding inhabitants of earth may MORE
Good morning News Viewers and Happy Friday; I’m writing from a cloudy and rainy Washington state where I’m visiting the youngest and his spouse AND where I attended 7th and 8th grade back in the MORE
The apparent human remains that authorities found Wednesday in a Florida park most likely belong to Brian Laundrie, the missing man whose fiancée Gabby Petito was found fatally strangled last month, the Laundrie family attorney told CNN. Investigators also MORE
The former president decided a National Republican Senatorial Committee retreat was the right time to set the record straight on the “pee tape,” which no one else has thought about in years. In a private MORE
Regulators scrutinizing plans for an oil pipeline off the Orange County coast in the 1970s examined the potential damage in the event of a ship anchor strike but downplayed the risks, concluding that a resulting MORE
Tensions between Chicago’s mayor and police over the city’s vaccine mandate grew this week as the head of the police union urged officers to ignore a deadline to report their vaccination status. Chicago city employees, MORE
OK, where’s Spock? Uhura? Chekov and Sulu? Join us to watch William Shatner leave the soundstage; he says he’s most excited about coming back down. … . Where art meets reality, here on News Views. MORE
On Oct. 11, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott—who has opposed masking but came under fire from a Republican political rival recently for allegedly failing to push back hard enough on federal vaccine mandates—took a strong stand against vaccine mandates, issuing MORE
Happy Monday News Viewers; welcome to Free Range, our Monday Free Chat with an environmental bent. This week is “Animals in the News” which happens to be a regular feature in The Atlantic (but I MORE
Earth scientists at the turn of the century, Gavin Schmidt among them, were enthralled by a 56-million-year-old segment of geologic history known as the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM). What most intrigued them was its resemblance to our MORE
You know which ones they are: Nineteen states have enacted 33 laws that make it harder for people to vote, according to the Brennan Center for Justice. Fifteen states made it harder to apply for MORE
Happy Friday News Viewers, and unbelievably it’s the 40th week of the year, meaning we can see 2022 in the near distance. As I looked at political cartoons for last year at this time, I MORE
NASA chose the landing site of its life-hunting Perseverance Mars rover wisely. Perseverance touched down in February on the floor of the 28-mile-wide (45 kilometers) Jezero Crater, which was picked primarily because previous observations by Mars orbiters MORE
It’s been nearly 16 months since Bubba Wallace was waiting out a rainstorm in his motorhome in the Talladega Superspeedway infield when NASCAR informed its only full-time Black driver that a noose had been found MORE
It has become a ubiquitous question in our politics: How close did Donald Trump come to pulling off an actual coup? Efforts to grapple with this have been trapped largely in the zone of wild MORE
Is it morning yet? Happy Monday all and yes, it’s morning, at least in this neck of the woods. . . . This is Free Range, our Free Chat about an entire range 😉 of MORE
A good mask is “the most important defense we have” against COVID, says aerosol expert Kimberly Prather, an atmospheric chemist at the University of California, San Diego. There are a number of national standards for MORE
In the newly released video, Officer Eric Pratt tells a distraught and sobbing Petito that witnesses had reported seeing Laundrie hit or “punch you.” He asks if it’s true, and she responds: “I guess, yeah, MORE
Good morning News Viewers and is it Happy Friday? Crappy Friday? Mad, Sad or Glad Friday? I don’t know about you, but I’m ready for a Zen, Let it Go, Kick Back and Relax, Smell MORE