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Go find a screwdriver and get ready to screw your jaw back on‚ because a Danish family has made a video compilation of how a wild Eurasian crow has become part of their flock. The crow will come and visit all of them‚ including the dog and the cats‚ but it’s for the little boy […] The post Rescued Crow Is Boy’s Best Friend‚ Waiting for Him to Get Home from School Every Day: ‘We’re his flock’ appeared first on Good News Network.

Much beloved astronomer and science communicator Carl Sagan once recorded a message‚ for future astronauts setting foot on the planet Mars.Sagan was a big advocate for exploration of the Red Planet. Co-founder of The Planetary Society‚ he believed we should go to the planet to study it as an analog for our own planet‚ to search for potential signs of life‚ and simply because of the romance of exploring Mars.In 1996‚ shortly before he died of pneumonia on December 20‚ Sagan recorded a message for future astronauts who have made it to Mars."I'm Carl Sagan. This is a place where I often work in Ithaca‚ New York‚ near Cornell University. Maybe you can hear‚ in the background‚ a 200-foot [60-meter] waterfall‚ right nearby‚ which is probably – I would guess – a rarity on Mars‚ even in times of high technology‚" Sagan says in the recording."Science and science fiction have done a kind of dance over the last century‚ particularly with respect to Mars. The scientists make a finding‚ it inspires science fiction writers to write about it‚ and a host of young people read the science fiction and are excited and inspired to become scientists to find out more about Mars‚ which they do‚ which then feeds again into another generation of science fiction and science. And that sequence has played a major role in our present ability to get to Mars. It certainly was an important factor in the life of Robert Goddard‚ the American rocketry pioneer who‚ I think more than anyone else‚ paved the way for our actual ability to go to Mars. And it certainly played a role in my scientific development.""I don't know why you're on Mars. Maybe you're there because we've recognized we have to carefully move small asteroids around to avert the possibility of one impacting the Earth with catastrophic consequences‚ and‚ while we're up in near-Earth space‚ it's only a hop‚ skip‚ and a jump to Mars.""Or‚ maybe we're on Mars because we recognize that if there are human communities on many worlds‚ the chances of us being rendered extinct by some catastrophe on one world is much less. Or maybe we're on Mars because of the magnificent science that can be done there‚ the gates of the wonder world are opening in our time. Or maybe we're on Mars because we have to be‚ because there's a deep nomadic impulse built into us by the evolutionary process. We come after all‚ from hunter-gatherers‚ and for 99.9 percent of our tenure on Earth‚ we've been wanderers. And the next place to wander to is Mars. But whatever the reason you're on Mars is‚ I'm glad you're there. And I wish I was with you."The recording‚ thanks to The Planetary Society which he co-founded‚ was sent to Mars‚ arriving on May 25 2008 after hitching a ride onboard NASA's Phoenix lander. It remains there on the surface on an archival silica-glass mini-DVD‚ which the society hopes will last hundreds‚ or potentially thousands‚ of years.[H/T: Gizmodo]

For the first two years of Joe Biden’s presidency‚ the partisan Democrats of our “legacy media” treated the Pelosi-Picked Panel on January 6 as a dominant story‚ worthy of hundreds of hours of television coverage‚ both live coverage of the hearings and breathless cycles of previews and reviews. Once Republicans took over the House‚ would we have predicted this kind of committee oversight coverage would go from Hero to Zero? On March 20‚ the House Oversight Committee held public hearings that were supposed to feature live testimony by Hunter Biden. The GOP-led committee titled the hearing “Influence Peddling: Examining Joe Biden’s Abuse of Public Office‚” which was already a turn-off for Biden-voter reporters. That night NBC offered two minutes. ABC and CBS did nothing. In January‚ Hunter Biden pulled a stunt by showing up and demanding a public hearing‚ and the networks covered that. On February 28‚ Hunter showed up for a hearing behind closed doors‚ and the networks covered that. But when Hunter skipped the public hearing he allegedly wanted‚ they skipped the story? Even those prestigious national newspapers – with the slogans about "All the News That’s Fit to Print‚" and "Democracy Dies In Darkness" – offered a big fat zero in their print editions. Nothing on Joe Biden's abuse of office was published in The New York Times‚ The Washington Post‚ or The Wall Street Journal. Then consider “public” broadcasting – the ones who have automatic and undeserved prestige because of their “for the people” branding. The PBS NewsHour offered nothing‚ not ten hot seconds. They offered eight minutes on a potential government shutdown‚ so their journalists were working on Capitol Hill.  The taxpayer-funded hour also carried five minutes on the “controversial” Texas border-enforcement law‚ five minutes on the Biden administration setting a timeline for ending the gasoline-powered automobile‚ and almost seven minutes on a Mississippi police “goon squad” that brutalized some black men. “Systemic racism‚” always a staple. National “Public” Radio was a bad joke‚ as in their evening news show All Things Considered never considered a story on the Biden Abuses Office hearing. NPR’s homepage was topped the next morning by their hot story: new details on Rupert Murdoch’s British phone-hacking scandal of 2011. Their media reporter David Folkenflik files a hostile story on Murdoch or Fox News on a regular basis‚ like he was an operative being paid by MSNBC and CNN. NPR had a Biden mention on their homepage. Their young White House reporter Deepa Shivaram had a TikTok-like video shoot on President Biden grabbing a trendy boba tea in Las Vegas under the headline “Food stops can tell you a lot about a campaign.” Shilling Shivaram cheerfully explained “Asian-Americans make up a critical voting bloc in Nevada‚" and "Experts on food and politics say that Biden ordering this could also send a message to people who think he’s too old for the job.” I scrolled all the way down the homepage looking for a Biden-hearing story‚ to no avail. At the very bottom‚ there was this news from the insect world: “Scientists studied how cicadas pee. Their insights could shed light on fluid dynamics.” This makes it easy to describe the quality of NPR’s coverage of the Biden family scandals. It’s a warm bucket of cicada urine.  

Proponents of the law insist that Uber and Lyft are bluffing about leaving the city.

Inaccurate is not the same as false with regard to the commentator’s statement that Trump was found ‘liable for rape.’

Their claims at a Senate hearing rely on evidence that ranges from dubious to nonexistent.