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[ad_1] Hello and welcome to another edition of Free Agent! Bring your spaghetti in and take a seat, we’ve got a full newsletter today. This newsletter often looks at people whining about change and tells them to get over it. This time, I think the people complaining about changes to NCAA sports have a point. We’ll get into the March Madness and College Football Playoff expansions, as well as legislation regulating the NCAA. Plus, we’ll close with a less-serious bit about golf. Don’t miss sports coverage from Jason Russell and Reason. No need for the dreaded replacement refs after all:…

[ad_1] The ruling Tuesday in the Rajiv Menon case comes as four of the anti-genocide defendants found guilty in a retrial can be sentenced as terrorists, Dania Akkad reports.Ceasefire Now – End the Occupation demonstration in London, April 2024. (Alisdaire Hickson, Flickr, CC BY-SA 2.0) A leading human rights barrister has won his appeal against contempt of court proceedings leveled at him for a closing speech in the trial of anti-genocide Palestine Action activists.  The court of appeal’s ruling Tuesday in the case of Rajiv Menon KC comes as it has also emerged that four of the defendants found guilty…

[ad_1] A year before October 7, 2023, reshaped the political landscape, we founded a nonprofit organization called Antisemitism Watch. The decision followed decades of reporting on the Holocaust and its aftermath, and years of chronicling daily antisemitic incidents. What became unmistakable over time was not simply persistence, but normalization—antisemitism embedding itself across wide swaths of society with diminishing resistance. In a Newsweek op-ed in which we announced the launch, we wrote that “few contest that antisemitism—history’s oldest hatred of a religious and ethnic group—has had an unmatched post-Holocaust resurgence.”1 The data confirmed record numbers of anti-Jewish attacks across the United States, Canada, and…

[ad_1] Nearly 9 in 10 Americans say maintaining brain health is very important, yet only 9% know how to do it, according to the 2026 Alzheimer’s Association report surveying 3,800 adults age 40 and older. Only 34% of adults exercise daily; just 39% eat a healthy diet regularly; half get adequate sleep—despite 99% believing lifestyle behaviors matter for brain health. Midlife (ages 35-64) is identified as the critical window for intervention, when conditions like high blood pressure, diabetes and obesity typically emerge. The U.S. POINTER study, a landmark clinical trial with 2,111 participants, found that structured lifestyle programs combining exercise,…

[ad_1] After The Federalist’s Mollie Hemingway’s new book exposed the dangerous delay of Dobbs, the liberal justices appear to have stalled again. [ad_2] Source link

[ad_1] The climatic phenomenon is expected to return this year, but a lot has changed since what might have been the worst environmental disaster in human history. [ad_2] Source link

[ad_1] Henry David Thoreau investigated the Sudbury River as America’s first river scientist. Photo: Robert M. Thorson. The steam locomotive chugged its way toward Cambridge, Massachusetts, on Aug. 15, 1859. On board was an impatient young scientist wanting to understand the math and science governing how river channels should behave. After disembarking at Harvard College and searching the stacks of its library, Henry David Thoreau checked out “Principes D’Hydraulique,” a three-volume tome of hydraulic engineering. Once he translated and transcribed 17 pages from the original French, he finally discovered what he was looking for: an equation for the equilibrium velocity…

[ad_1] The Wall Street Journal reported Monday, citing unnamed sources familiar with the matter, that the Trump administration is moving to temporarily reduce tariffs on beef imports from all exporting nations through an executive order.  A second executive order, per the Journal, will direct the Small Business Administration to expand loans for U.S. ranchers and roll back rules requiring electronic ear tags on livestock. Subscribe Today Get daily emails in your inbox The executive orders are part of a broader effort to reduce beef prices, which have risen more than 16 percent since last year, according to Federal…

[ad_1] The alleged perpetrator, Rhamell Burke, had been released from Bellevue Hospital’s psychiatric ward the day of the murder despite multiple prior arrests for violent and threatening behavior. [ad_2] Source link

[ad_1] Dozens of people have e-mailed me about a recent article in the New York Times Magazine on the interstitium. The reason is not because of the interstitium itself, but because it is being used to retcon an alleged explanation for acupuncture.  The discussion of the interstitium itself is fine, but then the author veered off into gratuitous pseudoscience. The interstitium was proposed in 2018 based on a study showing that the interstitial connective tissue spaces around organs and other tissues in the body are not separate spaces but all appear to be connected. Essentially the authors propose this is…