Prosecutors would eventually clear Dr. Qian of charges of sedition and espionage, but the United States deported him anyway — traded back to Communist Beijing in a swap for about a dozen American prisoners of war in 1955.

The implications of that single deportation are staggering: Dr. Qian returned to China and immediately persuaded Mao Zedong to put him to work building a modern weapons program.

At first glance, this new rule—called “selectively advantageous instability,” or SAI—seems to defy the underpinning assumptions of lifein general, and pushes against the current assumption that life craves stability and a conservation of resources.

My whole family used to crowd around the NES every weekend taking turns trying to beat this game, Lolo, and Zelda. StarTropics was one of our favorites, but we collectively could never beat it.

Totally.

It’s a great place for a team, though. Mostly because it’s close to me…

And throw him to the floor again?

I’d love to see Charlotte with a team.

I’ve been seeing a bunch of PWHL clips lately, I guess it’s time to pick a team and dig in. It’s good hockey.

This. I’d much rather see them suffer being poor for a while before learning they can be reasonably happy at the level most people are at, and using their seized assets to bring the poorest up to a livable level.

They’re prolly going to take it to the Supreme Court and change things again.

First beans, then corn, I guess squash is next…

According to this site, stone fruits like apricots, peaches, cherries, etc., dates, chewing gum, horseradish, jams, pears, apples, prunes, raisins, and many sugar-free processed foods have significant amounts in them.

It’s sorbitol.

You got chocolate in my peanut butter!

Sweet Zombie Jesus

It’s more like bean dip. Super tasty.

Taco

Released in French cinemas 25 years ago this month, Baise-moi is a pulpy, ultra-violent odyssey of two women disillusioned with a patriarchal society that is now remembered as one of cinema’s biggest cause célèbres

Scientists have been scrambling to discover what happened; now the culprits are emerging. A research paper published by the US Department of Agriculture (USDA), though not yet peer-reviewed, has found nearly all colonies had contracted a bee virus spread by parasitic mites that appear to have developed resistance to the main chemicals used to control them.

Varroa mites spreading disease.