Civil Liberties

If you compare a human’s nose to a dog’s nose, the former usually comes up wanting. Canine noses are so sensitive, they can smell a human’s stress and use the various odors around them to paint a picture of reality akin to what human eyes do with different colors. By contrast the human nose — though able to distinguish between 1 trillion different scents — seems like a weak imitator.... Read Original Article

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Garry Wills got the obvious out of the way when asked about what America’s founding fathers would have thought of the presidential election between former president Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris. “Since women had no political position in the eighteenth century, I could not place this debate there,” Wills told Salon.... Read Original Article

The record-breaking Hurricane Milton has left a massive path of devastation in its wake as it plowed through Florida into the Atlantic Ocean on Wednesday and Thursday. But it has also generated a ragged trail of misinformation that officials are still trying to combat.

On Thursday, President Joe Biden was asked at a press conference if he had spoken with former President Donald Trump about the hurricanes.... Read Original Article

From the Quebec Blackout of 1989 to the historically intense Carrington Event 140 years earlier, geomagnetic storms are often memorable and spectacular events. This is why skygazers are excited about the recent news of an impending geomagnetic storm that will occur on Thursday evening and Friday evening, producing colorful auroras from northern California to Alabama.... Read Original Article

With Hurricane Milton making landfall in Florida on Wednesday evening, millions of Sunshine State residents have evacuated their homes or boarded up businesses to brace for the impending storm. This potentially historic storm has fluctuated between Category 3 status (meaning wind speeds above 110 mph) all the way to Category 5 status (wind speeds in excess of 157 mph), and its impacts, both short-term and long-term, will likely be devastating.... Read Original Article

Hurricane Milton is shattering records, becoming the fifth-strongest storm in the Atlantic Basin’s recorded history by barometric pressure, strengthening into a Category 5 storm in just 10 hours. It has become so severe that President Joe Biden has declared a state of emergency in the soon-to-be-affected areas — is now expected to make landfall in Florida on late Wednesday.... Read Original Article

As the finger-like celestial objects seem to grasp into the heavens, the Pillars of Creation are almost impossible to adequately describe with human language. Located in Eagle Nebula in the Serpens constellation, the clusters of cool interstellar gas and dust appear splotchy in the Hubble Space Telescope’s images, but thanks to the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), the Pillars truly appear like solid columns.... Read Original Article

Hurricane Helene, the climate change-fueled tropical cyclone that pummeled much of the American southeast in late September, has claimed more than 230 lives with some estimates of damages ranging from $30 to 47.5 billion. But these statistics reflect a genuine human cost, such as that of a 27-year-old mother who died with her twin babies after a tree fell through the roof of their Thomson, Georgia home.... Read Original Article

Just days after Hurricane Helene ravaged the southeastern United States, another major storm has formed: Hurricane Milton. Already, Milton was upgraded to a Category 5 storm on the Saffir-Simpson scale, raising alarms throughout the nation as it powers toward the region. On Monday, President Joe Biden signed an emergency declaration for Florida while the state has issued evacuation orders.... Read Original Article