Dear Prudence is Slate’s advice column. Submit questions here. Dear Prudence, A week ago, I learned that my 35-year-old son donated sperm to a lesbian couple he’s friends with, and they just had a girl. He’s not married and has expressed no interest in having children, so this came as a complete shock. My son is an only child, and I have …
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Astronomers have discovered a vast cloud of gas and dust stretching out for a staggering 200 light-years and lurking in a poorly explored region of the Milky Way. The structure, named the Midpoint cloud, is an example of a Giant Molecular Cloud (GMC). It was discovered by the team using the Green Bank Telescope. Peeling back the layers of the …
Read More »Quantum Internet Meets Einstein’s Theory of Gravity in This New Ingenious Idea SciTechDaily The Hunt for a Fundamental Theory of Quantum Gravity WIRED Goodbye to gravity as we know it — Quantum wave makes spacetime tremble ecoportal.net “Quantum Reality Is Crumbling”: Scientists Confirm Gravity and Space-Time Dramatically Alter the Quantum World in Astonishing New Findings Sustainability Times This new experiment could take us closer …
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Sorry, Rihanna — this movie is a mess. Photo: Paramount Animation See it as a sign we’re out of ideas or just a symptom of the IP people are working with these days, but we’ve been relying on visits to the real world to give an added dimension to properties that on their own would feel thin. Less than a …
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SAN FRANCISCO — U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi and Interior Secretary Doug Burgum are in San Francisco visiting Alcatraz Thursday morning and are expected to announce plans to reopen the federal penitentiary. Back in May, President Trump started talking about reopening the site as a federal prison. Congress is expected to introduce a bill to end environmental protections for Alcatraz …
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The UFC made a rare exception for one of the most beloved fighters on the roster but this won’t be a regular occurrence going forward. Dustin Poirier announced his retirement ahead of time before UFC 318 was confirmed to be his last dance. In a somewhat surprising move from the UFC, the promotion moved plans around in order to give …
Read More »MLBPA’s Tony Clark rips baseball salary cap idea as ‘institutionalized collusion’ Pittsburgh Post-Gazette ‘Institutionalized collusion’: MLBPA fights cap talk ESPN MLB is ‘thriving’ — but it may not be enough to thwart a potential lockout New York Post Column | MLB’s 2027 work stoppage? Baseball folks already are talking about it. The Washington Post MLBPA’s Tony Clark doesn’t want a baseball salary cap NBC Sports …
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Jul 15, 2025, 04:25 PM ET PORTRUSH, Northern Ireland — Don’t feel bad for Xander Schauffele having to return the Claret Jug when he arrived at Royal Portrush to defend his title in the Open Championship. It’s not as if he had anywhere to keep it. Schauffele has won eight times in his PGA Tour career, including The Open, the …
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Former RPS sealife correspondent Nate once described the game Maneater as “an ecstatically violent simulation of being a fool’s idea of a shark”, which stuck with me. The Jaws Effect is a reasonably well known phenomenon coined in a paper that explores the impact the 1975 film had on Australian policy response to shark bites, although the term is now …
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