In today's installment of the "Unknowns" series, I pitched in with colleagues @kchang.bsky.social & William Broad to tackle a teeny question: How Did Life Arise? Gift link: nyti.ms/4B9lbW5

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The generation that got to buy cheap houses thanks to a postwar construction boom, then blocked new housing construction to juice their asset values is now whining that they have to pay taxes on their unearned wealth. Just breathtaking selfishness.

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What an anti-intellectual response. And demonstrates ideological bias instead of journalistic integrity. As AES says multiple times — & calmly & thoughtfully — he doesn’t accept the premise. Crawford clearly does, giving away a serious lack of understanding of the constitution, which is her job.

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Today is Persons Day. This day honours The Persons Case, which ended in a victory for The Famous Five on Oct. 18, 1929. The ruling declared women to be persons under the law and qualified to sit in the Senate. Cairine Wilson became the first female Senator in 1930 📸 Wikicommons

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Michigan made it happen- the parents of school shooter Ethan Crumbley went to prison in 2024 for 10 to 15. I agree that it should be a precedent. Teenage killers don't grow up in a vacuum.

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