It’s amazing how long some schools are planning to keep these policies going.

BBC News reports:

Cambridge University: All lectures to be online-only until summer of 2021

There...

We have reached the point where stating scientific facts can get you accused of bigotry.

The Daily Mail reports:

Exeter University economics lecturer is br...

This professor deserves some kind of award for common sense. It’s a shame we don’t hear of this happening more often.

The Blaze reports:

Students: We demand the school sell its stock in fossil fuels. Professor: I can’t do that, but I’ll turn off the gas heating for you.

A professor at St. John’s...

This takes the idea of helicopter parenting to a whole new level.

FOX News reports:

Ad seeking nanny for 18-year-old college student gets mocked

Those seeking a side hustle in the New Year may be amused to explore an online ad looking...

Here’s the best part: he believes the aliens are doing this because they’re prepping for climate change.

NBC News reports:

Space aliens are breeding with humans, university instructor says. Scientists say otherwise.

Maybe you’ve never seen any space aliens, but recent polls indicate that up to 6 percent of Americans claim to have been...

Very often happy to be an American, especially with things like this happening across the pond.

Sunday, Fuzzy Slippers blogged about the Tommy Robinson case. Robinson, an activist, “was arrested Friday while filming alleged child sex grooming gang members entering court for trial,” Fuzzy blogged.
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A group calling themselves the White Pendragons disrupted a speech by London mayor Sadiq Khan with pro-Trump and pro-Brexit slogans.

SkyNews reports:

Supporters of US President Donald Trump have disrupted a speech by Sadiq Khan, call...

Not just former US President Obama, Chancellor Merkel of Germany, too, regards the nuclear deal with Iran as her greatest diplomatic accomplishment. The prominent German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung summed up the central role played by the Merkel government, writing, “Among all the parties working to bring about a negotiated deal, Germans enjoyed...

The total losses from the inferno that swept through London’s Grenfell Tower last week are still being assessed. The count of dead victims has steadily increased with each report, and now stands at 79.

At least 79 people are dead or missing and presumed dead following the fire that tore through the...

A long lost skirt belonging to Queen Elizabeth I was found in a Herefordshire church. It had been cut up and used as an altar cloth.

It’s believed to be the only surviving piece of clothing from Queen Elizabeth I’s wardrobe.

The Telegraph has the story:

A piece of fabric described as the Holy...