UK schools are trying to prevent students from striking by threatening to fine their parents.

Students: to win, you must show that such chickenshit threats mean nothing when your survival and that of civilization are at stake.

A poll found that 40% of US adults have skipped medical procedures because of their cost. 36% have used up all their savings because of the expense of medical care.

30% had to make a choice between food, heating, or housing and medical care, because of the expense.

Another survey found that medical costs contributed to 65% of bankruptcies from 2013 to 2016.

Parkland shooting survivors are ready for the long haul.

Thailand has decided not to hand Bahraini expat dissident Hakeem Al-Araibi to Bahrain.

Dozens of polar bears have come to Novaya Zemlya and are searching for food in human garbage.

We have seen predictions that global heating, and the consequent reduction in sea ice in the summer, would make it hard for polar bears to eat enough to last through the winter. I have a feeling this is what we are seeing, and that it represents the last gasp for the species in that region.