The coronation of Charles III was an occasion for repression such as one would have expected from an old-time monarch, if the monarch was lacking in regal magnanimity.

About 20 Just Stop Oil protesters were arrested for wearing t-shirts and carrying small flags, which they planned to respectively expose and wave. Another 20 antimonarchists were arrested for taking nonviolence training in another city.

In all, 52 protesters and would-be protesters were arrested. A minister said this was justified because the UK's show had to look good.

In my view, those arrests showed off what's bad and getting worse in the UK: uniformed thugs have been authorized to draw the boundaries of lawful and unlawful protest.

The book _Frankenstein_ — not the movie — carries a warning about applying science without attention to what it means to be a human being.

Scientists Extract Human and Deer DNA from Paleolithic Pendant Found in Denisova Cave.

Research like this is possible because Russia has nothing like the NAGPRA law. If NAGPRA existed there, it would require "returning" ancient human bones and artifacts to someone or other, and we would not have had the chance to learn from them about the evolution of our species -- for instance, we would not know that nearly all of us humans have Neanderthals among our ancestors.

As for the Denisovans, another strain of humans also known from things found in Denisova cave, we wouldn't know they existed at all.

WHO declared an end to the "emergency" about Covid-19, but that really means only acknowledging that millions of people are not taking the well-known precautions.

We can prevent most Covid-19 infections by wearing masks, and prevent most cases of the flu as well.

The editorial board of the journal Neuroimage resigned as a body in protest of how much Elsevier charges to publish a paper.

There should be a standard charge to the authors for publishing a paper, which research grants should cover; for authors that don't have such grants, the journal should waive the charge.