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What started as a dry run to ensure instruments on NASA's Mercury Surface, Space Environment, Geochemistry and Ranging (MESSENGER) spacecraft worked properly later turned into a 10-year saga that resulted in a chance discovery unrelated to the mission's target planet, Mercury. It's about Venus and its atmosphere. The team reports April 20 in Nature Astronomy that data fortuitously collected by MESSENGER reveals a sudden rise in nitrogen concentrations at about 30 miles above Venus' surface, demonstrating the planet's atmosphere isn't uniformly mixed, as expected. That finding upends an understanding about Venus' atmosphere that has prevailed for decades. The story started...

The King of White Collar Boxing Milo Yiannopoulos and Ann Coulter were banned from UC Berkeley as speakers. I was just banned from Powerhouse Bookstore in Brooklyn. It’s sad that ever since the advent of Obama that the country has become so divisive and fractional. I was supposed to read from my book, “The King of White Collar Boxing” at Powerhouse Bookstore in Brooklyn.

Obama lacks a deep, abiding set of principles: Obama is a racist. He favors violent anti-American races because he wants to feel different and foreign I’m sick of the word “racist” and the accusation. In my youth, rape, murder robbery and de facto deeds were in fact the real sins. Attitudes like racism were meaningless unless they were grounded in action. Get over it. Maybe blacks are uncomfortable around whites and Chinese, and Chinese don’t understand blacks and women don’t feel the bluntness of men. Who cares as long as we are not taking each other’s heads off? Prejudice without...