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Joan Diane (Dirks) Edmonson, 73, a resident of Osage, MN, passed away on Wednesday, February 1, 2023 at Sanford Fargo Hospice surrounded by her loving family.

In collaboration with a colleague from the University of Adelaide, three James Cook University academics have discovered metamorphic diamonds in rocks close to Australia's northeast coast. Alexander Edgar, Ioan Sanislav, Paul Dirks, and Carl Spandler explain how they discovered the small diamonds in their research, which was published in the journal Science Advances. They also explain why they think the discovery will help shed light on Australia's early history and creation.

The image above is obviously wrong, deliberately. So is the original by Michelangelo. God isn't a gorilla. God even isn't. Perusing through the scientific record, there is strong evidence that other species of sapiens have trodden the earth. There is a strong chance too that we, the sapiens of sapiens, managed to make them disappear with our rat-like breeding and our avaricious needs... Unless they vanished from lack of survival skills in changing habitats... unless they were wiped out by disease or other accidental events. And in the paradigm of evolution, the hominid ancestor — the prec...

There are a dozen speakers expected to address a protest held against child-medical transition which the City of Vancouver has labelled as “anti-trans.” The Stand Up Speak Up! protest is being held today at the Vancouver Art Gallery from 10:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Speakers at the protest include the controversial Chilliwack school board trustee Barry Neufeld, independent MP Derek Sloan and the current leader of the People's Party of Canada, Maxime Bernier. While the protest is marketed as being “against child medical transition and gender identity ideology in schools,” last month the City o...

  VANCOUVER -- An anti-trans protest scheduled this weekend in downtown Vancouver has reignited a debate pitting the protection of vulnerable youth against the right to free speech. Vancouver social justice lawyer Adrienne Smith fears the April 10 event will include transphobic rhetoric that contributes to real-world harm, and believes police and city officials have the legal tools necessary to shut the protest down. "It's definitely a breach of public order to say hateful things that are likely to inflame others," Smith said. "There's no middle ground with hateful comments." But the Ci...