Former White House attorney Ty Cobb suggested Thursday that President Trump’s cognitive decline has “accelerated” since his first term, pointing to his recent attacks against public figures such as Pope Leo XIV. “When he attacks the pope and tries to insist, fraudulently, to the American people that it’s justified because the pope believes that… Source link
On 12 February, Humanists UK hosted the 2026 Darwin Day Lecture, titled ‘The Genetic Age: Who Shapes Evolution Now?’, delivered by zoologist and author Professor Matthew Cobb. The lecture, chaired by Humanists UK President Janet Ellis MBE, explored the ways humans have shaped evolution – both historically and in the age of modern genetics. Matthew began by placing humanity in a long evolutionary story. From early hunting and gathering to the domestication of plants and animals, humans have always shaped the world around them. But in the 1970s, with the advent of genetic engineering, our influence took a dramatic leap: for the first time, humans could directly manipulate genomes, accelerating change to species in ways never before possible. Evolution is ‘cleverer than we are’ Quoting biochemist Leslie Orgel’s Second Rule – ‘evolution is cleverer than we are’, Matthew turned to the ecological impacts of genetic engineering. Any organism we engineer, from crops to microbes, responds to selection in unpredictable ways. Resistant insects, herbicide-tolerant weeds, and evolving viruses all remind us that nature adapts faster and …
A former Trump White House lawyer sharply escalated his public criticism of the president’s inner circle this week, saying several top officials — including Pam Bondi, Kristi Noem and Pete Hegseth — have committed impeachable offenses that could justify removal from office. Ty Cobb, who served as a special counsel in Trump’s first term before becoming a vocal critic, made the remarks Friday on MSNBC’s The Beat with Ari Melber as he dissected a string of political and legal controversies swirling around the administration. Cobb said that a single “fraudulent, unsupported indictment” brought for political reasons could qualify as impeachable for Attorney General Bondi — a reference to indictments targeting Trump critics that Cobb and others have accused of political bias. He also accused Noem of mischaracterizing violent deaths involving federal agents, and Hegseth of overseeing problematic military actions, arguing that their conduct represented abuses of executive power. Cobb even broadened his critique to include President Donald Trump, citing alleged foreign influence controversies and long-standing concerns about politicization of the Justice Department. Start your day …
Professor Matthew Cobb will deliver the 2026 Darwin Day Lecture Humanists UK today announced that the award-winning author and geneticist Professor Matthew Cobb will deliver the 2026 Darwin Day Lecture, taking place at Conway Hall in London on 12 February (Darwin Day). Professor Cobb will explore whether humanity has merely stolen the fire of evolution or – in our challenging and rapidly changing world – sparked a chain reaction we can no longer extinguish. Early bird tickets are available to buy now. For millennia, humans have inadvertently shaped the genomes of predators and prey, eventually learning to deliberately alter plants and domesticate animals through selective breeding and agriculture. However, the invention of genetic engineering in the 1970s fundamentally shifted this relationship. Humanity moved from nudging the path of heredity to rewriting it entirely. In this upcoming lecture, titled ‘The genetic age: who shapes evolution now?’, Professor Cobb will confront the shadow cast by our own ingenuity. He will trace the path from the dawn of agriculture to the ignition of a biological revolution, exploring a …
