The little woman round the corner

John Daniel Lighting the Fire
The English poet John Daniel provides a perfect Mother's Day memory of his hard-working Mum, Violet Daniel, who defied the usual expectations of mothering. Happy Mothers Day!

Tiny Tests Seek the Universe’s Big Mysteries

Joshua Sokol Quanta Magazine
Huge supercolliders aren’t the only way to search for new physical phenomena. A new generation of experiments that can fit on a tabletop are probing the nature of dark matter and dark energy and searching for evidence of extra dimensions.

Why “#BernieorBust” Is A Dead End

Ricardo Ochoa Medium.com
Does anybody truly believe that, had Sanders run as an independent, he would have made such a large political impact on this race? By running as a Democrat, Sanders has advanced progressive politics at the national level far more effectively than has Jill Stein, or even Ralph Nader. There is a lesson there.

The GOP Now Belongs to Trump. What Are Republicans Going to Do About It?

Eugene Robinson The Washington Post
Republican elected officials and party leaders do not have time for retrospective contemplation. They have a decision to make. The party belongs to Trump now, just as Rome belonged to the barbarians, and GOP politicians have to decide whether to fall in line or take up arms against the new order.

John Oliver: Cicadas

Billions of cicadas will soon emerge after spending 17 years underground. John Oliver fills them in on what's happened since 1999.

Ravel's Bolero in Mexico

Flash Mob performs Bolero in the town square of Toluca, Mexico. Performed by the Toluca Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Gerardo Urbán y Fernandez.

Trump Becomes the Nominee

Seth Meyers takes a closer look at how Donald Trump became the presumptive GOP presidential nominee.

Friday Nite Videos -- May 6, 2016

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Trump Becomes the Nominee. Ravel's Bolero in Mexico. John Oliver: Cicadas. Georgetown University's Legacy of Slavery. Donald Trump: Nomination of a Birther.