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Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones must pay millions in damages for spreading lies about the Sandy Hook school massacre. But even if the penalties shut down Infowars, his influence will remain.

This year's Nobel Prize in chemistry goes to a biologist. Roger Kornberg at Stanford University is being honored for figuring out the details of how our cells read DNA. He's not the first in his family to win a Nobel Prize. His father, Arthur Kornberg, won in 1959.

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Norman Lock's new novel takes readers on a breathlessly-paced tour of the Old West, from the point of view of a former Civil War bugle boy who tags along with some of the era's legendary characters.

Órale, the featured Caló word of the week is raite. It’s adopted from the English word ride. But in Caló, its meaning is narrower than how it’s used in English. It means only the act of giving or partaking in a ride, never the vehicle itself. Although it’s a noun and is expressed as el raite or un raite, it’s solely an act, not a material object. You don’t park, sell or even drive your raite, only ask for, accept, give or experience it. Furthermore, it’s a grace, something that’s done for free. So a seat on a bus for which you pay a fare, is not a raite.We’re gonna continue with the theme of working in the files (farm fields). But a quick note on this. Field work comes in many forms and modes in the world of Caló, including work-for-pay work performed by seasonal migrant and weekend workers and self-employed farmers. A common mode of engagement was day labor, where workers, usually high school kids, were trucked into the fields on Saturdays and Sundays or weekdays during their summer vacations. And they got there via a raite provided by the raitero paid by the farmer to haul in workers.