How to replace a US Senator who leaves or dies in office

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Michael Egnor, tiresome little lackey of the DI that he is, is asking his readers to help me find out where altruism is located.
While subjects are generally faster to respond to a stimulus if it is presented at a previously "cued" location, they are paradoxically slower to respond if the spatial "cue" occurred more than 300 ms beforehand.
You may have heard of the idea that people can only remember seven things at a ti

Good civics lesson.

In other news, some of us seem to be having trouble getting into the site. This particular entry took many many repeated attempts.... which probably doesn't help the site's functioning very much, as the ostensible cause of the problem reveals itself in an error message complaining about too many attempts to access the site.

Here is the error message I keep getting

Your access to this site has been limited

Your access to this service has been temporarily limited. Please try again in a few minutes. (HTTP response code 503)

Reason: Exceeded the maximum global requests per minute for crawlers or humans.

So .....
Have Boris and Natasha been given a mandate to disrupt the Science Blog? perhaps they didn't like our snarky comments about the Russian Mafia?? Oy.

Still getting the error SteveP gets -- mobile and desktop. Sometimes (like now) the page shows up, then BANG -- locked out again.