One of the most fascinating facts about the ocean, is that there are whales alive today who were born before Moby Dick was written. Some of the bowhead whales in the icy waters off of Alaska today are over 200 years old. Original post
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Got my Threads and The War Game BluRays today from @severinfilms.bsky.social , and it comes with a miniature copy of Protect and Survive. I said "aw cute!" when I saw it. First time Protect and Survive has ever been described as "cute"?
Interesting: There’s now an anonymous, moderated list of companies that stop responding after you interviewed with them
Ghosted After a Job Interview? Report the Company
Ghosted after a job interview? Submit an anonymous report and see which companies candidates say stopped responding after interviews.
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To carry 50,000 people per hour in each direction, a city needs a 175m wide road for cars. Even if those cars are electric. And then there’s all the parking. OR a city can move A LOT MORE people in a lot less space, with A LOT LESS public money, emissions, pollution, noise etc. Choices. Simple.
Storm clouds can grow glowing rainbow halos through cloud iridescence, caused by light diffracting around tiny ice crystals at the cloud's edge.
I resigned from Google DeepMind bc it broke its founding promise by selling AI to the military without restrictions against killer robots or mass spying. For months, I worked to stop this but watched powerful ethicists and institutions choose silence. Here's what happened. 🧵
A contractor building Meta's data center flushed its "closed-loop" cooling system straight into Cheyenne's sewer. It carried a bacterium and knocked the city's water-reuse system offline for months. They sell these as sealed systems that barely touch the water. This one poisoned a city's.
This woman contracted polio as a child about two years before a vaccine became available and spent much of her life in and out of an iron lung to survive. I truly can't fathom anti-vaxxers who seem happy to resurrect these diseases. people.com/the-last-us-...
Last U.S. Polio Survivor in an Iron Lung Dies After the Machine Started to Break Down and They Couldn’t Find Anyone to Repair It
Martha Ann Lillard, the last U.S. polio patient who used an iron lung to survive, died of long COVID at age 78.
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China’s #66BillionTrees Are Breaking Growth Records! For nearly 50 yrs, China has been cultivating the world's largest #reforestation initiative: the #GreatGreenWall. Designed to halt the creeping sands of the #Gobi and #Taklamakan deserts, it is a truly surprising scientific trend. #ActOnClimate
‘…we need to achieve a minimum of 40% street tree canopy cover, and preferably more, before we start to really feel the benefits of nature’s most advanced air-conditioning technology.’ Me, for Big Issue, on tackling urban #heatwaves…👇 www.bigissue.com/opinion/heat...
Octopuses have been wandering in the oceans for 296 million years. They have three hearts and blue blood and they can even be elegant in their magical underwater dance. Original post
GET A GRIP Ireland is building a battery that contains no lithium. No cobalt. No rare-earth metals. Instead, it stores energy using carbon dioxide. The project is designed to hold 200 megawatt-hours of electricity, making it one of Europe’s largest long-duration energy storage systems.
Solar's sharp rise continues. As of April 2026, global solar capacity now exceeds 3 terawatt. 1 gigawatt → 1 terawatt: 20+ years 1 terawatt → 2 terawatt: 33 months 2 terawatt → 3 terawatt: 19 months
The Europe Union accused Meta on Friday of breaching its social media law by designing Facebook and Instagram to get users hooked, and demanded it disable “key addictive features” like infinite scrolling as part of its investigation under the 27-nation bloc’s strict digital rule book.
EU demands Facebook and Instagram dismantle design features it calls addictive for users
The European Union is accusing Meta of breaching social media laws by designing Facebook and Instagram to be addictive.
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“Spending $700 million to bail out the coal industry is like throwing a lifeline to a ship that has already sunk.”
In the United States, solar energy is outpacing coal for the first time ever
It now provides more than twice the share of electricity that it did five years ago.
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Who needs to "drill baby drill"? This is how you turn solar into night-time power.
First US sodium-ion grid storage factory will power 4 million homes
Peak Energy has recently announced a 183,000-sq-ft facility in Sacramento to manufacture sodium-ion batteries.
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Switzerland put solar panels in the unused space between train tracks. They are removeable, so you can still work on the tracks. And it's working!
Switzerland has turned its train tracks into solar power plants
The patented solar panels use existing unused space to generate clean electricity — without getting in the way of a single train.
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Air conditioning systems may give short term relief but they are increasing emissions and can push up nighttime temperatures by 1-1.5 degrees. The best air conditioning systems are Trees Trees can make it feel up to 14 degrees cooler Mass planting of Trees is needed in cities across the world now
#Poetry #Painting #LateAfternoon “and you too have come into the world to do this, to go easy, to be filled with light, and to shine.” -Mary Oliver 🎨 Evan Abrahamson
#Australia is proving that a power plant does not always have to be one giant building. By connecting thousands of household #batteries into one shared network, the country has created a virtual power plant that can work like a massive energy system spread across many homes. #ActOnClimate
It has been criminally underreported but Kelsey Pfendler has just rowed solo across the Pacific Ocean from the US coast to Hawaii in record time. A 2,400-mile unsupported journey in 43 days, 17 hours, and 55 minutes. Notably beating the Men’s record by 9 whole days.
So cool. We already knew car tires were the leading source of plastic pollution on earth. Now we learn they cause Alzheimer's. New meaning to the word "carbrain." "Anyone who comes into contact with rubber tires may be exposing themselves to brain-altering chemicals." futurism.com/health-medic...
Learning What Substance Is Suspected of Causing Alzheimer's May Throw You Into an Existential Crisis
A surprisingly common substance was found to have a causal relationship with the kind of brain damage associated with Alzheimer's disease.
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The world would be significantly better if meta ceases to exist
Meta says US states are seeking $1.4 trillion in penalties in August youth safety trial
Meta Platforms said in a court filing on Monday that four states were seeking $1.4 trillion in penalties over accusations the company designed its Facebook and Instagram platforms to addict young us...
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