Obesity is emerging as a key risk factor for cognitive impairment and dementia. A Review in Nature Reviews Neurology examines the global epidemiology of obesity and highlights its pathophysiological effects on the brain. go.nature.com/4yB3s8e #medsky 🧪
Yogi
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Human animal, protector of plants and other life Account of Yogi Hendlin
Trump White House misspells “United” on the official “super intelligence” document with AI executives. Instead of “President of the United States,” it reads: “President of the Unites States.” Nothing says “super intelligence” quite like misspelling the name of the country.
"There’s not much travelers can do about circumstances like weather. But they can change their booking strategies to avoid worst-case scenarios." Stop flying - its climate, not weather. More individualization of climate change from the @nytimes.com #ToneDeaf www.nytimes.com/2026/09/24/t...
The 7 New Rules for Air Travel
Flight delays and cancellations brought on by weather, technology glitches and other issues offer a lesson: Be prepared and be flexible.
nytimes.com
If a politician takes money from weapons manufacturers, don't be surprised when they back weapons contracts. If a politician takes money from Big Pharma, don't be surprised when they try to stop guaranteed healthcare. That's why I don't take ANY corporate money. None.
take away is that now the FBI hire even more horse's asses? www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/9/...
FBI’s Kash Patel defends hiring policy change on bestiality, prostitution
Policy change sparks heated Senate debate; critics question its timing amid challenges in attracting new FBI agents.
aljazeera.com
New article out in the International Journal of Drug Policy: Why taking the trip out of psychedelic medicine is a mistake. As psychedelics are engineered into “psychoplastogens” designed to eliminate subjective experience, what gets treated as a side effect may actually be the main event:
Of course the US would be the only country to vote against it.
UN votes to adopt new world map to reflect Africa's true size
The Togo-sponsored resolution was backed by 164 nations - the US the only nation to vote against it.
bbc.com
Shell, BP are being quite transparent with their plan to emit as much CO₂ as they can now, to later present themselves as climate saviours who will deploy as much CCS as any desperate government is willow to pay for
Emit today & fix it tomorrow. Proposal by Loo/Allen/etc for new N.Sea oil & gas developments to be conditional on fossil-fuel execs promising to neutralise emissions thro' future CCS & “engineered removals”. static1.squarespace.com/static/6356a... My response: climateuncensored.com/response-to-...
Carbon emissions from the the largest fossil fuel corporations are responsible for roughly half of the decreased water supply and increased water demand in the American West, new research finds: www.nature.com/articles/s43...
Carbon emissions exacerbating the Western US water crisis - Communications Earth & Environment
Human-caused climate change drove large decreases in snowpack and streamflow as well as increases in irrigation demand in the western US (2014-2024), with roughly half attributable to the Carbon Major...
nature.com
The “radical left” wants you to be able to eat a salad and go to the doctor. Super scary stuff.
Three cheers for @cultureunstained.bsky.social and @scientistsonsurviv.bsky.social and the rest of those who've joined in the campaign for a fossil free @sciencemuseum.org.uk 🥳 Equinor defeated. BP defeated. Just Adani left to go !!! www.fossilfreesciencemuseum.com
London Science Museum cuts links with BP after decades of partnership
"Jonathan Glazer has shown us how the struggle against antisemitism and against the Israeli ethnic cleansing of Palestinians are two sides of the same coin.
In countries that have successfully reversed democratic backsliding in recent years—from Poland in 2023 to Hungary in 2026—opposition movements made prosecuting those who have broken laws a central campaign issue.
If you're in the Netherlands... Feral Ecologies & the Feminine Sensorium: Movement, Sonic Portraiture, and Interspecies Becoming hipsy.nl/event/213117...
Feral Feminine at Salon Ruigoord 11 June, Thursday 18-21:00 Dinner included. Come meet vibing participants, learn to dance with your eyes clothes, how to identify and eat plants around you, and get whisked back to what it was like to be in a 70s black gay bar in Harlem. hipsy.nl/event/213117...
Feral Ecologies & the Feminine Sensorium
Feral Ecologies & the Feminine Sensorium: Movement, Sonic Portraiture, and Inter...
hipsy.nl
Saez and @gabrielzucman.bsky.social on the CA billionaire tax 250 households (0.001% of the state) holds wealth equal to more than half of California’s entire annual economic output Their wealth grows 15% a year and is taxed at just 0.26% per year www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Opinion | The Case for California’s Billionaire Wealth Tax
Silicon Valley’s growth over recent decades has made California rich — and one of the most unequal places in America.
nytimes.com
If I were to ever do fraud, I'd suffer consequences. When these guys do fraud, they get interviewed about it arstechnica.com/ai/2026/05/a...
AI put "synthetic quotes" in his book. But this author wants to keep using it.
Steven Rosenbaum explains how inaccurate quotes got into his book The Future of Truth.
arstechnica.com
🛢️The oil&gas lobby is pushing for fast-tracked approvals, weaker enviro assessments+new permitting loopholes for thousands of planned CO2 pipelines These projects may be labelled “strategic” or “public interest”, making it harder for communities 2 challenge them🚷 corporateeurope.org/en/2026/05/p...
Permission to Pollute | Corporate Europe Observatory
New report on how the European Commission is weakening permitting rules to fast-track polluting projects, such as mines, CO2 pipelines and data centres.
corporateeurope.org