James White 🏖️
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Studying the impact of water on humans: http://youtu.be/FE1hubvxMKM 🐘 @itsjameswhite@mastodon.social
In a solar system 73 light-years from Earth, there is an exomoon orbiting a brown dwarf companion, the first time an exomoon has ever been detected. www.wired.com/story/astron...
Astronomers Have Detected an Exomoon for the First Time
A discovery in a solar system 73 light-years from Earth is challenging definitions and “blurring the lines between stars, planets, and moons.”
wired.com
Researchers in the Brazilian Amazon have discovered an estimated 20,000 to 30,000 pre-colonial geometric earthwork structures using airborne lidar, some more than 2,500 years old. The population who made them is estimated to be between 1.25 and 3 million people in size. gizmodo.com/scientists-f...
Scientists Find Evidence of Lost Amazonian Civilization That May Have Been Home to Millions
New airborne laser scans surveying the Amazon have found ancient human structures rewriting the history of this allegedly pristine wilderness.
gizmodo.com
A team from U. of Liverpool used luminescence dating to determine that two interlocking logs joined by an intentionally cut notch discovered at Kalambo Falls in Zambia are 476,000 years old, making it the earliest known wooden structure built by human hands. www.popularmechanics.com/science/arch...
Archaeologists Found a 476,000-Year-Old Wooden Structure. No One Knows Who Built It.
Someone carved a notch to lock two logs together—half a million years before Homo sapiens.
popularmechanics.com
"In a moment when we should be grappling with how to avoid excessively offloading the cognitive work of writing to AI, the College has decided to dismiss its most experienced writing instructors.” www.thecrimson.com/article/2026...
Harvard College Lays Off Writing Center Director, Consolidates Center | News | The Harvard Crimson
The Harvard College Writing Center will no longer operate as a standalone unit after its director was laid off and its functions were consolidated as part of a restructuring in the Faculty of Arts and...
thecrimson.com
They must not have gas-powered leaf blowers in Kyoto... Japanese man arrested for 7 years of loud guitar playing, has 40 guitars seized www.guitarworld.com/artists/guit...
Japanese man arrested for 7 years of loud guitar playing, has 40 guitars seized
The 61-year-old Kyoto resident reportedly gave his neighbors insomnia
guitarworld.com
Fogbelt Brewing, based in Santa Rosa, CA, revived long-defunct Mendocino Brewing Co.'s Red Tail Ale in April 2025. Now, Fogbelt is adding tanks because, volume-wise, Red Tail Ale is surpassing Fogbelt’s own core brands. www.beerandbrewing.com/long-red-tai...
The Long Red Tail of American Amber Ale
In Sonoma County, California, Fogbelt Brewing is refreshing and reviving an American classic—Mendocino’s Red Tail Ale—and finding a receptive audience.
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The Bures Band just released Delta, the third single off of their upcoming album. theburesband.bandcamp.com/track/delta
Delta, by The Bures Band
track by The Bures Band
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A new report from the American Heart Association says consuming up to 400 milligrams of caffeine a day, or roughly 5 eight-ounce cups of caffeinated coffee, is safe for your heart, and may even lower the risk of cardiovascular disease in some people. gizmodo.com/how-much-cof...
How Much Coffee Is Too Much? Heart Experts Have a New Answer
The American Heart Association has issued a new report on the link between caffeine and cardiovascular disease.
gizmodo.com
This place is worth a visit. I'm not a huge fan of blonde ales in general, and therefore not of their flagship 805 (the 805 Cerveza is very tasty though). I've been on the Brewhouse Tour twice and the Barrel Room Tour once, and can highly recommend both. www.sfgate.com/centralcoast...
The family-run brewery halfway between SF and LA that unites all of California
"We have it locked in."
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According to a new report from research firm Luminate, 16.3 million CDs were sold in the first half of 2026 in the US, a 16% increase year-over-year. The growth was driven by collection building, price accessibility, and massive albums. www.theverge.com/entertainmen...
Why are people buying so many CDs?
Collectors, affordable prices, and big K-pop albums.
theverge.com
A new study of a planet known as LHS 1140 b, discovered a decade ago, shows that the planet, 48 light yrs away, appears to have an atmosphere. It marks the first time anyone has discovered an atmosphere on a rocky planet in the habitable zone of another star. www.the-independent.com/space/alien-...
Scientists announce huge discovery in search for alien life
First ever discovery of its kind is an ‘absolute thrill’, researchers say
the-independent.com
A new species of monkey has been discovered in the Congo, one of just 5 new species discovered in the last 75 years. It is a member of the colobus family of thumbless, herbivore monkeys, and has distinctive pinkish-orange lips. www.bbc.com/news/article...
New monkey species with orange lips found 'hiding' in DRC forest
Scientists describe "amazing feeling" to look into the face of an animal that so few people knew existed.
bbc.com
The name of the earliest known scientist in the ancient Americas is -- you guessed it: Saktahnwaax (a Mayan mathematician-astronomer who lived around 1200 years ago) gizmodo.com/archaeologis...
Archaeologists Just Found the Earliest Known Named Scientist in the Ancient Americas
Scientists have long known that the Maya were great thinkers—and we may finally have at least one name to credit.
gizmodo.com
Researchers in B.C. are studying wild yeast strains as an alternative to commercial brewing yeast. Different wild strains create new beer flavors that minimize the reliance on flavoring hops, reducing Canadian breweries' reliance on imported, tariffed hops, saving money. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
B.C. researchers turn to wild yeast in bid to help struggling craft breweries | CBC News
Researchers at Langara College and the University of British Columbia are studying wild yeast collected from across B.C. and the Pacific Northwest to see if it can be used to brew beer with unique fla...
cbc.ca
Stuck, the landing... Bison Flips Grandpa In Yellowstone National Park www.youtube.com/watch?v=aIiM...
Bison Flips Grandpa In Yellowstone National Park
YouTube video by Cowboy State Daily
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Australia's brown huntsman spider, one member of the huntsman family of spiders that are famous for their ability to drag a mouse up the side of a refrigerator, was clocked as the quickest of more than 250 spider species. Its peak speed is 8 mph. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
This huge, hairy-legged Australian arachnid may be the fastest spider on the planet
A brown huntsman is the quickest of more than 250 species analysed by scientists in the UK and Germany
theguardian.com
In addition to building vocabulary & reading fluency faster, enhancing focus, scoring higher on cognitive tests that measure verbal learning, memory, & speech dvlpmt, reading for pleasure is one of the earliest & most reliable places where kids develop empathy. theconversation.com/reading-for-...
Reading for pleasure builds empathy in children, but fewer kids are picking up books just for the fun of it
As schools focus more on evidence-based reading instruction, less time is available for children to practice reading for pleasure.
theconversation.com
The James Webb Space Telescope has detected a chemical signature on the surfaces of Pluto and Titan that does not match any recorded in spectroscopic databases. www.wired.com/story/myster...
Mysterious Compound Detected on Pluto and Titan
Something on Pluto and one of Saturn’s moons, Titan, absorbs light in a way unexplained by anything in spectroscopic databases.
wired.com
A volunteer, who, for the last 11 years, has dedicated his Thursday mornings to cataloging historical documents at the UK’s National Archives, discovered a rare early copy of the Declaration of Independence, one of just 11 known original copies of the Exeter printing. www.bbc.com/news/article...
Rare copy of US Declaration of Independence found by volunteer in UK archives
The newly discovered copy is one of only 11 of its kind in the world.
bbc.com
Anchor Brewing of San Francisco has applied for and received approval from the federal bureau tasked with regulating alcohol labels for two beer labels featuring their original, iconic Anchor Steam illustrated art. www.kqed.org/news/1208975...
Iconic Illustrated Anchor Steam Labels Appear Headed for Revival | KQED
Fans of the San Francisco-based craft brewery wonder if the return of the label signals a return of the beer they love.
kqed.org
Coffee drinkers who drink 5 or more cups a day say their risk of cirrhosis shrinks by nearly a third, close to half had a lower risk of liver cancer, and 42% had a lower risk of liver-related death, according to a new study of 355,000 adults from Cedars... www.the-independent.com/life-style/h...
Wanna help your liver out? Keep drinking coffee, seriously
Nearly 31,000 liver cancer deaths are expected in the U.S. this year
the-independent.com
The Rubin Observatory located in Chile is home to a 3,200 megapixel camera, the world’s largest camera. It officially began one of the most ambitious astronomy projects ever attempted: a 10-year time-lapse view of the southern sky comprising two million images... www.forbes.com/sites/jamiec...
Humanity’s Biggest-Ever Camera Begins 10-Year Time-Lapse Of The Cosmos
The Rubin Observatory in Chile has begun a 10-year sky survey, using the world’s largest digital camera to find asteroids, supernovae and anything else that moves.
forbes.com
A brand new single from The Bures Band, the second track released off of their upcoming album, Ozonia. High Tide www.youtube.com/watch?v=tSz1...
The Bures Band - High Tide
YouTube video by The Bures Band
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A new image captured by Euclid, a European Space Agency space telescope, captures a glimpse of the heart of our galaxy, the galactic bulge, where 10 billion stars are packed tight together. www.scientificamerican.com/article/stun...
See the glittering heart of the Milky Way in this stunning new image
This brilliant new image, taken by Europe’s Euclid space telescope, offers a preview of the kind of imaging that will be possible with NASA’s upcoming Roman telescope
scientificamerican.com
TIDAL introduced a new policy today to prevent monetization of wholly AI-generated music to ensure "royalties go to original works directly produced, written, and performed by people." tidal.com/ai-policy
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Venezuela does not have its own earthquake early warning system, but 11.4 million Venezuelans with Android phones received alerts from Google’s Earthquake Alerts system, giving users seconds or up to 2 minutes notice before back-to-back powerful earthquakes struck. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
How Phones Alerted Millions Before Quakes Shook Venezuela (Gift Article)
Millions of people in Venezuela and surrounding countries received early warning alerts to their phones up to two minutes before back-to-back earthquakes on Wednesday.
nytimes.com
German researchers collected ancient human DNA for the first time from cave rock art panel pigment in 11 caves in Portugal and Spain. The DNA belonged to humans who lived around 5,000 years ago, though likely much older, between 12,000 & 50,000 years ago. www.nationalgeographic.com/history/arti...
In a first, scientists extract ancient human DNA from cave walls
An international team of cave explorers has shown that cave walls and the prehistoric rock art that adorns them can preserve human DNA for thousands of years.
nationalgeographic.com
Reading is not simply a neutral pathway for receiving information; it is a profound neurological catalyst that fundamentally rewires memory, attention, executive reasoning, and visual perception. neurosciencenews.com/literacy-res...
Reading Is the Ultimate Cognitive Enhancer - Neuroscience News
A new study reveals how literacy fundamentally rewires the human mind, sharpening memory, focus, and face recognition.
neurosciencenews.com
