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| =====Profound Paradigm Shift in Cellular Biology – DNA Damage Repaired by Antioxidant Enzymes=====
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| [https://scitechdaily.com/profound-paradigm-shift-in-cellular-biology-dna-damage-repaired-by-antioxidant-enzymes/ by Center For Regulation 6/7/23 SciTechDaily]
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| The human nucleus is metabolically active, according to the findings of a new study in Molecular Systems Biology by researchers at the CRG in Barcelona and CeMM/Medical University of Vienna.
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| =====The Bruen Decision Is Not an "Originalist" Interpretation of the 2nd Amendment=====
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| [https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/8/31/2190763/-The-Bruen-Decision-Is-Not-an-Originalist-Interpretation-of-the-2nd-Amendment by Old Rotorhead 31/8/23 DAILY KOS]
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| Self-proclaimed “originalists” tend to use their alleged doctrine as a fig leaf for enacting their prejudices. In addition to the subject of reproductive autonomy, that’s especially in evidence, it seems, with regard to the Second Amendment. The Supreme Court actually has a set of rules for legal interpretation which enshrines aversion of “originalism”:
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| =====New maps show where snowfall is disappearing=====
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| [https://edition.cnn.com/2023/11/25/weather/snowfall-temperatures-climate-change-water/index.html by Eric Zerkel 25/11/23 CNN]
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| Snowfall is declining globally as temperatures warm because of human-caused climate change, a new analysis and maps from a NOAA climate scientist show.
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| =====The 'Game-Changing' Technology The Nuclear Industry Is Betting On For A Revival=====
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| [https://www.huffpost.com/entry/small-nuclear-reactors-energy_n_649f055be4b0c7e9d8e723e8 by Alexander C. Kaufman 7/7/23 HUFFPOST]
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| On a bright, humid afternoon last September, Allen Hickman made the rounds on the floor of a factory that embodies the past, present and future of the nation’s atomic energy industry perhaps more than any other site in the United States.
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| =====Adolescent boys’ aggressive responses to perceived threats to their gender typicality=====
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| [https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/desc.13544 by Adam Stanaland 15/7/24 Development Science]
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| When adult men are made to feel gender-atypical, they often lash out with aggression, particularly when they are pressured (vs. autonomously motivated) to be gender-typical.
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| =====Fewer wildfires, great biodiversity: what is the secret to the success of Mexico’s forests?=====
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| [https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2024/may/01/fewer-wildfires-great-biodiversity-what-is-the-secret-to-the-success-of-mexicos-forests by Linda Farthing 1/5/24 The Guardian]
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| Dexter Melchor Matías works in the Zapotec Indigenous town of Ixtlán de Juárez, about 1,600ft (490 metres) above the wide Oaxaca valley in Mexico, where community forestry has become a way of life. Like him, about 10 million people across the country live in and make a living from forests, with half of that population identifying as Indigenous.
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| =====As Los Angeles burned, Latino immigrants rushed in to put out fires=====
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| [https://www.npr.org/2025/01/10/nx-s1-5254160/california-fires-los-angeles-latino-immigrants by Adrian Florido 10/1/25 npr]
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| Maria Garcia does not live in the neighborhoods that have been consumed by the massive Eaton Fire in northeast Los Angeles this week. But Garcia, who is an undocumented immigrant from Guatemala, sometimes cleans houses in those neighborhoods, so she knows people who do.
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| =====The Role of Epistemic Trust in Vaccine Hesitancy and Conspiracy Thinking: Insights from New Research=====
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| [https://www.broadlyepi.com/emerging-study/the-role-of-epistemic-trust-in-vaccine-hesitancy-and-conspiracy-thinking-insights-from-new-research/ by Cod Micah 01/25 BROADLY EPI]
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| Understanding the psychological factors that shape belief systems, trust in information, and susceptibility to misinformation has never been more critical. A groundbreaking study published in PLOS Global Public Health investigates how epistemic trust—a person’s readiness to regard information as significant and reliable—affects vaccine hesitancy, belief in conspiracy theories, and the ability to distinguish between real and fake news.
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| =====Income-based U.S. household carbon footprints (1990–2019) offer new insights on emissions inequality and climate finance=====
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| [https://www.scienceopen.com/document?vid=e1de6df8-03da-4cba-bdbb-519dc5bbaade by Jared Starr 17/8/23 ScienceOpen]
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| Current policies to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and increase adaptation and mitigation funding are insufficient to limit global temperature rise to 1.5°C. It is clear that further action is needed to avoid the worst impacts of climate change and achieve a just climate future. Here, we offer a new perspective on emissions responsibility and climate finance by conducting an environmentally extended input output analysis that links 30 years (1990–2019) of United States (U.S.) household-level income data to the emissions generated in creating that income.
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| ====='Perfect solar system' found in search for alien life=====
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| [https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-67488931 by Pallab Ghosh 29/11/23 BBC]
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| The system, 100 light years away, has six planets, all about the same size. They've barely changed since its formation up to 12 billion years ago.
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| =====Apple Won and Google Lost Because of the Corruption of the Judiciary=====
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| [https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/12/27/2213964/-Apple-Won-and-Google-Lost-Because-of-the-Corruption-of-the-Judiciary?pm_campaign=front_page&pm_source=trending&pm_medium=web by angryea 27/12/23 DAILY KOS] | |
| Before I begin, I hope everyone who celebrates had a lovely Christmas. Writing may slow down some through the new year. Though, lets me fair, this place is already kind of sporadic. But I hope to continue to keep to at least one new post a week in the new year. Now on with irritating judges and lawyers.
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| =====Opinion: As darkness descends on Gaza, I yearn for the world to see us, too=====
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| [https://edition.cnn.com/2023/10/11/opinions/gaza-palestinian-israel-hamas-seige-ghraieb/index.html by Omar Ghraieb 12/10/23 CNN]
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| An explosive roar shakes my home and my laptop goes flying, landing amid shattered glass and debris. Looking at its flickering screen, I sigh and brace myself to pronounce the death of another computer — and this essay. I collect it gently from the floor and coax it back to life. I keep writing.
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| =====24/7 solar towers could double energy output=====
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| [https://techxplore.com/news/2023-12-solar-towers-energy-output.amp by Peter Grad 6/12/23 Tech Xplore]
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| If you want to improve the output of solar energy systems, why not also run them at night? That's the question researchers in Qatar and Jordan addressed as they successfully devised a system that promises to more than double energy output of current solar power stations.
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| =====The COP28 climate agreement is a step backwards on fossil fuels=====
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| [https://theconversation.com/the-cop28-climate-agreement-is-a-step-backwards-on-fossil-fuels-219753 by Alaa Al Khourdajie 13/12/23 THE CONVERSATION]
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| The COP28 climate summit in Dubai has adjourned. The result is “The UAE consensus” on fossil fuels.
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| This text, agreed upon by delegates from nearly 200 countries, calls for the world to move “away from fossil fuels in energy systems in a just, orderly and equitable manner”. Stronger demands to “phase out” fossil fuels were ultimately unsuccessful.
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| =====Scientists say they’ve confirmed evidence that humans arrived in the Americas far earlier than previously thought=====
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| [https://edition.cnn.com/2023/10/05/americas/ancient-footprints-first-americans-scn/index.html by Katie Hunt 5/10/23 CNN]
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| When the discovery of fossilized footprints made in what’s now New Mexico was made public in 2021, it was a bombshell moment for archaeology, seemingly rewriting a chapter of the human story. Now new research is offering further evidence of their significance.
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| =====What Happens When You Tax Billionaires at 90 Percent?=====
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| [https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/6/3/2172881/-What-Happens-When-You-Tax-Billionaires-at-90-Percent by thomhartmann 3/6/23 DAILY KOS]
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| America’s billionaires (and soon to be trillionaires) pay an average of around 3.1 percent as their functional income tax rate; as a result, America is the most unequal developed society in the world. The last time severe poverty and extravagant wealth coexisted in such extremes as today in this country was during the 1920s and 1930s.
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| =====Defense arguments are set to open in a landmark climate case brought by Montana youth=====
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| [https://www.npr.org/2023/06/19/1182999615/defense-arguments-to-begin-in-youth-climate-trial-in-montana by Ellis Juhlin 19/6/23 npr]
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| Attorneys for the State of Montana said Friday they will not call one of their top expert witnesses in the only youth climate lawsuit to make it all the way to trial in the U.S.
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| =====Just add sugar: Research shows common antioxidant can be more beneficial through glycosylation=====
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| [https://phys.org/news/2023-06-sugar-common-antioxidant-beneficial-glycosylation.amp by Sydney Dahle 14/6/23 PHYS ORG]
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| Polyphenols are a class of compounds found in many plant-based foods. Polyphenols help prevent cellular damage in the body and can help to prevent diseases such as cancer or heart disease. However, many of them do not dissolve in water, making it difficult to fully take advantage of their health benefits.
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| =====Defense arguments are set to open in a landmark climate case brought by Montana youth=====
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| [https://www.npr.org/2023/06/19/1182999615/defense-arguments-to-begin-in-youth-climate-trial-in-montana by Ellis Juhlin 19/6/23 npr]
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| Attorneys for the State of Montana said Friday they will not call one of their top expert witnesses in the only youth climate lawsuit to make it all the way to trial in the U.S.
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| =====Billionaire-funded group driving effort to erode democracy in key US states=====
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| [https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jun/23/foundation-government-accountability-democracy by Brendan Fischer 23/6/23 The Guardian]
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| A Florida group primarily funded by an Illinois billionaire is driving the recent attacks on direct democracy in states such as Ohio, Missouri, South Dakota and Arkansas.
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| =====Mercury exposure linked to high youth suicides in Canada First Nation=====
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| [https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jul/20/canada-mercury-poisoning-first-nations-indigenous-youth-suicides by Leyland Cecco 20/7/23 The Guardian]
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| Decades of mercury exposure has been linked to the high youth suicide rates in an Indigenous community in Canada, in the latest finding to underscore the catastrophic legacy of environmental contamination.
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| =====The king of dark money effectively controls the US supreme court now=====
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| [https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jun/30/supreme-court-leonard-leo-dark-money by Joel Warner 1/7/23 The Guardian]
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| Once again, the US supreme court has issued rulings triggering national uproar. This time, the court has ruled that universities’ race-conscious admission policies are unconstitutional, that businesses can deny services to LGBTQ+ customers, and that Joe Biden can’t move forward with his student loan forgiveness plan. And just like the justices’ decision last year to end federal abortion protections and other troubling Scotus developments this term, the court’s new decisions are all examples of how dark money reigns supreme.
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| =====Can multivitamins improve memory?=====
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| [https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2023/05/26/1178225715/can-multivitamins-improve-memory-a-new-study-shows-intriguing-results by Allison Aubrey 26/5/23 npr]
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| A team of researchers wanted to assess how a daily multivitamin may influence cognitive aging and memory. They tracked about 3,500 older adults who were enrolled in a randomized controlled trial. One group of participants took a placebo, and another group took a Silver Centrum multivitamin, for three years. The participants also took tests, administered online, to evaluate memory.
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| =====New biodegradable plastics are compostable in your backyard=====
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| [https://phys.org/news/2023-07-biodegradable-plastics-compostable-backyard.amp by Sarah McQuate 10/7/23 PHYS ORG]
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| We use plastics in almost every aspect of our lives. These materials are cheap to make and incredibly stable. The problem comes when we're done using something plastic—it can persist in the environment for years. Over time, plastic will break down into smaller fragments, called microplastics, that can pose significant environmental and health concerns.
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| =====Understanding the role of the sun in climate change=====
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| [https://phys.org/news/2023-07-role-sun-climate.amp by Nicola Scafetta 6/7/23 PHYS ORG]
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| The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) supports the latter view and estimates that almost 100% of the observed warming of the Earth's surface from 1850–1900 to 2020 was caused by man-made emissions. This is known as the anthropogenic global warming (AGWT) theory.
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| =====A Major Polling Company Is Throwing Its Weight Behind Huge Conspiracy Theories=====
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| [https://www.huffpost.com/entry/rasmussen-reports-poll-conspiracy-theories-election-denialism-covid-vaccine_n_64b05d9fe4b093f07cada517 by Matt Shuham 14/7/23 HUFFPOST]
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| The news from Rasmussen Reports, which was based on an unprecedented 1,001-person poll taken four months after the election, was the boldest claim yet from the pollster, heralding a miraculous supposed 92% turnout rate in the election — rather than the certified rate of 62.56%.
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| =====Financial models on climate risk ‘implausible’, say actuaries=====
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| [https://www.ft.com/content/a5027391-41a4-4e21-a72d-f8189d6a7b71 by Camilla Hodgson 3/7/23 FINANCIAL TIMES]
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| Financial institutions often did not understand the models they were using to predict the economic cost of climate change and were underestimating the risks of temperature rises, research led by a professional body of actuaries shows.
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| =====The most famous extinction event in the planet’s history is happening again — in Santa Cruz=====
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| [https://www.latimes.com/science/story/2023-05-31/the-biggest-extinction-event-in-the-planets-history-is-happening-again-in-santa-cruz by Corinne Purtill 31/5/23 Los Angeles Times]
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| The heat of impact generated massive fires that annihilated everything around them and sent colossal plumes of pollutants soaring into the atmosphere. Within a day or two, toxic clouds of pulverized rock, sulfate aerosols and wildfire soot had blanketed the planet, blocking all but a tiny fraction of the sun’s energy and bringing photosynthesis to a virtual halt for the only known time in history.
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| =====Racism at heart of US failure to tackle deadly heatwaves, expert warns=====
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| [https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/aug/06/jef-goodell-heatwaves-racism-the-heat-will-kill-you-first-book by Nina Lakhani 6/8/23]
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| Racism is at the heart of the American government’s failure to tackle the growing threat of deadly heatwaves, according to the author of an authoritative new book on the heating planet.
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| =====The bacteria that can capture carbon=====
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| [https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20230829-the-bacteria-that-can-capture-carbon by Isabelle Gerresten 29/8/23 BBC]
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| With global greenhouse gas emissions reaching an all-time high last year, many scientists and world leaders are now arguing that new technologies which can capture carbon and store it underground are needed to help the world meet its climate goals.
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| =====Biden creates a new national monument near the Grand Canyon=====
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| [https://www.npr.org/2023/08/08/1192622716/biden-national-monument-grand-canyon-arizona by Tamara Keith 8/8/23 npr]
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| President Biden designated a new national monument near the Grand Canyon on Tuesday. The move protects lands that are sacred to indigenous peoples and permanently bans new uranium mining claims in the area. It covers nearly 1 million acres.
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| =====Wind-powered cargo ship sets sail in a move to make shipping greener=====
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| [https://edition.cnn.com/2023/08/22/travel/wind-powered-cargo-ship-cargill-bartech-climate-c2e-spc-intl/index.html by Nell Lewis 21/8/23 CNN]
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| A large red cargo ship named Pyxis Ocean set out on its maiden voyage this month. But unlike most others before it, this one is powered, in part, by wind.
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| The ship, chartered by US shipping firm Cargill, has been retrofitted with two WindWings – large steel sails 37.5 meters (123 foot) tall, designed by UK company BAR Technologies and produced by industrialization partner Yara Marine Technologies.
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| =====The US doesn’t have universal health care — but these states (almost) do=====
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| [https://www.vox.com/policy/23972827/us-aca-enrollment-universal-health-insurance by Dylan Scott 26/11/23 VOX]
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| Overall, the number of uninsured Americans has fallen from 46.5 million in 2010, the year President Barack Obama signed his signature health care law, to about 26 million today. The US health system still has plenty of flaws — beyond the 8 percent of the population who are uninsured, far higher than in peer countries, many of the people who technically have health insurance still find it difficult to cover their share of their medical bills. Nevertheless, more people enjoy some financial protection against health care expenses than in any previous period in US history.
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| =====How to harvest water from clouds of fog=====
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| [https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2023/10/06/1203891520/drought-climate-change-fog-harvesting by Kat Lonsdorf, Claire Harbage npr]
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| LAARE, Kenya – Jacob Murungi and his wife don't sleep much. Instead, they spend their nights in the local forest high in the mountains of central Kenya collecting water — from the trees.
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| | =====Trump Wants to Cut Tribal College Funding by Nearly 90%, Putting Them at Risk of Closing===== |
| | [https://www.propublica.org/article/tribal-colleges-universities-trump-cuts-funding by Matt Krupnick 3/6/25 PROPUBLICA] |
| | The Trump administration has proposed cutting funding for tribal colleges and universities by nearly 90%, a move that would likely shut down most or all of the institutions created to serve students disadvantaged by the nation’s historic mistreatment of Indigenous communities. |
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| [https://www.instructables.com/8-Folding-Kayak/ by Wizgirl AUTODESK Instructables] | | =====Scenic forest trails near Santa Cruz to open to the public for the first time===== |
| The kayak is made of plywood and canvas, and is bonded together with contact cement. The entire boat is coated in latex primer and paint, which waterproofs it. It folds up for easy storage, and is relatively easy to carry short distances.
| | [https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/scenic-forest-trails-santa-cruz/3884608/?amp=1 by Joe Rosalito 4/6/25 NBC] |
| =====Calculating the amount companies owe for causing global warming=====
| | The one-time dairy-turned-national monument sits nine miles north of Santa Cruz at the edge of the Santa Cruz Mountains overlooking the ocean. Its opening this summer will cap years of fundraising and labor to convert the scenic landscape into a public recreational destination. |
| [https://phys.org/news/2023-05-amount-companies-owe-global.amp by Bob Yirka 23/5/23 PHYS ORG]
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| A pair of sociologists, one with the University of Milan-Bicocca, the other with the Climate Accountability Institute, has used survey data to calculate the amount companies should be paying in reparations to compensate for activities that have led to global warming.
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| =====Buoyancy-driven hybrid energy platform moves to full-scale pilot===== | |
| [https://newatlas.com/energy/noviocean-wave-solar-wind-offshore-energy/ by Loz Blain 8/10/24 NEW ATLAS]
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| Swedish company NoviOcean has tested a third-gen prototype of its combination wind/solar/wave energy platform, a floating platform rated for up to 1 megawatt of consistent clean energy around the clock thanks to a fascinating buoyancy-driven mechanism. Next step: a full-scale pilot.
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| =====Ready to cold plunge? We dive into the science to see if it's worth it=====
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| [https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2023/10/08/1204411415/cold-plunge-health-benefits-how-to by Will Stone 20/11/23 npr] | |
| Your body's first reaction to a plunge in chilly water is the "cold shock" response. Your heart rate jumps. Stress hormones spike. You gasp suddenly, and may hyperventilate.
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| =====The doomsday vaults storing seeds, data and DNA to protect our future===== | |
| [https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/nov/19/the-doomsday-vaults-storing-seeds-data-and-dna-to-protect-our-future by Ella Braidwood 12/11/23 The Guardian]
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| Are we allowed to go in?” I surprise myself with this question, given that I’m staring through the small window of a door into one of six underground vaults, each one essentially a walk-in freezer. The temperature inside is -20C. It is a grey winter day at the Millennium Seed Bank in Wakehurst, Sussex and the maze of featureless corridors and reinforced concrete adds to the 1984-ish austerity of the setting. These vaults are designed to withstand the worst apocalypse we can imagine – be it caused by bombs, radiation, floods or disease. | |
| =====Why Don’t Americans Know Who’s Manipulating our Political System & Why?=====
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| [https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/1/3/2215156/-Why-Don-t-Americans-Know-Who-s-Manipulating-our-Political-System-Why?pm_campaign=front_page&pm_source=trending&pm_medium=web by thomhartmann 3/1/24 Daily KOS]
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| While many trace the beginning of the modern rightwing fascist-friendly MAGA-type movement to the 1954 Brown v Board decision and the way it put the John Birch Society on steroids, another interesting origin story for today’s GOP base is grounded in the creation of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
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| =====Immigrants are less likely to commit crimes than U.S.-born Americans, studies find=====
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| The murder of Laken Riley took center stage during Thursday night's State of the Union address. Riley was a 22-year-old student who was killed last month at the University of Georgia. The suspect in her murder is a Venezuelan migrant whom officials say was illegally in the U.S.
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| =====Some ultra-processed foods are good for your health, WHO-backed study finds=====
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| [https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/nov/13/some-ultra-processed-foods-are-good-for-your-health-who-backed-study-finds by Denis Campbell 13/11/23 The Guardian] | |
| Some ultra-processed foods increase the risk of developing cancer, heart disease and diabetes – but others are good for you, new research into the demonised foodstuffs suggests.
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| | =====We Saw Medicaid Work Requirements Up Close. You Don’t Want This Chaos.===== |
| | [https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/08/opinion/medicaid-work-requirements-arkansas.html?unlocked_article_code=1.NU8.wJE1._9ddBnCcgVCO&smid=url-share by Kevin De Liban 8/6/25 The New York Times] |
| | Many of the Republicans pushing for Medicaid work requirements — permanent program cuts that will strip up to 14 million people of their health care coverage — likely have no idea what it takes to comply with them. We do. As legal aid lawyers, we were on the front lines helping low-income people in Arkansas keep their health care coverage when the state rolled out work requirements in 2018. |
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| | =====‘Tremendous uncertainty’ for cancer research as US officials target mRNA vaccines===== |
| | [https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/12/mrna-vaccine-cancer-research-trump-administration by Melody Schreiber 12/7/25 The Guardian] |
| | Amid Trump cuts and state-level backlash, experts worry that progress in messenger RNA vaccines could stall |
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| | =====The Texas way: why the most disaster-prone US state is so allergic to preparing for disasters===== |
| | [https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/13/texas-disaster-weather-preparations-us by Ed PilKington 13/7/25 The Guardian] |
| | It faces hurricanes, heat, drought, rising seas and – as last week showed – deadly floods. But despite the clear need for preventive action, that is not the political mood |
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| | =====Colville Tribes confirms first salmon sighting in Kettle River eight years after reintroducing salmon near Coulee Dam===== |
| | [https://www.yoursourceone.com/columbia_basin/colville-tribes-confirms-first-salmon-sighting-in-kettle-river-eight-years-after-reintroducing-salmon-near/article_5a29f663-bcba-4c83-b106-69dc3c9410aa.html by ONE News Staff 11/7/25 SOURCEONE] |
| | NESPELEM — A juvenile Chinook salmon was recently photographed in the Kettle River near Cascade Falls in British Columbia, marking the first confirmed sighting of a Chinook in the river since the Colville Tribes began reintroduction efforts upstream of Grand Coulee Dam in 2017. |
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| | =====Why the Southwest megadrought is here to stay===== |
| | [https://www.earth.com/news/why-the-southwest-megadrought-is-here-to-stay/ by Jordan Joseph 13/7/25 earth.com] |
| | Snowpack once reliably fed water into the Colorado River, yet winter precipitation across the Four Corners has dropped by roughly 23 percent since 1980. Reservoirs and ranchers feel the strain each spring. |
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| | =====The deepening water shortage row between the US and Mexico===== |
| | [https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0epzp21z47o by Will Grant 13/7/25 BBC] |
| | After the thirtieth consecutive month without rain, the townsfolk of San Francisco de Conchos in the northern Mexican state of Chihuahua gather to plead for divine intervention. |
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| | =====There is no safe amount of processed meat to eat, according to new research===== |
| | [https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2025/07/02/health/processed-meats-sweet-drinks-disease-wellness by Madeline Holcombe 2/7/25 CNN] |
| | There is strong evidence that there is “no safe amount” of processed meat to eat, nutrition experts say in response to a new study on the connection between diet and the risk of major diseases, including cancer, type 2 diabetes and heart disease. The researchers also found elevated risks from the consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages and trans fatty acids. |
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| | =====Six-hour ‘undo’ button: GAI-17 rewinds stroke damage and may beat Alzheimer’s===== |
| | [https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/07/250715043357.htm by Osaka Metropolitan University 15/7/25 Science Daily] |
| | Protein aggregation inhibitor shows lower levels of cell death and paralysis in mice with acute strokes. |
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| | [https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1365-2664.70079 by B.A Woodcock 1/7/25 BTITISH ECOLOGICAL SOCIETY] |
| | The intensification of global agriculture has devolved reliance on natural ecosystem services to agrochemicals and crop breeding, while simultaneously losing semi-natural habitats (Priyadarshana et al., 2024; Pywell et al., 2015; Stoate et al., 2009). In the short term this has increased yields at a level inconceivable in previous centuries but has come with negative externalities like biodiversity loss, nutrient losses and pollution burdens (Defra, 2023; Stoate et al., 2009; |
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| | =====#290 ReWilding our Water: From Rain to River to Sewer and back with Tim Smedley, author of The Last Drop===== |
| | [https://accidentalgods.life/rewilding-our-water-from-rain-to-river-to-sewer-and-back-with-tim-smedley-author-of-the-last-drop/ by Tim Smedley The Last Drop] |
| | If you listen to this podcast for any length of time, you’ll know that I believe the way forward is predicated on our finding shared values—I’d go for integrity, compassion, courage and generosity of spirit as the baselines—and then a suite of clear asks in the outer world and needs in the inner world. |
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| | =====First-of-its-kind wildlife overcrossing in Northern California officially in progress===== |
| | [https://krcrtv.com/news/local/first-of-its-kind-wildlife-overcrossing-in-northern-california-in-progress by Timea Horvath 18/7/25 KRCR] |
| | Wildfire Crossing Structure Project includes construction of a single-span, approximately 100-foot long by 140-foot wide wildlife overcrossing bridge at Post Mile 19.77. Caltrans crew will also install approximately two miles of 8-foot-high wildlife exclusion fencing on both sides of the highway, jump-outs every half mile to allow wildlife to escape the roadway corridor, cattle guards at private road access points and a reinforced concrete box culvert to enhance wildlife undercrossing opportunities. |
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| | =====Named after a historic dairy ranch that still stands today, Wilder Ranch covers a staggering 7,000 acres, from the treelined ridges of Ben Lomond Mountain to rugged cliffs overlooking a particularly untamed expanse of the Pacific Ocean. A testament to the area's rich agricultural history, farmers still grow artichokes, Brussels sprouts, and other fog-loving crops on the land between the ocean and Highway 1. |
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| | [https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/20/trump-energy-environment-agenda by Peter Stone 20/7/25 The Guardian] |
| | Ever since Donald Trump began his second presidency, he has used an “invented” national energy emergency to help justify expanding oil, gas and coal while slashing green energy – despite years of scientific evidence that burning fossil fuels has contributed significantly to climate change, say scholars and watchdogs. |
| | =====California's Hidden Coastal State Park Near Downtown Santa Cruz Offers Uncrowded Beach Access And Ethereal Trails |
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| | [https://www.islands.com/1911800/california-coastal-wilder-ranch-state-park-near-downtown-santa-cruz-uncrowded-beach-trails/ by Eva Johnstone 19/6/25 Islands] |
| | Named after a historic dairy ranch that still stands today, Wilder Ranch covers a staggering 7,000 acres, from the treelined ridges of Ben Lomond Mountain to rugged cliffs overlooking a particularly untamed expanse of the Pacific Ocean. A testament to the area's rich agricultural history, farmers still grow artichokes, Brussels sprouts, and other fog-loving crops on the land between the ocean and Highway 1. |
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| | =====Only 3 years left – new study warns the world is running out of time to avoid the worst impacts of climate change===== |
| | [https://theconversation.com/only-3-years-left-new-study-warns-the-world-is-running-out-of-time-to-avoid-the-worst-impacts-of-climate-change-261229 by Piers Forster 20/7/25 THE CONVERSATION] |
| | Bad climate news is everywhere. Africa is being hit particularly hard by climate change and extreme weather, impacting lives and livelihoods. |
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| ===== Perfect solar system' found in search for alien life ===== | | We are living in a world that is warming at the fastest rate since records began. Yet, governments have been slow to act. |
| [https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-67488931 by Pallab Ghosh 29/11/23 BBC] | | =====“Remarkable” Results – Scientists Say This Supplement Reversed Heart Damage===== |
| Researchers have located "the perfect solar system", forged without the violent collisions that made our own a hotchpotch of different-sized planets. | | [https://scitechdaily.com/remarkable-results-scientists-say-this-supplement-reversed-heart-damage/ by THE UNIVERSITY OF OSAKA 19/7/25 SciTechDaily] |
| | | Japanese researchers have uncovered that tricaprin, a dietary supplement, triggered a dramatic reversal of heart disease symptoms in two patients with a rare, treatment-resistant condition. After years of chest pain and failed therapies, the patients experienced relief and even regression of artery-clogging fat deposits. The key wasn’t lowering cholesterol, but breaking down triglycerides inside heart cells—a novel and potentially groundbreaking approach to cardiac care. |
| ===== Buoyancy-driven hybrid energy platform moves to full-scale pilot =====
| | =====Can cannabis impact aging? Study shows marijuana could alter 'genetic code'===== |
| [https://newatlas.com/energy/noviocean-wave-solar-wind-offshore-energy/ by Loz Blain 8/10/24 NEW ATLAS] | | [https://komonews.com/news/offbeat/can-cannabis-impact-aging-study-shows-marijuana-could-alter-genetic-code-pot-weed-smoke-smoking-smokers-epigenetic-research-effect-impact-body-health-healthy-lungs-brain-drugs-substance-abuse-addiction-tobacco-disorders-infections-cincinnati by WKRC 20/7/25 KOMONEWS] |
| Swedish company NoviOcean has tested a third-gen prototype of its combination wind/solar/wave energy platform, a floating platform rated for up to 1 megawatt of consistent clean energy around the clock thanks to a fascinating buoyancy-driven mechanism. Next step: a full-scale pilot.
| | The study highlighted the importance of understanding marijuana's effects on the body, as it remains one of the most widely used drugs globally. While some effects are well-known, the research indicated a broader impact than previously anticipated. |
| While U.S. church attendance has dropped, prosperity gospel has risen—with a brutal take on poverty===== [https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/10/28/2201563/-While-U-S-church-attendance-has-dropped-prosperity-gospel-has-risen-with-a-brutal-take-on-poverty?pm_campaign=front_page&pm_source=top_news_slot_1&pm_medium=web by Charles Jay 28/9/23 DAILY KOS]
| | =====Stop telling us it’s not about that===== |
| In the New Testament, Jesus Christ threw the moneychangers out of the Temple in Jerusalem, accusing them of turning it into “a den of robbers.” And he made his views about the rich and poor very clear in numerous passages | | [https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/7/23/2334876/-Stop-telling-us-it-s-not-about-that?pm_campaign=front_page&pm_source=trending&pm_medium=web by MurielVieux 23/7/25 DAILY KOS] |
| | | Deny the truth to yourselves all you want people, but stop telling us Black folks that what’s going on today, what won the 2024 election is not white supremacy. |
| ===== The bacteria that can capture carbon ===== | | =====The 5 Best Drinks for Kidney Stones (Plus 3 to Avoid)===== |
| [https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20230829-the-bacteria-that-can-capture-carbon by Isabelle Gerretsen 29/8/23 BBC] | | [https://www.goodrx.com/conditions/kidney-stones/best-drink-for-kidney-stones?srsltid=AfmBOor1LT8uh3L5QL8wWUjNkhhr98fzsrGgsTkJ98A-9iN8PcID1ern by Tracy Norfleet 13/3/24 GoodRx] |
| Scientists have recently discovered a microbe, a type of cyanobacteria, off the coast of a volcanic island near Sicily that eats carbon dioxide (CO2) "astonishingly quickly". | | If you’ve ever had a kidney stone, you know that they can be incredibly painful. And about half of people with kidney stones end up having more in the future. But there are things you can do to lower your risk of kidney stones, like drinking the right things. |
| | | =====What to do about gallstones===== |
| ===== New maps show where snowfall is disappearing ===== | | [https://www.health.harvard.edu/womens-health/what-to-do-about-gallstones by Harvard Health Publishing 20/7/23] |
| [https://edition.cnn.com/2023/11/25/weather/snowfall-temperatures-climate-change-water/index.html by Eric Zerkel 25/11/23 CNN] | | Gallstones begin with bile, a substance that helps with the digestion of fats and the absorption of certain vitamins. Bile is made in the liver and carried to the gallbladder, a small, pear-shaped organ that concentrates and stores it. The fat in food triggers the release of a hormone that causes the gallbladder to contract and release bile into the intestine. |
| Climate scientists say the future of snowfall is pretty clear: A warmer world driven by human pollution means precipitation is more likely to fall as rain than snow, all else being equal. | | =====Where the next deadly flood wave could strike===== |
| | | [https://edition.cnn.com/2025/07/24/climate/flash-flood-risk-hot-spots by Andrew Freedman 24/7/25 CNN] |
| ===== We are damned fools’: scientist who sounded climate alarm in 80s warns of worse to come ===== | | The ingredients that led to the Hill Country disaster — steep terrain, swollen rivers and unsuspecting people in harm’s way — are not unique to Texas. Across the United States, there are pockets of vulnerability where geography, weather and human nature converge in ways that heighten the risk of flash flooding. |
| [https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jul/19/climate-crisis-james-hansen-scientist-warning by Oliver Milman 19/7/23 The Guardian] | | =====Why the U.S. is leading the world in extreme weather catastrophes===== |
| The world is shifting towards a superheated climate not seen in the past 1m years, prior to human existence, because “we are damned fools” for not acting upon warnings over the climate crisis, according to James Hansen, the US scientist who alerted the world to the greenhouse effect in the 1980s. | | [https://www.pbs.org/newshour/science/why-the-u-s-is-leading-the-world-in-extreme-weather-catastrophes by Seth Borenstein 2/4/23 PBS NEWS] |
| | | The United States is Earth’s punching bag for nasty weather. |
| ===== The Trump administration has shut down more than 100 climate studies ===== | |
| [https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/06/02/1117653/the-trump-administration-has-shut-down-more-than-100-climate-studies/ by James Temple 2/6/25 MIT Technology Review] | |
| The Trump administration has terminated National Science Foundation grants for more than 100 research projects related to climate change amid a widening campaign to slash federal funding for scientists and institutions studying the rising risks of a warming world. | |
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| ===== Glaciers will keep melting for centuries even if warming stops, study warns ===== | |
| [https://www.the-independent.com/climate-change/news/swiss-glacier-collapse-melting-b2761880.html by Stuti Mishra 3/6/25 INDEPENDENT] | |
| About 40 per cent of the world's glacier mass is already set to disappear due to past greenhouse gas emissions. The ongoing loss not only contributes to sea-level rise but also threatens freshwater supplies and increases the risk of natural hazards in mountainous regions. | |
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| ===== The internet is in decline – it needs rewilding =====
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| [https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/may/04/the-internet-is-in-decline-it-needs-rewilding by John Naughton 4/5/24 The Guardian]
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| Berners-Lee, a British computer scientist, had come up with the idea for a “world wide web” as a way of locating and accessing documents that were scattered all over the internet. With a small group of colleagues he envisaged, designed and implemented it in the late 1980s and eventually put the whole thing – protocols, server and browser software, HTML specification, etc. – on one of Cern’s internet servers, and in doing so changed the world.
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| ===== Can multivitamins improve memory? A new study shows 'intriguing' results =====
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| [https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2023/05/26/1178225715/can-multivitamins-improve-memory-a-new-study-shows-intriguing-results by Allison Aubrey 26/5/23 NPR]
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| A team of researchers wanted to assess how a daily multivitamin may influence cognitive aging and memory. They tracked about 3,500 older adults who were enrolled in a randomized controlled trial. One group of participants took a placebo, and another group took a Silver Centrum multivitamin, for three years. The participants also took tests, administered online, to evaluate memory.
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| ===== ‘It was an accident’: the scientists who have turned humid air into renewable power =====
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| [https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/jul/02/it-was-an-accident-the-scientists-who-have-turned-humid-air-into-renewable-power?utm_term=64a247cbc7347b0db83e05b44b3db4e2&utm_campaign=GuardianTodayUK&utm_source=esp&utm_medium=Email&CMP=GTUK_email by Ned Carter Miles 2/7/23]
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| In the early 20th century, Serbian inventor Nikola Tesla dreamed of pulling limitless free electricity from the air around us. Ever ambitious, Tesla was thinking on a vast scale, effectively looking at the Earth and upper atmosphere as two ends of an enormous battery. Needless to say, his dreams were never realised, but the promise of air-derived electricity – hygroelectricity – is now capturing researchers’ imaginations again. The difference: they’re not thinking big, but very, very small.
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| ===== The 'Game-Changing' Technology The Nuclear Industry Is Betting On For A Revival =====
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| [https://www.huffpost.com/entry/small-nuclear-reactors-energy_n_649f055be4b0c7e9d8e723e8 by Alexander C.Kaufman 31/7/23 HUFFPOST]
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| CAMDEN, N.J. ― On a bright, humid afternoon last September, Allen Hickman made the rounds on the floor of a factory that embodies the past, present and future of the nation’s atomic energy industry perhaps more than any other site in the United States.
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| ===== Some ultra-processed foods are good for your health, WHO-backed study finds =====
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| [https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/nov/13/some-ultra-processed-foods-are-good-for-your-health-who-backed-study-finds by Denis Campbell 13/11/23]
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| Some ultra-processed foods increase the risk of developing cancer, heart disease and diabetes – but others are good for you, new research into the demonised foodstuffs suggests.
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| ===== Mercury exposure linked to high youth suicides in Canada First Nation =====
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| Researchers who studied three generations of mothers and their children from the community of Grassy Narrows, Ontario, have concluded that sustained exposure to the toxic metal helped cause a suicide rate three times higher than any other First Nations community – which are already far higher than among the country’s general population.
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| ===== Could kinder, gentler fracking create a breakthrough in geothermal power? =====
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| [https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/7/23/2182001/-Could-kinder-gentler-fracking-create-a-breakthrough-in-geothermal-power by Mark Sumner 23/7/23 DAILY KOS]
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| Hydro power is often mentioned, but only in the sense that while it plays a significant role in the current energy portfolio, there are few options for expansion. While wind and solar have been racing up, hydroelectric production has declined.
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| [https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/extra/3s2qsuikpf/mekong-the-last-chance-to-save-a-mighty-river by Laura Bicker 11/01/23]
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| A warming world and hydropower dams are destroying one of the world’s richest ecosystems - and threatening the millions of people who rely on it.
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| ===== The circus that bought a tiny California town: ‘We’re creating our own Disneyland’ =====
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| [https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2024/nov/24/nipton-california-spiegelword-circus by Amanda Ulrich 11/24/24 The Guardian]
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| rom 10 miles out, the tiny town of Nipton suddenly appears in the middle distance like a mirage: a huddle of lush eucalyptus trees in an otherwise impossibly vast, barren expanse of the California desert.
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| This September morning, the air is cool. Murungi's wearing a wool hat and a maroon fleece, long pants and tall rubber boots. But the sun — strong at the equator — will soon warm the area. When the ground heats up during the day, its moisture evaporates into the air. Then when the night brings cooler temperatures, that moisture condenses, forming a fog of water droplets that Murungi and his wife collect.
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| ===== Three independent studies say that blood platelet factor PF4 prevents and reverses cognitive decline =====
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| Although the percentage of older people with dementia is thankfully decreasing, from 13% to 10% in those over 70 from 2011-2019, the absolute number of people with dementia is actually increasing. That’s because the share of the U.S. population that is 65 and over ballooned by 38.6% from 2010-2020, in large part due to baby boomers (shown in dark blue below) crossing the 65-year mark. They’ll keep on doing that until 2031, so the 65+ population will continue to grow quickly until then.
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| ===== It’s absolutely guaranteed’: the best and worst case scenarios for sea level rise =====
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| It is accelerating, too: the ocean rose more than twice as fast (4.62mm a year) in the most recent decade (2013-22) than it did in 1993-2002, the first decade of satellite measurements, when the rate was 2.77mm a year. Last year was a new high, according to the World Meteorological Organization. It is no coincidence that the past eight years were the warmest on record.
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| ===== What Happens When You Tax Billionaires at 90 Percent? =====
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| [https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/6/3/2172881/-What-Happens-When-You-Tax-Billionaires-at-90-Percent by Thomhartmann 3/6/23 Daily KOS]
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| “Succession” is over, but spoiled, entitled billionaire man-children are still very much with us, running social media companies, owning newspapers and television networks, and funding politicians and judges who then keep their taxes low and regulations minimal.
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| ===== How the far right tore apart one of the best tools to fight voter fraud =====
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| [https://www.npr.org/2023/06/04/1171159008/eric-investigation-voter-data-election-integrity by Miles Parks 6/6/23 NPR]
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| On a night in January 2022, Louisiana Secretary of State Kyle Ardoin stepped on stage in a former airbase in Houma, La.
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| With American flags draped from the stage, the topic of the night was democracy.
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| ===== Defense arguments are set to open in a landmark climate case brought by Montana youth =====
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| Sixteen young Montana plaintiffs are suing state leaders in Helena, saying they've ignored scientific evidence and continue to promote fossil fuels, worsening climate change. They say that violates their right to a "clean and healthful environment," which Montana's constitution guarantees.
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| ===== A Major Polling Company Is Throwing Its Weight Behind Huge Conspiracy Theories =====
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| [https://www.huffpost.com/entry/rasmussen-reports-poll-conspiracy-theories-election-denialism-covid-vaccine_n_64b05d9fe4b093f07cada517 by Matt Shuham 14/7/23 HUFFPOST]
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| Kari Lake had lost Arizona’s 2022 governor’s race by thousands of votes, falsely declared that she’d been robbed, and was trying to overturn the election results in court when, finally, she was declared the winner of the race in March.
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| ===== A beautiful, broken America: what I learned on a 2,800-mile bus ride from Detroit to LA =====
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| [https://www.theguardian.com/travel/2023/jul/26/america-roadtrip-greyhound-bus by Joanna Pocock 26/7/23 The Guardian]
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| Historically, chroniclers of the road have travelled by car – intrepid individuals in charge of their destinies. They also tend to be male. The only book I could find by a woman about crossing the US was America Day by Day by Simone de Beauvoir. It is also the only Great American Road Trip book that features Greyhound bus travel. Simone became my companion on the road.
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| ===== ‘This way of farming is really sexy’: the rise of regenerative agriculture =====
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| [https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/aug/14/this-way-of-farming-is-really-sexy-the-rise-of-regenerative-agriculture by Alexandra Topping 14/8/23 The Guardian]
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| Hollie Fallick looks over Brading on the Isle of Wight, at a patchwork of fields bordered by ancient oaks, which stretches to the Solent. “We still have to pinch ourselves every day,” says the 30-year-old, as she surveys the 50 hectares (125 acres) she farms with her best friend, Francesca Cooper, 34.
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| ===== Five geoengineering trials the UK is funding to combat global warming =====
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| The UK government recently announced plans to fund five small-scale trials related to geoengineering. It’s the first time a state research funding body has put serious money into what’s known as solar radiation management, or SRM, which seeks to cool the planet by reflecting more of the Sun’s energy back into space.
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| ===== Profound Paradigm Shift in Cellular Biology – DNA Damage Repaired by Antioxidant Enzymes =====
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| [https://scitechdaily.com/profound-paradigm-shift-in-cellular-biology-dna-damage-repaired-by-antioxidant-enzymes/ by CENTER FOR GENOMIC REGULATION 6/7/23 sciTechDaily]
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| The human nucleus is metabolically active, according to the findings of a new study in Molecular Systems Biology by researchers at the CRG in Barcelona and CeMM/Medical University of Vienna.
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| ===== A popular, but noxious, piping fix is sickening people. And it's throughout America's sewers. =====
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| A strong, epoxy-like odor that nauseated her and dozens of classmates and teachers at Spooner Middle School in Wisconsin. By the time they evacuated, Kaylie was feeling lightheaded. She passed out and was rushed to the hospital by ambulance.
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| ===== How to improve US cities and tackle the climate crisis? Get rid of parking spaces =====
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| [https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/may/26/paved-paradise-book-americans-cars-climate-crisis by Danielle Renwick 26/5/23 The Guardian]
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| What could New York achieve if it repurposed some of its 3m curbside parking spots?
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| It could get rid of rats by moving trash off the sidewalks and into containers. It could create safe, cool play spaces for the more than 1m New Yorkers without easy park access. It could build bioswales to collect rainwater and prevent flooding during heavy storms.
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| ===== Calculating the amount companies owe for causing global warming =====
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| [https://phys.org/news/2023-05-amount-companies-owe-global.amp by Bob Yirka 23/5/23 PHYS ORG]
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| Prior research has found that it is possible to tie certain environmental events to climate change—the current heat wave in parts of South Asia, for example, or excessive flooding in Myanmar and Bangladesh. As it stands now, governments wind up paying to restore order in such areas, or in some cases, insurance companies pay for those who have coverage.
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| ===== Earth Matters: James Hansen warned us about climate change 35 years ago this month =====
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| [https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/6/1/2172434/-Earth-Matters-James-Hansen-warned-us-about-climate-change-35-years-ago-this-month by Staff Emeritus 1/6/23 DAILY KOS]
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| “The present observed global warming is close to 0.4 degrees C [0.72 F], relative to ‘climatology,’ which is defined as the thirty-year (1951–1980) mean. A warming of 0.4 degrees C is three times larger than the standard deviation of annual mean temperatures in the 30-year climatology. The standard deviation of 0.13 degrees C i[0.23 F] is a typical amount by which the global temperature fluctuates annually about its 30-year mean; the probability of a chance warming of three standard deviations is about 1 percent. Thus, we can state with about 99 percent confidence that current temperatures represent a real warming trend rather than a chance fluctuation over the 30-year period.”—James Hansen testifying to the U.S. Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources on June 23, 1988.
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| ===== Experience exceeds awareness of anthropogenic climate change in Greenland =====
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| [https://www.nature.com/articles/s41558-023-01701-9 by Kelton Minor, Manumina Lund Jensen, David Dreyer Lassen & Minik T.Rosing 26/6/23 Nature Climate Change]
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| Although Greenland is a hub for climate science, the climate perceptions of Greenland’s predominantly Indigenous population have remained largely unstudied. Here we present two nationally representative surveys and show that Greenlanders are more likely than residents of top oil-producing Arctic countries to perceive that climate change is happening and about twice as likely to have personally experienced its effects. However, half are unaware that climate change is human-caused and those who are most affected appear to be least aware.
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| ===== Hygroelectricity -- Nikola Tesla's Dream Reimagined? =====
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| [https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/7/6/2179208/-Hygroelectricity-Tesla-s-Dream-Reimagined by Irontortoise 6/7/23 DAILY KOS]
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| In May, a team at the University of Massachusetts (UMass) Amherst published a paper declaring they had successfully generated a small but continuous electric current from humidity in the air…
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| ===== ‘Double agents’: fossil-fuel lobbyists work for US groups trying to fight climate crisis =====
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| [https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jul/05/double-agent-fossil-fuel-lobbyists by Oliver Milman 5/7/23 The Guardian]
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| More than 1,500 lobbyists in the US are working on behalf of fossil-fuel companies while at the same time representing hundreds of liberal-run cities, universities, technology companies and environmental groups that say they are tackling the climate crisis, the Guardian can reveal.
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| ===== Understanding the role of the sun in climate change =====
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| [https://phys.org/news/2023-07-role-sun-climate.amp by Nicola Scafetta 6/7/23 PHYS ORG]
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| The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) supports the latter view and estimates that almost 100% of the observed warming of the Earth's surface from 1850–1900 to 2020 was caused by man-made emissions. This is known as the anthropogenic global warming (AGWT) theory.
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| ===== Should I worry about ticks? =====
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| [https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2023/jul/16/should-i-worry-about-ticks?CMP=twt_a-environment_b-gdneco by Joel Snape 16/7/23 The Guardian]
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| As arachnid superorders go, ticks are pretty evolutionarily successful. They’ve been around for at least 100 million years in one variety or another, with their main party trick – hanging around until they can latch a host to feed on – working on thousands of different animals across almost endless environments. But how concerned should you be about them in the UK? You won’t miss the blood they take, but they can cause a variety of unpleasant conditions in their hosts – and there’s some evidence that their population is growing.
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| ===== As darkness descends on Gaza, I yearn for the world to see us, too =====
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| [https://edition.cnn.com/2023/10/11/opinions/gaza-palestinian-israel-hamas-seige-ghraieb/index.html by Omar Ghraeib 12/10/23 CNN]
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| In Gaza, we have all been glued to the news for the last five days, watching in disbelief as strikes and counterstrikes have been exchanged and the death counts on both sides of the border mount. While every round of violence starts differently, they all end the same way here: with Palestinians paying a heavy price. We live in perpetual anticipation of a tragic ending.
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| ===== Racism at heart of US failure to tackle deadly heatwaves, expert warns =====
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| [https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/aug/06/jef-goodell-heatwaves-racism-the-heat-will-kill-you-first-book by Nina Lakhani 6/8/23 The Guardian]
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| Racism is at the heart of the American government’s failure to tackle the growing threat of deadly heatwaves, according to the author of an authoritative new book on the heating planet.
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| ===== The Bruen Decision Is Not an "Originalist" Interpretation of the 2nd Amendment =====
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| [https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/8/31/2190763/-The-Bruen-Decision-Is-Not-an-Originalist-Interpretation-of-the-2nd-Amendment by Old Rotohead 31/8/23 DAILY KOS]
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| Self-proclaimed “originalists” tend to use their alleged doctrine as a fig leaf for enacting their prejudices. In addition to the subject of reproductive autonomy, that’s especially in evidence, it seems, with regard to the Second Amendment. The Supreme Court actually has a set of rules for legal interpretation which enshrines aversion of “originalism”:
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| ===== Biden creates a new national monument near the Grand Canyon =====
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| [https://www.npr.org/2023/08/08/1192622716/biden-national-monument-grand-canyon-arizona by Tamara Keith 8/8/23 nrp]
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| President Biden designated a new national monument near the Grand Canyon on Tuesday. The move protects lands that are sacred to indigenous peoples and permanently bans new uranium mining claims in the area. It covers nearly 1 million acres.
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| ===== Why Billionaires Fund Anti-Trans & Anti-Black-History Political Movements =====
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| [https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/8/16/2187621/-Why-Billionaires-Fund-Anti-Trans-Anti-Black-History-Political-Movements by Thomnhartmann 16/8/23 DAILY KOS]
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| Almost 12 percent of Americans, over 37 million of us, live in dire poverty. According to OECD numbers, while only 5 percent of Italians and 11 percent of Japanese workers toil in low-wage jobs, almost a quarter of Americans — 23 percent — work for wages that can’t support a normal lifestyle. (And low-income Japanese and Italians have free healthcare and college.)
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| ===== Phoenix Roasts in Record-Breaking 110-Plus-Degree Heat, with No End in Sight =====
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| [https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/phoenix-roasts-in-record-breaking-110-plus-degree-heat-with-no-end-in-sight/ by Daniel Cusick 17/7/23 E&E News]
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| Several million heat-tolerant Arizonans spent the weekend in air-conditioned semi-darkness, drawing their curtains shut as temperatures soared to nearly 120 degrees in one of America's largest metro areas.
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| ===== Ready to cold plunge? We dive into the science to see if it's worth it =====
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| [https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2023/10/08/1204411415/cold-plunge-health-benefits-how-to by Will Stone 20/11/23 nrp]
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| Your body's first reaction to a plunge in chilly water is the "cold shock" response. Your heart rate jumps. Stress hormones spike. You gasp suddenly, and may hyperventilate.
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| ===== The 19th century sexual purity law that some want to revive =====
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| [https://edition.cnn.com/2023/10/03/opinions/comstock-act-abortion-first-amendment-ziegler/index.html by Mary Ziegler 3/10/23 CNN]
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| There has been a surprising and consistent theme in several of Kacsymaryk’s rulings: the Comstock Act, a 19th-century sexual purity law that has lain dormant for more than a century. Last spring, when Kacsmaryk ruled that the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) never had the authority to approve mifepristone, a pill used in the standard protocol for medication abortion, which now accounts for more than half of abortions performed in the United States, he argued that the Comstock Act made it a federal crime to mail abortion pills.
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| ===== Climate Change Breeds War in Africa =====
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| [https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/7/30/2184162/-Climate-Change-Breeds-War-in-Africa by Alan Singer 30/7/23 Daily KOS]
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| Filippo Grandi, the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees, warns European nations that refugees from Sahel region will be moving north to escape violence, climate crises like droughts and floods, and food shortages.
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| ===== Giganto, largest ever primate, died out due to diet change, say scientists =====
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| [https://www.theguardian.com/science/2024/jan/10/giganto-largest-ever-primate-died-out-due-to-diet-change-say-scientists by Nicola Davis 10/01/24 The Guardian]
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| Previous studies have shown giganto’s range decreased considerably by about 330,000 years ago, but unpicking the cause of its extinction has been a challenge as it was unclear when exactly it was wiped out.
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| ===== Despite backlash, Masha Gessen says comparing Gaza to a Nazi-era ghetto is necessary =====
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| [https://www.npr.org/2023/12/22/1221128897/masha-gessen-essay-israel-gaza-germany-hannah-arendt-prize by Rachel Treisman, Leila Fadel 22/12/23 nrp]
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| Israel's air-and-ground assault on Gaza has killed more than 20,000 people in the 10 weeks since the Hamas-led attack on Israel killed some 1,200 people and took more than 240 others hostage.
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| ===== First, Murdoch papers targeted me. Now there is evidence they falsely implicated me in a cover-up =====
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| [https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/jul/31/gordon-brown-tom-watson-news-international-william-lewis-rupert-murdoch by Gordon Brown 31/7/24 The Guardian]
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| Lewis and Robert Winnett, who was appointed by Lewis as editor of the Washington Post before quickly deciding not to take the job, are accused of benefiting from private investigators who broke the law. As these allegations surface, an “alternative truth” is being briefed that the Lewis team represents a nimble “no-holds-barred” British journalism, in contrast to what is alleged to have been the plodding, loss-making reporting of newspapers such as the recent Washington Post. It is Lewis’s claim that he can turn round the fortunes of the publication, which lost $77m last year, that appears to have endeared him to the Amazon founder, Jeff Bezos, who is the paper’s owner. But as recent revelations demonstrate, the real dividing line is not between the disrupter and an entrenched resistance to change, but between ethics and the lack of them.
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| ===== US businessman is wannabe ‘warlord’ of secretive far-right men’s network =====
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| [https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/aug/22/charles-haywood-claremont-institute-sacr-far-right by Jason Wilson 22/8/23 The Guardian]
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| The founder and sponsor of a far-right network of secretive, men-only, invitation-only fraternal lodges in the US is a former industrialist who has frequently speculated about his future as a warlord after the collapse of America, a Guardian investigation has found.
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| ===== California shores up beaver protection in nod to their ‘ecological benefit’ =====
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| [https://wikidemocracy.us/index.php?title=News_Gallery&action=edit by Guardian staff and agencies 26/7/23 The Guardian]
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| California is embracing beavers and the role they play in the ecosystem after years of viewing the animals as a nuisance for chewing down trees and blocking up streams.
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| ===== Microplastic-eating plankton may be worsening crisis in oceans, say scientists =====
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| [https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/nov/09/microplastic-eating-plankton-worsening-crisis-oceans-plastic-pollution by Karen McVeigh 9/11/23 The Guardian]
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| A type of zooplankton found in marine and fresh water can ingest and break down microplastics, scientists have discovered. But rather than providing a solution to the threat plastics pose to aquatic life, the tiny creatures known as rotifers could be accelerating the risk by splitting the particles into thousands of smaller and potentially more dangerous nanoplastics.
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| ===== Trump’s EPA aims to cut pollution rules projected to save nearly 200,000 lives: ‘People will be hurt’ =====
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| [https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/19/trump-epa-pollution-regulation-cuts by Oliver Milman and Dharna Noor 19/3/25 The Guardian]
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| A push by Donald Trump’s administration to repeal a barrage of clean air and water regulations may deal a severe blow to US public health, with a Guardian analysis finding that the targeted rules were set to save the lives of nearly 200,000 people in the years ahead.
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| ===== New maps show where snowfall is disappearing =====
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| [https://edition.cnn.com/2023/11/25/weather/snowfall-temperatures-climate-change-water/index.html by Eric Zerkel 25/11/23 CNN]
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| Snowfall is declining globally as temperatures warm because of human-caused climate change, a new analysis and maps from a NOAA climate scientist show.
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| ===== Just add sugar: Research shows common antioxidant can be more beneficial through glycosylation =====
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| [https://phys.org/news/2023-06-sugar-common-antioxidant-beneficial-glycosylation.amp by Sydney Dahle 14/5/23 PHYS ORG]
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| Polyphenols are a class of compounds found in many plant-based foods. Polyphenols help prevent cellular damage in the body and can help to prevent diseases such as cancer or heart disease. However, many of them do not dissolve in water, making it difficult to fully take advantage of their health benefits.
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| ===== Vegan diet massively cuts environmental damage, study shows =====
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| [https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jul/20/vegan-diet-cuts-environmental-damage-climate-heating-emissions-study by Damian Garrington 20/7/23 The Guardian]
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| Eating a vegan diet massively reduces the damage to the environment caused by food production, the most comprehensive analysis to date has concluded.
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| ===== The most famous extinction event in the planet’s history is happening again — in Santa Cruz =====
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| [https://www.latimes.com/science/story/2023-05-31/the-biggest-extinction-event-in-the-planets-history-is-happening-again-in-santa-cruz by Corinne Purtill 31/5/23 Los Angeles Times]
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| The heat of impact generated massive fires that annihilated everything around them and sent colossal plumes of pollutants soaring into the atmosphere. Within a day or two, toxic clouds of pulverized rock, sulfate aerosols and wildfire soot had blanketed the planet, blocking all but a tiny fraction of the sun’s energy and bringing photosynthesis to a virtual halt for the only known time in history.
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| ===== ‘Wings’ on poles: Bill Gates-backed wind power tech promises 75% cheaper energy =====
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| [https://interestingengineering.com/energy/winged-wind-tech-promises-75-cheaper-energy by Jijo Malayil 30/5/25 Interesting Engineering]
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| US-based firm Airloom Energy’s innovative renewable energy technology to maximize wind power’s potential has now gained significant backing from investors. The list also includes Breakthrough Energy Ventures, the innovation platform led by Microsoft founder Gates, and the state of Wyoming.
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| ===== Trump funding cuts ripple through rural America =====
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| [https://www.reuters.com/world/us/federal-funding-cuts-ripple-through-heart-trump-country-2025-03-29/ by P.J Huffstutter 29/03/25 Reuters]
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| Trump's administration also rolled out cuts to other federal funding that has kept small agriculture businesses like Yates' Greenbrier Dairy churning.
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| ===== ‘Even a freeway is redeemable’: world’s largest wildlife crossing takes shape in Los Angeles =====
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| [https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/06/la-wildlife-freeway-crossing by Katharine Gammon 6/4/25 The Guardian]
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| Above the whirring of 300,000 cars each day on Los Angeles’s 101 freeway, an ambitious project is taking shape. The Wallis Annenberg wildlife crossing is the largest wildlife bridge in the world at 210ft long and 174ft wide, and this week it’s had help taking shape: soil.
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| ===== The doomsday vaults storing seeds, data and DNA to protect our future =====
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| [https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/nov/19/the-doomsday-vaults-storing-seeds-data-and-dna-to-protect-our-future by Ella Braidwood 19/11/23 The Guardian]
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| Built in 2000, this seed bank is one of as many as 1,700 worldwide, otherwise known as ‘“doomsday vaults”: facilities intended to safeguard humanity in the event of civilisation’s collapse. It isn’t just about seeds – researchers are preserving everything from DNA to data, and even faeces. Should it all go wrong, these Noah’s Arks could provide the blueprints for our recovery.
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| ===== Kitepower displays the ‘miracle of airborne energy’ =====
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| [https://innovationorigins.com/en/kitepower-displays-the-miracle-of-airborne-energy/ by Mauro Mereu 15/8/23 IO]
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| On a farm field on the outskirts of Dirksland, a village in the western part of the Netherlands, there is a kite like no other. It spins in figures of eight, generating power out of the wind.
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| ===== The king of dark money effectively controls the US supreme court now =====
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| [https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jun/30/supreme-court-leonard-leo-dark-money by Joel Warner 1/06/23 The Guardian]
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| Once again, the US supreme court has issued rulings triggering national uproar. This time, the court has ruled that universities’ race-conscious admission policies are unconstitutional, that businesses can deny services to LGBTQ+ customers, and that Joe Biden can’t move forward with his student loan forgiveness plan. And just like the justices’ decision last year to end federal abortion protections and other troubling Scotus developments this term, the court’s new decisions are all examples of how dark money reigns supreme.
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| ===== China population decline accelerates as birthrate hits record low =====
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| [https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/jan/17/china-population-decline-accelerates-as-birthrate-hits-record-low by Helen Davidson 01/17/24 The Guardian]
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| China’s population decline has accelerated, with a second year of record-low birthrates.
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| ===== Antioxidants in fruits and flowers seem to counteract harmful effects of microplastics, study shows =====
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| [https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/feb/24/antioxidants-fruits-flowers-microplastics By Tom Perkins 2/24/25 The Guardian]
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| The paper focuses on microplastics’ reproductive toxicity and plant compounds called anthocyanins, which are widely found in nuts, fruits and vegetables. The new review of scientific literature on anthocyanins finds that the compounds are probably protective against a range of plastic-induced effects on hormones, reductions in testosterone and estrogen, decreased sperm counts, lower sperm quality, erectile dysfunction and ovarian damage.
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| ===== The government will give homeowners $2,000 to buy kitchen-transforming stoves: 'Tons of power without … major home electrical upgrades' =====
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| [https://www.thecooldown.com/green-home/government-incentives-induction-range-discount/ by Elijah McKee 4/21/25 TCD]
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| Induction units, on the other hand, are totally gas-free. All they need is a plug on your wall since they run entirely on electricity and energy-efficient battery storage. This means they cook food faster and cheaper and keep your lungs healthier at the same time — a true win-win.
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| ===== High rises made out of wood? What matters in whether ‘mass timber’ buildings are sustainable =====
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| [https://theconversation.com/high-rises-made-out-of-wood-what-matters-in-whether-mass-timber-buildings-are-sustainable-240416?utm_content=buffer182c7&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky&utm_campaign=buffer by Brent Sohngen 12/11/24 The Conversation]
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| Companies behind these “mass timber” projects say that wood is a lower-carbon alternative to steel or concrete and brings other benefits, such as faster construction time and lower cost than concrete and steel. Advocates say the wood materials, made of compressed layers of wood with glue, offer good fire safety as well.
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| ===== Scientists say they’ve confirmed evidence that humans arrived in the Americas far earlier than previously thought =====
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| [https://edition.cnn.com/2023/10/05/americas/ancient-footprints-first-americans-scn/index.html by Katie Hunt CNN 10/05/23]
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| When the discovery of fossilized footprints made in what’s now New Mexico was made public in 2021, it was a bombshell moment for archaeology, seemingly rewriting a chapter of the human story. Now new research is offering further evidence of their significance.
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| ===== Wind-powered cargo ship sets sail in a move to make shipping greener =====
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| [https://edition.cnn.com/2023/08/22/travel/wind-powered-cargo-ship-cargill-bartech-climate-c2e-spc-intl/index.html by Nell Lewis 8/21/23 CNN]
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| The shipping industry produces more than one billion tons of carbon dioxide each year, accounting for nearly 3% of human-caused global emissions. In July, the sector pledged to reduce its planet-heating pollution to net zero “by or around 2050.” The use of wind is one way towards this. While it’s not a new concept (sailing ships date back more than 5,000 years) new wind assisted propulsion technologies have been making an appearance in recent years.
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| ===== 50 years ago on 9/11, Nixon and Kissinger killed Allende and Chile's Socialist Democracy =====
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| [https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/9/11/2192658/-50-years-ago-on-9-11-Nixon-and-Kissinger-killed-Allende-and-Chile-s-Socialist-Democracy by David B 09/11/23 Daily KOS]
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| It’s hard to believe that Henry Kissinger is still alive. He is 100 years old now. For some reason, war criminals live to ripe old ages. Augusto Pinochet, the dictator who ruled Chile with a tyrannical iron fist for decades after the coup, lived to be 91. Kissinger and Nixon orchestrated the coup that killed Salvador Allende, the democratically elected President of Chile and replaced him with Pinochet, as declassified documents show, “Because Kissinger thought that Allende’s 'model' effect can be insidious."
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| ===== For 50 years I’ve let friends and strangers share my house – this kind of communal living can make for better lives for all =====
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| [https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/nov/11/for-50-years-ive-let-friends-and-strangers-share-my-house-this-kind-of-communal-living-can-make-for-better-lives-for-all by Lynne Segal 11/11/23 The Guardian]
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| It’s more than half a century since I first set foot in Heathrow from Sydney, in my mid-20s, clutching my 14-month-old baby in one hand and what little remained of my luggage in the other. My large suitcase, stuffed with books and clothes, had vanished at a stopover at Colombo airport in Sri Lanka, where I narrowly avoided arrest as my infant son had startlingly managed to push an empty trolley into the glass duty-free shop, smashing part of it. I was surrounded by a hubbub of people and noise, and one man in khaki uniform who kept sidling up to me saying quietly, “Get on to the plane.” Slowly, I separated myself from those surrounding me and did just that. Twelve hours later, I landed in London, exhausted and bewildered.
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| ===== PFAS levels in ground and air could be higher than expected, research suggests =====
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| [https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/may/26/pfas-ground-air-pollution-study by Tom Perkins 6/26/23 The Guardian]
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| Background levels of toxic PFAS “forever chemicals” in the ground and air may be much higher than previously thought, federal testing of spatially random soil samples from across New Hampshire suggests.
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| ===== Could Vienna’s approach to affordable housing work in California? =====
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| [https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/apr/30/california-housing-vienna-lessons by Kristy Lang 4/30/24 The Guardian]
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| In the past two years, at least four delegations of housing experts and political leaders from California have visited the Austrian capital, hoping to unlock the secrets of why Vienna regularly comes top in surveys of the world’s most livable cities.
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| ===== Neuroscientists link low self-awareness to stronger brain reactions to moralized issues =====
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| [https://www.psypost.org/neuroscientists-link-low-self-awareness-to-stronger-brain-reactions-to-moralized-issues/ by Eric W. Dolan PsyPost 4/01/25]
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| A new study published in the journal Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience reveals that people who hold strong moral convictions about political issues make decisions more quickly—but that these choices are shaped by both emotional brain responses and metacognitive ability. The research shows that moral conviction activates specific brain regions involved in emotion and cognitive control, and that people with lower self-awareness about their own decision accuracy show stronger brain responses to morally charged political issues.
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| ===== Financial models on climate risk ‘implausible’, say actuaries =====
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| [https://www.ft.com/content/a5027391-41a4-4e21-a72d-f8189d6a7b71 by Camilla Hodgson Financial Times 7/03/23]
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| Financial institutions often did not understand the models they were using to predict the economic cost of climate change and were underestimating the risks of temperature rises, research led by a professional body of actuaries shows.
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| ===== How tariffs supercharge home construction costs. =====
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| [https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/12/26/2293813/-How-tariffs-supercharge-home-construction-costs?pm_campaign=front_page&pm_source=trending&pm_medium=web by Greg from Vermont 12/25/24 DailyKos]
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| Canadian softwood lumber and plywood products are used widely across the country and dominate the New England market. The framing materials can be 30 to 50 percent of the cost of the house. The proposed tariff of 25 percent will be added directly to the cost of those elements. 1
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| ===== Watch Out: Tornado Alley Is Migrating Eastward ===== | | Blame geography for the U.S. getting hit by stronger, costlier, more varied and frequent extreme weather than anywhere on the planet, several experts said. Two oceans, the Gulf of Mexico, the Rocky Mountains, jutting peninsulas like Florida, clashing storm fronts and the jet stream combine to naturally brew the nastiest of weather. |
| [https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/watch-out-tornado-alley-is-migrating-eastward/ by By Mark Fischetti, Matthew Twombly & Daniel P. Huffman 5/11/23 Scientific American] | | =====It is one of the deadliest chemicals on Earth – but even Mexico’s cartels can’t resist the lure of mercury===== |
| Although tornadoes touch down in many places across the eastern half of the country, from the 1950s through the 1990s they struck most often in Tornado Alley, an oval area centered on northeastern Texas and south-central Oklahoma. More recently, that focus has shifted eastward by 400 to 500 miles. In the past decade or so tornadoes have become prevalent in eastern Missouri and Arkansas, western Tennessee and Kentucky, and northern Mississippi and Alabama—a new region of concentrated storms.1 | | [https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2025/jul/24/mexico-toxic-mercury-smugglers-gold-rush-poisoning-amazon by Luke Taylor 24/7/25 The Guardian] |
| | An undercover investigation reveals 200 tonnes of the deadly substance is being smuggled across South America, where it is poisoning rivers, soil and air |
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Trump Wants to Cut Tribal College Funding by Nearly 90%, Putting Them at Risk of Closing
by Matt Krupnick 3/6/25 PROPUBLICA
The Trump administration has proposed cutting funding for tribal colleges and universities by nearly 90%, a move that would likely shut down most or all of the institutions created to serve students disadvantaged by the nation’s historic mistreatment of Indigenous communities.
Education-Schools
Scenic forest trails near Santa Cruz to open to the public for the first time
by Joe Rosalito 4/6/25 NBC
The one-time dairy-turned-national monument sits nine miles north of Santa Cruz at the edge of the Santa Cruz Mountains overlooking the ocean. Its opening this summer will cap years of fundraising and labor to convert the scenic landscape into a public recreational destination.
Environment-Habitat Preservation
We Saw Medicaid Work Requirements Up Close. You Don’t Want This Chaos.
by Kevin De Liban 8/6/25 The New York Times
Many of the Republicans pushing for Medicaid work requirements — permanent program cuts that will strip up to 14 million people of their health care coverage — likely have no idea what it takes to comply with them. We do. As legal aid lawyers, we were on the front lines helping low-income people in Arkansas keep their health care coverage when the state rolled out work requirements in 2018.
Health Care-Insurance
‘Tremendous uncertainty’ for cancer research as US officials target mRNA vaccines
by Melody Schreiber 12/7/25 The Guardian
Amid Trump cuts and state-level backlash, experts worry that progress in messenger RNA vaccines could stall
Health Care-Prevention
The Texas way: why the most disaster-prone US state is so allergic to preparing for disasters
by Ed PilKington 13/7/25 The Guardian
It faces hurricanes, heat, drought, rising seas and – as last week showed – deadly floods. But despite the clear need for preventive action, that is not the political mood
Doing Nothing
Colville Tribes confirms first salmon sighting in Kettle River eight years after reintroducing salmon near Coulee Dam
by ONE News Staff 11/7/25 SOURCEONE
NESPELEM — A juvenile Chinook salmon was recently photographed in the Kettle River near Cascade Falls in British Columbia, marking the first confirmed sighting of a Chinook in the river since the Colville Tribes began reintroduction efforts upstream of Grand Coulee Dam in 2017.
Environment-Habitat Preservation
Why the Southwest megadrought is here to stay
by Jordan Joseph 13/7/25 earth.com
Snowpack once reliably fed water into the Colorado River, yet winter precipitation across the Four Corners has dropped by roughly 23 percent since 1980. Reservoirs and ranchers feel the strain each spring.
Heat and Drought
The deepening water shortage row between the US and Mexico
by Will Grant 13/7/25 BBC
After the thirtieth consecutive month without rain, the townsfolk of San Francisco de Conchos in the northern Mexican state of Chihuahua gather to plead for divine intervention.
Heat and Drought
There is no safe amount of processed meat to eat, according to new research
by Madeline Holcombe 2/7/25 CNN
There is strong evidence that there is “no safe amount” of processed meat to eat, nutrition experts say in response to a new study on the connection between diet and the risk of major diseases, including cancer, type 2 diabetes and heart disease. The researchers also found elevated risks from the consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages and trans fatty acids.
Diet
by Osaka Metropolitan University 15/7/25 Science Daily
Protein aggregation inhibitor shows lower levels of cell death and paralysis in mice with acute strokes.
Health Care-Illness
by B.A Woodcock 1/7/25 BTITISH ECOLOGICAL SOCIETY
The intensification of global agriculture has devolved reliance on natural ecosystem services to agrochemicals and crop breeding, while simultaneously losing semi-natural habitats (Priyadarshana et al., 2024; Pywell et al., 2015; Stoate et al., 2009). In the short term this has increased yields at a level inconceivable in previous centuries but has come with negative externalities like biodiversity loss, nutrient losses and pollution burdens (Defra, 2023; Stoate et al., 2009;
Environment-Agriculture
#290 ReWilding our Water: From Rain to River to Sewer and back with Tim Smedley, author of The Last Drop
by Tim Smedley The Last Drop
If you listen to this podcast for any length of time, you’ll know that I believe the way forward is predicated on our finding shared values—I’d go for integrity, compassion, courage and generosity of spirit as the baselines—and then a suite of clear asks in the outer world and needs in the inner world.
Environment-Habitat Preservation
First-of-its-kind wildlife overcrossing in Northern California officially in progress
by Timea Horvath 18/7/25 KRCR
Wildfire Crossing Structure Project includes construction of a single-span, approximately 100-foot long by 140-foot wide wildlife overcrossing bridge at Post Mile 19.77. Caltrans crew will also install approximately two miles of 8-foot-high wildlife exclusion fencing on both sides of the highway, jump-outs every half mile to allow wildlife to escape the roadway corridor, cattle guards at private road access points and a reinforced concrete box culvert to enhance wildlife undercrossing opportunities.
Environment-Biodiversity
=====Named after a historic dairy ranch that still stands today, Wilder Ranch covers a staggering 7,000 acres, from the treelined ridges of Ben Lomond Mountain to rugged cliffs overlooking a particularly untamed expanse of the Pacific Ocean. A testament to the area's rich agricultural history, farmers still grow artichokes, Brussels sprouts, and other fog-loving crops on the land between the ocean and Highway 1.
Read More: https://www.islands.com/1911800/california-coastal-wilder-ranch-state-park-near-downtown-santa-cruz-uncrowded-beach-trails/=====
by Peter Stone 20/7/25 The Guardian
Ever since Donald Trump began his second presidency, he has used an “invented” national energy emergency to help justify expanding oil, gas and coal while slashing green energy – despite years of scientific evidence that burning fossil fuels has contributed significantly to climate change, say scholars and watchdogs.
=====California's Hidden Coastal State Park Near Downtown Santa Cruz Offers Uncrowded Beach Access And Ethereal Trails
Read More: https://www.islands.com/1911800/california-coastal-wilder-ranch-state-park-near-downtown-santa-cruz-uncrowded-beach-trails/=====
by Eva Johnstone 19/6/25 Islands
Named after a historic dairy ranch that still stands today, Wilder Ranch covers a staggering 7,000 acres, from the treelined ridges of Ben Lomond Mountain to rugged cliffs overlooking a particularly untamed expanse of the Pacific Ocean. A testament to the area's rich agricultural history, farmers still grow artichokes, Brussels sprouts, and other fog-loving crops on the land between the ocean and Highway 1.
Read More: https://www.islands.com/1911800/california-coastal-wilder-ranch-state-park-near-downtown-santa-cruz-uncrowded-beach-trails/
Only 3 years left – new study warns the world is running out of time to avoid the worst impacts of climate change
by Piers Forster 20/7/25 THE CONVERSATION
Bad climate news is everywhere. Africa is being hit particularly hard by climate change and extreme weather, impacting lives and livelihoods.
We are living in a world that is warming at the fastest rate since records began. Yet, governments have been slow to act.
by THE UNIVERSITY OF OSAKA 19/7/25 SciTechDaily
Japanese researchers have uncovered that tricaprin, a dietary supplement, triggered a dramatic reversal of heart disease symptoms in two patients with a rare, treatment-resistant condition. After years of chest pain and failed therapies, the patients experienced relief and even regression of artery-clogging fat deposits. The key wasn’t lowering cholesterol, but breaking down triglycerides inside heart cells—a novel and potentially groundbreaking approach to cardiac care.
Can cannabis impact aging? Study shows marijuana could alter 'genetic code'
by WKRC 20/7/25 KOMONEWS
The study highlighted the importance of understanding marijuana's effects on the body, as it remains one of the most widely used drugs globally. While some effects are well-known, the research indicated a broader impact than previously anticipated.
Stop telling us it’s not about that
by MurielVieux 23/7/25 DAILY KOS
Deny the truth to yourselves all you want people, but stop telling us Black folks that what’s going on today, what won the 2024 election is not white supremacy.
The 5 Best Drinks for Kidney Stones (Plus 3 to Avoid)
by Tracy Norfleet 13/3/24 GoodRx
If you’ve ever had a kidney stone, you know that they can be incredibly painful. And about half of people with kidney stones end up having more in the future. But there are things you can do to lower your risk of kidney stones, like drinking the right things.
What to do about gallstones
by Harvard Health Publishing 20/7/23
Gallstones begin with bile, a substance that helps with the digestion of fats and the absorption of certain vitamins. Bile is made in the liver and carried to the gallbladder, a small, pear-shaped organ that concentrates and stores it. The fat in food triggers the release of a hormone that causes the gallbladder to contract and release bile into the intestine.
Where the next deadly flood wave could strike
by Andrew Freedman 24/7/25 CNN
The ingredients that led to the Hill Country disaster — steep terrain, swollen rivers and unsuspecting people in harm’s way — are not unique to Texas. Across the United States, there are pockets of vulnerability where geography, weather and human nature converge in ways that heighten the risk of flash flooding.
Why the U.S. is leading the world in extreme weather catastrophes
by Seth Borenstein 2/4/23 PBS NEWS
The United States is Earth’s punching bag for nasty weather.
Blame geography for the U.S. getting hit by stronger, costlier, more varied and frequent extreme weather than anywhere on the planet, several experts said. Two oceans, the Gulf of Mexico, the Rocky Mountains, jutting peninsulas like Florida, clashing storm fronts and the jet stream combine to naturally brew the nastiest of weather.
It is one of the deadliest chemicals on Earth – but even Mexico’s cartels can’t resist the lure of mercury
by Luke Taylor 24/7/25 The Guardian
An undercover investigation reveals 200 tonnes of the deadly substance is being smuggled across South America, where it is poisoning rivers, soil and air
