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04 October 2021
Foreign "troll firms" run Facebook's Christian pages
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As reported by MIT Technology Review : In the run-up to the 2020 election, the most highly contested in US history, Facebook’s most popular ...
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Petroglyph of whale hunting
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I found this photo in an interesting article about the petroglyphs of northern Siberia . The spectacular art gallery - scientists found 350 ...
North Pacific salmon are dwindling
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Two articles today on this subject. First from Bloomberg re Alaska: In a normal year, the smokehouses and drying racks that Alaska Natives...
"I wouldn't want to offend my Board of Directors"
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“The board decides what I make,” Dimon told Axios co-founder James VandeHei, echoing a response he gave Congress in May, before the panel aw...
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Indian Air Force helicopter
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Comments at the via indicate that the photo was taken about 40-50 years ago. "It was a small helicopter, modified to resemble a “danci...
Bird migration heat map
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This is a screencap from an interactive map at The Cornell Lab's BirdCast website. The intensity of the colors reflects the intensity ...
03 October 2021
What will it take for the world to ameliorate climate change?
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An excerpt from " Ruina Mundi: did climate change create modern civilization ?": Philipp Blom is not particularly optimistic. “The...
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01 October 2021
Step back from your monitor
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View this image from a distance (or perhaps at an angle). Art by Lee Wagstaff .
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Blue-eyed Indonesians of the Buton tribe
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Relevant discussion at Wisma Bahasa .
The ongoing myth that plastic is being "recycled"
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"Pay us to take care of your garbage," they say. "We'll recycle the plastic," they say. But what they do (everywhe...
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Hanoi 50 years later
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I came of age in the late 1960s when the word "Hanoi" was emblematic of the ongoing conflict in Vietnam. Then today I encounter t...
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Interesting idea
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"Solar-powered lasers are installed in the Saudi desert to help guide the lost to water sources." But no useful information at th...
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"Markland" known in Genoa 150 years before Columbus
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" Markland " was the name given by Leif Erikson to part of North America north of Vinland (presumably the Labrador coast of presen...
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30 September 2021
Shakespeare in Italy
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This is a fascinating book, which will be appreciated by any serious reader of the plays, but will be of extra interest to those familiar wi...
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29 September 2021
The feet of a ??dragon ??dinosaur
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A distant cousin of the dinosaurs. These are the feet of a cormorant. via .
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