Colorful quilt of a nighttime scene with Harriet Tubman in an orange jacket and purple dress carrying a rifle. She is leading other figures who walk behind her.

Harriet Tubman #quilt by my Mom, Vera P. Hall, who makes quilts celebrating Black people who fought for their own freedom. This seems to be the crowd favorite of the “We Didn’t Wait for Freedom” series. Happy #Juneteenth #quilting

David R. Hagen just solved a small mystery that I mentioned 13 years ago in the mouseover text of a comic drhagen.com/blog/the-mis...

Both? The games and series have sections with spores suspended in still, dry air. Also transmitted via droplets in bites and sneezes, a la Sporothrix brasiliensis.

Terry Kennedy & Cody Sheehy on Going Deeper in "The Last Dive" The renowned diver & the director of a new biodoc discuss a quest to rekindle a friendship with a manta ray and explain their disappearance.

If you're in #NYC for #Tribeca, you've got a few more chances to see #TheLastDive. Don't miss this gorgeous account of a conservation transformation, and the healing power of finding love in the ocean. moveablefest.com/terry-kenned...

More manta art!

Can You Make Friends with a Manta Ray? A New Film Examines an Extraordinary Bond. A diving legend talks to us about his last chance to see his long-lost friend— a 22-foot giant manta ray—who swam with him for years off Mexico’s Revillagigedo Islands.

Follow up from yesterday's premiere. For anyone who dives or is into conservation, this is a must-see. #diving

www.outsideonline.com/culture/book...

The Last Dive Film Terry Kennedy has lived several colorful lives, including a stint as a Hell’s Angel – but, most memorably, as the unlikely friend to a giant manta ray named Willy. Now in his 80s, Terry mounts one las...

If you're in NYC this week for the #tribecafilmfestival, there are two more festival screenings, and two additional screenings at the Patagonia store and the Brooklyn aquarium. Come meet the team! thelastdivefilm.com/showings

Manta man: film profiles unlikely bond between diver and giant sea creature The Last Dive tells how a relationship with a giant Pacific manta ray turned a big game fish hunter into a conservationist

I'm spending #worldoceansday at the world premiere of The Last Dive, one of my closest friend's spectacular documentary about a remarkable human/manta connection. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Study shows 90% metal pollution drop in Adirondack waters five decades after the clean air act A study published by researchers at the University at Albany has presented the first documented evidence that Adirondack surface waters have made a near full recovery from metal pollution since the en...

Much needed analysis of Clean Air Act impacts.

I would like to retract my previous statement. Aisha Bowe very kindly corrected me: she's been doing lots of very public work for Club for the Future. See one of her Insta reels here: www.instagram.com/reel/DHwSM7V...

Most People Buy a New Phone Every 2.5 Years. There’s a Better Way Back Market and iFixit are partnering to encourage consumers to keep their phones in service for at least five years—and to pressure manufacturers to extend smartphone support to 10 years.

Ahead of Earth Day on April 22, DIY supplier iFixit and refurbished device retailer Back Market have partnered to launch a marketing campaign that encourages consumers to replace their phones every 5 years instead of the national average of 2.5 to 3 years.

Global soil pollution by toxic metals threatens agriculture and human health Toxic metal pollution is ubiquitous in soils, yet its worldwide distribution is unknown. We analyzed a global database of soil pollution by arsenic, cadmium, cobalt, chromium, copper, nickel, and lead...

In Science, researchers estimate that as many as 1.4 billion people live in areas with soil dangerously polluted by heavy metals like arsenic and lead.

The results reveal a global risk, but also a previously unrecognized high-risk, metal-enriched zone in low-latitude Eurasia. scim.ag/42DHZwP

Eight of the top 10 online shows are spreading climate misinformation  » Yale Climate Connections Often backed by large advertising budgets, a new breed of climate denial is gaining popularity.

Unsurprising.

Welcome back to Earth’s gravity Don Pettit! What a brutal way to celebrate your 70th birthday after 220 days off-planet.

faculty and universities need to hammer home the point that these are not “subsidies” but

- competitive contracts

- awarded through an extremely competitive, well vetted process

- subject to a host of legal conditions that benefit American taxpayers

I didn't say it was a gotcha. I think it's an interesting study. However, you might want to quit trauma gatekeeping and telling people they didn't witness something they absolutely did.

I was 4. That's why I wasn't in school. Again, my family and friends watched it in class. I'm really not sure what your point is here.

Aisha Bowe has an MS in space systems engineering and worked for NASA. Amanda interned. They've both done amazing things and deserve to be celebrated. They also can be criticized for their affiliations: Katy Perry supported a known sexual predator, and it's hard to square that with Amanda's work.

Gayle King is black. While I appreciate the redirect, she is very much not a white woman.

The worst thing to me is that Blue has a STEM outreach foundation that focuses on young women and people of color and has partnered with previous orgs started by women who have flown. Not a single person on that flight mentioned it. Really calls into question how much inspiring they were doing.

And some of us overlapped and had to deal with the increase in school shootings. Our school still had bomb drills, merged into earthquake drills. My hometown tested an air-raid siren every lunch until I was out of HS. We've all seen some messed up stuff. Not sure gatekeeping trauma is helpful.

I watched it at home on C-SPAN. It's one of my earliest clear memories and shaped my early career. I grew up in a rural community unconnected with NASA and kids talked about it for years afterwards. Suggesting this is a false memory because you didn't have the experience is perhaps an overstep.

Children’s Symptoms in the Wake of Challenger: A Field Study of Distant-Traumatic Effects and an Outline of Related Conditions | American Journal of Psychiatry OBJECTIVE: The Challenger space shuttle explosion in January 1986 offered an opportunity to determine what, if any, symptoms of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and bereavement normal latency-age ...

You should take a look at this:
"Children’s Symptoms in the Wake of Challenger: A Field Study of Distant-Traumatic Effects and an Outline of Related Conditions"

psychiatryonline.org/doi/10.1176/...

For someone who lives in SoCal, they don't seem to know many aerospace folks. I wasn't in school yet, but Challenger is one of my earliest memories. Watched it at home on C-SPAN w/ Mom. Formative event for older Millennials, too. A commonly listed reason for being interested in spaceflight.

Post reading: That stupid "Gen X watched the shuttle explode in school" thing is going around again, and no, that's not a thing that happened. Schools did not stop the day to force students to watch a live broadcast channel that was only available via satellite. You're faking victimhood to mock people's trauma.

Someone turned off comments mighty fast and, if they’re really Gen X, has a terrible memory.

The Challenger launch in 1986 was heavily promoted in schools to make them more exciting, with the whole “teacher in space” thing.

They absolutely gathered us to watch it live.

Five glowing stones are stacked in a cairn orientation on a rocky beach with water and a sunset in the distance. They rocks are of various colors: the glowing ones are blueish, but with a yellow-orange glow.

If you visit the Upper Peninsula of Michigan & go to the shores of Lake Superior at night, be sure to bring a long-wave UV light source so you can hunt for fluorescent Yooper Stones.

"Yooper" here is a play on 'U.P.' (Upper Peninsula), but they're rocks that contain a fluorescent mineral, sodalite.

This has only been possible through NIH funding.

Funding biomedical science through the NIH has been one of the greatest accomplishments of the United States of America for America, and for the world.

We are ALL better for the work that passionate scientists funded by the NIH have been able to do.

Tweet from He Jiankui with photo of author: "Woolly mice is bioweapon."

He also occasionally takes pot shots at Church. #woolymice

Tweet from He Jiankui with photo of author: "Tinkering with human embryos will certainly be worth the risk."

This was also a bit disturbing: