Pen drawing on graph paper of boxes with arch between and dimension labels

Laser cut letters spelling imagination zone arranged in arc on multicolor rug.

Kid-sized entry arch in library with installed letters spelling imagination zone.

Painted lady caterpillars forming j-hooks attached to lids of two containers in preparation to spin cocoons.

Fun stuff in the youth services department at Pearl Bailey Library.

Minnesota BWCA: Sen. Smith says she will hold senate floor in protest of vote to remove protections U.S. Senator Tina Smith announced her intention to hold the Senate floor to protest legislation that would remove protections for the Minnesota Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness.

U.S. Senator Tina Smith announced her intention to hold the Senate floor to protest legislation that would remove protections for the Minnesota Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness.

Protect the Boundary Waters from sulfide-ore copper mining.

Currently listening to Senators Smith and Klobuchar go to bat for the Boundary Waters. I appreciate their late night effort, but am near tears as I listen to them talk about its importance and the major threat against it.

Hasn't our state suffered enough?

www.savetheboundarywaters.org

Live: Smith plans hourslong Senate speech against measure to open mining near the Boundary Waters If passed, the legislation would head to President Donald Trump’s desk for a signature.

Klobuchar pulled hard on Minnesota history while holding the floor, noting she is standing at the desk of Hubert Humphrey, who introduced the bill that was later signed to protect the Boundary Waters.

JUST IN: John Eastman, the conservative attorney who helped devise President Trump's last ditch strategy to overturn the 2020 presidential election, has officially been disbarred, per the California Supreme Court:

Medicare and Social Security are also NOT "technically free stuff." If they were, they wouldn't be a line item out of employee paychecks.

Can we please stop pretending like Vance ever did anything approximating diplomacy or governance prior to being VP?

The elementary school down the road was renamed from a plantation owning enslaver of kidnapped and imprisoned humans to Katherine Johnson and I'm so grateful. She's one of my favorite people of all time.

Artemis II Return NASA's Orion spacecraft carrying Artemis II Commander Reid Wiseman, Pilot Victor Glover, and Mission Specialist Christina Koch from NASA, along with Mission Specialist Jeremy Hansen from the CSA (Canadian Space Agency), splashes down in the Pacific Ocean near San Diego, California, at 5:07 p.m. PDT, (8:07 p.m. EDT) on Friday, April 10, 2026. The Artemis II test flight launched on Wednesday, April 1, from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida to begin its 10-day journey around the Moon for scientific discovery, economic benefits, and to build on our foundation for the first crewed missions to Mars. NASA’s Landing and Recovery team and the U.S. military are coordinating efforts to extract the Artemis II crew from the Orion spacecraft. Credit: NASA/Josh Valcarcel

What a great photo just added on the NASA Johnson Flickr page www.flickr.com/photos/nasa2...

Every single one of the astronauts who went to the moon and back on Artemis II was educated at a public school.

Thinking of the teachers who poured into Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch, and Jeremy Hansen tonight. You helped send a kid to the moon!

🌕 💛

Same!!

What an amazing thing to witness. So proud of NASA and the US Navy and everyone that has worked on this mission over many years. Congratulations to the parachute folders and the tile manufacturers. Etc. Etc. You’re amazing. And congratulations to the amazing crew of Artemis II.

Just over here watching the live broadcast for the re-entry of the Artemis II crew. Told my husband that I will likely cry no matter what. As a Gen-Xer, I already have some space feels. It will all be better when the capsule has splashed down and the astronauts are safe.

Things that help calm the nervous system, quickly:

- Box breathing (in for 4, hold for 4, out for 4, hold for 4, repeat)
- Immerse your face in cold water (activates mammalian dive reflex)
- Humming (stimulates vagus nerve)
- Exercise (anything helps, outside even better)
- Impeachment and removal

This.

Cuba is not in a crisis because it is communist or has an authoritarian government, it’s having a catastrophic humanitarian crisis because the United States is carrying out an illegal siege against the island with the goal of starving and killing thousands for financial gain.

Lake Tahoe isn’t sure where it’s power will come from after the next ski season The area’s longtime power supplier, NV Energy, will cut off the region next year. It has said data centers are driving “unprecedented” demand.

Squeezed by data centers' relentless demand for electricity, a Nevada energy company just said it's going to stop supplying energy to Tahoe. The city has a year to figure out how to meet 75% of its energy needs without it.

Evergreen 3.15.11 and 3.16.5 released Thanks to the March release team: Michele Morgan (NOBLE), Gina Monti (Bibliomation), Martha Driscoll (NOBLE), and Galen Charlton (Equinox) as well as the individuals and organizations who contributed and sponsored the improvements released today.

The Evergreen Project is pleased to announce the release of Evergreen 3.15.11 and 3.16.5.

Does anyone know of any recent studies around the effectiveness of different extrinsic (e.g. financial) vs intrinsic (e.g. community altruism) motivators for open source contributors?

Asking for me, a friend, and also the rest of the OSS community.

Henrietta Lacks

Henrietta Lacks was a Black woman whose (ovarian) cancer cells were used wo her/her family’s consent. Her cells are what would become the HeLa cell, the first immortalized human cell line & one of the most important in medical research.
#BackHistoryMonth

I looked up the video and have nothing but regrets and mushrooming disdain.

I can say with certainty that I've never read a Supreme Court opinion as thoroughly as this one. FDT and his chaos machine.

SCOTUS, in a 6-3 vote, rules against President Trump’s global tariffs. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

Ah yes. The rancid stench of fetid and moldy locker room oversprayed with budget air freshener.

For me, my "stomach ache" was just something that happened overnight. For those that are part of the fabric of my digestive system, generations lived and died and never knew a whole life time of peace. And so I think about the times we live in. Perhaps it is an overnight bout of gastroenteritis. 10.

And, I was thinking about what that means for humans and other animals; bugs and birds; trees and flowers; and everything that is somehow its own universe no matter how simple or complex. We are changed because our constituencies change. It is a truly beautiful, delicate, and intricate dance. 9/

But, I digress. I was not thinking about the demise of universal constituency when I die. Not when I first woke up. No. I was thinking about the role of bacteria in evolutionary processes. I was thinking about how worlds are shaped and permanently transformed by their inhabitants. 8/

I know that to them - even more so than to my children - I am their everything. I am their purpose; their context; their memory; their uncertainty; and, their future. I am their mythology and their sun that will burn out. And I will. Burn out. And some of them will escape at the last minute. 7/

The list of interventions goes on and on and on reaching to all the places in the universe of me that I know and don't know. There are more places that I don't know in this realm than I do. More constituents that I haven't met; more neighborhoods that I haven't visited. But I know they exist. 6/

This morning, I thought about how we are constantly being changed by our resident and transients "internal" constituents both intentionally and unintentionally. Prebiotic juices and probiotic yogurts. Sugar fasts and colonic cleanses. Vitamins for skin health and hormones for longevity. 5/