A few years ago, Andrew Torrance and I wrote a law review article on California secession. digitalcommons.law.seattleu.edu/sjteil/vol11...
It was featured in an article in USA Today this morning.
underappreciated aspect of renewable energy: it is extremely good for your national security.
Science tidbit of the day: the Zanclean Flood is theorized to have refilled the Mediterranean Sea 5.33M years ago.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zanclea...
An ice skating rink sponsored by an orthopedic group
Vertical integration
Come for the commentary on LLM-based fiction. Stay for the pigeon civilization.
The US National Parks are so popular, some are requiring people schedule their visit to try and accommodate everyone.
We'd like to suggest a different solution.
Expand the parks.
Most of USNPS holdings are adjacent public land. So why not.
A silhouette of a small round bird at the top of a vertical spike of a palm frond.
The small bird on top of this unopened palm frond was almost perfectly round.
AI is not a search engine. It is bizarre that the company that both makes AI and the world's dominant search engine does not seem to grasp this fact.
Thanks for letting me know! :)
Yay! Exciting to see our research in the world!
feel like I've shown this figure so many times in the past few weeks I should just post it here so
CA is actively looking for the virus in raw milk, and keeps finding it.
Unpasteurized milk can have very, very high levels of the H5N1 virus.
Just in time for a raw milk advocate to run the nation’s health…
www.latimes.com/environment/...
We’re entering flu season with bird flu raging among US dairy cattle: ~third of CA herds infected.
The danger is flu viruses have a trick: they can swap segments —one farmworker co-infected by human and avian flu— to cause pandemics.
We may get lucky. I hope so.
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www.nytimes.com/2024/11/29/o...
I made 🍎 and 🎃 pie by the classical method.
That is, I produced economics for money and then exchanged money for pie.
To summarize, the orange roughy exists and it lives to be 250 years old. Which is pretty cool. So even if you're sluggish, I'm still a fan, orange roughy.
Anyway, my original post about the orange roughy was because it seemed like it had managed to get on the bad side of some wikipedian, who called it "not a vertically slender fish" and "sluggish". I expect those are probably scientific assertions, but they come across as vague insults.
But it actually lives to be up to *250* years old, and is super slow growing! So humans overfished them in nothing flat.
People thought it lived to be ~30 years old, so eating it was seen as no more harmful than eating various other species.
The orange roughy used to be called the "slimehead", until the US decided it was an "underused species", and needed a name change to make it more marketable.
Earlier I posted about the orange roughy, a fish that's quite interesting, and a little sad. Thread below. (This is my first thread, so let me know if I'm doing it wrong.)
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"The orange roughy is not a vertically slender fish. Its rounded head is riddled with muciferous canals (part of the lateral line system), as is typical of slimeheads."
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orange_...
I’m a bad influence on my respectable colleagues.
International Space Station Suffers Helium Leak
In 2020, only 3.6% of the world’s population lived outside their country of birth. This has already led to a lot of anti-migrant rhetoric and policies.
Imagine if 33% of humanity have to migrate.
We used to motivate our science proposals with the need for research to understand what to do about climate change. Those days are over.
Now we should motivate our proposals with the need for research to understand how dangerous the world will get if we continue to do nothing about climate change.
Keeping 1.5C as a goal isn't fantastical, it's the only acceptable option.
Moving goalposts allows indefinite broken promises. A fixed goal highlights urgent reality: every extra tonne of CO2 we emit will need to be removed to get back to that agreed level
The longer we stall, the harder it gets.