Sci Fi will always survive the “pld boys club” which tejects the necessary diversity of human evolution.

BMW uses AI to cut battery cell waste, process time by over 50% BMW says new AI models can cut battery cell production time and material use by over 50% in key process steps.

interestingengineering.com/ai-robotics/...

Pitzer College and Its Claremont Peers Announce 100% Clean Electricity Transition One hundred percent renewable electricity is coming to The Claremont Colleges. Arising from a collaboration between students, staff and senior leadership, the consortium’s decision lights up a greener...

www.pitzer.edu/news/pitzer-...

Proud of my Alma Mater!

Experimental drug doubles one-year survival in pancreatic cancer A new drug that works by making tumors more susceptible to chemotherapy and the immune system has increased survival in those with advanced pancreatic cancer in a trial.

www.livescience.com/health/medic...

Anyone remember Biden’s push to accelerate Cancer research like this before Trump 2 let DOGE destroy NIH funding.

AI Can Model the Colorado River Crisis. It Can’t Solve It Simulations show trade-offs as states fight over water

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AI can recalculate and compare solutions already modeled but they can’t enforce compromise if people refuse to negotiate.

Powerful earthquake strikes off the Japanese coast, raises warning of mega shock
- The Associated Press

Fukushima’s earthquake was I believe this strong but further out in the Ocean which started the huge and destructive Tsunami,

Even Tokyo had liquifying open ground parks and strees.

PAID POST: CSCU and State Officials Launch Connecticut’s Quantum Science Center The Connecticut State Colleges and Universities Center for Quantum and Nanotechnology enables hands-on learning and research opportunities to build the talent pipeline CT needs to compete in advanced ...

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What outreach to Middle and High School students and teachers is happening in CT to make sure Vocational Tech or Ag schools are stepping stones — not ends in them selves— for workers to get into thriving well paid careers? They need to know what’s changing beyond HS!

Man facing divorce kills 8 children, including 7 of his own, in shooting rampage The gunman is dead, and his brother-in-law said he was distraught in a recent conversation about his breakup. The Louisiana shooting was the country’s deadliest mass killing in two years.

www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2026/...

The proof that Toxic Masculinity’s current MAGA,Trump, GOP Troika fueled by male domestic abuse of women and children.

Starmer says it is ‘staggering’ and ‘unforgivable’ he was not told Mandelson failed vetting – as it happened PM responds to Guardian revelations that Foreign Office overrode failed security vetting for former minister

www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

Anyone who watched the BBC satire, “Yes, Minster” and it’s sequel, “Yes, Prime Minister,” knows Starmer was not told the truth by a British Foreign Service still as devious
and
controlling as the one Microft Holmes works for in the new “Young Sherlock Holmes.”

Children ‘low-hanging fruit’ in fight to end trans care, official at pro-Trump thinktank says America First Policy Institute, which boasts close ties to president, discussed transgender policy ‘reform’ at DC event

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

An unborn foetus is “sacred” (even at risk of the mother’s life when a miscarriage requires an abortion.
But pre-puberty children (and loving parents) are “low hanging fruit” for the GOP Gender Police to deny families healthcare that saves lives.

Three Distinctions Higher Ed Teaching with AI is an opportunity for deeper learning, when done right

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What and how Students need yo lear about AI while using it! This Carnegie Mellon report suggest some pragmatic and optimistic approaches.

Scientists Reveal 4 Stark Options For Saving Venice From Rising Seas Venice is going under as sea levels rise, with all signs suggesting we could lose this UNESCO World Heritage Site within the next three centuries.

www.sciencealert.com/scientists-r...

“In the past 150 years, Venice its islands, and the lagoon in which they are nestled have faced increasing floods. Of 28 extreme flooding events to hit Venice, where more than 60 percent of the city was flooded, 18 have occurred in the past 23 years.”

The best parents, no matter their gender, their legal status, try to answer questions with love. They provide children with enough to answer their questions as simply but truthfully they can, respecting the differences in their sgrdcsnd understanding. As the Haggadah suggests at the Passover Seder.

Sorry I’m late on this. A few people flagged this QT, and I ignored it at first because the claim was random, with no receipts, I figured nobody would buy it. Apparently I was wrong. The Scientology rumor is spreading, so let’s address.

@yasharali.bsky.social , with zero evidence…
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How rare to arrest people for corrupt extortion!

He anonymously threatened lawmakers reining in shady hospital deals. Now he’s been arrested. Authorities believe they've identified the vitriolic troll that we reported on.

Authorities in Louisiana issued an arrest warrant for a businessman who they believe has run a vitriolic social media account that for years has harassed and threatened critics of America’s largest hospital landlord.

Draft registration isn’t a choice anymore, it’s automatic.

The question is, is the Trump administration quietly lining up young men for the next wars —the forever wars?

Trump can’t pull a generation of young men into conflicts they don’t believe in & expect loyalty.

He’s going to get resistance.

You mean Trump is bringing back the DRAFT?

Toxic Nuclear Radiation families only!

Podcasters, presidents, and psychedelics: How Joe Rogan got Trump into ibogaine Billionaire Peter Thiel also stands to benefit from the executive order signed on Saturday.

Trump revived relations with Joe Rogan via an executive order promoting ibogaine and other psychedlcs for therapy. Another big winner: the billionaire Peter Thiel.

A Snake Oil salesman the equal of a Bert Lancaster con!

Kevin Warsh wants to lead America’s central bank.

Why does he have more than $100 million in undisclosed assets?

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Well said. FBI lockerroom edition beer?

Today is the last day for early voting in Virginia. Vote YES to stop Trump’s corrupt power grab.

Make a plan now to vote today or on Tuesday, April 21 at https://f.mtr.cool/sqvnhwddhg

Screenshot from an April 16, 2026 Scientific American article by Steve Brusatte titled "10 Dinosaur Science Books Recommended by a Paleontologist," with the following text: "Dinosaurs without Bones: Dinosaur Lives Revealed by Their Trace Fossils by Anthony Martin Pegasus Books, 2014: When I think of dinosaur fossils, my mind immediately drifts back to when I was a child, seeing giant skeletons of T. rex and Brachiosaurus in the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago. And indeed, the most celebrated fossils of dinosaurs are bones and claws and teeth. But in this subversively funny book, paleontologist Tony Martin revels in an underrated but important type of dinosaur fossil: the footprints and handprints and other traces they left behind. As somebody who has discovered and studied many dinosaur trackways on the Isle of Skye in Scotland, I loved how this book gave the spotlight to a type of fossil that is often ignored."

Considering how many dinosaur-science books are out there, I was most flattered to see my book 'Dinosaurs Without Bones' (2014, @pegasus-books.bsky.social) included in @stevebrusatte.bsky.social's list of recommended "10 Dinosaur Science Books." www.scientificamerican.com/article/10-d... 🙏🧪🦖🦕🐾📚

Iran closes Strait of Hormuz once again, fires on tankers A U.S. official told Axios that at least three attacks on commercial ships have occurred so far Saturday.

www.axios.com/2026/04/18/i...
A great Cease-fire and YS “Control” of the Staight of Hormuz has Iran firing on Takers!

Brilliant deal making by Trump as he declares the War “Over”. Will he threaten again to commit the “war crimes” universally among voters — and even some elected GOPers?

I would so hate to lose either Yellowstone or Tuscany to long-dormant hidden Magma, but it explains how their beautiful and fertile land has fed Natural fauna and flora — and humans — for millennia.

How Justin Fairfax’s obsessive quest to clear his name destroyed his family The former lieutenant governor’s obsession with his damaged reputation led to a long slide and his estrangement from his family, according to court records and those who knew him. He killed wife Cerin...

www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

When you disbelieve believe women targets that “toxic masculinity”produces the violent denial and desperate defiance of abusers, you are making the death of a woman closest to the trapped abuser more likely.

What is ‘Ozempic personality,’ and why does it make life feel ‘meh’? Doctors and patients across social media are reporting a kind of emotional flattening while on GLP-1 drugs.

www.washingtonpost.com/health/2026/...
Is not feeling hungry leading to forgetting the joy of eating?