Dr. Gladys West, Mathematician Whose Work Made GPS Possible, Dies at 95 ALEXANDRIA, VA — Dr. Gladys West, the pioneering mathematician whose work laid the foundation for modern GPS technology, has died. She passed away

Dr. Gladys West, the pioneering mathematician whose work laid the foundation for modern GPS technology, has died. She was 95.

Post See new posts Conversation Ted Cruz @tedcruz Violence is always unacceptable. Even when passions run high. Anyone engaged in violence—especially against law enforcement—should be fully prosecuted. God bless the Capitol Police and the honorable men & women of law enforcement who show great courage keeping all of us safe. 11:47 AM · Jan 6, 2021

Rep. Jim Jordan @Jim_Jordan Stop the violence. Support Capitol Police. 12:02 PM · Jan 6, 2021

Graham said, “Count me out. Enough is enough.” Graham called Biden the “legitimate president of the United States,” and told colleagues definitively that “it is over” and the Biden-Harris administration would begin on January 20th. Earlier Wednesday, supporters of Trump breached the U.S. Capitol, forcing a lockdown of the lawmakers and staff inside. Trump has claimed widespread voter fraud to explain away his defeat to President-elect Joe Biden, though election officials have said there wasn’t any. Graham said that “if you’re a conservative,” the idea that Vice President Mike Pence could reverse the results of the election, as President Donald Trump had urged him to do, was “the most offensive concept in the world.”

“There’s no question — none — that President Trump is practically and morally responsible for provoking the events of the day. No question about it. The people who stormed this building believed they were acting on the wishes and instructions of their president,” McConnell said. “The leader of the free world cannot spend weeks thundering that shadowy forces are stealing our country and then feign surprise when people believe him and do reckless things.”

I know this feels impossible now, but I swear, on January 6 itself, there was a pretty broad bipartisan consensus that storming the Capitol to find and kill lawmakers was bad, and that Trump was responsible for inciting his followers to try it

From invasive species tracking to water security – what’s lost with federal funding cuts at US Climate Adaptation Science Centers The people who manage America’s aquifers, wetlands, shorelines and recreation areas rely on federal science as they face new and rising risks in a changing climate.

You probably heard the US admin is threatening to break up the National Center for Atmospheric Research: but did you know they already froze funding for the 9 regional Climate Science Adaptation Centers? From tracking invasives to helping tribes with drought, here's why the CASCs matter ⬇️

Surviving CECOT (full documentary) | Deported to a Maximum-Security Prison | FRONTLINE + ProPublica YouTube video by FRONTLINE PBS | Official

Now seems like a swell time to point out that Frontline just released this excellent 11-minute mini-documentary about what happened inside CECOT.

Was talking to my wife about this today, I thought Ford should’ve brought back the ranger as an EV. F-150 crowd wouldn’t be into it, but small truck crowd might. I was interested, but F-150 platform too big and expensive for my needs. Literally was “if I won the lottery…”

Hurricane Melissa which is en route to decimate Haiti and Jamaica rapidly intensified to category 4 storm. Rapid intensification is a hallmark of climate change, but that category is only a measure of its wind speed. It is also expected to bring up to 40 inches of rain

A month after getting permission, NWS still hasn’t posted help wanted ads Amid the Texas floods and a month into hurricane season, significant vacancies exist across the National Weather Service.

1/ ICYMI yesterday, from my colleague Danny Cusick: NOAA said over a month ago that it would fill 126 open positions at the NWS (since the start of the year, NWS has lost around 600 staffers). They still haven't advertised the jobs.

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CALL NOW: Tell your Republican Representative You Don’t Want To Pay The Price For Their Billionaire Tax Breaks

Republicans won’t defy Trump unless their constituents absolutely force them to. That means our job is to make Trump’s Tax Scam politically toxic. If you live in a GOP district, let your representative know they risk losing their job by defunding Medicaid and SNAP to make billionaires richer.

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Effective May 5, 2025, NOAA’s National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) will decommission its snow and ice data products from the Coasts, Oceans, and Geophysics Science Division (COGS). As a result, the level of services for affected products below will be reduced to Basic—meaning they will remain accessible but may not be actively maintained, updated, or fully supported. This includes Sea Ice Index, Snow Data Assimilation System (SNODAS) Data Products, Glacier Photograph Collection, U.S. National Ice Center Arctic Sea Ice Charts and Climatologies in Gridded Format Gridded Monthly Sea Ice Extent and Concentration, 1850 Onward World Glacier Inventory. If you rely on these products in your work, research, education, or planning, we invite you to share your story at nsidc@nsidc.org. Your input can help us demonstrate the importance of these data sets and advocate for future support.

This is horrible. I don't even know what to say. Some of our most key polar data.

"As a result, the level of services for affected products below will be reduced to Basic—meaning they will remain accessible but may not be actively maintained, updated, or fully supported."

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Most Americans use federal science information on a weekly basis, a new poll finds Most Americans frequently use federal science information. But few are concerned that cuts to federal science spending could affect their access to such information, a new poll finds.

Most Americans frequently use federal science information. But few are concerned that cuts to federal science spending could affect their access to such information, a new poll finds.

“We've arranged a society based on science and technology, in which nobody understands anything about science and technology. And this combustible mixture of ignorance and power, sooner or later, is going to blow up in our faces.”

~ Carl Sagan

NOAA Datasets Will Soon Disappear - Eos NOAA has quietly reported that they will soon decommission 14 datasets, products, and catalogs related to earthquakes and marine, coastal, and estuary science.

@astrokimcartier.bsky.social reported that NOAA is set to decommission 14 earthquake, marine & coastal datasets by mid-May. Data’s not being merged—it’s disappearing. Scientists urge you to download now before it’s gone! #OpenData #Science eos.org/research-and...

Computer models have been accurately predicting climate change for 50 years » Yale Climate Connections A research scientist found that many 1970s-era models were ‘pretty much spot-on.’ Today’s models are far more advanced.

Computer models have been accurately predicting climate change for 50 years

A research scientist found that many 1970s-era models were ‘pretty much spot-on.’ Today’s models are far more advanced.
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🚀 Leafmap now supports visualizing geospatial data on a stunning 3D globe with MapLibre 🌍

🎥 Check out the full tutorial: youtu.be/D2bdwLkU1KQ
📓 Dive into the notebook: leafmap.org/maplibre/globe_control
🌐 Try the demo: maps.gishub.org/maplibre/globe_control_4.html

#Geospatial #3DMapping #Python

Protecting American Energy From State Overreach By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1.  Purpose.

This new White House executive order says that the US Attorney General is going to prevent states from implementing democratically passed laws regarding climate change and clean energy. It scarcely needs stating at this point that this is wildly, unambiguously unconstitutional. Dictator shit.

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Did you know you can monitor environmental impacts from Space? This Thursday, Lisa Broekhuizen, tech lead at Space4Good, will be discussing how they work on applying data from Space to improve life on Earth. Join us live at 5pm CEST/11am EDT. discord.gg/hQF82JAR?eve...

If you see these little mounds this time of year in Eastern North Carolina, leave them be. They are not ants. They are little ground bees. Each mound has one little female bee. They won't stay in there very long so I try not to walk over them or drive over them. We need every pollinator.

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Tackling climate crisis will increase economic growth, OECD research finds Third of global GDP could be lost this century if climate crisis runs unchecked, says report

Guess what?? Investing in climate solutions actually grows your economy.

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A tricky thing about modern society is that no one has any idea when they don’t die.

Like, the number of lives saved by controlling air pollution in America is probably over 200,000 per year, but the number of people who think their life was saved by controlling air pollution is zero.

If you’re a North Carolinian, you can check whether your name or the names of anyone you know is on the list of the 65K voters whose votes may be tossed. You could have an opportunity to fix it if so.

thegriffinlist.com

Graph of lines showing zonal-mean surface air temperature anomalies for every month of 2024 relative to a 1951-1980 climatology. Most all months and latitudes are above average, except for in the Antarctic.

Temperature anomalies by latitude band for every month of 2024...

Plot shows zonal-mean surface air temperature anomalies, where latitude = x-axis (not scaled by distance). Note that there is coarse data (e.g., flat line ends) at the poles (GISTEMPv4 data). Graphic from zacklabe.com/climate-chan...

Documents and Communications a. 6 Points: Written or electronic communications (e.g., e-mails, letters, texts, secure messages) that discuss business with, and/or are communicating with, known members of TDA; cell phone data contains multiple group, organizational, or organization leaders’ or members’ information. b. 10 points - Subject conducts phone calls about the business of TDA with known members of TDA c. 3 points - Financial transactions indicating criminal activity for TDA or with known members of TDA d. 6 points: Subject possesses written rules, constitution, membership certificates, bylaws, etc., indicating, together with other conduct, membership of or allegiance to TDA

This checklist is shocking. A person can be declared an "Alien Enemy" based ONLY on communications with someone ICE says is a member, and nothing more.

6 points for texting a "known member of TDA" + 3 points for Venmoing or CashApping a "known member" = 9 points = TDA member = sent to CECOT.

Trump’s ‘climate’ purge deleted a new extreme weather risk tool. We recreated it The Guardian has recreated a searchable climate future risk tool developed by Fema but then deleted

Trump’s ‘climate’ purge deleted a new extreme weather risk tool. We recreated it

The Guardian has recreated a searchable climate future risk tool developed by Fema but then deleted | Climate crisis | The Guardian Wed 26 Mar 2025

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Super Bowl champ to host an LGBTQ-inclusive football camp - Outsports New Orleans Saints player Khalen Saunders said at the GLAAD Awards that he will host an LGBTQ-inclusive football camp this summer.

Khalen Saunders hosting an LGBTQ-inclusive football camp this summer. Love it. Need more of this.

A picture of Neri Alvarado, a young man, standing next to his brother, who is a young teenager. Both are smiling for the camera and wearing matching shirts. Neri has his arm around his brother.

A picture of Neri's tattoo, which is an autism ribbon in rainbow colors with his brother's name "Neryelson" written on it.

NEW: @motherjones.com reports that one of the men renditioned to El Salvador is Neri Alvarado, who was working in Dallas as a baker. An ICE agent told him they were questioning all men with tattoos.

Neri has an AUTISM AWARENESS TATTOO in honor of his 15-year-old brother with autism.

Trump seeks to mandate proof of citizenship in voter registration The order tests the power of Trump's authority and would require voters using a federal form to show proof of citizenship to register to vote in federal elections. It's sure to be tested in court.

This executive order requires proof of citizenship to register to vote and seeks to stop states from counting mail or absentee ballots postmarked by Election Day but received after by withholding funding from states that allow such ballots to be counted.

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