Part 1: My Life Is a Lie How a Broken Benchmark Quietly Broke America

The best (nerdy) article I have read on why $140k is the new poverty line and the actual reasons why no one can “work” their way out of being poor (and probably why so many people are desperate and mad at the system)

www.yesigiveafig.com/p/part-1-my-...

Project 2025 Outlines Possible Future for Science Agencies Think tanks with Trump ties have put forth proposals to prioritize basic research, roll back climate science, and cut research ties with China.

This article was written in 2024, but describes our direction in science research, which is to NOT focus on the largest future problems, those caused by a changing climate. How can the US be prosperous if we ignore the future change we know is coming…? #standupforscience

www.aip.org/fyi/project-...

The EPA sets the value of human life and health at zero: A further comment By assigning zero economic value to lives saved through environmental protection while attributing full value to corporate profitability, the Trump administration is imposing the entire social and bio...

As the EPA assigns $0 for human life in their regulatory models what is being “dismantled is not merely a regulatory framework, but the legacy of struggles that once imposed limits on capital in the name of human survival.” Hello dystopia! #standupforscience #EPA

www.wsws.org/en/articles/...

Men must see that force begets force, hate begets hate… And it is all a descending spiral, ultimately ending in destruction for all and everybody… to cut off the chain of hate and the chain of evil in the universe. And you do that by love. - MLK, Montgomery, 11/17/57

May your day be good!

#MLKday

Switching away from legacy energy sources is like a game of hot potato, you don’t want to be the last!

Breakthrough of the Year: Renewable energy begins to eclipse fossil fuel-based sources | EurekAlert! www.eurekalert.org/news-release...

The US wants to develop world leading AI capabilities, yet wants to dismantle our world leading data collection research centers like the National Center Atmospheric Research… how does that make sense?

Cleaning the scientific house: Rebuilding trust in science requires confronting the harms of ghostwriting American science is under attack. Recent cuts to funding and staffing of federal agencies, layoffs of scientists, and rescission of billions of dollars in grants are unprecedented in US history and th...

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

The process of science can be painfully slow, but eventually gets closer to the truth. The highly cited paper on the safety of glyphosate (roundup) was finally retracted. Let’s see research on the actual impact of glyphosate!

For Kurt Vonnegut, the bombing of Hiroshima was “the day the world ended,” @noahhawley writes. How the novelist turned the violence and randomness of war into a cosmic joke:

“Whatever they call the age you live in is actually the name of the weapon they’re using to try to kill you”.

Good article!

America’s Illiberalism Doom Loop - The Atlantic

“It’s like treating a migraine with a lobotomy”

Good little article describing the moment we are in. I hope we see the far middle of America come back to power around fairness, human rights, and anti corruption. One can dream…

How bison boost the nitrogen cycle—and create healthier plants The large herbivores stimulate plant growth by cycling carbon and nitrogen in the soils of Yellowstone National Park, showing benefits of free-roaming wildlife

After several years studying grasses and forbs in Yellowstone National Park in the US, researchers have formally documented the power of bison as nature’s own fertilizing agents. cen.acs.org/environment/... #chemsky 🧪