Amanda Mecke

That Women don’t deserve an education is not only a Taliban belief. It’s true in the Christian Nation of Texas.

Been doing a lot of criticism of ubiquitous infrastructure without the needed equal and opposite hyping of alternatives, so:

The unspoken truth that Sex Criminals are like catnip for foreign Intelligence Agencies to recruit traitors. And pimps like Epstein are their tools.

Defense funding creates budget deficits. Starve the hungry, neglect the ill, lay off the coders who created AI — and the researchers who use AI data to keep humans healthy — do all this so that retired Generals and politicians can enhance their pensions with Company fees as high as $300,000.

Why is this so hard for the Trump GOP to understand?

Because they don’t believe in freedom of religion.

The First Amendment doesn’t just protect religion it protects us from the government imposing religion.
That’s the whole point of the separation of church and state.
America was never meant to be ruled by any one faith. We are so supposed to be free to choose. That included no religion as well.

www.bloomsbury.com/us/women-and... Academic Print

The book Secy of War Hegseth is afraid to read!

Space-proof tardigrades cannot survive on Martian soil, study finds A new study finds that Mars-like soil can quickly kill tough tardigrades unless it is first rinsed with water.

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The bad news is living Tardigrades who can survive anything Earth or Space can do to them cannot survive in Mars soil — unless the soil is “washed” with water, which is very scarce on Mars. So washing soil to make it safe would nix watering crops.

US sinks Iranian warship as Iran warns of widespread destruction in the Middle East A U.S. submarine has sunk an Iranian warship in the Indian Ocean. That comes as Washington and Israel intensify their bombardment Wednesday of Iran’s security forces and other symbols of power.

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Why is no one talking about the navigation dangers building from sinking all these Iranian ships?

Will the Persian Gulf or the Straight of Hormuz be blocked by wrecks even in a cease fire?

There aren’t enough geriatricians – here’s how older adults can still get the right care A few simple strategies can help older adults convey their needs to their health care provider.

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Excellent summary of what every primary care doctor should be taking with seniors about.

If you have even one chronic illness, get an introduction to a Palliative Care program through your specialist. Not Hospice Care, they are about living longer & less pain.

Free 10-minute online programs aimed at overcoming depression led to real improvements – new research No time for therapy? A new study shows you can learn key skills to challenge depression in 10 minutes.

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Too many people have no chance for longterm treatment for depression. Like open AA meetings for many alcoholics, any short intervention that can last a month, as this study shows, may prevent the loss of hope and make possible finding available help.

The best single piece of music that Boomers grew up to — what still gives me hope joy will come again for those of us who honor the diversity of the country who invented Jazz.

I think Lincoln in the Bardo will stand as one of the most important novels of the early 21st Century. George Saunders’ sequel takes a comic tone to as a narcissistic, liar as he faces the ghosts damaged by his lies to protect his wealth while knowing he was damaging life on Earth.

As dairy farms disappear in CT, a coalition of farmers asks state for $20M in aid In an effort to stem further losses of dairy farms in the state, a coalition of dairy farmers is lobbying the General Assembly to pass legislation this year to provide stability for the industry.

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We learned from COVID-19 that supply chain transportation links for critical local food like Milk can break.

What if the Feds guarantee local farmer a higher wholesale payment in order to feed all resident children even when disasters break the supply chain?

Charted: Oil Trade Through the Strait of Hormuz by Country See which countries depend most on the Strait of Hormuz for their crude oil exports and imports.

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China will not be content:

“Any closure or disruption of the Strait of Hormuz would disproportionately impact Asian economies, particularly China and India, which together receive over half of all volumes passing through the strait.”

Multiple US embassies are telling Americans they cannot evacuate or help them get out of the Middle East US embassies in Jerusalem and Qatar issued statements on Tuesday saying they could not help Americans leave the Middle East.

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Marco Rubio to American citizens and Business leaders in the Middle East: “Shelter in Place because we can’t help you.”

An economic transformation is coming to America’s heartland

The “heartland” and mountains near rivers can flood in ways that has wrecked farms and homes in the last 20 years.

Question: are data centers being fire and flood proofed? After construction, how many human jobs will Data Centers employ?

US' extended-range Precision Strike Missile debuts in Iran operations US deploys PrSM in Iran war, marking first combat use; CENTCOM shows HIMARS launch during Operation Epic Fury.

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But when you see how much firepower cheaper Drones have suceeded in Ukraine — at longer and longer distances — Iran sent a drone through the front door of a major airport to explode and close it down.

We have the Navy just off shore of Iran to run drones.

China's new 250 Wh/kg organic battery can survive extreme temperatures Chinese researchers developed a flexible organic lithium battery delivering 250 Wh/kg with safer chemistry and extreme temperature resilience.

interestingengineering.com/energy/china...

“Hopkins argues that, instead of following the free-market policies of its mentor, the United States, Britain should draw on its own history of social democracy and borrow from its neighbours in Europe, where communitarian principles continue to be upheld”

The Land Where Nothing Works Tracing the origins of Britain’s current malaise to the abandonment of social democracy

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“Hopkins argues that, instead of following the free-market policies of its mentor, the United States, Britain should draw on its own history of social democracy and borrow from its neighbours in Europe, where communitarian principles continue to be upheld.”

The Land Where Nothing Works Tracing the origins of Britain’s current malaise to the abandonment of social democracy

press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

Wildfires in the far north may be releasing centuries of stored carbon New research shows that fires in northern forests are releasing far more carbon than global climate models have been tracking.

www.earth.com/news/wildfir...

The warming permafrost makes Arctic adjacent North American and Siberian carbon leak more than we knew.

We The Bacteria. Notes Toward Biotic Architecture This book offers an alternative history of architecture from the point of view of microbes

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“Biotic architecture is less human-centric than traditional architecture. It learns from microbes rather than resists them. During Covid 19 probiotic-based sanitation by staff in six Italian public hospital… decreased surface pathogens by up to 90%.

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Fascinating.
Tadpoles use both gills and lungs. They need to avoid inhaling water for gills into the lungs and hence we inherit their ability to have a “flap” in our epiglottis that closes off the lungs — and causes hicups. To stop, we need to override an evolutionary echo

Lotus shoes: Tiny footwear for Chinese women whose feet were bound as children Lotus shoes are tiny footwear associated with foot-binding, a beauty practice that lasted for at least a millennium in China.

www.livescience.com/archaeology/...

Don’t leave out “crippling” about this fashion which meant women had to be carried by servants or ride in carts.

I remember my shock when my mother told me the tiny shoes she inherited from a Chinese Missionary Uncle were actually for adult women.

Big Tech Says Generative AI Will Save the Planet. It Doesn’t Offer Much Proof A new report finds that of 154 specific claims about how AI will benefit the climate, just a quarter cited academic research. A third included no evidence at all.

www.wired.com/story/big-te...

Tech Gods want worship from believers in the coin of stock equity. Truth has no value to gamblers looking for an insider tip before the IPO.

A Father Murdered His Family. Did He Deserve to Be Set Free? - Rolling Stone

I believe in parole for a crime during a psychotic break & untreated PTSD, especially among Vietnam Vets who were singularly abused by the Government and civilians at home. (as in Spike Lee’s amazing movie Da Five Bloods)

Reality of cuts to UConn research funds emerges. ‘There’s just this aura of awfulness’: professor. In addition to funding availability, the federal government has limited the ability of researchers to receive reimbursement for indirect costs.

www.courant.com/2026/02/28/r...

The damage cannot be calculated yet. It will reverberate for a decade with untold cost to the US economy.

‘I live in constant fear’: surge in giant sinkholes threatens Turkey’s farmers Falling groundwater, extreme heat and water-intensive farming are accelerating land collapse, forcing a rethink in agricultural practices

www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...

A breadbasket of human civilizations for several millennia is threatened with permanent collapse.

German battery recharges using sunlight, releases hydrogen on demand Researchers at German universities have developed a copolymer that can store energy from sunlight and release it as hydrogen on demand.

interestingengineering.com/energy/batte...

A new copolymer-based battery developed by researchers at Ulm and Jena universities in Germany stores energy from sunlight for days and can release it when required as green hydrogen, which provides higher energy density releasing only water, not carbon.