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Vehicle wheels are a major source of microplastic debris on Earth and aluminum debris on Mars.

Taiwanese analysts sceptical about China’s barges with legs | The Strategist Since March, China has been making a splash with manoeuvres off its south coast involving a line of odd-looking barges with retractable legs that work like giant stilts. Taiwanese analysts aren’t impr...

Taiwanese analysts sceptical about China’s barges with legs
www.aspistrategist.org.au/taiwanese-an... #Taiwan #China

A graph of the timeline for Trump’s 2nd term tariffs

Good morning. It is now 12:01 AM, which means tariffs have increased on $1.6T in US imports from more than 90 countries. Those increases go from as small as 5% for goods from the EU & Japan to as high as 31% on Syrian goods, driving the overall tariff rate up more than 2%.

Yellowstone’s 1988 Fires Eviscerated Forests. Will They Ever Recover? - Mountain Journal While most park woodlands are regenerating, some have turned into meadows. A new study digs into why.

In 1988, wildfires razed one-third of Yellowstone National Park. While most park woodlands are regenerating, some have turned into meadows. A new study digs into why. 🧪🌿🌎

With improvement, he was able to report that he had recently noticed new-onset facial acne and cherry angiomas, fatigue, insomnia, subtle ataxia, and polydipsia, further suggesting bromism. He also shared that, after reading about the negative effects that sodium chloride, or table salt, has on one's health, he was surprised that he could only find literature related to reducing sodium from one's diet. Inspired by his history of studying nutrition in college, he decided to conduct a personal experiment to eliminate chloride from his diet. For 3 months, he had replaced sodium chloride with sodium bromide obtained from the internet after consultation with ChatGPT, in which he had read that chloride can be swapped with bromide, though likely for other purposes, such as cleaning. Gradually, over the course of a 3-week admission, his chloride and anion gap normalized and psychotic symptoms improved. He was tapered off risperidone before discharge and remained stable off medication at a check-in 2 weeks after discharge. His bromide level ultimately was 1700 mg/L (21 mmol/L; reference range, 0.9 to 7.3 mg/L).

Wild case of ChatGPT almost killing a guy by telling him to substitute sodium bromine for table salt (sodium chloride) #medsky www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/...

Inside Trump’s New Tactic to Separate Immigrant Families

Read what they’re doing to this family

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/05/u...

Top IDF commanders clash over Gaza failures, high civilian deaths In a Heated Exchange Within the IDF Top Brass, Air Force Commander Tomer Bar Accused Southern Command Chief Yaniv Asor of a Lack of Professionalism Leading to Excessive Civilian Casualties. Asor Fired Back, 'You, Over There in Tel Aviv, Are Out of Touch With the War Front'

Top commander of the Israeli Air Force accuses IDF Southern Command of “unprofessional” carelessness with Gazan civilian lives, voicing “the position of a significant number of senior pilots who have sought to cease their activities in the Gaza Strip after the war with Iran.”

First thought — Fujiwhara-Florida apocalypse locked in.

Second thought — Why does Bugs Bunny need two saw blades?

I absolutely adore the Figures showing different parrot dance moves, broken down.

People returned to live in Pompeii's ruins, archaeologists says New evidence suggests an informal settlement was established after the eruption that buried much of the city.

People returned to live in Pompeii's ruins, archaeologists say. 🧪 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Hōkūleʻa captain reflects on the rippling cultural ties with the Tautira community Hōkūleʻa crew members arrived Monday to be reunited with the Tautira community in French Polynesia, or Māʻohi Nui. Captain Kaleo Wong said it felt like returning to family.

www.hawaiipublicradio.org/local-news/2...

Cheese heads are already eating their hats in preparation for football and winter.
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An aside, but I wouldn’t have wanted to be anywhere near this. Heat index supposedly hit 148 in Appleton.

www.weather.gov/mkx/1995_hea....

We’re going to find out how many patriot front and oath keeper members there are. And how prone they are to heat exhaustion and exercise induced heart attacks.

Inland Delta Credit: Leroy Chiao (NASA)

Mar 23, 2008: Photographed from the ISS, this image showcases the Ibera Swamp, shaped by the Paraná River.

www.nasa.gov/image-article/inland-delta/

Insane video

I’d try to add some bizarre geological terms but they probably aren’t in the comparison dictionary. And are best forgotten.

Attenborough covered this:

youtu.be/2PGHZDnZ0Mc?...

Arlington Cemetery website drops links for Black, Hispanic, and women veterans The cemetery website unpublished links to lists of notable graves, walking tours and other material about Black, Hispanic and women veterans.

Let's not fall for the nonsense that this is about restoring American history after the Trump administration has exerted all of its power, over the past few months, to delete and distort the history of African Americans, including at Arlington National Cemetery. taskandpurpose.com/news/arlingt...

Sounds impressive, but what they don’t tell you is that he was already in Texas for astronaut training.

So it wasn’t a big drive.

A Potemkin river. We now regularly turn them on and off for the pleasure of our leaders.

Email from the "PUBLIC RECORDS OFFICE" to Kate Starbird asking for all emails from Jan 1 2021 through July 30 2025 with any of the following keywords: "diversity and inclusion" "DEIA" "DEI" "Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging" "DEIB" "gender identity" "racial preference" "ESG" "organizational equity" "intersectionality" "anti-racism" "critical race theory" "LGBTQ+" "transgender" "cisgender" "gender ideology" "white privilege" "privilege walk" "cultural humility" "equity audit" "restorative justice" "racial equity" "implicit bias" "microaggressions" "inclusive pedagogy" "identity-based oppression" "systems of oppression" "queer" "non-binary" "sexuality" “Trump” “fascist”

If anyone is curious about the current list of search terms being used by right wing activist organizations to harass university professors, here's a public records request I received today from Mike Howell of the Heritage Foundation. Not intimidating or meant to curtail by my speech at all, right?

Archeological exploration of a Wiyot village, 1175 cal BP, demonstrates indigenous use and stewardship of eel grass beds in Humboldt bay.

This is around the time of the first and largest Miyake event, so the inhabitants probably had views of some great auroras.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/774%E2%...

I'll be on the @pbs.org News Hour talking about the Texas Redistricting on the 60th anniversary of the Voting Rights Act, and the role of the Supreme Court in encouraging maximum partisan warfare.

Jonathan M. Katz 2m The government firing hundreds of thousands of people and throwing student op-ed writers in prison for not endorsing the regime’s ideology is not cancel culture and fine. Getting criticized on the internet is cancel culture and must be condemned. My name is Freddie deBoer and I’m very smart.

Offered a response.

“Cancel culture” was always a specific asymmetrical thing. But it was defined by those who used the term with enough vagueness and hand waving to confuse casual observers (eg professional opinion writers).

So now we have political speech that is illegal and state speech that must be amplified.

New studies of the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS show that it's a lot smaller than those early estimates, which were really upper limits. Our interstellar visitor is no more than 5 km (3 miles) wide, probably smaller.

Which makes sense--small objects are a lot more common than big ones. 🧪🔭

In 2018 the crater collapsed, the lowest point dropping 1600 feet. Since 2020 ~1500 feet of lava has helped refill the crater, filling ~40 percent of the volume created in the 2018 collapse.

Makes you want to see a 100 year time lapse .

www.usgs.gov/maps/june-26...

Eruption Information Eruptive activity at the summit of Kīlauea, within Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park, has been intermittent since an eruption began on December 23, 2024.

Kīlauea Episode 30 erupts with twin lava fountains early August 6 HST.

Cam 1: www.youtube.com/live/sTXKIz2...

Cam 2: www.youtube.com/live/fiyttmA...

Cam 3: www.youtube.com/live/BqmpkUd...

Eruption updates: www.usgs.gov/volcanoes/ki...

Eruption info: www.usgs.gov/volcanoes/ki...

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he Stanford Daily covers news related to Stanford University, publishing short- and long-form articles along with editorials. Since the October 7, 2023, attack, The Stanford Daily has included coverage of student opinions and campus protests related to the conflict in Gaza. Since March 2025, fearing Secretary Rubio will revoke their visas under the Revocation Provision or Case 5:25-cv-06618 Document 1 Filed 08/06/25 Page 4 of 36 –4– VERIFIED COMPLAINT FOR DECLARATORY AND INJUNCTIVE RELIEF CASE NO. 5:25-cv-06618 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 render them deportable under the Deportation Provision, many of the paper’s noncitizen writers who are lawfully present in the United States have self-censored by declining to cover pro-Palestinian student protests at Stanford, refraining from covering topics related to the conflict in Gaza, and seeking removal of their previous articles about it

Stanford's student paper sues Noem and Rubio, saying their policies cause non-citizen students to avoid expressing themselves freely in the Daily's pages due to fear of detention and deportation

h/t @joshgerstein.bsky.social

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Crustal thickness beneath the Andes and Sierras Pampeanas at 30°S inferred from Pn apparent phase velocities We obtained a 2D crustal model beneath central Chile and western Argentina using apparent Pn phase velocities recorded along an EW trending transect at 30°S. This model is characterized by a thick (6....

The papers that mark the start of modern flat-slab studies--studies that have local-to-regional seismic data on active examples of flat-slab subduction.

1) Fromm et al. 2004 looking at crustal thicknesses above the Sierras Pampeanas Flat Slab: