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This is one of the striking parts of the whole book imho

How Are Marine Robots Shaping Our Future? A Conversation with James Bellingham and Nell Greenfieldboyce

Join us 3/3 for this free event on the future of marine robots!
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Bezos orders deep job cuts at 'Washington Post' The Washington Post embarked on severe cuts despite appeals by the newsroom to owner Jeff Bezos. The paper is to narrow its focus largely to politics and national security.

The Washington Post embarked on severe cuts despite appeals by the newsroom to owner Jeff Bezos. The paper is to narrow its focus largely to politics and national security. n.pr/4qAlWBj

reading about organisms that aren’t your specialty is like

margins of the quorbus eplungulate, ploobular processes bent posteriorly towards the foobulum

define term “eplungulate”
- lacking plungae. synonym: thubulous

The Trump administration has secretly rewritten nuclear safety rules The rewrite was done to speed up the construction of a new generation of nuclear reactors. Critics warn it could compromise safety and public trust.

EXCLSUVIE: The Trump administration has secretly rewritten nuclear safety rules and shared them with the companies they're meant to regulate, without making the new rules publicly available.

We've obtained a copy of the new rules and here's what we found.

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Kitchen countertop workers are dying. Some lawmakers want to ban their lawsuits Some safety experts want California to stop the cutting of quartz countertops saying it can't be done safely. Lawmakers, meanwhile, contemplate a ban on workers' lawsuits against quartz manufacturers.

100s of cases of serious lung diseases or deaths, and numerous lawsuits, in the kitchen countertop industry: debates over a ban on lawsuits or a ban on cutting "quartz" engineered stone...
#construction #manufacturing #jobs #labor #health #medicine #publichealth #OSHA

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Kitchen countertop workers are dying. Some lawmakers want to ban their lawsuits Some safety experts want California to stop the cutting of quartz countertops saying it can't be done safely. Lawmakers, meanwhile, contemplate a ban on workers' lawsuits against quartz manufacturers.

Deaths and cases of serious lung disease in the kitchen countertop industry continue to rise. In Calif., workplace health experts are now calling for a ban on cutting a popular material called quartz. But some companies instead want Congress to ban workers' lawsuits.
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Jan. 6, 2021: A visual archive of the Capitol attack NPR’s Jan. 6 archive brings together reporting, video, documents and testimony to show what really happened during the Capitol riot. Explore the timeline, cases and evidence behind the attack.

What happened on January 6:
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Mama Stamberg's relish faces its toughest critics: NPR staffers Susan Stamberg returns with her annual love letter to the pink pile of Thanksgiving mush known as Mama Stamberg's Cranberry Relish.

Today in honor of Susan Stamberg, RIP, I will be making her famous cranberry relish and stashing it in the freezer for tomorrow:
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James Watson, who co-discovered the structure of DNA, has died at age 97 James Watson, who co-discovered the structure of DNA has died at age 97. He was a scientific superstar until he made racist remarks that made him an outcast.

James Watson has died. www.npr.org/2025/11/07/n...

As hundreds of millions of birds head south, the invisible danger is glass It's the peak of the fall migration season. This is when bird deaths from window collisions tend to spike, even though simple solutions can prevent this.

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NPR 'founding mother' Susan Stamberg has died Susan Stamberg, an original National Public Radio staffer who went on to become the first U.S. woman to anchor a nightly national news program, has died.

This hit me really hard today. She was a beautiful person and a real role model of a life well lived. www.npr.org/2025/10/16/1...

Man, 34, is no longer blind after tooth is implanted in eye in 'crazy' surgery Tooth-in-eye surgery sounds like science fiction, but it can help people with severely damaged corneas see again. A patient and his doctors describe what it's like.

TIL that for some people with irreparably damaged corneas, you can pull one of their teeth, drill a hole in it, install an artificial lens, sew it into their cheek (so tissue attaches), then pull it out and stick it in their damaged eye, and ... it works fine!?! www.nbcboston.com/news/health/...

The world's oldest and largest iceberg will soon be no more The iceberg, known as A23a, has been on a journey following the current into warmer waters for months. Now, it has begun the predicted and natural process of breaking apart, and eventually melting.

Farewell to the world's largest iceberg...
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Artificial light has essentially lengthened birds' day Millions of audio recordings of hundreds of bird species have revealed that artificial light is making the birds wake up earlier and go to bed later.

New study uses millions of bird audio recordings to look at the effect of light pollution on hundreds of bird species around the globe: www.npr.org/2025/08/21/n...

Scientists find a planet from the Avatar movies in real life One of the brightest stars in the night sky seems to be orbited by a planet like Jupiter. The news is sure to cheer fans of the Avatar series, which centers on a moon that orbits a fictional gas giant...

Are you a fan of the Avatar movies? Well, scientists using the James Webb Space Telescope have just made a possible discovery that is right up your alley: a possible gas giant planet orbiting the nearby Sun-like star Alpha Centauri A
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Why a NASA satellite that scientists and farmers rely on may be destroyed on purpose The Trump administration has asked NASA staffers to draw up plans to end at least two satellite missions that measure carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, according to current and former NASA employees.

Plans are being made to shut down the only two federal satellite missions that were designed and built specifically to monitor planet-warming greenhouse gases -- new reporting from my colleague Rebecca Hersher ‪@rhersher.bsky.social‬
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It was 10 years ago today that NASA's New Horizons spacecraft flew by Pluto, marking the first visit to the beloved dwarf planet. Here it is with its buddy Charon. It's a good day to reread my friend Tim Kreider's NYT essay "I❤️Pluto" www.nytimes.com/2006/08/23/o...

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory's first images are stunning — and just the start The Vera C. Rubin Observatory has just released some of its first images. Its powerful new telescope will be able to quickly spot previously unseen astronomical objects.

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory has just released some of its first images. Its powerful new telescope will be able to quickly spot previously unseen astronomical objects. https://n.pr/405DN8P

NPR and Colorado public radio stations sue Trump White House NPR and three Colorado public radio stations are suing the Trump administration over the president's executive order seeking to ban the use of federal money for NPR and PBS.

NEWS: NPR and three Colorado public radio stations sue Trump White House over effort to ban federal funding for NPR & PBS

The lawsuit calls Trump's executive order "textbook retaliation" for protected free speech - threatening public radio

My story:

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The debate over possible signs of life on planet K2-18b continues, with independent groups coming out with their own interpretations of the James Webb Space Telescope data....which do not support the original claims....

Researchers puzzle over rash of baby monkey kidnappings Young, male capuchin monkeys have started kidnapping the babies of nearby howler monkeys. Why? Maybe boredom.

What a disturbing series of inter-species kidnappings says about boredom, innovation, and the role of randomness in culture:

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Humans still haven't seen 99.999% of the deep seafloor Human eyes have only seen a tiny, tiny, tiny fraction of the areas of the world that are covered by deep water. Scientists want to change how they explore these regions.

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Scientists reel as turmoil roils National Science Foundation The National Science Foundation, a major government funder of basic science research, is being shaken up with over 1,000 grants already terminated and the White House looking to halve its budget

One scientist "learned her two-year fellowship was being canceled in an email from NSF that she said misspelled the word "priorities." Her work no longer served those priorities, it said."
@ngreenfieldboyce.bsky.social on the latest at NSF
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President Trump's "skinny" budget request absolutely eviscerates scientific research funding.

The @aaas.org estimates the request would constitute an 82.5% reduction in research spending (and that's just the agencies named in the request).

White House budget request "phases out the grossly expensive and delayed Space Launch System (SLS) rocket and
Orion capsule after three flights" in favor of commercial systems. Also proposes killing lunar Gateway and Mars Sample Return.
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Preliminary white House Budget request is out:
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Just looking at NSF, if I'm doing my math right, it's a proposed $4.7 billion cut to the $9 billion agency. Also, an agency spokesperson said they axed another 344 awards

NSF spokesperson offers up "no comment" on Nature reporting that has agency has stopped funding new grants and existing ones. Today another 344 grants were terminated "that were not aligned with agency priorities"

Exclusive: NSF stops awarding new grants and funding existing ones US science funder also plans to screen grant applications for compliance with ‘agency priorities’.

Nature reports that the National Science Foundation has stopped awarding new grants and allotting funds to existing ones. All of them. @colincarlson.bsky.social says that unless the freeze is lifted, it “is going to destroy people's labs.” 2/10
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How 23andMe's bankruptcy led to a run on the gene bank : Planet Money Reporter Alexi Horowitz-Ghazi's Aunt Vovi signed up for 23andMe back in 2017, hoping to learn more about the genetic makeup of her ancestors. Vovi was one of over 15 million 23andMe customers who…

When 23andMe filed for bankruptcy in March, the fate of its vast genetic database became unclear.

In today’s episode, we look at what might happen to the genetic data of 15 million 23andMe customers as the bankruptcy process unfolds.