Shiloh James Howland

Investigators Think They’ve Solved the Mystery of the Baltimore Bridge Crash A tiny, misplaced label may have slowly loosened a critical wire on the ship that hit Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge, eventually causing a catastrophic failure

A tiny, misplaced label may have slowly loosened a critical wire on the ship that hit Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge, eventually causing a catastrophic failure

The crests of two ridges to the west and northwest of the Mars Perseverance Rover. Imaged using MastCam-Z yesterday on Sol 1687.

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I’m happy to report that DFW Airport remains the undisputed capital of people watching. Unparalleled mix of humanity here today.

It’s the 5th anniversary of one of the most amazing moments in American political history.

For any unfamiliar with the quality of journalism at Teen Vogue, it's well known for hard-hitting stories on "politically sensitive" topics including climate.

Then there's CBS: the only major network to increase climate coverage in the last few years. They just axed nearly their whole climate team.

Figure 1, oblique aerial view of the East Traverse Mountains, a small anomalous range on the Wasatch Front attributed to a gigantic landslide. A large quarry is exploiting its toe. "Pervasive brecciation . . . facilitates easy removal of aggregate materials and is key to our interpretation of a landslide origin. . . . underlining the lazard such large landslides might pose."

A giant Miocene landslide in the Wasatch Range, Utah - Geosphere paper. pubs.geoscienceworld.org/gsa/geospher...

Hurricanes feed off of warm water. Watch how quickly the eye of #Melissa collapsed as it moved onto land and over the mountainous terrain of Jamaica, and how quickly it is reforming now that it has moved back over water! I will be adding this radar loop to my earth science lectures.

In Senate Chaplain Barry Black's opening prayer for the chamber on Monday, he noted the prolonged government shutdown, and urged lawmakers to remember the most vulnerable members of our society.

My dog sure sighs a lot for somebody who can’t read the news

I’m delighted to read this. I made J watch it on Netflix (DVD!) after we got married and found out then somehow.

I’ve gotta go with drift phonk or sovietwave

A NO KINGS sign that says "We have Friends EVERYWHERE" Nokings.org

Loving the fact that #NoKings has adopted this from Andor! See you out there today!🫡✊✊✊

Matthew 15:29-31: And great crowds came to him, bringing with them the lame, the blind, the crippled, the mute, and many others, and they put them at his feet, and he healed them after verifying their citizenship status.

New Map Shows U.S. Geology In Unprecedented Detail The U.S. Geological Survey has released the most detailed national-scale geologic map of the country to date online.

#ScienceNews for #September 2025: The U.S. Geological Survey has released the most detailed national-scale geologic map of the contiguous #UnitedStates to date online 🇺🇸
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What we know about the deadly shooting at a Michigan Mormon church It was the latest of many shooting attacks on houses of worship in the U.S. over the past 20 years, including one in August that killed two children during Mass at the Church of the Annunciation in Mi...

At least 100 federal investigators are responding to an attack in a Michigan community where a former Marine crashed a pickup into a Mormon church during a Sunday service, shot into the building and set it ablaze. https://to.pbs.org/46JRpJ0

It’s still so good. I got choked up too, especially at the final monologue. It’s time to go back to

Apollo 13 is back in theaters for the 30 year anniversary. It holds up well and is a joy in IMAX.

Here is the paper published by @nature.com with an accompanying News and Views article 🧪🔭

Redox-driven mineral and organic associations in Jezero Crater, Mars

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Self-care is overrated—helping others has the biggest benefits for everyone involved

A new 2-week intervention finds that helping others improves well-being more than "self-kindness", with benefits for depressed mood, anxiety, and loneliness due to social connection psycnet.apa.org/record/2026-...

A lesson learned after pets were left behind in Hurricane Katrina: Save the animals People were forced to leave their pets behind during Hurricane Katrina, creating an unprecedented animal welfare crisis that has shaped the country's disaster response ever since.

People were forced to leave their pets behind during Hurricane Katrina, creating an unprecedented animal welfare crisis that has shaped the country's disaster response ever since.

I’m new to the I-15 commute but am I to understand that the double white lines for the HOV lane are purely decorative?

Comic. [3-column table with headers Period, My Favorite Part, and My Biggest Complaint] [Row 1] P: *Precambrian*, MFP: Life develops, MBC: Snowball Earth episodes [Row 2] P: Cambrian, MFP: Trilobites!, MBC: Evolution could stand to calm down a little [Row 3] P: Ordovician, MFP: Earth might have had rings, MBC: Scary volcanic eruption in North America [Row 4] P: Silurian, MFP: First land animals, MBC: Earth’s newfound mold problem [Row 5] P: Devonian, MFP: Big mountains in Boston, MBC: Yeah, sure, what those giant killer fish needed was *armor* [Row 6] P: Carboniferous, MFP: Cool forests, MBC: Bugs too big [Row 7] P: Permian, MFP: Pangea, MBC: Google “The Great Dying” [Row 8] P: Triassic, MFP: Tanystropheus [dinosaur with extremely long neck next to tiny person for scale], MBC: Damage to Canada still visible from space at Manicouagan [Row 9] P: Jurassic, MFP: Birds, MBC: Parasitoid wasps [Row 10] P: Cretaceous, MFP: Raptors, MBC: Raptors [Row 11] P: Paleogene, MFP: Pretty horseys!!!, MBC: Paleocene-eocene thermal maximum [Row 12] P: Neogene, MFP: Forests of *Dracaena* Dragonblood Trees, MBC: Zanclean Flood [Row 13] P: Quaternary, MFP: Burrito invented, MBC: Whoever picked this name for the third period of the Cenozoic

Geologic Periods

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Opinion | José Andrés: People of Good Conscience Must Stop the Starvation in Gaza

From @nytopinion.nytimes.com

“There is no excuse for the world to stand by and watch two million human beings suffer on the brink of full-blown famine,” the chef José Andrés writes about Gaza.

Not really an overstatement to say that the test of a free society is whether or not comedians can make fun of the country's leader on TV without repurcussions.

A State Department employee shared with PBS News an image from inside the department. The image includes a piece of paper taped to a mirror with the words, "Colleagues, if you remain: RESIST FASCISM. Remember the oath you vowed to uphold."

Voices: A white-only vision of American valor fails us all. In Utah, we’re working to tell the whole story. “Black service members have long been vital to the defense of this state and nation,” writes Robert Burch in an op-ed. “Their stories are not side notes — they are central volumes in our shared history.”

“Black service members have long been vital to the defense of this state and nation,” writes Robert Burch in an op-ed. “Their stories are not side notes — they are central volumes in our shared history.”

Setting my “Hours since I was last filled with incandescent rage” counter back to 0. This is inhumane.

The maddening thing is that this would have been PAINFULLY OBVIOUS if they had ANY EXPERIENCE AT ALL working with the government! In any way! Or if they had asked a single question!! 😖