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🎶 Bunch of bombs in the air, gave proof through the night that we still had our flag 🎶

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.

“The Trump administration has asked NASA employees to draw up plans to end at least two major satellite missions, according to current and former NASA staffers. If the plans are carried out, one of the missions would be permanently terminated, because the satellite would burn up in the atmosphere.”

Big giant wooden building

Morning cup of coffee getting too expensive? Try Yaupon Tariffs on coffee and tea could give a boost to North America's only native caffeinated plant. NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks with Abianne Falla, owner of CatSpring Yaupon.

“…some historians believe it was more widely consumed than tea or coffee a couple centuries ago….if you look, the native growing region is the Trail of Tears, right? And so with the forced relocation and eradication of a lot of the native drinkers…” www.npr.org/2025/08/03/n...

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Roarrr! Ima leopard.

Picked up some newly fired pieces at the studio today in Oslo

So sick of all these beef jerky companies selling the romance of the Depression era.

The haul from the trip to Kansas City and Omaha.

This is true. And the ridiculously complicated ones for printers. Scuzzy cables!

We just rediscovered this trove of ancient cables, adapters, etc. It’s like a trip down memory lane… Oh yeah, this is the dongle for that duo-motion retro-encabulator that had the three-handled family gredunza attachment!

Paul Conrad on the Watergate and the GOP's what-about-ism, LA Times, August 2, 1973.

Near-peak wild blueberry season in Oslo 🫐

Maybe something different about the designation

Oldest known baseball card: The Brooklyn Atlantics, 1865. www.loc.gov/exhibitions/...

Paul Conrad on Nixon's flagging brand amidst inflation, war, and scandal, LA Times, 8/20/1973.

YouTube video by East Coast Blue Jays Huge Ali Sanchez Strikeout!

Blue Jays catcher Ali Sanchez’s 38mph eephus pitch youtube.com/shorts/1UD50...

BBC Radio 6 Music - 6 Music Artist Collection, Nick Drake, Five Leaves Left Revisited Radiohead’s Ed O’Brien presents this new documentary looking at a new Nick Drake box set.

“Radiohead’s Ed O’Brien presents a new documentary examining the recording of Five Leaves Left, Nick Drake’s debut LP released in 1969, and the story behind a forthcoming box set.” www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

An exhibit in Oslo’s main library. It’s a model of the childhood home of the artist Per Kristian Nygård. From the description: “Houses like these were built all around Norway during the 1970s and 1980s. They also came as kits, and were standardised and mass-produced.”

The EPA proposes gutting its greenhouse gas rules. Here's what it means for cars and pollution The Trump administration has effectively eliminated two rules designed to promote cleaner cars. Now, as the EPA suggests not considering carbon dioxide to be pollution, the last rule is poised to fall...

"In the proposal, the EPA lays out multiple arguments for eliminating the standards....Alternatively, the agency says, even if the EPA could regulate it, there's not a good reason to do so, in part based on a report from five scientists who reject the scientific consensus on climate change."

Harvard Is Said to Be Open to Spending Up to $500 Million to Resolve Trump Dispute

The higher ed shakedown

SMU professor: I may be the last American Fulbright Scholar in Vienna An SMU professor teaching in Vienna on a Fulbright Scholarship laments the Trump administration’s pending cancellation of its funding. Disinvesting in world...

“To date, no replacement has been announced, nearly six months behind the normal timeline. President Donald Trump’s administration has delayed, and then rescinded, the appointments of more than 200 American scholars to this and other educational institutions.”

“The Gospel According to Spinal Tap: This pretentious, ponderous collection of religious rock psalms is enough to prompt the question, 'What day did the Lord create Spinal Tap, and couldn't he have rested on that day too?'"

Kansas City Athletics, official scorebook, 1962

Arkansas versus Texas, official program, October 21, 1961

I have questions

Best book section

Evangelical album of the day.

Marvin the Paranoid Android