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Your image paints Rosalind Franklin as a victim more than it frames her as a contributor that should be celebrated more. She is an under-appreciated part of this discovery.

Perhaps you should take how she felt into account instead of further muddying history

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Through your investigation, what is the source of the quote?

Is there any attribution possible, or through digging did you find out it wasn't said/posited by someone from which it would have added weight and deeper significance?

NASA is sinking its flagship science center during the government shutdown — and may be breaking the law in the process, critics say "There is just a general acknowledgement that a lot of what is happening is illegal…"

Goddard spacecraft engineer: "I think it just kind of speaks to the atmosphere of the agency and the nation, where people are like, 'Well, laws don't matter for the people at the top anymore.'"

Nature suggests you use their "Manuscript Adviser" bot to get advice before submitting

I uploaded the classic Watson & Crick paper about DNA structure, and the Adviser had this to say about one of the greatest paper endings of the century:

This from a top expert on Antarctica's Thwaites Glacier.
Highly likely that we're committing to an additional 3 meters (10 ft) of sea level rise as we speak. Yes, it'll take time to fully materialize, but when will the enormous damage that we're signing up for sink in with voters and policy makers?

As oil market surplus keeps rising, something’s got to give – Analysis - IEA As oil market surplus keeps rising, something’s got to give - A commentary by Toril Bosoni

"The global oil market may be at a tipping point as signs of a significant supply glut emerge" writes the IEA.

Tepid demand due to "subpar economic conditions, increasing vehicle efficiencies, & robust electric vehicle sales in many markets." 😮

www.iea.org/commentaries...

YouTube video by Nutrition Made Simple! Lead contamination found in Protein Powders | New Investigation shocks consumers

Here's a video on it with the 1000x claim, timestamped to that point

CR's 0.5microgram level is for Prop 65 labelling, daily background exposure in the USA is about 40 times that just from food water and air. In Europe average exposure is ~50 micrograms per day per person

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#India recorded its LARGEST ever increase in both #solar and #wind in the first half of 2025 ☀️🌪️🇮🇳

Solar rose 17 TWh (+25%) and wind 11 TWh (+29%) 📈

Solar growth alone was bigger than demand growth, while wind matched it.

https://loom.ly/c-MNZSk

China’s High Ambitions for Clean Energy

How does one write about China's plans - solar or whatever else - in Tibet without recognising that the people have been marginalised and pushed out? The lack of understanding of land and resource rights issues among (mostly Western) climate reporters is sadly not new
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/12/w...

Outdated technology?

Solar PV is over twice as old a technology as nuclear fission.

There's a lot of misinformation in this thread so far.

Excellent news, I am glad to see it reported in production

Usually I see capacity growth numbers reported, which requires calculations about insolation to find what the actual generation would be

In that vein, what was the capacity growth over the last year that resulted in 50% more production? 🙏

IRIS missile defense systems, current and near-future iterations (SL-X), and any other European operations still do not match Patriot's capabilities when it comes to ballistic missile defense.

As I live in Europe I am hoping for advances in this regard, and semi-related, an EU-wide army/military.

That's certainly remarkable.

By what percentage did Ireland's PV capacity grow in the last year or so?

Remote mountain meadow confirms global insect crisis Colorado mountains study shows insect numbers dropped 72% in 20 years, driven mainly by warming summer nights.

Over 20 yrs of flying insect counts at a remote high(3000m)-mountain meadow in Colorado (by a very dedicated observer) shows insect counts fell by an average of 6.6%/yr, overall a 72.4% drop. The main culprit was rising summer temperatures, especially warmer nights. ½

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Someone in Russia filmed how the subway (train) doors close over there and it’s deservingly going viral with the most hilarious comments. Yes, it’s typical.

The voice says: “This is (name of the station). Careful, the doors are closing.”

Here you go, data supports him for at least 3 out of 4 of the last US Presidential elections.

You can change the year in the URL (add 4): ropercenter.cornell.edu/how-groups-v...

Obama/Romney:
<$50,000 60 38

Clinton/Trump
<$50,000 53 41

Biden/Trump
<$50,000 55 44

Harris/Trump
<$50,000 48 50

It's quite mean-spirited, and the post is making assumptions seemingly without expert knowledge of the subject.

I, too, enjoy your posts, but this one displays (perhaps willful) ignorance. No big deal, carry on.

Absolutely not. NYC without AC on a humid 90-100 degree day and one would wish for death instead of that sticky hell.

RIVM: bijna iedereen in Nederland heeft te veel PFAS in bloed De effecten zijn afhankelijk van de hoeveelheid PFAS, de duur van de blootstelling en iemands persoonlijke gezondheidssituatie, zegt het instituut.

Turns out that everyone in the Netherlands has more PFAS 'forever chemicals' in their blood than the health limit - test on 2016-2017 blood samples. nos.nl/l/2573446

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It's not a good idea to shut down some of the best nuclear plants in the world when coal is still running. Turkey Point in the USA is licensed for 80 years, with maintenance and updates the German plants could have run for a decade more

OP mentioned Germany will build 20 gigawatts of new gas plants

The Fraunhofer PDF you linked above says

"German nuclear power plants generated 29.5 TWh of electricity and supplied 6.3 percent of net public electricity generation" not 3-4%.

That same paper does not explicitly support any of your assertions above, unfortunately.

The US warns of a Chinese global disinformation campaign that could undermine peace and stability The State Department in a first-of-its-kind report has laid out Beijing’s growing efforts to reshape the global narrative on China, while spending billions of dollars to do so.

State actors have been insidiously spending billions of $ to spread division with fake profiles and false stories.

Unchecked US corporate greed has allowed this to continue.

"On Ukraine, Beijing has cooperated with Moscow to amplify the Kremlin’s false claims, it said."

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Interesting take, Bob.

What data do you have to support this, please?

"effectively „unclogged“ renewables flowing in (merit order principle, baseload priority) thereby *reducing* fossil (esp coal) proportion to unseen levels since decades."

News 19 May 2025, 17:13 Benjamin Wehrmann | Germany New German govt should use existing draft law for new gas power plants – energy industry Electricity Gas Policy Clean Energy Wire [UPDATE adds quotes by minister Reiche, Commissioner Ribera] The new German government should largely adopt the previous government's plans for building new gas power plants to ensure a rapid back-up for the growing share of renewables, the country's energy industry has said. According to the Federation of German Energy and Water Industries (BDEW), the country’s new economy and energy minister, Katherina Reiche from the conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU), should use the 2022 draft for the Power Plant Security Act, which was prepared by her predecessor, the Green's Robert Habeck, as a blueprint to ensure no more time is lost in launching the necessary auctions. “We strongly support the minister in very quickly paving the way for the construction of new steerable capacity,” said BDEW head Kerstin Andreae. Given that more steerable generation capacity will drop out of the market on the path towards the country’s planned coal exit by 2038 at the latest, companies need a clear framework to initiate investments in the required gas plants. Using the previous government’s draft, which has already been agreed by the European Commission’s state aid watchdog, and adapting it where necessary could greatly accelerate the groundwork that companies can build on, Andreae argued. "Mainly gas-fired power plants" – minister After a meeting with EU Executive Vice-President for a Clean, Just and Competitive Transition Teresa Ribera on Monday (19 May), minister Reiche said she aimed to find consensus with the European Commission “over the coming weeks or months” and added that the steerable generation capacity of 20 gigawatt is “expected to be mainly gas-fired power plants.” The Commission is waiting for the new government to decide on how to proceed. Commissioner Ribera said that German…

Germany has ended up in a situation where they're building new fossil fuel power stations (yes, gas is a fossil fuel, folks)

Slapping "hydrogen" and "CCS" onto the PDFs procuring 20 freaking gigawatts of new fossil fuel plants doesn't make it any less bad

www.cleanenergywire.org/news/new-ger...

I went to school in a place where we had tornado drills, the ditch is the safest place, I remember it well.

Perhaps people are conflating being safer from lightning while being in a car vs being out in the open with being safe from a tornado.

I thought it was :: and had been referencing " we eat 1 credit card/5 grams of plastic per year", not per week. If you take the lower bound of the average quoted by @hankgreen.bsky.social here (0.1g to 5g) per week that's roughly 5 grams per year.

Unintentional (or was it?) SciComm win on my part.