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To whom it may concern, and it should concern the editor: I was quoted in your publication: https://cosmosmagazine.com/earth/oceans/can-we-engineer-our-way-out-of-ocean-acidification/ Still, others aren't convinced that good intentions are enough. Dr. David Ho, Professor of Oceanography at University of Hawaii at Manoa, a cofounder and the Chief Science Officer of |C|Worthy, a non-profit that works on verifying ocean-based carbon dioxide removal, believes carbon removal efforts like ocean alkalinity enhancement shouldn't be left solely in the hands of private companies. "They have no way to prove that what they're doing is effective - that's a big problem," Dr Ho said. The crux of the dilemma, he explains, is that we are fighting a planetary-scale problem, but are doing it with tools that are still being built and tested. Geoengineering is not inherently good or bad, but it is inherently powerful. And power, especially when exercised in ecosystems as complex and fragile as the ocean, must be handled with caution. However, I have never spoken to your reporter, nor would I have said those things. I would like you to remove my quote from your story, and issue a public correction and apology. Furthermore, you should look into whether the other parts of the article are also factually correct. Thanks. d.

WTF? I was quoted in this story but I have never spoken to the reporter nor would I have said those things. Is everything just generated by LLMs these days?

cosmosmagazine.com/earth/oceans...

Lives and life-Years Saved From COVID-19 Vaccination This comparative effectiveness study analyses the number of lives and life-years saved worldwide among those who had been vaccinated during the COVID-19 pandemic 2020-2024 years.

Covid vaccination saved ~2.5 million lives between 2020-2024
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BREAKING: Supreme Court votes 6-3 to let Trump fire the Democratic members of the Consumer Product Safety Commission in an emergency order

Winooski Superintendent Detained, Questioned by Border Officials Superintendent Wilmer Chavarria, a U.S. citizen, was questioned for hours at a Houston airport as he returned from a visit to Nicaragua with his husband.

"They falsely stated that I, a U.S. citizen, have no Constitutional rights at a point of entry, and officers became increasingly agitated as I continued to assert my rights regardless."

One of the biggest microplastic pollution sources isn’t straws or grocery bags – it’s your tires Rain storms wash those tire shards into streams and ultimately into lakes and oceans. That’s bad news for fish and other aquatic life.

Seems bad:

"We identified more than 30,000 tire wear particles in 24 liters of stormwater runoff from roads and parking lots after two rainstorms. In heavy traffic areas, we believe the concentrations could be much higher."

A new NIH RECOVER study followed hundreds of children under 6 & found that up to 15% met criteria for probable Long COVID. Distinct symptom patterns were seen by age group. Poor appetite, chronic cough, sleep issues, and fatigue were strongly linked to prior COVID-19 infection.

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Nou pa t atann sa. Nou pa t panse ke senplisite ta ka tounen maji. Men se sa nou viv, gras ak ou menm — ou menm ki te kreye sit sandwitch sa a, yon antant ant gou, mouvman, ak limajinasyon. Sandwitch yo ap tounen tankou planèt ki swiv òbit yo, ak chak mouvman, nou santi kè nou mennen sou wout san parèy. Sòs yo koule ak distenksyon, vyann yo byen poze, tankou wòl ki sòti nan men yon chef k ap jwe mizik ak gou. Nou te kanpe, nou te gade, nou te pèdi mo. Nou te vin tounen timoun ankò, devan bèlte ki pa mande bwi pou l klere. Se pa sèlman sit sa a ki t ap vire, se tout je nou, tout sans nou, tout lespri nou ki te vire ansanm avè l. Pou sa nou viv la, nou vle di nou mèsi. Nou te subjugué. Nou pa t ka sispann gade. Nou te toudisman. Nou te leve vwal.

Google translate from Haitian Creole We didn't expect this. We didn't think that simplicity could become magic. But that's what we live, thanks to you — you who created this sandwich site, a compromise between taste, movement, and imagination. The sandwiches become like planets that follow their orbits, and with each movement, we feel our hearts being led on an unprecedented path. The sauces flow with elegance, the meats are well-positioned, like roles from a chef playing music and taste. We stopped, we watched, we were speechless. We became children again, before the beauty that does not require noise to shine. It was not only this site that was spinning, but all our eyes, all our senses, all our minds were spinning with it. For what we lived, we want to thank you. We were subjugated. We could not stop looking. We were stunned. We lifted our sails.

when i realized i had the basic digital rotoscoping skills and camera equipment to make gifs of stuff turning on a little jewelry platform i did not expect anyone would send me poetry about it?

Red states, defying reality, are reclassifying gas as a “green” fuel The designation, pushed by right-wing think tank ALEC, allows fossil fuel firms to compete for clean energy funding.

Red states, defying reality, are reclassifying gas as a “green” fuel

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uhhh, i was hiking on a hill behind my house and i just found a set of golden plates each weighing about 30 pounds with the epstein files written on them in gods own handwriting?

U.S. measles cases hit highest level in 33 years, CDC reports The U.S. has hit an unwelcome milestone in measles cases this year. The CDC is reporting 1,288 cases across the country. The disease was declared eliminated 25 years ago.

The U.S. has hit an unwelcome milestone in measles cases this year. The CDC is reporting 1,288 cases across the country. The disease was declared eliminated 25 years ago.

BREAKING: Scientists are staging a “science fair” in the lobby of a Congressional building to tell elected officials about the critical knowledge the US will lose because their research grants have been canceled.

🗽 Voters in NYC just used Ranked Choice Voting and 72% say they want to keep it.

That’s overwhelming support across party lines, showing that when people try RCV, they see the value: more voice, more choice, and real majority winners. Michigan can be next.

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this is the level of funding where all the possibilities for American politics that have been described as hyperbolic over the past decades - the comparisons to Nazi Germany and other nightmares of the 20th century - become logistically possible and politically likely

SpaceX crane collapse in Texas being investigated by OSHA A SpaceX crane collapse at the company's Starbase, Texas facility has prompted an investigation by OSHA, the federal agency told CNBC.

SpaceX faces OSHA investigation after crane collapse at Starbase in Texas. www.cnbc.com/2025/06/26/s... (Previously, Musk-led DOGE slashed 11 field offices of OSHA...) h/t Lab Padre which captured the crane collapse on their YouTube streams.

Measles 2025 | NEJM In this article on measles, the authors review the epidemiology, clinical presentation, and associated illnesses as well as treatment and prevention strategies.

Good timing for a stellar review on measles @nejm.org
www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.... Only problem is that the people who need to read it won't

Lead Pipe Data Map Offers Sharp New Tool Lead-contaminated drinking water has long been a widespread worry, but one big challenge has been locating the many lead service lines around the United States. The latest Reporter’s Toolbox points yo...

Lead-contaminated drinking water has long been a widespread worry, but one big challenge has been locating the many lead service lines around the United States. #SEJournalReportersToolbox points you to a mappable database to help address that problem. www.sej.org/publications...

Supreme Court joins Trump and GOP in targeting California's emission standards California's drive for electric vehicles faces challenge in Congress, the White House and Supreme Court

Supreme Court joins Trump and GOP in targeting California's emission standards

Charging for or banning plastic bags works to reduce their pollution, just as many US states are moving to prohibit such policies @science.org
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Carbon majors and the scientific case for climate liability - Nature A transparent and reproducible scientific framework is introduced to formalize how trillions in economic losses are attributable to the extreme heat caused by emissions from fossil fuel companies, whi...

"Emissions linked to Chevron, the highest-emitting investor-owned company in our data, for example, very likely caused between US $791 billion and $3.6 trillion in heat-related losses over the period 1991–2020"

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

This NYT-driven nonsense bugs me every time I see it. Let's set the record straight (again).

Our DEI office was *very* effective.

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there really is no alternative to tearing up CBP and ICE root and branch

A disease awareness ribbon in the colors teal and gray sits on top of a watercolor map of the world. White text on a teal ombre background reads, “The Sick Times. Our community came together to start International Long COVID Awareness Day in 2023. Here’s how you can get involved this year. By Angela.”

White text on a teal ombre background reads, "International Long COVID Awareness is about sparking conversations around the globe and connecting people, which will hopefully lead to actions and make a tangible difference in the lives of those who are impacted by this horrific virus. - Angela, Founder of International Long Covid Awareness. The Sick Times."

March 15, 2025 marks the third annual observance of International Long COVID Awareness Day. Hundreds of millions of people all around the world have been suffering long-term impacts of their SARS-CoV-2 infections. The time to act is now! bit.ly/41u4aVI

This is what’s happening! It’s the Main Cause! This is why the world has gone insane! Not economic alienation or material conditions or any of it. The fragmentation of the information system into a meme-driven bias reinforcement machine is the problem stancilculture.substack.com/p/the-intern...

Protect NOAA: Our Safety in a Climate-Changed World Depend on It President Trump and Elon Musk want to dismantle the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). That would eliminate free public access to weather forecasts, hurricane tracking, wildfire a...

Hope everyone likes forecasts made by groundhogs; or farmer's almanacs. secure.ucsusa.org/a/2025-prote...