Dan Smith

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BBC News - Apple AI tool transcribed the word 'racist' as 'Trump'
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Could $5,000 DOGE stimulus checks really happen? Here's what we know. President Trump has floated the idea of giving taxpayers a $5,000 refund check as a dividend from savings created by DOGE. Here's what to know.

Is Musk really proposing Universal Basic Income? Had it really been a cunning ploy all along by Bernie Sanders in a rubber mask?

www.usatoday.com/story/money/...

Keir Starmer pledges to close loophole that let Gazan family settle in UK The family won an appeal to come to the UK, after originally applying through a scheme for Ukrainians.

I hate the way politicians talk about refugees. It's sickening. In this example they're squabbling over whether a family that had their house blown up by an air strike should be granted asylum because they applied through the wrong channel.

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5 - Sperm whales hunt for over an hour at depths where the pressure is 100 times that we experience. They then surface and refuel with oxygen in less than 10 minutes.

A truly amazing creature and hat tip to @helenscales.bsky.social for the beautiful description in her book The Brilliant Abyss.

3 - Sperm whales hunt at depths of about 1000m below the surface. Why? Because there is less oxygen there so their water breathing prey are slower!
4 - they achieve this by having huge amounts of myoglobin and haemoglobin in their dark thick blood to carry loads of oxygen!

The news wasn't great this week, so do you want to hear 5 things about Sperm whales?

1 - they're called Sperm whales because of spermaceti. An oil in their nose they were hunted for.
2 - they eat giant squid whole! Unlike their baleen cousins who filter tiny plankton. But that's not all...