An advertisement in the August 9 1946, edition of the San Francisco Examiner promoting the new newsreel with the following copy: “Spectacular 1st Pictures! UNDERWATER ATOM BLAST Sensational Films of the Most Powerful Spectacle in History SEE blast raise 10 million tons of water! 7 foot waves rock Bikini Island SEE Arkansas, Saratoga & 5 other ships sunk! Entire preparations for atom bomb $5 First Jap Films! HIROSHIMA! See casualties and damage by 1st A-bomb!”

A short article about the Paramount newsreel in the August 9, 1946, edition of The Hollywood Reporter with the headline, “Second Atomic Pic Includes Shocking Japanese Footage.” An excerpt: "The clip becomes a real shocker because of the previously unseen shots of the devastation wrought on human beings by the atom bomb at Hiroshima. Radio active [sic] rays burned the pattern of one woman's dress on her skin. Others were scarred and blinded in the most hideous manner. No punches are pulled in showing any part of the devastation. The reel explans that no punches should be."

A short article about the Paramount newsreel in the August 8, 1946, edition of the New York Times with the headline, “Reaction of Humans to Atom Bomb in Film.” This is the last paragraph (highlighted in yellow), which mistakenly (but understandably) attributes the horrific injuries viewed on screen to radioactivity rather than the incredibly hot thermal pulse generated by the nuclear fireball in its first few seconds: “However it is the scenes of the burned-out city of Hiroshima and the pitiful sight of the maimed victims which stand out most harrowingly as grim testimony to the deadly radioactive effects of the bomb. Most victims look as though they had been seared by an acetylene torch and there is a quick shot of one man who lost half of his ear as a result of radioactive burns. The intensity of the radioactivity is demonstrated by the imprint of a dress design on a woman’s body and the shadow of a ladder on a wall.”

An article about the Paramount “Atom Bombs!” newsreel in the August 9, 1946, edition of the Washington, DC, Evening Star with the headline, “Beauty and Horror of Bomb Captured by News Cameras.” A paragraph near the bottom (highlighted in yellow) reads: "Minor threads of drama are numerous in the Bikini reels. That of Paramount, for instance, is made enormously more effective by the inclusion of Hiroshima bomb-victim photographs, captured from the Japanese but only now released for the first time. Following the photographs of the blast of bomb No. 5, they represent a powerful correlation of cause and effect which greatly heightens the drama of the reel."

Today in 1946, moviegoers in US theaters showing Paramount newsreels were able to see for the first time stark images of some of the Japanese victims of the US atomic bombing of Hiroshima a year earlier, including several people horribly burned and disfigured by the intense thermal pulse.

Utan pålitlig energi slocknar folkhemmet Debattören: Sverige byggdes på industri, gruvor, elektricitet – och kärnkraft.

Min dotter skrev ett första maj tal. Typ. @weplanetint.bsky.social

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Hallå alla cyklisthatare – fakta skiter fullständigt i era fördomar och känslor - Cykelmagasinet Att skriva om cykel i olika sammanhang och publicera bilder på människor som cyklar väcker känslor. Som att öppna glasburken och ut väller alla möjliga läskiga maskar och insekter. En del håller verkl...

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Instead of a thousand words.

#Ukrainian Defender Oleksandr Kiriienko before and after Russian captivity.

YouTube video by Kyiv Independent What Russian bombardment feels like in Kyiv

The Kyiv Independent staff documented what it feels like to live and sleep in Kyiv, Ukraine, as Russia intensifies its drone and missile attacks on the city. Filmed over several weeks in June and July, our journalists take shelter in bathrooms and basements as explosions ring out overhead.

Two dads are on a mission to make it easier for Dubliners to open up city streets for their kids to play on Over the years, the idea’s got support from councillors, TDs, the Minister for Transport – but there’s still no simple, official way to do it in Dublin city.

Two dads are on a mission to make it easier for Dubliners to open up city streets for kids to play on. Over the years, the idea’s got support from councillors, TDs, a Minister for Transport – but there’s still no simple, official way to do it in the city. www.dublininquirer.c...

‘Truly amazing’: Octopuses ‘taste’ harmful microbes with their suckers Unique ability allows the animals to protect themselves and their offspring from decaying food and other material

🧪 Octopuses "taste" harmful microbes on surfaces using suckers, reveals a new study. This unique "chemotactile" sense allows them to reject decaying food and contaminated eggs, protecting themselves and offspring.

Let's hope and actively work for a change. It's not on for a country like Sweden, with its pride in "Vision Zero" and equality, to obstruct and ignore a transport mode that does not endanger others and enables equality.

Ontario releases energy plan that calls for massive expansion of nuclear energy as electricity demand increases

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Battle of the mosquitoes - Nature Medicine Malaria has found a new ally in the concrete jungle — but scientists are fighting back with mosquitoes of their own.

Nature Medicine reports how scientists are fighting back against malaria in urban areas of Africa with modified male mosquitoes. #medsky 🧪

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Economic impacts of EU nuclear energy expansion assessed A nuclear power generating capacity of 200 GWe would reap widespread economic benefits throughout the EU, sustaining almost two million jobs and hundreds of billions in additional economic output...

A nuclear power generating capacity of 200 GWe would reap widespread economic benefits throughout the EU, sustaining almost 2 million jobs and hundreds of billions in additional economic output, tax revenues and household income, according to Nucleareurope.
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Today marks the second anniversary of the horrific crime committed by Russian terrorists – the blowing up of the Kakhovka Hydroelectric Power Plant.

Aftermath:

Luftföroreningar beräknas orsaka 6 700 förtida dödsfall i Sverige varje år Luftföroreningar beräknas orsaka 6 700 förtida dödsfall i Sverige varje år. Det visar den senaste studien som IVL Svenska Miljöinstitutet och Umeå universitet har gjort på uppdrag av Naturvårdsverket....

Du har rätt att ta den forskningen med hur mycket salt du vill, men den kommer från IVL. Korrektion: 6700 per år, inte 7000 som jag sade. Och varje fall räknas som 10 år kortare, dvs inte minuter.

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The latest satellite images show 3 major developments: a large Russian troop buildup in Bryansk Oblast, damage from recent drone strikes in Kyiv, and unusual military activities at Taiwan’s Wangan Airport.

All three have one thing in common - they were generated by AI. 🧵Thread:

Ljuger Transportstyrelsen? - Cykelmagasinet I Altinget den 4 juni kan vi läsa att ansvarig utredare på Transportstyrelsen anser att Riksrevisionens kritik vad gäller utredningen av regeländringar för cykeltrafiken är missriktad och orättvis. Kr...

Ett uttalande från Transportstyrelsen får mig att undra:
ljuger Transportstyrelsen?
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Växla upp satsningen på cyklingen för folkhälsan DEBATT: Ineffektiva och otillräckliga statliga insatser för cykeltrafiken - det är slutsatsen från Riksrevisionens granskning. Exemplen är passiv regelutveckling, cykelbanor som byggs bort och planera...

Näringslivet säger ifrån.
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This viral climate graphic just got a troubling update The updated 'climate stripes' graph now visualizes the impact of climate change on oceans and the atmosphere. Some parts may surprise you.

The warming stripes have been updated to show the atmosphere and the ocean!

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Vi är ett sån jävla U-land när det gäller hållbart resande, hela resan-konceptet. Och det börjar högst upp, hos regeringen, hos myndigheterna Trafikverket och Transportstyrelsen. Bekräftat av Riksrevisionen. cykelmagasinet.se/riksrevision...

5 lies Europe tells itself about Russia’s criminal war Editor's note: This opinion first appeared in German in Süddeutsche Zeitung. Russia’s President — a wanted war criminal — Vladimir Putin failed to show up in Istanbul for the “direct talks” with Ukra...

"To call out Russia’s lies is no longer enough. Europe must confront — and discard — five lethal delusions of its own," writes Andrew Chakhoyan, academic director at the University of Amsterdam, in his recent op-ed.

Riksrevisionen sågar statens insatser för cykeltrafik Ineffektivt, osammanhängande och bristande framkomlighet. Riksrevisionen skräder inte orden när de beskriver statens och myndigheternas arbete med cykeltrafiken. 
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"Ineffektivt, osammanhängande och bristande framkomlighet. Riksrevisionen skräder inte orden när de beskriver statens och myndigheternas arbete med cykeltrafiken."
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Presentation av granskningen om förutsättningarna för cykeltrafiken Riksdagen vill att förutsättningarna för cykeltrafiken förbättras. Regeringens och de ansvariga myndigheternas åtgärder för att nå riksdagens mål har dock inte varit effektiva och utvecklingen går åt ...

Hör revisionsdirektör Johannes Österström angående granskningen av statens obefintliga insatser vad gäller cykeltrafik. Här berättar han kort om Riksrevisionens viktigaste iakttagelser och rekommendationer.
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Feeling the urge to take back control from power-mad governments? Here’s an idea | George Monbiot We are told governing systems like ours are inevitable and irreplaceable, but real, participatory democracy is possible, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

What we see in the UK today, and around the world, is a truth many people are reluctant to recognise:

Centralised, hierarchical political systems are innately undemocratic, regardless of who is in charge. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Riksrevisionen: statens insatser för cykeltrafiken – ett fullständigt haveri - Cykelmagasinet Riksrevisionen bedömer att statens insatser inte har varit effektiva. De åtgärder som regeringen och myndigheterna genomfört i form av reglering, infrastruktur och övrig styrning har inte i någon subs...

Riksrevisionen kommer med svidande kritik vad gäller statens insatser för cykeltrafiken. En total sågning av regeringar, Trafikverket och Transportstyrelsen.
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"The common warning of countries affected by the Treaty of Munich, the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact and the Yalta Agreement" - Foreign Ministers of #Ukraine, #Estonia, #Czechia, #Latvia, #Lithuania, #Moldova and #Poland published a great piece in the New York Times.

Abandoned infrastructure one of the biggest polluters in the world – report Emissions from abandoned coalmines, oil and gas wells globally are larger than any single country except China, the US and Russia

“The methane emissions from abandoned fossil fuel infrastructure [...] would be the fourth biggest source in the world, behind China, the US and Russia.”

Rapid action is needed on methane - are O&G companies going to pay the $100bn cleanup costs?

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A really cute lil jumping spider, P. fimbriata. It has huge principal eyes, and this particular species looks very fuzzy. Image credit: (c) Jurgen Otto, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-ND),

This tiny spider has binoculars for eyes and a brain so efficient it puts supercomputers to shame.

What is the jumping spider Portia, and why is it so interesting to neuroscientists, roboticists, and practitioners of AI?

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Sand groomers v turtles: how wildlife is falling foul of the demand for Insta-perfect beaches From the turtle-nesting beaches of Italy to Greek island bird havens, across the Mediterranean campaigners are fighting to protect habitats from tourists seeking a picture-perfect holiday

🐢 Turtles vs. Tractors on the Med 🏖️
Beach grooming for Instagram tourism flattens nesting sites, harms coastal ecosystems & limits local access.🌍
A sober look at overtourism’s effects via The Guardian:
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#Overtourism #SeaTurtles #Mediterranean #Conservation🧪

“Make America Healthy Again”: The new Lysenkoism Trofim Lysenko was a Soviet scientist whose dogmatic science denialism led to mass famine when his ideas were applied to agriculture. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is a lot like Lysenko in his science denial

With RFK Jr. and the political ideology & pseudoscience of MAHA, eery US parallels to what happened with Lysenkoism in the USSR in terms of the Soviet Union's scientific prominence and the welfare of its citizenry... Nice read here by @gorskon.bsky.social
🛟🧪😷 health policy science for policy medsky