"Mt. Ibu erupted on Saturday evening, sending ash 4 kilometers high, as streaks of purple lightning flashed around its crater, according to information and images shared by Indonesia's volcanology agency.
"The board of trustees for the Cypress Fairbanks independent school district in Houston voted 6-1 earlier this month to redact certain chapters in #science textbooks, including those about #vaccines, human growth, diversity, and #ClimateChange."
Apparently, reality is too woke for these people.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/19/us-public-schools-texas-book-bans
A workers’ co-op rises from the remains of a Colorado mushroom farm
https://coloradosun.com/2024/05/19/undocumented-workers-sand-dunes-mushroom-co-op/
'Apple appears to be playing a high-stakes game of chicken with EU regulators, effectively saying, “Yes, you have 500 million citizens, but we have three trillion dollars, so why should we listen to you?”
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/05/big-tech-eu-drop-dead
"The example I like to give is back in the days of Roman numerals, basic multiplication was considered this incredibly technical concept that only official mathematicians could handle"
"But then once Arabic numerals came around, you could actually do arithmetic on paper, and we found that 7-year-olds can understand multiplication. It’s not that multiplication itself was difficult. It was just that the representation of numbers — the interface — was wrong"
Sand Dunes Mushroom Cooperative: "Now, some of those workers are taking charge of their futures with the help of a powerful coalition of nonprofit and government supporters as well as the Rocky Mountain Employee Ownership Center, which works to dismantle economic systems that benefit a small few at the expense of many, especially working-class communities and communities of color. " https://coloradosun.com/2024/05/19/undocumented-workers-sand-dunes-mushroom-co-op/
Derelict satellites pass within 1,000 kilometers of each other 1,000 times a year, and any collision would instantly double the amount of space debris. A space rush is filling up orbit with unregulated satellites, mostly from private companies, and we need better protections https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/there-is-too-much-trash-in-space/
The largest employer in Crook County, Oregon (Prineville) is a Meta data center. https://edcoinfo.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Crook-County-Top-Public-and-Private-Employers.pdf The population of the whole county is only around 25,000. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/18/oregon-idaho-border-vote
We have today published the findings and recommendations of our report into bullying and harassment in the fields of astronomy and geophysics.
Read more here: https://ras.ac.uk/news-and-press/news/urgent-change-needed-tackle-bullying-astronomy-and-geophysics
Hats off to the Royal Astronomical Society for tackling this issue. "Urgent action is needed to address an insidious and systemic #bullying problem within the world of #astronomy and #geophysics, a damning new report warns."
https://ras.ac.uk/news-and-press/news/urgent-change-needed-tackle-bullying-astronomy-and-geophysics
The most ridiculous thing about US notions of decorum, is that people are expected to be silent when Black women are attacked.🤷🏿♂️
If a Black woman is attacked and no one says anything, it's allowed to slide. But if a Black woman is attacked and people say anything in response, either calmly and politely like AOC did, or with an in-kind response like Crockett did, then all the "neutral" parties come pouring out of the woodwork, worried about "decorum."
Deeply unserious.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/greene-called-bleach-blonde-bad-174434071.html
US Flag Code https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-1996-title36/pdf/USCODE-1996-title36-chap10-sec176.pdf - flag should only be displayed upside-down as a “signal of distress in instances of extreme danger to life or property.” “Stop the Seal” used upside-down flags as symbol of protest. SCOTUS code says a justice should not publicly endorse/oppose a candidate for office, engage in “other political activity” & “avoid impropriety, appearance of impropriety in all activities.” Justices “should not engage in behavior that is harassing, abusive, prejudiced or biased"
Taking photos of exoplanets is important for two possible outcomes:
We see earth-like planets or life that inspires us to do space travel.
We don't see anything at all like Earth and sober up about this little oasis on the edge of a volcanic crater.
We are like the desert pupfish. That's why that strange little fish is so fascinating. It's a mirror.
A small welcoming pool ... where we might live for a long time... and around us nothing but death should it dry up and vanish.
Today, Texas Governor Greg Abbott pardoned a convicted murderer and virulent racist who, after writing text messages suggesting he would kill a protester and then claim self-defense, killed a protester and claimed self-defense. I wrote this a year ago:
https://www.findinggravity.net/p/republican-politicians-embrace-another
Ripples from Flovent's discontinuation is killing children with asthma - STAT
https://www.statnews.com/2024/05/16/asthma-medicine-discontinuation-flovent-children/
Tasty wine comes to our table thanks to workers like Juana. She has been working for 17 years and is very experienced. She is carefully selecting and thinning the leaves on the grapevines to allow for a better crop. #WeFeedYou
The Navajo Nation has reached a historic water rights settlement for all of its water rights claims in the State of Arizona, including to the Colorado River upper and lower basins, and the Little Colorado River Basin.
Through the settlement, the Nation will affirm and quantify its enforceable rights to water in Arizona
Retired Analytical Chemist
League of Women Voters -voting methods, election security
Board Member Colorado Citizens for Science