Gaythia Weis @Gaythia@qoto.org

Share this with teenagers and young adults in your life who may be facing censored libraries at school and in many communities.

The Seattle public library is proving free digital library cards to teens and young adults nationwide!

#Libraries #Books #Oklahoma #Montana #Mississippi #Florida #Texas

Books Unbanned | The Seattle Public Library
https://www.spl.org/programs-and-services/teens/books-unbanned

Isn’t it incredible to live on the same planet where this magnificent, ancient shark once grew up to 65 ft (20m)? 🦈

The massive megalodon swam Earth’s ocean for millions of years.

Funny how many folks mistakenly believe humans are some kind of pinnacle of #evolution. We literally just arrived a few hundred thousand years ago. #science #history

In the internment camps we learned valuable skills! Like how not to get shot for trying to escape, when we just running to use the public latrine on a freezing cold night.

Women in states with abortion bans are nearly three times more likely to die during pregnancy, childbirth or soon after giving birth, according to a report from the Gender Equity Policy Institute shared first with Axios.

https://t.co/ftWOFHLnH8

“Come on — adults know what slavery really involved. It involved rape. It involved torture. It involved taking a baby from their mother. It involved some of the worst examples of depriving people of humanity in our world. How is it that anyone could suggest that in the midst of these atrocities, that there was any benefit to being subjected to this level of dehumanization?”

Vice President Kamala Harris

We don’t get to hear a lot about marine heat waves and how they affect ecosystem function.

Right now, as tourists enjoy the bathing season, the Mediterranean Sea is on its way to reaching highest temperature ever recorded.
#marineheatwaves #climatechange

https://www.theolivepress.es/spain-news/2023/07/19/mediterranean-sea-on-its-way-to-reach-its-highest-temperature-ever-recorded/

Immigrant workers who maintain Aspen’s lavish playground strive for lives of their own https://coloradosun.com/2023/07/22/colorado-aspen-immigration-life/?utm_content=buffer6ddfb&utm_medium=social&utm_source=Mastodon&utm_campaign=buffer

#USPolitics #ReproductiveRights

> Casiano wept and vomited on the stand as she described the experience, including holding Halo in her arms and watching her slowly die, which occurred four hours after the birth. "She was gasping for air," Casiano said. "I just kept telling myself and my baby that I'm so sorry that this has happened to you. I felt so bad. She had no mercy. There was no mercy there for her."

Texas is not pro-life. They are only pro-pain.

https://arstechnica.com/health/2023/07/infant-deaths-surge-in-texas-after-abortion-ban/

I’ve said this numerous times but many of you REFUSE to acknowledge this TRUTH…”slavery” is NOT an idea of the past because there’re folx TODAY who’d eagerly leverage systems, institutions, and policies to reinstitute slavery as the LAW OF THE LAND

Amazing story about a deep sea octopus nursery off Vancouver Island in Hesquiat Territory.
““It's a beautiful deep-sea octopus, very charismatic, purple, big black eyes,” said Du Preez. “[They] sit on their eggs, don't move, don't eat and just defend the eggs for a minimum of four and a half years.””

Then, like Salmon, they die.
#ocean #westcoast #firstnation #dfo
https://www.hashilthsa.com/news/2023-07-17/deep-sea-octopus-nursery-discovered-nuu-chah-nulth-waters

Tony Bennett was thrilled as a young G.I. In WWII Germany when he ran into a high school friend, also in uniform. Rabid, institutional racism turned their reunion into a horror show that he never forgot.
Gift link.

https://wapo.st/3O5smqR

A small anecdote in relation to a recent coffee conversation I had with @TaliaRinger (which she relates over at https://twitter.com/TaliaRinger/status/1681410191278080000 ): Yesterday I spoke with a children's book author who was interviewing me as part of a series she was writing on contemporary scientists. She freely admitted that she did not have great experiences with her math education at an under-resourced school and chose very early on to focus on writing instead. Nevertheless we had an excellent conversation about many mathematical topics that she was not previously familiar with, such as proof by contradiction, Cartesian coordinates, Mobius strips, or compressed sensing, all of which she found fascinating (and said she would read up on more of these topics herself after our interview). I posed to her the isoperimetric problem (using the classic story of Queen Dido from the Aeneid as the intro) and she correctly guessed the correct shape to maximize area enclosed by a loop (a circle), and instantly grasped the analogy between this problem and the familiar fact that inflated balloons are roughly spherical in shape. I am certain that had her path turned out differently, she could have attained far greater levels of mathematical education than she ended up receiving.

This is not to say that all humans have an identical capability for understanding mathematics, but I do strongly believe that that capability is often far higher than is actually manifested through one's education and development. Sometimes the key thing that is missing is a suitable cognitive framework that a given person needs to align mathematical concepts to their own particular mental strengths.

Rusty #Arctic rocks could help us understand #water on #Mars.

T-MARS researchers are on a hunt for Mars-like rocks high in the Arctic of #Canada. Like ancient Mars, the remote island in traditional Inuit territory is a cold spot that still allows for liquid water at times of the year.

https://www.space.com/mars-like-rocks-earth-arctic-expedition

Hottest summer of your life? or coldest summer of the rest of your life? Probably both!

Product testing by definition requires creative solutions to hard ethical dilemmas.

For example: how do you test a product claiming to be bear-proof without creating further harms for bears? The Grizzly & Wolf Discovery Center in Yellowstone tests products with bears that would otherwise need to be euthanized

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xn_O2li_jpk

FEMA Has So Far Paid Out Less Than 1% of What Congress Allocated for Victims of New Mexico Wildfire
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Congress gave FEMA $3.95B to compensate victims of the Hermits Peak-Calf Canyon Fire in northern New Mexico.

Seven months later, just $3M has been paid, and most hasn’t gone to households.

#NewMexico #Wildfire #FEMA #Fire #News #Congress #Southwest

https://www.propublica.org/article/fema-paid-out-less-than-one-percent-of-claims-new-mexico-wildfire?utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=mastodon-post