Ingo Schlupp @ISchlupp@qoto.org

The last woolly mammoths survived on a remote island till 4000 years ago, wracked for millennia by genetic disorders. Here's my story on what they can tell us about saving endangered species today. Gift link: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/27/science/mammoth-genes-wrangel.html?unlocked_article_code=1.200.-bER.eni-GLQYwkBz&smid=url-share

I wrote about people in Ethiopia who lived through a climate disaster 74,000 years ago, thanks to resilience and technological versatility. Some scientists think that they are the key to understanding how modern humans finally expanded out of Africa and survived on other continents permanently. Gift link: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/20/science/early-humans-arrowheads-volcano.html?ugrp=m&unlocked_article_code=1.eE0.iVZQ.hPHzM5P2M0Sx&smid=url-share

Boy, reading this, the only thing missing is the spittle and, you know, that hand salute.

In 2016 Trump invited Russia to hack his opponent’s emails. In 2024, he invited Russia to do “whatever they hell they want" in Europe. Trump is a dangerous stooge for Putin. He shouldn’t be let anywhere near the Oval Office again.

A gallery of fireflies.

#Insects #Photography #Fireflies

https://www.alexanderwild.com/Insects/Fireflies/

There were two domestic, right-wing terrorist attacks in Texas this weekend, and we are not talking enough about how the Republican Party has intentionally seeded this bloodshed.

#Texas #Fascism

From 1978 to 2021, CEO pay grew by 1,460% while the typical worker's pay rose just 18%.

This explosion in CEO pay relative to the pay of average workers isn’t because CEOs have become so much more valuable than before.

They've just gamed the system to line their pockets.

Gifts to Supreme Court justices shouldn’t just be “disclosed.” They should be banned, outright. How is that not painfully obvious?

Florida surgeon general altered key findings in study on Covid-19 vaccine safety https://www.politico.com/news/2023/04/24/florida-surgeon-general-covid-vaccine-00093510?cid=post

“We are now at ‘code red’ on planet Earth. Humanity is unequivocally facing a climate emergency.” https://academic.oup.com/bioscience/article/72/12/1149/6764747

Forced birth in a country with:

—No universal healthcare
—No universal childcare
—No paid family & medical leave
—One of the highest rates of maternal mortality among rich nations

This isn't about "life." It's about control.

#Climate activist Bill McKibben argued that Donald Trump’s arrest, which dominated headlines the day the Nature study came out, was far less remarkable as news goes. “Him ending up in trouble for tax evasion to cover up an affair with a porn star seems unlikely only in its details,” McKibben wrote, while the Antarctic story was “one of the most important installments in the most important saga of our time, the rapid decline of the planet’s physical health.”

https://fair.org/home/projected-collapse-of-crucial-antarctic-current-met-with-media-silence/

#Media

A political party devoid of new ideas starts stripping people of their rights — voting, reproductive, etc. — to assert their dominance and control.

It’s a road to authoritarianism. Be warned.

Our Editor in Chief @gabrielarana and @thenation's John Nichols is live NOW on the Your Call #Media Roundtable on KALW in the Bay Area, talking about how we saved the Texas Observer: https://www.kalw.org/show/your-call/2023-03-31/texas-observer-will-remain-open-after-staff-raises-over-300k

#journalism #TexasNeedsAnObserver #nonprofit #Texas

Good morning. Our doors would be shutting today and all of us would be out of work, if 1000s of people hadn't come together to say that #TexasNeedsAnObserver.

We are so grateful to all of you on this #Newstodon Friday!

You know how the Republicans are cutting the costs of social security and Medicare? They're killing off the elderly.

US life expectancy plummeted.

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2023/03/25/1164819944/live-free-and-die-the-sad-state-of-u-s-life-expectancy?s=09

Oil, gas, and coal are fossil fuels.
Groundwater is fossil water.
Both are non-renewable when consumed faster than they are replenished.
Peak limits mean they must be replaced by renewable resources.
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1004812107

Haven’t signed up for Evolution 2023 yet? Now’s the time! Evolution is, after all, the study of change (with apologies to Walter White). In person from June 21-25 in Albuquerque, NM, and virtually from June 2-3, wherever you are. https://www.evolutionmeetings.org/registration.html

Great illustration of how astroturf groups and unchecked opinion pieces create doubt in science. Sound familiar?

https://jensorensen.com/2014/03/17/corporate-cosmos/