schlgr @schlgr@qoto.org

@joyannreid a picture of a former president as a superhero

John Muir is hailed as an environmental hero. He wrote & advocated to protect the “wilderness,” including Yosemite. But the land, Ahwahnee, was already named & loved by the Ahwahneechee people.

Muir wasn’t interested in the original inhabitants. He was a pioneer in the environmental movement, but he was also racist & friends with prominent eugenicists. His complicated legacy is just one of many examples in American #history when environmental protections were at odds with environmental justice.

Did you know Monopoly was invented by a woman named Elizabeth Magie in 1903?

Originally ‘The Landlord’s Game,’ it was designed as a protest against the big monopolists of her time like Carnegie & Rockefeller.

But it was Charles Darrow, an unemployed salesman, who eventually sold it to Parker Brothers after playing a version.

Parker Brothers credited Monopoly with saving their company. Magie died in 1948 without recognition. Darrow became very wealthy & his legend lives on. #history #women

Cute, right? But you’re looking at the fiercest predator in the ocean: The mantis shrimp.

While not technically a mantis or shrimp, this little crustacean evolved 400M years ago to have the fastest punch on Earth and some of the most complex eyes in the animal kingdom featuring 12 photoreceptors. (We have 3).

Most formidable, the mantis shrimp has a strike force powerful enough to instantly dismember prey… or smash through the glass in an aquarium.

More at https://www.sciencefocus.com/nature/mantis-shrimp/amp/

“We must not give up hope. Every single day that we live, we make some impact on the planet. We have a choice as to what kind of impact that is.”

- Jane Goodall https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/dr-jane-goodall-on-the-environment-my-greatest-hope-is-our-young-people #nature

This quote by Carl Sagan hangs in my office. #science

An narcissistic billionaire discovering that all the money in the world still can't buy him love feels like the Dickensian morality tale this holiday season needs.

"Twitter’s former head of trust and safety has fled his home due to an escalation in threats resulting from Elon Musk’s campaign of criticism against him, a person familiar with the matter told CNN on Monday." #news https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/12/tech/twitter-files-yoel-roth/index.html

here's a fun bit of trivia: more Mastodon posts were clustered to Techmeme's top stories tonight than ever before https://www.techmeme.com/221216/h0050

looks like we're getting a glance at what elon really thinks about "free speech"

Heute vor 40 Jahren kam E.T. in die deutschen Kinos. Vor 40 Jahren! Damals waren Ferngespräche noch richtig teuer.

https://yewtu.be/watch?v=2tK7AMgLvv0

Many know the #climatestripes, created by Professor Ed Hawkins at the University of Reading in 2018. They are a simple series of vertical coloured bars, showing the heating of the planet over 200 years.

Not everyone knows about the Global Bio Stripes. They show the decline of wildlife from 1970 to 2016 (based on data from Living Planet Index)

#sustainability #ESG #Biodiversity #ForNature

https://findingnature.org.uk/2022/08/10/biodiversity-stripes/

In #Berlin geht die #Coronawelle im #Abwasser schon wieder hoch.

#Corona #Coronavirus #COVID19 #LongCovid #PostCovid #MECFS #POTS #Lageso

https://data.lageso.de/lageso/corona/corona.html#abwasser