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#TuneTuesday (May 19)
Lewis Capaldi uses his great voice to put out a bunch of hits and I like that he doesn’t let stardom get into his head and takes his mental and physical health seriously. Among his songs I’ve heard, “Forget Me” is easily my most favorite with his raspy vocals adding angst into the chorus.

An invisible forever chemical rain is falling across the planet #environment

An invisible forever chemical rain is falling across the planet
A surprising study suggests that chemicals introduced to protect the ozone layer may have unintentionally created a growing global pollution problem. Researchers found that refrigerants and certain anesthetic gases have generated more than 335,000 tonnes of trifluoroacetic acid (TFA), a highly persistent "forever chemical," that has been deposited across Earth's surface since 2000. The pollutant is now showing up everywhere from rainwater to remote Arctic ice, and scientists expect levels to ke…

The Role of Propellant Type, Re-Entry, and Plume Reactions in the Atmospheric Impacts of Spaceflight: #Rocket Launches and Reentries Harm Earth’s Ozone Layer: https://eos.org/research-spotlights/rocket-launches-and-reentries-harm-earths-ozone-layer - solid-state fuels appear to be the fuel type with the most detrimental effects on the ozone.

For my weekend reading, I’ve started @…’s new book The Reverse Centaur’s Guide to Life After AI.
(I haven’t actually read any of his books before so I’m looking forward to finishing this and maybe picking up Enshittification next.)

The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI
AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERNational Indie Bestseller"[Doctorow] resembles the great rock critics of an earlier era, a high-tech Greil Marcus or even...

Call to Host the 2027 Post45 Graduate Symposium
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“… the density of whale remains reaches up to 759.5 individuals per square kilometre.” 😳
https://bsky.app/profile/endofthepier.bsky.social/post/3mnwzs4nmcc2a

Henry Gee (@endofthepier.bsky.social)
Move over, elephant graveyards - this whale necropolis extends 1,200km along the Indian Ocean seafloor at depths from 4,600-7,000m; has accumulated at least 476 fossil whale carcasses over the past 5m years; and has 5 active whale falls. Paper in @nature.com https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-026-10546-z

Radiative Forcing and Ozone Depletion of a Decade of Satellite #Megaconstellation Missions: https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2025EF007229 -> Satellite launch pollution rapidly accumulating in the upper atmosphere: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2026/may/satellite-launch-pollution-rapidly-accumulating-upper-atmosphere

My latest article for Inquirer.net is now up and I took a look at the English Wikipedia article on the recent 7.8M 2026 Mindanao earthquake.
https://technology.inquirer.net/147392/diving-deep-into-an-earthquake-wikipedia-article
(Inqui…

Diving deep into an earthquake Wikipedia article
At 7:37 a.m. of June 8, a 7.8-magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of Sarangani province. Ten minutes later, a Wikipedia editor with the username Dora the Axe-plorer created a

Quantifying the probability of committed AMOC collapse: #AMOC is nearing collapse, but the latest findings are certainly alarming. A looong recent talk - in German - about AMOC uncertainties and its tipping point: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hzFQgxsRabU

Because I have arrived today to Taiwan 🇹🇼 via China Airlines, I can now add their iconic plum blossom tailfin livery to my airlines flown graphic.¹ ✈️
¹ #avgeek