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Around 13,000 years ago,
as the world was emerging from the grip of the last ice age,
much of the North Atlantic region plunged back into near-glacial conditions.
Sea ice expanded across the North Atlantic,
reaching as far south as the Shetland Islands.
Glaciers began to regrow in the Scottish Highlands,
while winter temperatures across Europe and North America plummeted.
⭐️Yet off the coast of Atlantic Canada, the ocean did the opposite.
In ou…

The Gulf Stream suddenly moved north during an ancient cold snap – and it’s a warning for our future
New evidence shows a major climate shift ‘within a lifetime’ 13,000 years ago.

AI film startups are setting up studios in Hollywood, using US and Chinese AI models while touting lower production costs and a way around traditional financing (Robert Booth/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/aug/16/directors-embracing-ai-fil…

‘I see the incredible promise’: on set of an AI film shoot as new studios embrace controversial tech
Amid fears for jobs, some film-makers say AI could enable them to bypass studio giants and take more creative risks

For The First Time, Astronomers Detect An Atmosphere Around A Rocky 'Habitable Zone' Planet : ScienceAlert https://www.sciencealert.com/for-the-first-time-astronomers-have-detected-an-atmosphere-around-a-ro…

AI film startups are setting up studios in Hollywood, using US and Chinese AI models while touting lower production costs and a way around traditional financing (Robert Booth/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/aug/16/directors-embracing-ai-fil…

‘I see the incredible promise’: on set of an AI film shoot as new studios embrace controversial tech
Amid fears for jobs, some film-makers say AI could enable them to bypass studio giants and take more creative risks

NFL news roundup: Latest league updates from Sunday, Aug. 16 https://www.nfl.com/news/nfl-news-roundup-latest-league-updates-from-sunday-aug-16

Build a #bannedBook library #server on a WiFi #smartLightbulb, that you can leave around anywhere as a dead drop. I personally don’t understand any of the tech but I’m sure someone around here does, and…

A group of six immigration rights activists and local political figures known as
"The Broadview Six" are calling on a judge to appoint a special counsel to investigate the Justice Department for criminal contempt.
They
According to the Chicago Sun Times federal courts reporter Jon Seidel, the lawyer for the six made the request to U.S. District Judge April Perry, a former federal prosecutor herself.
The six were targeted as part of the arrests around the im…

Activists targeted by DOJ ask judge for special counsel to investigate prosecutors
A group of six immigration rights activists and local political figures known as "The Broadview Six" are calling on a judge to appoint a special counsel to investigate the Justice Department for criminal contempt. According to the Chicago Sun Times federal courts reporter Jon Seidel, the lawyer for ...

Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev says the company is reducing its full-time workforce by ~10%, or around 290 employees, as part of "flattening" its org structure (Helen Partz/Cointelegraph)
https://cointelegraph.com/news/robinhood-cuts-workforce-tenev-strong-b…

Robinhood Cuts Workforce as Tenev Says Business Is Stronger Than Ever
Robinhood is cutting about 10% of staff from roughly 2,900 employees while the company cites record trading volumes in June despite weak Q1 results.

As the midterm elections near, a slew of extremist candidates
— selected by GOP primary voters at Donald Trump’s urging over the past few months to represent their party in the general election
— are aiming to woo the public in marquis races around the country.
Should they get elected, they will push the U.S. political system even further to the right,
mainstreaming views that until recently would have been considered far outside of the boundaries of the acceptable.

Even as Trump Flounders in the Polls, GOP Candidates Keep Running Further Right
Since Trump’s reelection, the GOP has increasingly embraced overtly white nationalist and conspiracist candidates.

Three large portions of the Filchner Ice Shelf
—dubbed A22, A23, and A24
—calved into the Weddell Sea off of Antarctica in 1986.
For National Geographic, Chris Heath documents the life and death of an iceberg called A23a,
known at one time as the largest iceberg in the world.
Born when it broke off A23 in 1991,
it was “at least 44 nautical miles long, 40 nautical miles wide, and somewhere close to 2,000 square miles in area, or roughly the size of Bali.”