🏎️ Tiny cars, big stakes: These remote control racers aren't hobbyists. They're pros
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-07-07/professional-radio-control-racers-california-race
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Economics and politics may have contributed to the cancelation of Colbert's show, but mainstream liberal comedy shows are fading amid the death of mass culture (Nate Silver/Silver Bulletin)
https://www.natesilver.net/p/why-colbert-got-canceled
Effects of hadronic reinteraction on jet fragmentation from small to large systems
Hendrik Roch (JETSCAPE Collaboration), Aaron Angerami (JETSCAPE Collaboration), Ritu Arora (JETSCAPE Collaboration), Steffen Bass (JETSCAPE Collaboration), Yi Chen (JETSCAPE Collaboration), Ritoban Datta (JETSCAPE Collaboration), Lipei Du (JETSCAPE Collaboration), Raymond Ehlers (JETSCAPE Collaboration), Hannah Elfner (JETSCAPE Collaboration), Rainer J. Fries (JETSCAPE Collaboration), Charles Gale (JETSC…
Alpine County, perched like an emerald on the crest of the Sierra Nevada, is as rural as rural California gets.
Vast distance separates its sparse settlements, tucked among forests and crystalline streams. The views, unobstructed by city clutter, go on forever.
There is no hospital,
no supermarket, fast-food restaurant or shopping mall anywhere in its 743 square miles.
The only stoplight is temporary,
put in place for a bridge repair.
And yet if all goes …
A lot to celebrate in the lab at the end of the school year — students at commencement, and a campus award for our paper presenting a reconstruction of Joshua tree flowering activity since the early 20th century
https://lab.jbyoder.org/2025/05/22/commence…
After graduating with an engineering degree from #MIT, current US Senator, and son of #Mexican immigrants, #AlexPadilla recalls being lured into politics in 1990s in wake of
🚯 Postcard from California: Plastics ‘recycling’ – out of sight, out of mind
https://www.thenewlede.org/2025/07/postcard-from-california-plastics-recycling-out-of-sight-out-of-mind/
Sources: CBS decided to end The Late Show on June 27, before the 60 Minutes settlement, but Colbert's agent only informed him after he taped the July 16 episode (Lesley Goldberg/The Ankler)
https://theankler.com/p/on-vacation-colbert-didnt-know-late
Six people have died and two others were missing
after a boat capsized Saturday on California’s Lake Tahoe.
A 27ft-long boat overturned in the afternoon after apparently being hit by a large swell near DL Bliss State Park, according to the Coast Guard.
Lake Tahoe and its surrounding wilderness region is a hugely popular spot with tourists.
Emergency services responded to the incident and reported six people dead, two more missing, and took two survivors to a local hospi…