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Long-term study finds widespread lithium in drinking water across communities in the western U.S. https://phys.org/news/2026-07-term-widespread-lithium-communities-western.html

Long-term study finds widespread lithium in drinking water across communities in the western U.S.
Lithium in drinking water is a widespread and persistent source of human exposure across Tribal communities in the Western United States, according to a new study from Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health. The findings document substantial regional variation in exposure and provide some of the strongest evidence to date that household drinking water is a major contributor to lithium levels measured in the body.

The human rights organisation
Survival International estimates there are 196 Indigenous communities living like the Sentinelese, in voluntary isolation.
Most are in South America, in the Amazon rainforest and the Gran Chaco region of Paraguay and Bolivia,
with a few more across Indonesia, West Papua and elsewhere in India’s Andaman and Nicobar Islands.
Though fundamentally diverse, these communities have all chosen to reject outsiders and the industrialised world, a…

‘This is colonialism for clicks’: the influencers attempting to meet and film the world’s most isolated tribes
A new breed of adventurer is chasing internet fame by targeting uncontacted peoples. Critics say they are risking the wellbeing of these remote communities – and their own lives

Squeezed one last optimization in after the v0.2-rc1 release that should land in the final v0.2.
Filters now return a bitmask of flags that include the ability to advertise whether they can be appended to an existing command buffer (i.e. they are entirely or primarily GPU based and do not call begin() on the command buffer), and whether they can be appended to (primarily GPU based, and record into the command buffer but do not submit it).
The scheduler now tries to identify as ma…

Employers With Blanket Return-to-Office Policies Risk Litigation
https://news.bloomberglaw.com/legal-exchange-insights-and-commentary/employers-with-blanket-return-to-office-policies-risk-litigation

Employers With Blanket Return-to-Office Policies Risk Litigation
Opinion: A recent Third Circuit decision exposes the flimsy justification behind nearly every blanket return-to-office mandate issued since the Covid-19 pandemic ended, and it should terrify any employer still relying on one.

"Le Nobel de médecine 2026 récompense l’Américain Karl Deisseroth et les Allemands Peter Hegemann et Georg Nagel pour leurs travaux sur les canaux ioniques"
Le trio a découvert une méthode qui permet de montrer comment les cellules nerveuses façonnent les souvenirs, les émotions et les comportements dans le cerveau
Description peu réaliste du Monde , NON on ne sait toujours pas comment les neurones "façonnent" les émotions, pour ce qui est des souven…

Le Nobel de médecine 2026 récompense l’Américain Karl Deisseroth et les Allemands Peter Hegemann et Georg Nagel pour leurs travaux sur les canaux ioniques
Le trio a découvert une méthode qui permet de montrer comment les cellules nerveuses façonnent les souvenirs, les émotions et les comportements dans le cerveau.

Pointless vengeance solving no problem:
Tennessee is about to execute its first woman since 1819. Her case raises troubling questions
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/sep/04/tennessee-executes-first…

Tennessee is about to execute its first woman since 1819. Her case raises troubling questions
Christa Pike’s planned execution is emblematic of America’s broken death penalty system

Pointless vengeance solving no problem:
Tennessee is about to execute its first woman since 1819. Her case raises troubling questions
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/sep/04/tennessee-executes-first…

Tennessee is about to execute its first woman since 1819. Her case raises troubling questions
Christa Pike’s planned execution is emblematic of America’s broken death penalty system

We go to Danbury, Connecticut,
where residents held a mass demonstration this week to protest recent immigration arrests
and to support the city’s immigrant community.
Danbury, like many other communities across the United States,
has been the target of a spike in immigration enforcement under the Trump administration,
including local reports of ICE arresting parents at school bus stops.
“We really have been describing it as the administration terrorizing …

“Terrorizing Our City”: ICE Targets Immigrants in Danbury, CT, Including at School Bus Stops
We go to Danbury, Connecticut, where residents held a mass demonstration this week to protest recent immigration arrests and to support the city’s immigrant community. Danbury, like many other communities across the United States, has been the target of a spike in immigration enforcement under the Trump administration, including local reports of ICE arresting parents at school bus stops. “We really have been describing it as the administration terrorizing our city, because that is what it f…

Such is Trump’s narcissism that he would see a Democratic victory as proof that he’s indispensable
– meanwhile, his every decision spells calamity for voters
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/sep/04/d…

How much does Donald Trump care about winning the midterms? Apparently, not much at all
Such is the US president’s narcissism that he would see a Democratic victory as proof that he’s indispensable – meanwhile, his every decision spells calamity for voters, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland