@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-03-30 10:35:52
Some schools in North Carolina, Virginia, Maryland, and Michigan are reevaluating classroom tech usage, including Chromebooks, amid student screen time concerns (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/29/t…
@cdarwin@c.im2026-03-29 14:44:58
At the height of the coronavirus pandemic, U.S. Surgeon General Jerome Adams stood with Trump at the White House,
serving as a prominent face of the president’s health agenda.
Now Adams has taken a far different stand: trying to stop Trump’s hew nominee for Surgeon General , Casey Means, from being confirmed as the nation’s top doctor.
Means’s nomination has stalled in the Senate, where several Republicans have questioned her stance on vaccines,
her pushes against th…
@hippyjo@c.im2026-04-28 17:38:55
Ukraine update from Giorgio Provincialli.
Most of the world doesn't realize the danger of Chernobyl, made worse with deliberate bombing of the protective shield in 2025 by the Russian horde.
Words fail to fully account for the heinous and fiendish deeds, but Giorgio explains very well the nature of horror, cruelty, and global terror.
Friend link bypasses the paywall, and kicks ignorance in the ass:
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.de2026-02-27 14:00:06
psi: Plant Photosystem I excitation energy transfer network (2020)
Weighted directed network of the light-harvesting Photosystem Ι (PSI) of the plant Pisum sativum. The nodes represent chromophores with different identities (i.e. chlorophyll a, chlorophyll b, β-carotene and derivates, lutein, violaxanthin), while edges represent FRET transfer between chromophores. The link directionality connecting nodes in the PSI network depends on the energy levels of the connected chromophores. The…
@memeorandum@universeodon.com2026-04-29 13:20:53
We're missing the economic fallout of the Iran war -- just like we did with Covid (Bryan Walsh/Vox)
https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/487190/iran-strait-of-hormuz-energy-oil-covid-coronavirus-stock-market
http://www.memeorandum.com/260429/p37#a260429p37
@fanf@mendeddrum.org2026-02-27 09:42:04
from my link log —
soft-serve: a self-hostable git ssh server for the command line.
https://github.com/charmbracelet/soft-serve
saved 2026-02-26 https://
@EarthOrgUK@mastodon.energy2026-04-27 03:23:03
Diarycast - Blue Skies PV High (2020-04-22) - Coronavirus-lockdown low-pollution blue skies maybe make for good PV generation! #podcast #coronavirus - https:/…
@servelan@newsie.social2026-04-27 02:33:06
Chernobyl's wildlife: The real story isn't the presence of radiation, it's the absence of humans
https://phys.org/news/2026-04-chernobyl-wildlife-real-story-isnt.html
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-04-30 02:21:04
How US schools' overreliance on YouTube for educational content encourages students to drift into endless video scrolling on school-issued devices (Shalini Ramachandran/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/us-news/education/youtube-…
@servelan@newsie.social2026-04-26 22:03:31
Ukraine opens special fund to restore Chernobyl shelter damaged in Russian drone strike - Euromaidan Press
https://euromaidanpress.com/2026/04/26/ukraine-opens-fund-to-restore-chernobyl-shelter/