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A rush for critical minerals echoes oil extraction injustice as harms fall on world's most vulnerable, scientists warn https://phys.org/news/2026-04-critical-minerals-echoes-oil-injustice.html

A rush for critical minerals echoes oil extraction injustice as harms fall on world's most vulnerable, scientists warn
Mining critical minerals such as lithium and cobalt fuels the "green" energy and digital transitions essential to meeting climate goals. But building the technologies that enable a sustainable future is generating severe, hidden environmental and health crises that the world is failing to track or address, warns a new report by the United Nations University Institute for Water, Environment and Health (UNU-INWEH), known as the UN's Think Tank on Water.

Not surprising at all, but first time I'm seeing an example of reaction diffusion patterns in granite:
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:gl3xultyaxwitlx5r5qmlxvq/post/3miqqqfvyzs27

Mineralogical Society of America (@mineralsocamerica.bsky.social)
American Mineralogist: Myrmekite and antiperthite formation in deformed granite: Chemical and crystallographic constraints on formation mechanisms Yueting Song, Thomas A. Griffiths, Shanrong Zhao, and Rainer Abart https://doi.org/10.2138/am-2024-9715

Trump eyes his next DC renovation: The Lincoln Memorial (Aaron Pellish/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/06/04/trump-lincoln-memorial-renovation-00951100
http://www.memeorandum.com/260604/p113#a260604p113

"Black cockatoo species caught in the crosshairs of global race for minerals"
#Cockatoo #Birds #Animals

Black cockatoo species caught in the crosshairs of global race for minerals
Environmental organizations in southwest Australia have criticized the Australian government’s decision to grant the U.S. bauxite mining company Alcoa a national interest exemption, usually provided in cases of emergency, defense or national security, thereby authorizing the company to continue its operations despite years of unauthorized clearing in the country’s Northern Jarrah Forest. The Northern Jarrah […]

Unregulated markets maybe create significant threats to well-being in ways we are only just starting to recognize. How many other #ZoonoticDiseases are we going to learn about? (#WHO knows?)

Unregulated markets maybe create significant threats to well-being in ways we are only just starting to recognize. How many other #ZoonoticDiseases are we going to learn about? (#WHO knows?)

I was one of those students who had Dick Bacon as a nude model in my art classes at UWM…
https://shepherdexpress.com/culture/milwaukee-history/swimming-with-dick-bacon/

Swimming with Dick Bacon
“Dick Bacon would have loved his memorial service,” Milwaukee Journal Sentinel columnist Jim Stingl wrote in 2000. “Except for the fact that it was indoors and everyone was clothed.”

Lincoln Memorial reflecting pool vandalized with '86 47' graffiti amid Trump's makeover and Comey indictment (Jasmine Fernšndez/The Independent)
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-lincoln-memorial-reflecting-pool-vandalism-b2969230.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260502/p43#a260502p43

Quotes about slavery, immigrants, and war memorials slated for removal from Bunker Hill historic site (Tonya Alanez/The Boston Globe)
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2026/06/04/metro/bunker-hill-monument-quotes-removed-censorship/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260605/p58#a260605p58

'Proactively fall in line:' Holocaust Memorial Museum quietly changed content after Trump returned to office (Irie Sentner/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/04/05/trump-holocaust-museum-00859274
http://www.memeorandum.com/260405/p19#a260405p19