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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.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
MEMORIALS:
🎵 Dropped Down the Well
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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

'Nazi heaven': Inside Miami campus Republicans' racist group chat (Claire Heddles/Miami Herald)
https://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics-government/article314928484.html?giftCode=e112c9055466aac4b23e0014dec7577a7c048c1435f2058d1ad02a3b01623558
http://www.memeorandum.com/260304/p156#a260304p156

Happening now in North Minneapolis somewhere just southwest of 2nd Ave N and Van White Memorial Boulevard, police ordering more people with nowhere to go to leave otherwise-unused land by 1pm today. The City of Minneapolis has been using violence (physical force or the threat of physical force) to shove unhoused people around constantly since the destruction of community-supported encampments, and so long as this is allowed, the human right to housing will never be fulfilled. See you there…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #DriveTime
MEMORIALS:
🎵 Dropped Down the Well
#MEMORIALS
https://memorialsmusic.bandcamp.com/track/dropped-down-the-well
https://open.spotify.com/track/0HZk6tx9agpLwiknkqTW7f

🪨 Diversifying lithium-rich mineral sources with petalite
#lithium

Diversifying lithium-rich mineral sources with petalite
Demand for lithium is surging, as the world transitions to renewable energy and adopts new technologies. Lithium-ion batteries play a central role in this shift, powering everything from cars to portable electronics. To meet the increasing demand, companies are recycling lithium from old batteries and also looking for new sources and better ways to extract it. While recycling supports a circular economy, experts agree that recycled lithium alone will not meet projected future needs.

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Assistant Professor in Earth materials & mineral science
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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

Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool vandalized with '86 47' graffiti after Trump changes (David Zimmermann/Washington Examiner)
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/white-house/4551338/lincoln-memorial-reflecting-pool-8647/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260501/p87#a260501p87