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In a small part of Alexander Island,
on the west coast of the Antarctic Peninsula,
ancient fossil trees that date back
100 million years can be found,
with logs up to seven metres high
still found standing upright.
The roots of these coniferous trees are still attached to the carbonaceous soil deposits today.
Their root systems indicate that these trees thrived on the rich plains alongside large meandering rivers.
In fact, the area was domina…

The Ancient Fossil Forests of Antarctica
Over a hundred years ago, Robert Falcon Scott’s expedition to Antarctica discovered fossils of plants on the Beardmore Glacier, less than 500 km (310 miles) from the South Pole. Edward Wilson, who was the expedition’s chief scientist, recorded the findings in his diary, stating that “most of the bigger leaves were like beech leaves in shape and venation.”

"Empty North Sea oil fields could store enough green hydrogen to power the country for seven years"
#NorthSea #Hydrogen #Energy

Empty North Sea oil fields could store enough green hydrogen to power the country for seven years
Green hydrogen production is, in effect, a way of bottling renewable energy.

Memo: NBC News Chief Digital Officer Chris Berend is leaving NBCUniversal after seven years and will be replaced by Technology EVP Kyri Sarantakos on July 3 (JD Knapp/The Wrap)
https://www.thewrap.com/media-platforms/journalism/nbc-news-c…

NBC News Chief Digital Officer Chris Berend Exits After 7 Years
NBC News' Chief Digital Officer Chris Berend is exiting NBCUniversal after seven years with the company, TheWrap has learned.

Sources: the FTC and 20 state AGs plan to sue Amazon for allegedly making tens of billions over seven years by manipulating ad prices on its retail platform (Dave Michaels/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ftc-to-file-lawsuit-…

Ridiculous. Neglect and abuse? #FreeRangeKids #Virginia
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Virginia mom gets 6-month suspended jail sentence for letting 5-year-old walk to the pond
The government also placed Karyann Parkinson on its child abuse and neglect registry, where she will remain for seven years.

The modern legal landscape of gun legislation begins with
District of Columbia v. Heller in 2008,
when the Supreme Court ruled 5–4 that the Second Amendment protects an individual right to keep and bear arms for self-defense
— overturning nearly two centuries of jurisprudence that had centered the right on the organized militia.
Fourteen years later,
New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Bruen raised the stakes further,
instructing courts to ev…

Twenty-Seven Words, 400,000,000 Guns
Inside the legal crossfire over the Second Amendment

It's true.
We get the news in Manchester too!
Andy Burnham 'acutely conscious' that UK has had seven PMs over past 10 years | ITV News
https://www.itv.com/news/2026-07-19/andy-b

Innolight, China's leading maker of optical transceivers, closes 2% below its Hong Kong IPO price after raising ~$6.8B, the city's biggest listing since 2019 (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-07-29/inn…

Sources: the FTC and 20 state AGs plan to sue Amazon for allegedly making tens of billions over seven years by manipulating ad prices on its retail platform (Dave Michaels/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ftc-to-file-lawsu…

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has rejoined the Democratic Socialists of America
after not renewing her membership for seven years, amid speculation that she might run for president in 2028.
The 36-year-old New York representative and one of the country’s most prominent democratic socialists
renewed her membership in the group’s national organization after reports emerged earlier this month that it had lapsed.
Ocasio-Cortez initially joined the group in 2018

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez rejoins DSA after membership lapse of seven years
Then House candidate joined Democratic Socialists of America in 2018 but didn’t renew membership after a year

Cowboys’ Dak Prescott Turns Heads With Bold Wardrobe Choice https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/dak-prescott-super-bowl-t-shirt/

from my link log —
The maturing of QUIC.
https://www.fastly.com/blog/maturing-of-quic
saved 2019-11-14 https://dotat.at/:/CW74X.htm…

The Maturing of QUIC | Fastly
QUIC, the new internet transport protocol set to replace TCP, was comprehensively built by tech industry leaders over nearly seven years. Go behind the scenes to see how QUIC evolved from a lofty experiment to a standard set to modernize the internet.

"Kazakhstan releases first tiger into the wild in 70 years"
#Kazakhstan #Tiger #Animals

Kazakhstan releases first tiger into the wild in 70 years
Kazakhstan has released its first tiger into the wild more than seven decades since the last confirmed sighting of the big cat in the country. On July 31, 2026, an adult female Amur tiger called Umit, which means “hope” in Kazakh, leapt from her cage on the back of a pickup truck, as she was […]

jeeze, it's been over seven years since i've visited chicago - too long. really happy to be back! :)

O.J. Brigance, Ravens senior adviser to player development, dies after long battle with ALS https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7508592/2026/08/17/oj-brigance-dies-als-ravens/

Elio, which is developing a new type of image sensor designed for AI rather than human vision, raised a $21M Series A led by Innovation Endeavors and Xora (Meir Orbach/CTech)
https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/rkhattyhzl

Former Meta AR/VR executives raise $21 million to build sensors for the AI era
Elio's founders, Nadav Grossinger and Nitay Romano, spent seven years developing physical sensing systems at Meta. Now they are betting that artificial intelligence needs a fundamentally different way to see the world. 

Exterior of the Corn Palace, Mitchell, South Dakota, 2026. The design is remade yearly, using corn cobs of different colors, cut in half and attached to the façade, along with native grasses. 1/2

Will Grier to join Cowboys coaching staff as offensive assistant https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/will-grier-to-join-cowboys-coaching-staff-as-offensive-assistant

A former U.S. Marine reservist and seven others were sentenced Tuesday to decades in prison over a shooting last year that wounded a police officer during a demonstration at a Texas immigration detention center.
Prosecutors called the crime an act of terrorism and said the eight were linked to a leftist militant group, antifa.
The defendants’ attorneys denied any antifa ties and family members expressed shock and anger over the stiff sentences.
Benjamin Song, the Marine reser…

8 convicted in Prairieland shooting and protest are sentenced to decades in federal prison
Eight protesters accused by the Justice Department of having ties to antifa have been sentenced to decades in federal prison over a shooting outside a Texas immigration detention center. A police officer was wounded in the July 4 shooting outside the Prairieland Detention Center near Dallas. A former U.S. Marine Corps reservist convicted of attempted murder in the shooting was sentenced Tuesday to 100 years in prison, which is the maximum punishment. U.S. District Judge Reed O’Connor, one of …

Sources describe Huawei's efforts to rebuild its chip business seven years after the US cut Huawei off from advanced chips, as it bets on logic-stacking tech (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/234c9aeb-33aa-469e-844d-f721e81296cf

Will Grier to join Cowboys coaching staff as offensive assistant https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/will-grier-to-join-cowboys-coaching-staff-as-offensive-assistant

The Colorado River, a critical water lifeline for seven states, has shrunk dramatically.
And the nation’s largest reservoirs, Lake Mead and Lake Powell, have dropped to their lowest levels on record.
In an effort to prevent the reservoirs from reaching critically low levels,
the Trump administration has released a plan that orders substantial water cutbacks in California, Arizona and Nevada over the next two years
and outlines possible larger cuts if deemed necessary…

As Colorado River shrinks, the Trump administration orders water cuts
The Trump administration has released a detailed water-saving plan for the Colorado River, where reservoirs have been dropping dramatically.

Sources describe Huawei's efforts to rebuild its chip business seven years after the US cut Huawei off from advanced chips, as it bets on logic-stacking tech (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/234c9aeb-33aa-469e-844d-f721e81296cf

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez rejoins DSA after membership lapse of seven years (Maya Yang/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/26/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-rejoins-dsa
http://www.memeorandum.com/260826/p146#a260826p146

National parks are deteriorating. There’s a fix Congress isn’t making.
The national park system faces a maintenance backlog of $24 billion in crumbling roads, aging water systems, washed-out trails and dilapidated visitor facilities.
That is more than seven times the National Park Service’s annual budget.

Last month, committees in both the House and Senate advanced bipartisan bills to dedicate roughly $1.3 billion annually for park maintenance over the next five years. …

America’s national parks are falling apart. Congress can fix them.
Legislators should fund routine maintenance to prevent bigger problems.

Source: Nvidia is marketing its first corporate bond sale since 2021, seeking to raise $20B across seven tranches with maturities ranging from two to 30 years (Brian W Smith/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026…

NFL Insider Suggests Jerry Jones, Cowboys Could Pick Controversial Texas-born QB https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/brendan-sorsby-jerry-jones-cowboys/

AI made it easy to start work.
It did not make it easy to finish it.
Daily Pull Request contexts per developer are up 67.4%.
Work restarts, tasks that return to in-progress after moving to another stage, are up 13.8%.
26% more in-progress tasks show no activity for seven or more days:
i.e. work was started, claimed capacity, and then stalled.
The developer productivity picture that AI tools present at the individual level is one of acceleration.
The w…

The AI Engineering Report 2026: The AI Acceleration Whiplash - Ten Takeaways
What two years of telemetry data from 22,000 developers reveals about AI's real impact on developer productivity, code quality, and business risk in 2026.