The combination of ignorance and arrogance exhibited by #47 really cries out for a portmanteau - #ignarrogance, perhaps?
Scientists decry Trump’s ‘blame game’ after he claims Canada ‘poisoning’ US air
The combination of ignorance and arrogance exhibited by #47 really cries out for a portmanteau - #ignarrogance, perhaps?
Scientists decry Trump’s ‘blame game’ after he claims Canada ‘poisoning’ US air
I'm looking forward to seeing this again sometime soon. (Yes, again. Yes, articles keep saying it's been "closed since 1922" but that's not entirely true. I went on a guided tour down there in the 1980s. It was one of those hidden-gem-of-DC things you could do if you knew how to ask — until someone spotted asbestos and the Park Service stopped letting the public go down there.)
"Great Barrier Reef microbiome mapped as researchers discover 500 bacterial species previously unknown to science"
#Australia #GreatBarrierReef #Coral
Unbeknownst to most people,
logging companies and the US Forest Service have been spraying massive amounts of herbicide in clear-cut and fire-ravaged forests of California
—and throughout the nation.
And not just any herbicide,
but glyphosate,
a potent and problematic weed killer best known by the brand name Roundup.
#TuneTuesday (May 26)
Billie Eilish and her brother Finneas are extraordinary musicians and their song “When the Party’s Over” is one of my favorite of theirs. The song sounds simple, but the multi-layered vocals and understated accompaniment serves to bring out the piece’s deep emotional story.
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #SundaySoul
The Shunters:
🎵 Since Morning
#TheShunters
Small vegetation greening up around Shindagin Hollow Rd in a section with an unusual number of snags
#photo #photography #landscape
Was this bizarre #disclaimer always in the #Waze release notes? I don’t remember seeing it before, and it sounds ominous.
Like, “if you’ve avoided updating so as not to install the Torment Nexus feature, please note this version definitely includes the Torment Nexus feature you didn’t want” ominous…
Two research papers describe how Google's Co-Scientist and nonprofit FutureHouse's AI tools can succeed at drug-retargeting tasks by forming hypotheses (John Timmer/Ars Technica)
https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/05/two-…