A huge outbreak has made Ontario the measles centre of the western hemisphere
Three-quarters of cases are in unvaccinated children, and this week saw the first fatality:
a premature baby
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jun
‘It was our hope spot’: scientists heartbroken as pristine coral gardens hit by Western Australia’s worst bleaching event | Climate crisis | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jun/07/wa-coral-unprecedented-bleaching-event-ningaloo-reef
72 years later, this image still seems to resonate.
'In America - At This Restaurant Only One Person Is Served' (Krokodil # 4, 1953) by Yuliy Ganf. The solider at the table being well fed is labeled “war” and the neglected tables are labeled 'Education', 'Health Care', 'Libraries' and 'Art'.
#USpol
Meine Science-Fiction und Fantasy-Besprechungen für den Mai sind online. Mit For All Mankind, Nils Westerboers neuem Roman Lyneham (den ich sehr empfehle) und der Hidden-Seas-Reihe von A.M. Dellamonica.
https://blog.till-westermayer.de/index.ph…
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #AstralPlane
La Femme:
🎵 OÙ VA LE MONDE
#LaFemme
https://wiktoriaponiatowska.bandcamp.com/track/la-femme-o-va-le-monde-trap-remix
https://open.spotify.com/track/6M2ZYgZ2cdu5oCHGI8wamV
Source: Apple expands its Tata partnership in India by assigning it the iPhone and MacBook after-sales repair business, taking over from Taiwan's Wistron (Munsif Vengattil/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/media…
moreno_sheep: Bighorn sheep (1984)
Dominance interactions among a group of female bighorn sheep (Ovis canadensis) from the National Bison Range in western Montana USA, over a 27 month period ending in 1984. Edge weights represent the frequency of interaction. Metadata gives the sheep ages, roughly.
This network has 28 nodes and 250 edges.
Tags: Social, Animal, Weighted, Metadata
In West-Nordamerika ist der Einfluss des Menschen auf das #Feuerwetter (heißes, trockenes, windreiches Wetter) jetzt messbar.
Zwischen 81 % und 188 % des Anstiegs in den letzten 50 Jahren gehen auf menschgemachte #Klimaveränderungen zurück.
Temperatur,
When unvaccinated families present with measles at healthcare centres, doctors sometimes struggle to even discuss vaccination with the parents, Hussain said.
“It’s really hard to even approach the conversation.
I would ask: ‘How come you aren’t [vaccinated]?’
And they will say: ‘Oh, we’re exempt’
or ‘We’ve had this discussion before and we just don’t want to,’” she said