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Mt. Shasta today, for all who celebrate.

Could your attachment style affect your physical health? Research links the way we connect with others to how we handle anger, experience pain, and seek support. www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-...

Excellent advice.

The gardens of our mind…🪴

My chocolate cat might have melted. #caturday

My “I voted” sticker! And in case you were wondering… Yes, UFOs are frequently seen beaming up elk in Humboldt county.

Scientists say the Kelvin wave could be dangerous for people—and deadly for wildlife—as it travels up the California coast www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/...

“Nations have their own peculiar psychology, and in the same way they also have their own particular kind of psychopathology.” – Jung, Civilisation in Transition Every nation carries a collective psyche, prone to both creativity and collapse. Recognizing this is crucial for self-awareness.

Illuminating and heartbreaking

Scientific American: “Kelvin waves are common during El Niño years, and researchers expect more of them to hit California. Combined with record-breaking ocean temperatures that cause water to expand, scientists say, these wave could mean the West Coast sees sea levels rise more than two feet. “

Interesting, not surprising.

Otters eating fish for dinner!

New word & usage (for me): “…but it [AI] is a far cry from such thaumaturgy.”

Nothing to see here, just a bear strolling through our back yard in the middle of the day

Great article

Just stumbled across these terrific Jim Richardson photos of the annual spring prairie burning in Kansas's Flint Hills. Remarkable to think how native peoples set these enormous fires in the grasslands every year for centuries upon centuries. www.jimrichardsonphotography.com/index/G00002...

Who said intelligent life destroys itself before developing interstellar travel? Was that the Fermi Paradox? I am starting to believe this hypothesis…

Not good. “Last week, allegations leaked that OpenAI had broken an industry taboo with one of its powerful new models, GPT-6 Astra. The company is alleged to have trained the model with techniques that could undermine researchers’ ability to find evidence of the model’s deceiving them.”

Read it and weep.

The dilemma is real.

A study of 177 large mammals (weighing more than 10 kilograms) that went extinct between 1,000 and 132,000 years ago concludes that humans, not changes in climate, may have been the main factor in driving the animals over the brink. www.sciencenews.org/article/huma...

Contribute to research! What does consciousness mean to you? Researchers are conducting a worldwide study to better understand how people across disciplines and cultures define and think about consciousness. www.whatisconsciousness.io

Bless these scientists 💚 “We do not have any funding, and we have only one very old microscope. But we try to do the work, because we love science,” he said.”

Dolly’s passing seems even more poignant as we lose her unconditional kindness in a time dominated by the absolute unkindness of the President.

😬 “For example, Dr. Hoerger estimated that as of 8/8/26, every 1 in 49 people in California were infected with COVID, although wastewater levels have increased since then.”

Today is International Cat Day so we thought it would be the purr-fect opportunity to share some of the cats from the Ashmolean’s collection.

Current Friday mood

😑 “The State Department blamed a “team member who hastily altered the slide deck immediately before the presentation.” 😑 “Reuters authenticated it and said a watermark indicated it was generated by artificial intelligence.”

Apropos of nothing

“When domesticated cats live freely in the wild or are allowed to hunt, they are an invasive species.” (But not my floof)

Science is 🆒 Raspberry sugar apparently exists in a giant molecular cloud of gas and dust near the center of our galaxy.

Gift article worth the ⏰ 2 read “The concept of microbial decline did not surprise or puzzle her[curandera]. Of course something was dying inside us, she said. People were turning away from the sacred, and from one another. It did not take microscopes to see that.” www.nytimes.com/2026/07/08/m...

Threatening to kill the ppl you are trying to negotiate with…. MUST.BE.REMOVED. “You close it and you won’t have a country,” Trump said he told Iranian officials about the critical waterway. “You won’t even make it back to your f**king country.”

“[Hegseth] described the flu vaccine requirement as “absurd, overreaching” mandate that had served to “weaken our warfighting capabilities.” “In the aftermath of the outbreak, the Air Force issued an exception to the voluntary vaccine policy, requiring that all recruits at Lackland get flu shots.”

“Cats help you only when there’s something in it for them, per new research that surprises no one.”

This is just so horrible on so many levels. Call your reps.

😮! A woman in her 80s with advanced Alzheimer’s could barely speak, had flat affect, was incontinent, & could not walk. After taking a high dose of psilocybin, she initially went into a sleep-like state and then woke up 19 hours later able to speak in full sentences, sharing detailed memories.

Binge LIFE UNEARTHED on PBS, Apple TV and Amazon Prime Video. www.pbs.org/show/life-un...

“Donald Trump frequently demonstrates a level of malignancy that still manages to shock. He doesn’t try to hide it, but unfortunately, the mainstream media covers his disordered thinking as a colorful “quirk” — Trump being Trump — rather than a serious, escalating threat to the nation.”

If you didn’t know better, you might think this is an intelligent cat. I know better.