“…the most comprehensive study to date has yielded a distressingly large number. Some 18.7 million bats died from wind turbines in the United States between 1981 and 2024, it estimates…by 2021, the boom in wind farms had pushed the toll to 1.5 million bats annually.”
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Retired entomologist (MS Purdue 1967), but interested in just about all scientific disciplines. Vietnam veteran -Need to digitize a lot of 35mm slides. Served in US Army 1967-88 Born and raised in North Dakota Started caving in 1965; had to stop in 2025
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In my quest to learn something every day, I came across an article on the Hemipteran family Plokiophilidae – tiny bugs that appear to complete their life cycle on spider webs.
“Mexico has become a showroom for the electric cars you can’t buy in the United States. Amid aging fleets of American Chevys and Fords is a growing stream of sleek new vehicles from Chinese EV brands you’ve never heard of, such as Zeekr, JAC and BYD.”
“Mexico has become a showroom for the electric cars you can’t buy in the United States. Amid aging fleets of American Chevys and Fords is a growing stream of sleek new vehicles from Chinese EV brands you’ve never heard of, such as Zeekr, JAC and BYD.”
“Mexico has become a showroom for the electric cars you can’t buy in the United States. Amid aging fleets of American Chevys and Fords is a growing stream of sleek new vehicles from Chinese EV brands you’ve never heard of, such as Zeekr, JAC and BYD.”
Chinese branded vehicles have gone from less than 1 percent to 15 percent market share in five years, as well as about 90 percent of all EVs. That’s fast eroding America’s market in its backyard, as well as abroad, where the U.S. has seen its share fall or stagnate in Asia, Europe and Latin America.
“Today’s amphibians are ill-suited for life at sea. Out of more than 8000 living species, only a few can tolerate any amount of salt, and none are known to live in fully marine environments…during the Late Triassic, one amphibian overcame these challenges to prowl the ocean floor.”
““I’m here to keep a jihadist Muslim Brotherhood member from becoming a United States senator.”...“If Abdul and the Democrats win, they will open the floodgates and invite hordes of jihadists to our shores, creating a nightmare of violence and terror until you cannot even have a Christmas.””
“Geiger is part of a research group that has spent years investigating the nightlife of spiders…But now her team has made a breakthrough discovery: Jumping spiders actually fall asleep, even entering a rapid eye movement (REM)-like state in which they may be dreaming.”
“Sweeping cuts to the premier US climate agency under Donald Trump have severely hampered the country’s capacity to forecast, research and respond to extreme weather events…as the US faces a cascade of hazards fueled by a potentially historic El Niño this winter.”
“Sweeping cuts to the premier US climate agency under Donald Trump have severely hampered the country’s capacity to forecast, research and respond to extreme weather events…as the US faces a cascade of hazards fueled by a potentially historic El Niño this winter.”
“Sweeping cuts to the premier US climate agency under Donald Trump have severely hampered the country’s capacity to forecast, research and respond to extreme weather events…as the US faces a cascade of hazards fueled by a potentially historic El Niño this winter.”
“Scientists, not politicians, should govern the selection of these incredibly important public servants.” “A highly regarded physician-scientist recommended by U.S. National Institutes of Health Director Jay Bhattacharya to lead the agency’s mental health institute is no longer in the running.”
“Ask any parent: Kids’ personalities start the moment they’re born. Some infants are more relaxed and easygoing than others…differences in temperament slowly develop into testable traits like sociability and emotional reactivity, what psychologists consider the true definition of “personality.”
“Ask any parent: Kids’ personalities start the moment they’re born. Some infants are more relaxed and easygoing than others…differences in temperament slowly develop into testable traits like sociability and emotional reactivity, what psychologists consider the true definition of “personality.”
“Ask any parent: Kids’ personalities start the moment they’re born. Some infants are more relaxed and easygoing than others…differences in temperament slowly develop into testable traits like sociability and emotional reactivity, what psychologists consider the true definition of “personality.”
“For the first time, researchers have discovered living creatures that make their own MOFs — metal-organic frameworks — with exceptional conductivity.”
“On September 23, Sierra Club received a sweeping subpoena from the West Virginia Attorney General that targeted us for what we say about climate change. It was a blatant attempt to chill our speech and silence us, and force us to turn over details on all aspects of our strategy and operations.”
“On September 23, Sierra Club received a sweeping subpoena from the West Virginia Attorney General that targeted us for what we say about climate change. It was a blatant attempt to chill our speech and silence us, and force us to turn over details on all aspects of our strategy and operations.”
“On September 23, Sierra Club received a sweeping subpoena from the West Virginia Attorney General that targeted us for what we say about climate change. It was a blatant attempt to chill our speech and silence us, and force us to turn over details on all aspects of our strategy and operations.”
“We don't have inflation, and tariffs don't cause inflation. You know what they cause? Wealth. Although Trump insists that tariffs aren't contributing to persistently elevated inflation and are beneficial to the U.S. economy, reports from New York Federal Reserve economists show otherwise.”
“We don't have inflation, and tariffs don't cause inflation. You know what they cause? Wealth. Although Trump insists that tariffs aren't contributing to persistently elevated inflation and are beneficial to the U.S. economy, reports from New York Federal Reserve economists show otherwise.”
“We don't have inflation, and tariffs don't cause inflation. You know what they cause? Wealth. Although Trump insists that tariffs aren't contributing to persistently elevated inflation and are beneficial to the U.S. economy, reports from New York Federal Reserve economists show otherwise.”
““We gather at a time when the lessons of Manzanar have never been more urgent,” the chief executive of the Japanese American National Museum in Los Angeles, Ann Burroughs, said. “The racism, xenophobia and cruelty that made what happened here possible are once again unfolding before our eyes…”
I believe that RFK Jr. is a menace to public health: “Robert F Kennedy Jr…has made sweeping changes to vaccination policy, cutting childhood immunization recommendations by a third and replacing experts on the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) with his own handpicked allies.”
I believe that RFK Jr. is a menace to public health: “Robert F Kennedy Jr…has made sweeping changes to vaccination policy, cutting childhood immunization recommendations by a third and replacing experts on the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) with his own handpicked allies.”
I believe that RFK Jr. is a menace to public health: “Robert F Kennedy Jr…has made sweeping changes to vaccination policy, cutting childhood immunization recommendations by a third and replacing experts on the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) with his own handpicked allies.”
“Having been gaslighted by the right, some of the global media appeared to have difficulty wrapping their minds around the outcome. Here was the headline in the Financial Times as I write this: “Knife-edge vote”? Lula won by 3 percentage points, twice Donald Trump’s margin in 2024.”
“Having been gaslighted by the right, some of the global media appeared to have difficulty wrapping their minds around the outcome. Here was the headline in the Financial Times as I write this: “Knife-edge vote”? Lula won by 3 percentage points, twice Donald Trump’s margin in 2024.”
“Having been gaslighted by the right, some of the global media appeared to have difficulty wrapping their minds around the outcome. Here was the headline in the Financial Times as I write this: “Knife-edge vote”? Lula won by 3 percentage points, twice Donald Trump’s margin in 2024.”
“Having been gaslighted by the right, some of the global media appeared to have difficulty wrapping their minds around the outcome. Here was the headline in the Financial Times as I write this: “Knife-edge vote”? Lula won by 3 percentage points, twice Donald Trump’s margin in 2024.”