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Kudos to the reporter, Rhea Biswas, for including quotes from people who are actually affected by the housing crisis. So many articles about housing are framed by the reactionary thoughts of the local NIMBY group, historic preservationist hardliners, and degrowther environmental activists...
August 9, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Kudos to the reporter, Rhea Biswas, for including quotes from people who are actually affected by the housing crisis. So many articles about housing are framed by the reactionary thoughts of the local NIMBY group, historic preservationist hardliners, and degrowther environmental activists...
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There is a point, in your 50s, where you become the expert. There is no one around to ask or everyone else clearly doesn’t have the experience. It’s quite stressful, that responsibility.
August 5, 2025 at 3:30 PM
There is a point, in your 50s, where you become the expert. There is no one around to ask or everyone else clearly doesn’t have the experience. It’s quite stressful, that responsibility.
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NEW: Extraordinary footage has emerged of the huge tsunami that hit Russia’s remote Kamchatka peninsula after the 8.8 magnitude earthquake on July 30th.
(🎥 Doni Nikz)
(🎥 Doni Nikz)
August 3, 2025 at 10:43 PM
NEW: Extraordinary footage has emerged of the huge tsunami that hit Russia’s remote Kamchatka peninsula after the 8.8 magnitude earthquake on July 30th.
(🎥 Doni Nikz)
(🎥 Doni Nikz)
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The weather is too hot today so I hope someone fires the weather service and replaces them with an unbiased source that will report cooler temperatures. It’s all politics!
August 1, 2025 at 7:17 PM
The weather is too hot today so I hope someone fires the weather service and replaces them with an unbiased source that will report cooler temperatures. It’s all politics!
I can count 19 cities. The choice appears to be somewhat arbitrary. I do like the emphasis on the most notable landmark even if it means a somewhat unrealistic skyline (the Gateway Arch and the Space Needle don't quite tower above St Louis and Seattle like that).
July 31, 2025 at 8:48 PM
I can count 19 cities. The choice appears to be somewhat arbitrary. I do like the emphasis on the most notable landmark even if it means a somewhat unrealistic skyline (the Gateway Arch and the Space Needle don't quite tower above St Louis and Seattle like that).
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Full video of the tsunami in Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Kamchatka, Russia, following the 8.7 earthquake. Wave seems incoming and a few meters at least.
July 30, 2025 at 1:07 AM
Full video of the tsunami in Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Kamchatka, Russia, following the 8.7 earthquake. Wave seems incoming and a few meters at least.
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I haven’t looked into this trend, but I will say: on my deathbed, I will rank the collective experience of reading to my kids at bedtime as a top life highlight, alongside falling in love and the most amazing travel adventures. (I’m not sure publishing things or awards etc will even make the list)
"Fewer than half of gen Z parents called reading to their children 'fun for me' and almost one in three saw reading as 'more of a subject to learn' than something to be enjoyed"
I mean sure, I too worry about the kids, but I also just feel sad for the Zoomer parents if this is really the case
I mean sure, I too worry about the kids, but I also just feel sad for the Zoomer parents if this is really the case
‘It’s so boring’: gen Z parents don’t like reading to their kids – and educators are worried
Screen time has increasingly replaced story time, and experts warn this could lead to children falling behind
www.theguardian.com
July 26, 2025 at 10:40 PM
I haven’t looked into this trend, but I will say: on my deathbed, I will rank the collective experience of reading to my kids at bedtime as a top life highlight, alongside falling in love and the most amazing travel adventures. (I’m not sure publishing things or awards etc will even make the list)
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Today's lesson is aspire to a life where people don't use the word "controversial" in your obituary.
July 24, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Today's lesson is aspire to a life where people don't use the word "controversial" in your obituary.
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It's disappointing major weather media groups that exist off NOAA/NWS data have been deafeningly silent about federal staffing hits and proposed cuts to NOAA. No letters of support. No news reporting on their detrimental effects to forecasting. Just glaring editorial omission. 🧵
July 23, 2025 at 2:07 AM
It's disappointing major weather media groups that exist off NOAA/NWS data have been deafeningly silent about federal staffing hits and proposed cuts to NOAA. No letters of support. No news reporting on their detrimental effects to forecasting. Just glaring editorial omission. 🧵
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Haven't seen this, but it sounds like another "dude is a giant asshole, but 'so good' at his job that everyone has to put up with it and work around him" and it's not hard to see the wish fulfillment fantasy this represents, but I don't think I have ever met an asshole who was 'worth it.'
tried to watch this last night; won't watch ep 2
i have exhausted my patience for "prickly" middle-aged cop dudes (read: assholes) paired with young women who are supposed to mother them through an investigation
this one even makes it explicit: she knows how to handle him because she has a kid
i have exhausted my patience for "prickly" middle-aged cop dudes (read: assholes) paired with young women who are supposed to mother them through an investigation
this one even makes it explicit: she knows how to handle him because she has a kid
Review: In Netflix's "Untamed," Eric Bana stars alongside Sam Neill and Rosemarie DeWitt as a prickly investigator in a series set in the national park, where the beautiful wilderness plays host to ugly crimes.
July 20, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Haven't seen this, but it sounds like another "dude is a giant asshole, but 'so good' at his job that everyone has to put up with it and work around him" and it's not hard to see the wish fulfillment fantasy this represents, but I don't think I have ever met an asshole who was 'worth it.'
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Podcasts on current affairs are the audio version of doom scrolling. They feel like you're attached to What's Happening; the net effect over a year is... brain energy wasted on circumstantial, temporary things. Audiobooks feel detached from the relevant world. This is insidious, and must be fought.
July 19, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Podcasts on current affairs are the audio version of doom scrolling. They feel like you're attached to What's Happening; the net effect over a year is... brain energy wasted on circumstantial, temporary things. Audiobooks feel detached from the relevant world. This is insidious, and must be fought.
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Creative work in general pays far less than people think it does, especially relative to the notability one can have. The correlation between "fame" and "income" is rather shaky, especially the further down you go on the fame power curve. Lots of "world famous" creators are broke as hell.
Even though I *know* authors don't earn as much as it seems like they should, it's always mildly disappointing that even wildly popular authors make less than a lot of the rank and file in many industries that provide less value to actual people.
July 16, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Creative work in general pays far less than people think it does, especially relative to the notability one can have. The correlation between "fame" and "income" is rather shaky, especially the further down you go on the fame power curve. Lots of "world famous" creators are broke as hell.
Great article with a very nice Google Maps layer of trouble spots (although I don’t believe the one at the end of Blue Spring Road, which is on a bluff above the River…).
When Princeton Floods: What Every Resident Should Know
Princeton, NJ - This summer’s Texas tragedy, where more than a hundred people died in a flash flood, brings renewed focus to a risk faced by many communities, including Princeton. Floods happen,...
www.tapinto.net
July 17, 2025 at 12:08 AM
Great article with a very nice Google Maps layer of trouble spots (although I don’t believe the one at the end of Blue Spring Road, which is on a bluff above the River…).
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It is not a political statement to note the fact that science enhances our well being, expands our knowledge of the world, and drives economic growth 🧪
July 15, 2025 at 10:17 PM
It is not a political statement to note the fact that science enhances our well being, expands our knowledge of the world, and drives economic growth 🧪
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It's been a long week. So here's just a pretty graphic for your Friday evening... Simulation of atmospheric aerosols in our intricate Earth system.
Sea salt (cyan), dust (magenta), black carbon (orange/red), and sulfates (green)
Created by NASA SVS (svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/5552/)
Sea salt (cyan), dust (magenta), black carbon (orange/red), and sulfates (green)
Created by NASA SVS (svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/5552/)
July 12, 2025 at 12:54 AM
It's been a long week. So here's just a pretty graphic for your Friday evening... Simulation of atmospheric aerosols in our intricate Earth system.
Sea salt (cyan), dust (magenta), black carbon (orange/red), and sulfates (green)
Created by NASA SVS (svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/5552/)
Sea salt (cyan), dust (magenta), black carbon (orange/red), and sulfates (green)
Created by NASA SVS (svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/5552/)
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Senate appropriators showed today they are *not* down with Trump's proposed budget cuts for NASA and NSF. (Likely NOAA too, but can't say for 100% yet.)
Long way to go to a law. But this is rare good news for scientists this year.
www.science.org/content/arti...
Long way to go to a law. But this is rare good news for scientists this year.
www.science.org/content/arti...
www.science.org
July 10, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Senate appropriators showed today they are *not* down with Trump's proposed budget cuts for NASA and NSF. (Likely NOAA too, but can't say for 100% yet.)
Long way to go to a law. But this is rare good news for scientists this year.
www.science.org/content/arti...
Long way to go to a law. But this is rare good news for scientists this year.
www.science.org/content/arti...
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Joke's on anyone trying to use my SAT scores to dig up dirt on me: many Midwestern kids only take the ACT so I have no SAT score to divulge.
July 8, 2025 at 2:04 AM
Joke's on anyone trying to use my SAT scores to dig up dirt on me: many Midwestern kids only take the ACT so I have no SAT score to divulge.
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In our darkest times we see people do extraordinary things to help others. Petty Officer Scott Ruskan from NJ heroically rescued 165 people from the Texas floods. We are eternally grateful to Ruskan and other first responders risking their lives for others
nj1015.com/coast-guard-hero-kerr-county/
nj1015.com/coast-guard-hero-kerr-county/
NJ man hailed a hero for rescuing 165 from deadly Texas flood that killed at least 80
A New Jersey native found himself in the heart of a Texas crisis, becoming a beacon of hope while rescuing those trapped by rising waters.
nj1015.com
July 7, 2025 at 7:45 PM
In our darkest times we see people do extraordinary things to help others. Petty Officer Scott Ruskan from NJ heroically rescued 165 people from the Texas floods. We are eternally grateful to Ruskan and other first responders risking their lives for others
nj1015.com/coast-guard-hero-kerr-county/
nj1015.com/coast-guard-hero-kerr-county/
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I remain struck by the event similarities to the conceptual model of @rschumacher.cloud's PhD work.
Nam-3km cross-sections as it picked up on the event show the mesoscale setup well.
Unfortunately end result was a catastrophic flash-flood with significant loss of life. 😞
bsky.app/profile/rsch...
Nam-3km cross-sections as it picked up on the event show the mesoscale setup well.
Unfortunately end result was a catastrophic flash-flood with significant loss of life. 😞
bsky.app/profile/rsch...
July 5, 2025 at 10:39 PM
I remain struck by the event similarities to the conceptual model of @rschumacher.cloud's PhD work.
Nam-3km cross-sections as it picked up on the event show the mesoscale setup well.
Unfortunately end result was a catastrophic flash-flood with significant loss of life. 😞
bsky.app/profile/rsch...
Nam-3km cross-sections as it picked up on the event show the mesoscale setup well.
Unfortunately end result was a catastrophic flash-flood with significant loss of life. 😞
bsky.app/profile/rsch...
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There have been claims that NOAA/NWS did not foresee catastrophic TX floods--but that's simply not true. This was undoubtedly an extreme event, but messaging rapidly escalated beginning ~12 hrs prior. Flood Watch mid PM, "heads up" outlook late PM, flash flood warnings ~1am.
WPC issued as many as six MPDs for the deadly flash flooding in the TX Hill Country starting yesterday evening and lasting through much of today. The first MPD generally set the stage for what was to come, while the next three shown were as the event unfolded.
July 5, 2025 at 3:50 PM
There have been claims that NOAA/NWS did not foresee catastrophic TX floods--but that's simply not true. This was undoubtedly an extreme event, but messaging rapidly escalated beginning ~12 hrs prior. Flood Watch mid PM, "heads up" outlook late PM, flash flood warnings ~1am.
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NASA just won an Emmy for our live broadcast of the total solar eclipse last year. We produced a documentary film about the James Webb Space Telescope that's out in theaters and on Netflix. We have podcasts, we write feature stories. People wear the agency logo on t-shirts. We're still getting cut.
You hear this a lot on the left but it isn't true. USAID did not "fail to tell its story to Americans," the right targeted the agency with lies and misinformation.
Ultimately this narrative turns conservative attacks into even more calls for the left to reform.
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/29/o...
Ultimately this narrative turns conservative attacks into even more calls for the left to reform.
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/29/o...
June 30, 2025 at 5:25 PM
NASA just won an Emmy for our live broadcast of the total solar eclipse last year. We produced a documentary film about the James Webb Space Telescope that's out in theaters and on Netflix. We have podcasts, we write feature stories. People wear the agency logo on t-shirts. We're still getting cut.
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In the book by Michael Lewis “Who Is Government” it is very hard to get gov’t employees to talk to reporters because they are often FORBIDDEN to by the political heads of their agencies! They are told to keep their heads down and don’t draw attention.
July 1, 2025 at 2:39 AM
In the book by Michael Lewis “Who Is Government” it is very hard to get gov’t employees to talk to reporters because they are often FORBIDDEN to by the political heads of their agencies! They are told to keep their heads down and don’t draw attention.
I’ve known people who have become close enough to being famous to make me realize that, really, fame sucks. I’d be so sad if I had to hide in my hotel room and not even visit a coffee shop or a museum or park while traveling.
youtu.be/nFxTBM0wH74
youtu.be/nFxTBM0wH74
Why Celebrities Have to Say No
YouTube video by Adam Savage’s Tested
youtu.be
June 28, 2025 at 11:04 PM
I’ve known people who have become close enough to being famous to make me realize that, really, fame sucks. I’d be so sad if I had to hide in my hotel room and not even visit a coffee shop or a museum or park while traveling.
youtu.be/nFxTBM0wH74
youtu.be/nFxTBM0wH74