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Mobile-Tensaw River Delta and Bartram Canoe Trail - Home to the most diverse set of fauna and flora in the world.
Wikipedia: Bliss Point - in food
USDA Dietary Reference Intakes Calculator
Auburn University Raptor Center
TYT: What's The Dumbest Thing Trump Ever Said?
National Gardening Assoc.: First and Last Frost Dates by Zip Code
Crypto/Bitcoin entries: 6/13/16, 11/27/18, 6/13/20, 10/21/23, 4/2/24, 2/13/25
Despite what they all say, they are not safe from hackers.
4/4/25
Auburn Plainsman: My Apartment is Being Torn Down. Here Are My Thoughts. - A lament as the old Auburn disappears, while we all look the other way, and a universal model of the end of mankind.
3/12/25
Guardian: Bone Fragments of Oldest Known Human Face in Western Europe Found in Spain
2/13/25
2/10/25
Independent UK: Something is Happening Inside the Earth, Scientists Say
2/7/25
TechRadar: Google Fumbles Gemini Super Bowl Ad's Cheese Statistic - another AI hallucination
2/4/25
CNN: Thousands Flee Santorini As Quakes Rattle Greek Tourist Haven
12/27/24
Guardian: 'Godfather of AI' Shortens Odds of the Technology Wiping Out Humanity Over Next 30 Years
12/11/24
1440: 1971 Conversation Between James Baldwin and Nikki Giovanni
12/9/24
AP News: Indigenous Mayans Want Their Sacred Cenotes to Have Personhood
Hub: Webb Telescope's Largest Study of Universe Expansion Confirms Challenge to cosmic Theory
12/6/24
GNN: Billions of People Could Benefit From This Breakthrough in Desalination That Ensures Freshwateer for the World - see 4/2/24 below
11/30/24
11/16/24
Good News Network: Kurt Vonneguts Board Game - GHQ
11/15/24
Auburn Plainsman: Auburn University Researchers Test Novel Alzheimer's Preventive
9/27/24
CNN: AI Helps Uncover Hundreds of Unknown Ancient Sybols Hidden in Peru's Nazca Desert
9/13/24
Good News Network: Vacation Travelling May be a Lifesaver
8/23/24
8/21/24
Good News Network: Planting This Grass Could Yield a Bumper Crop in Flood Plains and Stop Coastal Erosion - spartina patens a.k.a. salt hay
8/5/24
Good News: Nanofiber Molecules Help Repair Cartilage Damage
8/1/24
Lancet: Dementia Prevention, Intervention, and Care: 2024 Report of the Lancet Standing Commission - 14 easily treatable conditions that lead to almost half of dementia cases.
7/17/24
BBC: 'Supermodel Granny' Drug Extends Life in Animals - interleukin-11
7/16/24
7/7/24
Good News Network: Eating Baby Carrots 3 Times a Week May Provide Significant Health Benefits
6/27/24
MalwareBytes: 'Poseidon' Mac Stealer Distributed via Google ads/Arc Browser
6/14/24
BBC: Princess Kate Words of Advice for Those Facing Cancer - "“I’m not out of the woods yet…As anyone going through chemotherapy will know, there are good days and bad days…On those bad days you feel weak, tired and you have to give in to your body resting. But on the good days, when you feel stronger, you want to make the most of feeling well…I am learning how to be patient, especially with uncertainty. Taking each day as it comes, listening to my body, and allowing myself to take this much needed time to heal..."
Also there is a video at the end with tips on how to tell your children.
6/3/24
Netherlands Institute: Fungus That Breaks Down Ocean Plastic
5/29/24
Tom's Guide: Here's How Apple Will Protect User Privacy in 'Apple Intelligence'
5/26/24
Guardian: Sexual Abuse Within the Spiritual Healing Industry Comes to Light - many surprising and informational links
5/15/24
Nature: 'Quantum Internet' Demonstration in Cities is Most Advanced Yet
5/10/24
Guardian: Is AI Lying to Me? Scientists Warn of Growing Capacity for Deception
4/5/24
Atlas Obscura: 6 Librarians Who Changed History
4/10/24
New Yorker: The Dumbphone Boom is Real
4/7/24
NYTimes: The Eclipse That Ended a War and Shook the Gods Forever
4/6/24
New Yorker: The Day Ram Dass Died - "Change generates fear; fear generates...prejudice, bigotry, and ultimately violence...When we are fully present...there is no anticipatory fear or anxiety because we are just here and now, not in the future.”
4/2/24
CBS News: YouTube: The Fallout From Arkansas' "Right to Mine" Bitcoin/Crypto Law
3/26/24
Good News Network: MacKenzie Scott Gives Away $16.5B
2/26/24
New Yorker: One of the Last Abortion Doctors in Indiana
2/12/24
EPFL News: Stimulating Hypothalamus Restores (partial) Walking in (partially) Paralyzed Patients
1/11/24
BBC: Huge Ancient Lost City Found in Amazon
1/7/24
12/31/23
Good News Network: New Enzyme Allows CRISPR Technology Target Almost Any Human Gene
12/25/23
12/21/23
Weather.com: Where to see Spectacular 'Snowliage'
12/16/23
12/15/23
Guardian: Reading Print Improves Comprehension Far More Than Looking at Digital Text - From the article:
“linguistic quality of digital texts tends to be lower than that traditionally found in printed texts” Implication: Constantly reading digital text makes one less literate over time.
11/22/23
Guardian: Stoicism: 6 Ways to Make Your Life a Little Easier
10/21/23
Yahoo: Guy Who Stole Billions in Bitcoin - Related head lines: Fake positive reviews of bitcoin are for sale. A good history of Bitcoin and an overly positive description of how it's impossible to steal them. Another example of bitcoin theft, this time $4.6B. Definition of speculative bubble, and an example of the first historical example which closely parallels bitcoin.
10/17/23
Conversation: Why it Space so Dark Even Though the Universe is Filled With Stars
10/3/23
NYTimes: Without a College Degree, Life in America is Staggeringly Shorter
10/2/23
BBC: James Webb Telescope Makes "JuMBO" Discovery of Planet-Like Objects in Orion
9/29/23
NYTimes: Comfort Dishes to Make For Someone Going Through a Hard Time
9/17/23
Reuters: Letters Show Pope Pius XII Probably Knew About Holocaust in 1942
7/27/23
NPR: US Recovered Non-Human 'Biologics' From UFO Crash Sites Former Intel Official Says
7/26/23
BBC: UFO Whistleblower Testifies Before Congress
7/11/23
Axios: Scientists Say Canadian Lake Marks the Start of the Anthropocene Era
7/10/23
New Yorker: What to do With Climate Emotions
Why You Should Never Recline Your Seat on a Plane
7/4/23
ARS Technica: One Shot of a Protein Gave Monkeys a Brain Boost
6/16/23
Visual Capitalist: The Rapid Decline in Global Birth Rates
6/8/23
Malwarebytes: Warning: Victim's Faces Placed on Explicit Images in Sextortion Scams - FBI announcement concerning DeepFake technology.
5/30/23
Louisville Public Media: 'Emergency Summit' on Churchill Downs Horse Deaths Underway in Lexington
5/29/23
CNBC: Harvard Psychologist: Nine Phrases that Characterize an Emotionally Secure Individual
5/16/23
Malwarebytes: 3 Reasons to Use a VPN
5/9/23
Vox: At the Kentucky Derby, Horses Are Worked to Death for Human Vanity - Horseracing Integrity and Safety Authority WHOA
5/4/23
NYTimes: The Link Between Highly Processed Food and Brain Health
5/1/23
NYTimes: Father of AI Warns of Danger Ahead
4/17/23
The Hill: 10 Key Questions for the Week's Historic UFO Hearing
4/3/23
MSN: 50 Years Ago, He Made the First Cell Phone Call
3/13/23
New Yorker: What Conversation Can Do for Us - "Our culture is dominated by efforts to score points and win arguments. But we really talk anymore?"
3/11/23
Very Well Mind: What are the Jungian Archetypes?
3/10/23
NYTimes: 19 Works of Non-Fiction to Read This Spring
3/1/23
Bill McKibben: Jesse Diggins Wins Gold in the Toughest Winter Sport Tiktok dance
NYTimes: Exercise and Aging - Five exercises to keep an aging body fit and strong
2/28/23
Politico: We Have a Real UFO Problem. And It's Not Balloons.
2/18/23
Guardian: (Canine) Fecal Bacteria Rampant on New York Sidewalks - Que up Frank Sinatra "New York, New York".
News-Medical: Active Compound from Edible Mushrooms Boosts Nerve Growth and Enhances Memory - Lion's Mane
2/3/23
Wikipedia: Wiki Loves Earth 2022 Winners - amazing photos of nature, all in the public domain
1/20/23
RD: 13 Things Apple Employees Won't Tell You
1/18/23
NYTimes: Cockfighting in America - "Game-fowl breeders, she says, “believe so sincerely that they are allowing these birds to express their natural masculinity — which, of course, is the most toxic masculinity possible...They sincerely believe that an evolutionarily senseless level of aggression is the birthright of these birds and self-righteously reject any evidence to the contrary.”
"game fowl are separated from their parents and frequently kept in sensory deprivation and social isolation. Their combs are often shaved off, making them less recognizable to one another (and themselves), and they are rewarded for savagely winning fights. They are not allowed to give up. Although game fowl are made out to be “icons of courage” by the rooster men, Jones wrote, “fighting cocks start to fight because they are afraid.” The aggression is learned, not inherent."
- Pattrice Jones, director of VINE
Cockfighting laws in all 50 states.
1/10/23
NYTimes: The Importance of Clearing the Clutter - See entry of 2/21/22.
12/9/22
NYTimes: How to Read a Food Label
12/6/22
ProPublica: How to Research Your Hospice and Avoid Hospice Fraud
11/27/22
Guardian: 'Extinction is on the Table': Jaron Lanier: Tech's Existential Threat to Humanity
11/25/22
Visual Capitalist: 3D Map: The World's Largest Population Density Centers
11/23/22
New Yorker: A French Village's Radical Vision of a Good Life with Alzheimer's
11/14/22
Guardian: How Has the World's Population Grown Since 1959? - population mythbusting
8/18/22
Time: How to Build Your Heat Tolerance to Prepare for a Hotter World
8/12/22
NYTimes: Balance Exercises to Improve Your Strength
6/28/22
Guardian: The Barkley Marathons: The Hellish 100-Mile Race With 15 Finishers in 36 Years
6/22/22
The Pudding: Visual Guide to the Aztec Pantheon
6/2/22
New Yorker: The Johnny Depp-Amber Heard Verdict is Chilling
6/1/22
NYTimes: Coffee Drinking Linked to Lower Mortality Risk, New Study Finds
5/25/22
Physics World: Quantum Teleportation Expands Beyond Neighboring Nodes - Quantum Entanglement and Quantum computing
5/23/22
RD: What to do With Old Cellphones
5/20/22
NYTimes: Haiti's Lost Billions
5/11/22
Stat News: Transfusion of Brain Fluid From Young Mice is Memory Elevating Elixir for Old Mice
5/9/22
Dazed: Uncanny Valley: Welcome to the Age of the 'Ultra-Realistic' Art Robot
5/7/22
NYTimes: A Knave Competed in the Sport of Kings, and Instantly Became One
4/19/22
NYTimes: They Are the Heirs of Nazi Fortunes, And They Aren't Apologizing - BMW, Mercedes, Porche, VW - They confiscated industries from successful Jewish industrialists of the 1940's, and sent those Jewish families off to the concentration camps. Then they fully developed the companies to serve the Nazi war effort, using thousands of Jewish slaves. Today these billionaire families, who account for about 10% of German GDP, set up philanthropic foundations, take the tax breaks, and never come completely clean about their past. The German people and government, who constantly tout these so-called symbols of German ingenuity and execellence, are fully complicit.
4/18/22
NYTimes: The Sky-High Pandemic Housing Market Finds Gravity Does Exist - Remember this date.
4/7/22
AP: Key Particle Weighs In a Bit Heavy, Confounding Scientists - "Maybe dark matter, another poorly understood component of the universe, could be playing a role. Or maybe there’s just new physics involved that they just don’t understand at the moment, researchers said."
The Standard Model of particle physics seemed to be on such a solid footing, but then along come these new measurments. Too bad Standard Model. Too bad Dark Energy. Too bad Newtonian gravity.
#Quantum
4/4/22
New Yorker: The Mystifying Rise in Child Suicide - Dialectical Behavior Thereapy vs. Congnitive BT.
3/14/22
NYTimes: The Peculiar Charm of Coober Pedy, Austrailia's (and the World's) Opel Capital
2/24/22
NYTimes: Using Science and Celtic Wisdom to Save Trees (and Souls) - Related to this is the neural-network-like mycorrhizal fungi networks that allow trees in a forest to share information and nutrients, using 'mother trees' as the nodes in the network.
2/21/22
New Yorker: A Guide to Getting Rid of Almost Everything - #declutter
2/10/22
Interesting Engineering: What is the Double-Slit Experiment, and Why is it So Important?
1/10/22
Sojourners: 'Don't Look Up' Shows Us How (Not) to Pray - "a society that prefers to ignore scientific evidence and instead be soothed by celebrities, pop culture trends, and feel-good news stories."
“Dearest Father and Almighty Creator, we ask for your grace tonight, despite our pride, your forgiveness, despite our doubt. Most of all, Lord, we ask for your love to soothe us through these dark times. May we face whatever is to come in your divine will with courage and open hearts of acceptance.”
1/6/22
New Yorker: Free Yourself from Literacy, With Emojis
Other Interesting Stuff