2021-06-14

Cool

• What Causes the Northern Lights? Scientists Finally Know for Sure

• Scientists have found the origins of a mysterious, deadly flood in India | Science News

  Starting around 10:21 a.m. local time on February 7, about 27 million cubic meters of rock and ice fell from the steep north face of Ronti Peak, which stands 6,063 meters above sea level. The landslide, consisting of about 80 percent rock and 20 percent ice, originated at a height of about 5,500 meters and tumbled downslope about 1,800 meters, traveling at a speed of up to 60 meters per second.

Worthy

• Precognition

• On Being "Antiscience", XKCD Jellybeans, and the Mechanics of Scientific Bias Accumulation - Resident Contrarian

• Would UFO Aliens Be Our Gods?

• Provided "as is", without warranty of any kind

etc

• Earth's core is growing 'lopsided' and scientists don't know why | Space

• ‘A costly mistake’ prompts retraction of paper on hair loss – Retraction Watch

• Raiders of the Lost Ark turns 40, and it’s still an unqualified masterpiece

• A (Small) Pre-Emptive Strike Against the Doomsday Asteroid | Space | Air & Space Magazine

• US bans dog imports from more than 100 countries

  The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has announced a one-year ban on importing dogs from 113 countries over rabies concerns. The ban applies to all dogs, including emotional support dogs and dogs that have been in any high-risk countries during the past six months.

  • High-Risk Dog Ban FRN | CDC

  • High-Risk Countries for Dog Rabies | Bringing an Animal into U.S. | Importation | CDC

Horseshit

• ERCOT again asks Texans to reduce electric use

• Could face and voice recognition become the new 'phrenology'?

• The Motherboard Guide to the Gig Economy

• If You Don't Wear Glasses Now, You Probably Will Soon

• The IVF Cases That Broke Birthright Citizenship

celebrity gossip

• The controversy over Bill Gates becoming the largest farmland owner in the US

• Reality Winner, NSA contractor in leak case, out of prison

Obit

• Ned Beatty, Deliverance, Superman and Toy Story 3 actor, dies aged 83

Culture War / Re segregation / Identdoctrination

• How Anti-Racist Activism Affects Interracial Couples Like Us | Opinion

• Departures of Police Officers Accelerated During a Year of Protests

• The Supreme Court Has Carved Out One Religious Exemption After Another. The Next May Be A Blow To LGBTQ Rights. | FiveThirtyEight

• Apple Hosts Today at Apple Sessions for Black Music Month

• Some Americans Are Breaking Out of Political Echo Chambers

• Mission Protocol

• NFL halts 'race-norming,' review Black claims in $1B concussion settlement

• Why Chaplains Are in High Demand in an Increasingly Secular America

• Fed Reserve Tells Employees Not To Use Offensive Terms Like: Founding Fathers - The Lid

Media / Many Ministries of Truths / Censorship

• The Enduring False Narrative About the PULSE Massacre Shows the Power of Media Propaganda - Glenn Greenwald

TechSuck

• Google opens Workspace to everyone | TechCrunch

  Google today announced that it is making Workspace, the service formerly known as G Suite (and with a number of new capabilities), available to everyone, including consumers on free Google accounts

• Legally Ignoring The License | Meshed Insights Ltd

• Diseconomies of Scale at Google

Economicon

• “Great resignation” wave coming for companies

• Bitcoin on the Balance Sheet Is an Accounting Headache for Tesla, Others

• Renting Is Cheaper Than Buying in All 50 Major Metro Areas in the United States

• Lumber prices fall for the 8th day straight to $1k

• Americans’ inflation fears reach a fever pitch as consumer prices rise

• JPMorgan is sitting on about $500M in cash, waiting to invest in higher rates

Poilitcks

• Opinion: The secret gag orders must stop

• California vs. the Supreme Court 

  Maybe the U.S. Supreme Court should recuse itself from cases involving the Golden State. Because the current court, with a 6-3 conservative majority reinforced by new associate justice Amy Coney Barrett, isn’t even bothering to disguise its anti-California biases anymore.

Security / Militaria / Crime / Police

• Federal agents falsely accused Univ. of Tennessee professor of spying for China

• Why no-one in America was arrested as part of Operation Ironside - ABC News

World

• Lebanon currency drops to new low as financial meltdown deepens

Health / Medicine / COVID

• Footage proves bats were kept in Wuhan lab

• Novavax vaccine trial shows 90% efficacy in combating Covid-19

• U.S. Covid-19 deaths cross painful 600k milestone as country reopens

• Different symptoms linked to Covid Delta ('Indian') variant

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• Nobel winner’s evolution from ‘dark realist’ to just plain realist on climate

• Kim Stanley Robinson: a declining world population could be a good thing

• Fish are swimming to cooler waters as climate change heats our oceans