Rolling Stone: “New data suggests a massive collapse of the ice shelf in as little as five years. “We are dealing with an event that no human has ever witnessed,” says one scientist. “We have no analog for this”…Given the ongoing war for American democracy and the deadly toll of the Covid pandemic, the loss… Continue Reading
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Monthly Archives: December 2021
January 1, 2022, is Public Domain Day
Duke Center for the Study of the Public Domain – Works from 1926 are open to all, as is a cornucopia of recorded music: an estimated 400,000 sound recordings: “On January 1, 2022, copyrighted works from 1926 will enter the US public domain, where they will be free for all to copy, share, and build upon.… Continue Reading
Vinyl Sets New Weekly Sales Peak for Modern Era
Just sayin / vinyl records were done, passe, finished and then [perhaps you may also substitute a profession that also remains alive and esssential despite decades of prognostications about its demise] – via Pitchfork [btw CDs and tapes are also experiencing a resurgence, thankfully, as I have hundreds of each]: “Over two million vinyl LPs… Continue Reading
Photographer Captures Comet, Aurora, and Milky Way in Epic Panorama
PetaPixel – Stanley Aryanto is an award-winning Australian landscape and travel photographer, explorer and educator. The former engineer quit his nine to five job to pursue his passion for photography and now mentors photographers from all walks of life. You can find more of his work on his website. Continue Reading
What Lois Lowry Remembers
The New Yorker: “Lowry, who has lost a sister and a son, has spent decades writing about the pains of memory. Literature, she says, is “a way that we rehearse life…The title character of Lois Lowry’s most famous novel, “The Giver,” is an old man who guards all of human history and memory. The book’s… Continue Reading
U.S., U.K., other countries shatter Covid records in omicron surge
NBCNews – The U.S. hit a record 7-day case average of 262,034 cases, eclipsing a record set early in 2021. The U.S., Britain, France, Australia and other countries are shattering records for daily reported coronavirus cases as the highly transmissible omicron variant of the coronavirus has upended hopes of a return to some version of… Continue Reading
The human cost of construction
Building Safety Journal: “An inside look at the world’s most notable and deadliest construction projects. Construction can be a risky business. Over the past 200 years, hundreds of thousands of people have lost their lives while working on construction projects, whether from accidents, equipment failure or unsafe working conditions. In recent years, deaths on major… Continue Reading
Scientists build new atlas of ocean’s oxygen-starved waters
MIT News: “Life is teeming nearly everywhere in the oceans, except in certain pockets where oxygen naturally plummets and waters become unlivable for most aerobic organisms. These desolate pools are “oxygen-deficient zones,” or ODZs. And though they make up less than 1 percent of the ocean’s total volume, they are a significant source of nitrous… Continue Reading
Winter storms are breaking snow and temperature records and there’s more to come
NPR: “Winter storms sweeping parts of the Western U.S. and the Pacific Northwest have brought heavy snow and record low temperatures in some areas — and there’s more to come. A winter storm warning continues into Wednesday for parts of the border area of Northern California and Nevada. “We’ve had quite a series of storms… Continue Reading
13 battery gigafactories coming to the US by 2025
electrek: “There are 13 new battery cell gigafactories coming online in the US by 2025, according to the Department of Energy. These factories are ushering in a new era of battery production in the US. Aside from Tesla and Panasonic’s Gigafactory Nevada, which supplies battery cells for the production of Tesla Model 3 and Model… Continue Reading
Amazing to see how far vaccination card technology has come in just 50 years.
Via Zack Kanter on Twitter – “My stepfather found his polio vaccination card.” [Reminder – saving documents can prove useful.] Continue Reading
How Your Returns Are Used Against You at Best Buy, Other Retailers
WSJ [paywall – alternative free source] – “At Best Buy, returning too many items within a short time can hurt a person’s score, as can returning high-theft items such as digital cameras. Every time shoppers returns purchases to Best Buy, they are tracked by a company which has the power to override the store’s touted… Continue Reading
