‘Reimagining matter’: Nobel laureate invents machine that harvests water from dry air

A retired British primary school administrator with a British passport and a valid visa was shackled, chained and detained for six weeks by ICE www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Anti-trans ideology has: - decemitated the Women’s Institute - made it less safe for women to access female single-sex spaces - made it much harder to be a gender non-conforming woman - Reduced women to their anatomy - increased female objectification - reinforced sexist stereotypes

Another benefit of not having a Royal Family, is that they would stop killing Canadian bears to make stupid hats.

Why Iran is betting on war. ft.pressreader.com/article/2818... For Tehran, last year’s 12-day war was not a defeat; it suc­ceeded in bring­ing super­ior mil­it­ar­ies to a cease­fire short of real­ising their full war object­ives. In the end, it was the US that asked for a cease­fire.

ft.pressreader.com/article/2818... China’s aluminium industry has embarked on a green long march, moving millions of tonnes of production from the northern coal country, its stronghold for seven decades, to pockets of the south and west rich in renewable energy.

ft.pressreader.com/article/2816... Tetris aș a therapy for those who suffer from PTSD.

I think there are some pretty legitimate questions for the Greens to answer in this short thread – entirely possible they didn't know the history here, but if so they should say that and distance themselves.

Cover reveal! @gollancz.bsky.social

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North of the Arctic Circle Bright orange water is flow­ing through rivers in quant­it­ies vis­ible from outer space. As with wastewa­ter from mines, the rust-orange col­our comes from iron that is dissolving after expos­ure to acidic water. ft.pressreader.com/article/2817...

Were Jefferson, Franklin, and co, among the first to push the idea of man-made climate change? Raphael Calel explores how, in contrast to today's association of the U.S. with climate change skepticism, it was a very different story in the 18th century: publicdomainreview.org/essay/t...

Happy new year everyone! Chúc mừng năm mới! Sức khỏe dồi dào!

ELLO JOHN GOT A NEW MOTOR

Get touched by the presence at Watkins where I'll be signing copies 26/2 5:00 - 6:00 PM: www.watkinsbooks.com/event-detail...

The art of cre­at­ing a great image Dis­rup­tion has led some illus­trat­ors to pull back while oth­ers are adapt­ing the type of work they make, write Sarah O’Con­nor and John Burn-Mur­doch ft.pressreader.com/article/2817...

The Real Voyage of Discovery ~~~~~ “The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.” ~ Marcel Proust. Image: Owl Eyes (4572888238) / Tony Hisgett from Birmingham, UK / Wikimedia Commons (orig. Flickr) / CC BY 2.0.

Wow, Cory is on fire ...

Way to go! Smite Schmitt with Schmitt!

if there is anything that will stop Trump and the white supeemacist GOP, it is guys like this. If you can piss off these voters, you loose your soft base!

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Oh look! We’re talking about immigration again! Instead of corruption money & pedos permeating our politics! 🤩 Brilliant! www.youtube.com/watch?v=OhZk...

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"Why are y'all so concerned about rich men raping children when we could, instead, be talking about how much more MONEY they got this year? Focus on what matters, like I do!" --Pamela Jo

This is like a paedophile saying at least the puppies were real.

ft.pressreader.com/article/2818... Serendipitously---or by design---a cruel distinction among an otherwise indistinct Welsh population produced clinical gold.

Belgian Prime Minister Bart De Wever: “We must integrate our market and use it as a weapon against the great imperial blocs.”

“Some want to turn the clock back, harkening back to some golden age of nostalgia, when women, children, the lower class, parishioners, and people of other races and creeds knew their place; not the 1950s, but further ...” ~ H.M. Forester, Preface to Beyond a Shadow of a Doubt.

A new source for Shakespeare's "Tempest": profadamroberts.substack.com/p/a-visual-s...

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This is a long and interesting piece. The evidence from medicine gives the lie to the idea that AI should a priori be shunned. But the centrality of AI to deeply harmful algorithmic influencing, and to "Palantir-style" colonisation of the state shows the peril that AI also brings.

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Hello Monday. Book of Hours, c.1460. #OwlishMonday

All Quiet on the Western-Super-Mare Odeon Front Row

🧪At last, some great data to support the story of autistic women's diagnostic invisibility! Time trends in the male to female ratio for autism incidence: population based, prospectively collected, birth cohort study www.bmj.com/content/392/...

Go team EU! 👏 #MilanoCortina2026

An interview with Onassis Stegi and Yannis-Orestis Papadimitriou on Mediterranean Otherworlds stegi.radio/show/the-arc...

Interesting research by Anthropic Fellows Judy Hanwen Shen & Alex Tamkin hinting that coding with AI can harm skill development in some circumstances and enhance it in others: arxiv.org/html/2601.20.... The key seems to be whether the coder seeks "help in understanding" or just "asks for answers".

Roses are red Orchids are deluxe www.essexlive.news/news/essex-n...

God, for the millionth fucking time. We had it right before. School/rec: Play with who you want NCAA: Need doctor's note Pro/Olympic: Blood testing for T levels It worked. It was fair.

The most beautiful #snail ever to exist! Many #marine snails go through an early life stage called #veliger, wherein they drift along with the #plankton before settling onto the sea floor as an adult. We call this, #sparkles #blackwater #blackwaterdiving #mollusk #gug

Imagine wearing a #jellyfish as a helmet!?! Well, that’s exactly what this juvenile jack is doing! Mostly immune to its sting, the jack has taken the jellyfish prisoner. Shot using #scuba, out over the deep abyss, drifting at night. #blackwater #blackwaterdiving #scubadiving #gug

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🧪🧪 Handwriting requirements were cut from school curricula around the world. Now it’s looping back, riding on a wave of evidence. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Lou-natics unite! Here's a previously uncirculated gem from the fall of 1972 — Lou Reed + the Tots in London. Probably the best quality recording I've heard from this era ...

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2,000 year-old Roman ‘Beware of the Dog’ mosaic. This good boy looks ready for walkies! 😍🐾 Chained black guard dog from the entry passage of the House of Orpheus, Pompeii. Museo Archeologico Nazionale, Naples 📷 by me #MosaicMonday #Archaeology