Literary Hub: The Enduring Global Legacy of the French Revolution, Donald Sassoon Discusses How Years of Political Turmoil Resulted in the Advent of the Modern Era lithub.com/the-enduring...

What If Aliens Don’t Actually Do Science? Daniel Whiteson and Andy Warner Consider the Many Forms Inquiry Can Take, In Our World and Others lithub.com/what-if-alie...

BBC News First kiss dates back 21 million years, say scientists by Victoria Gill www.bbc.com/news/article...

Trump regime removed a congressionally mandated report on missing & murdered Native Americans from DOJ’s website calling it DEI content. Sens. Catherine Cortez Masto & Lisa Murkowski, who sit on Senate Indian Affairs Committee, asked it be restored. THEY SHOULD BE SCREAMING! tinyurl.com/kjwuv35v

NYT interviews w/former DOJ attorneys: "Trump & his appointees have blasted through walls meant to protect political influence Attorneys were told to drop cases for political reasons They were forced to abandon investigations of terrorist plots corruption & white-collar fraud" tinyurl.com/ym9hka9w

NYT interviewed 60 DOJ attorneys who resigned or were fired, reporting on the drastic changes since Trump installed loyalist AG Bondi to lead the department. One described, “I wouldn’t even call it the Justice Department anymore. It’s become Trump’s personal law firm.” tinyurl.com/ym9hka9w

IG Live November 21: Is Bird Flu Back? Based on this reporting yes, and this does not bode well. Another pandemic is brewing and IDIOT RFKJr cancelled vaccine development for this specific need. www.medpagetoday.com/infectiousdi...

Of coutes Sabotaged fileshttps://www.thedailybeast.com//epsteins-brother-sounds-alarm-gop-is-sabotaging-files/

Study published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters—we can see that, in less than two decades, Earth has tilted 31.5 inches as a result of pumping groundwater. This equates to.24 inches of sea level rise www.aol.com/articles/ear...

Three Fuzzy Characters Exploring: Not the same 3 bears from Robert Southey’s 19th-century classic British fairy tale, but these three sure love their porridge. Rescued from ‘dancing’ bear trade unable to go back into wild NOW in natural setting of Bannerghatta Bear Rescue Centre tinyurl.com/45rfz5kf

Nov 14, 1732 Library Company of Philadelphia signed contract w/its first librarian. Founded by Benjamin Franklin & friends in Nov 1731, the library enrolled members for a fee of forty shillings but had to wait for books to arrive from England before beginning full operation tinyurl.com/2nafjsw8

Recommend Michael Cohen's blog. Often such insightful messages for politics & life, happiness. IMHO b/c he's traveled his story & LEARNED from it. "Buddhist proverb that lodged itself into my mind like a quiet warning 3 things will always rise; the sun, the moon, & the truth" tinyurl.com/39nn6hkc

Cornell Lab: Warm-up as winter approaches w/Panama Hummingbird Feeder Cam! tinyurl.com/3n6cphz2 Watch as a flurry of White-necked Jacobins are joined by other colorful visitors, including Snowy-bellied and Violet-bellied Hummingbirds. Tropical hummingbird ID skills: tinyurl.com/ycxtutju

American Bird Conservancy: Most woodpecker species in US Canada display mix of black white red plumage, but don’t tell the Lewis’s Woodpecker. It has unique mix of colorsw/red face, pink belly, glossy green back, crown nape w/ silver-gray collar @distance looks dark abcbirds.org/birds/lewiss...

People bred dogs K's yrs ago Diverse modern-day dog breeds emerged K's yrs ago. Ancient skulls show distinctive dog skull shape shortened snout widened face 1st appeared 11K yr-old Then boom w/dog skull shapes sizes suggests ancient man valued distinctive features tinyurl.com/4t397bnr

Cornell Lab: Shining a Spotlight on Acorn Woodpeckers Acorn Woodpeckers are easy to recognize and impossible to overlook. With bright red caps and constant chatter, they turn oak forests into lively neighborhoods tinyurl.com/ycx37eju

CNN: Oldest sequenced RNA reveals details of mammoth’s final moments 40,000 years, by Katie Hunt Scientists found molecules of RNA from juvenile mammoth named Yuka, who died 40L Yrs ago in Siberia. Providing insight into the last moments of the extinct ice age creature’s life. tinyurl.com/4dne2hwa

@National Museum of the American Indian- 500,000+ photos from 19th-century daguerreotypes to modern snapshots offer rare intimate view into Indigenous lives across Western Hemisphere For 1st time in 20 Yrs powerful images in "InSight: Photos and Stories from the Archives" tinyurl.com/4menzj73

Atlas Obscura: Located in the arid desert of northwestern New Mexico, the Bisti Badlands (formally the Bisti/De-Na-Zin Wilderness) offers one of the closest approximations of an unknown alien world as can be found right here on Earth www.atlasobscura.com/places/bisti...

Globally, greenhouse-gas emissions of methane, nitrous oxide & fluorinated gases & CO2 are still rising. B/signs they''ll peak ~2030... China is the key, say researchers. The world’s biggest emitter. Nature study www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Calling all librarians and library loves. Use this link to tell your congressional representatives how important it is to fund the Library of Congress, the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) as well as the National Archives (NARA)! nwmd.social/s/copylink/5...

Meidas+: "if Trump truly believed these emails were “fake” or “misleading,” he has the power to end the matter immediately: “Donald Trump could fix all this… release the files today.” But Trump won’t. And that speaks louder than any press release" www.meidasplus.com/p/exclusive-...

Whatever anger promises to do for us, compassion can do better. As a Buddhist conception, compassion involves sensitivity to the suffering of someone together with the wish that they be freed from that suffering. by Allison Aitken, “What’s Wrong with Anger?” tricycle.org/magazine/sha...

EARTHDAY.ORG global organizer of Earth Day movement—observed by 1 B+ people each April 22 celebrates the EU landmark decision to integrate climate education into school curricula from K to 12, part of 2025 Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) to Paris Agreement tinyurl.com/mxhthxrv

Science (journal): New, more stable qubits could reduce complexity of dreamed-of quantum computers. Advance underscores the importance of materials science for quantum computing by Adrian Cho tinyurl.com/4f95nehr

Continents are like bananas Tom Gernon study author: “discovery helps solve a long-standing geological puzzle, mantle waves can carry blobs of continental material deep beneath the oceans leaving a signature that persists long after the continents have moved on” Study: tinyurl.com/yc6np42a

NatGeo: "Exclusive: Sperm whale speech has human-like 'vowels' The mammals' mysterious clicks contain a stunning level of complexity, a new study shows www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/arti...

NatGeo: "This and other recent research on the war between rats and bats has a larger implication for the spread of disease to humans, says Raina Plowright, a professor of Public and Ecosystem Health at Cornell University." www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/arti...

Robert Reich: Office Hours: Trump’s mental decline appears to be accelerating. So why isn’t the media reporting on it? He's showing even more signs of dementia, but the media is mum tinyurl.com/4vd6w5x3

Save the Redwoods League envisions vibrant redwood forests of scale grandeur that once graced California coast & Sierra Nevada protected forever restored to grow old again & connected to people via network of parks & protected areas. Inspire all w/beauty power of nature www.savetheredwoods.org

Ordinary people perpetrate unspeakable evil & angry people holding deep grudges @perceived slights & mistreatment; people w/hate fueled by bogus scientific theories on race genetics & foreigners Bigots wily egomaniacal careerists lead political parties & nations terribly astray tinyurl.com/2nvfjd5j

Endogenic heat at Enceladus’ north pole | Science Advances. Author Carly Howett told New Scientist. “We knew that it had liquid water, all sorts of organic molecules, heat, but the stability was really the final piece of the puzzle.” tinyurl.com/3nvsacct

Canada loses its measles elimination status — as it happened 5,000-case outbreak forces loss of status after 27 years. This means the U.S. has also lost its measles elimination status too. www.cbc.ca/news/health/...

Oregon sea stars bounce back from near extinction after years of decline By Gosia Wozniacka | The Oregonian/OregonLive. Ochre sea stars, an iconic species once common along the Oregon Coast, are making a recovery after years of decline due to a mysterious wasting disease tinyurl.com/ybmynps4

Space.com Astrophotographer Mark Johnstron captures fiery plasma dancing above the sun in stunning close-up video By Daisy Dobrijevic Mesmerizing cloud of hydrogen plasma dancing above the sun's limb in this breathtaking video tinyurl.com/24nscw7y click for video.

The Light Won't Dim, a 30-minute documentary that shows the real impact that solar power is having in communities across America docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Science/journal: Metal scaffolds turn bacteria into live wires Mud-dwelling cable bacteria construct grow metal organic frameworks By RF Service. 1st biological metal-organic framework & conduct electricity far better than synthetic Awarded Nobel Prize in Chemistry www.science.org/content/arti...

From the Climate Reality Project. COP 30 officially starts today, and global leaders are already gathering in Belém, Read on: www.climaterealityproject.org/dear-world-l...

Joyce Vance: If you stop for just a moment and zoom out, the utter lunacy here comes into focus. The government is fighting for the right to use excessive force against peaceful protesters. joycevance.substack.com/p/the-overni...

NatGeo: Mystery woman @heart of Beethoven’s secret love affair, By Parissa DJangi. Discovery of love letter revealed depths of yearning for "immortal beloved" Scholars try to find clues for beloved's identity since He died w/o marrying w/love letter igniting yrs of speculation tinyurl.com/5y4kjrc2

NatGeo: No one knows what sank Edmund Fitzgerald, only clues, by D Kindy. Great Lakes freighter most technologically advanced of time b/sank in Lake Superior storm 50 yrs ago. What went wrong? Ruth Hudson mom of Bruce, young deckhand “Only 30 know what happened: 29 men & God.” tinyurl.com/yc7zvmrx

American Bird Conservancy: Ecuador fisherman helped Salvin's Albatross in trouble that ingested 4 large fishing hooks & line. ABC team members rescued bird w/emergency surgery. Successfully treated returned to wild. B/thousands of other seabirds are not as fortunate abcbirds.org/news/salvins...

Meidas+ Today in Politics by R Filipkowski. Deal John Thune agreed to vote 2nd wk Dec extending ACA subsidies Johnson agreed to nothing & won't get House vote even if Senate passes it. Thus 22-24 million have health insurance premiums drastically increase 01-01-26 TNX TO GOP tinyurl.com/4uj25tzd

MEDPAGE: No Clear Autism Link With Prenatal Tylenol, Major Review Finds — Familial genetic factors, confounding may have driven previous outcomes by Judy George, Deputy Managing Editor, MedPage Today www.medpagetoday.com/neurology/au...

Cruel Pittsburgh Zoo. Help Free the Pittsburgh Zoo Elephants to a Sanctuary. Sign letter with link. Angeline, Savanna, Tasha, Victoria, & Zuri - most or all of life confined to Zoo walls for decades in barren space one millionth size of natural habitat. action.nonhumanrights.org/a/free-pitts...

‪Daily Kos: "Florida college goes BROKE, b/@least it’s not woke." by L Needham. Once shining star got hobbled b/c not conservative DeSantis took it over gutted leaders library profs. Once total spend $53 million, now $93 million. Cost per student 83,000 4x's univ system average tinyurl.com/ms6dp79r

MIKE RICKSECKER: Secrets of the Guardians of the Stones The Incredible Adventure at Ormaig. Kilmartin & Acknabreck, Scotland w/stone monoliths stretch miles & ancient kings crowned here. "Rock art” carved designs & origin of Stonehenge altar stone tinyurl.com/4htd8679