I went to the UCLA campus last night and spent a few hours there before the police dispersed the encampment. I wanted to see the pro-Palestine student protests for myself and get a sense of the atmosphere, energy, and students, as well as the movement's focus and the desired…

Significant.

Altitude and disease selection pressures driving genomic adaptation in PNG.

A reminder that the trump MAGA 2025 plan calls for dismantling weather/climate agencies like the National Weather Service that provides free weather info including tornado alerts to Americans.

Personally I think this sounds very bad. time.com/6972021/donald…

A look at a past analogue for present day U.S. home prices under raised loan rates.

Great to have this dated properly - often still quoted as evidence for H. sapiens evolving IN China.. U-series dating on the human fossils & radiocarbon & OSL dating on the fossil-bearing sediments provided ages from ~33,000 to 23,000 years ago (ka) nature.com/articles/s4146…

Just 6 companies dump 25% of global plastic pollution
1 Coca-Cola 11%
2 PepsiCo 5%
3 Nestle 3%
4 Danone 3%
5 Altria 2%
6 Philip Morris 2%

And just 56 companies dump more than 50% of global plastic, polluting at will with no consequences

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Researchers reconstruct landscapes that greeted the first humans in Australia around 65,000 years ago phys.org/news/2024-04-r… via Phys.org

Always interesting research coming out of the Lovelock Lab.

Steve Crooks appreciating discussions with Cynthia Ellis, Ambassador at Large for the #Garifuna Nation, #Belize , on the importance of #indigenous knowledge in climate responses.

How ca. the EU civilians develop the Ukrainian type resilience to be ready for a Russian attack?

Dutch Ministry of Defense’s asked me to speak to this today at their conference in Hague

These are my points informed by my wartime civilian experience: 1/

Elon Musk – Dead at 52 – Says There Is No Need for Misinformation Laws theshovel.com.au/2024/04/23/elo…

After all this investment in a particular form of testing only moderate correlation between IQ and SAT grades.

Possible environmental disaster unfolding in the Kurgan region of Russia.

A clip from Dr. Snyder’s illuminating testimony about China’s (and Russia’s) political warfare.

Here he summarizes the 6 propaganda themes about the invasion of Ukraine that have been constructed by Russia, then picked up and echoed by China (and some in the U.S). Please listen.

#Indonesia , an amazing country that is always moving and shaking.

Hominin population bottleneck coincided with migration from Africa during the Early Pleistocene ice age transition pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…