Minnesota Governor Tim Walz has signed a law guaranteeing free breakfast and lunch for all students in the state, regardless of how much money their parents make. Tens of thousands of food-insecure kids will benefit.
Maps twist our perception of the world
Here are 20 to rethink it:
1. Countries closer to the equator (~poorer) seem smaller than they are
(map by Neil Kaye)
Last year, a coworker randomly asked me to hand-deliver an antique violin across the country. I said yes, because why not. I had no idea what I was getting into, and now I need your help. A 🧵
What Wikipedia did: we stood strong for our principles and fought to the Supreme Court of Turkey and won. This is what it means to treat freedom of expression as a principle rather than a slogan.
Breaking News: The Supreme Court limited the Environmental Protection Agency’s authority to police water pollution, ruling that discharges into some wetlands are not covered by the Clean Water Act. nyti.ms/3WwaXeH
My buddies and I used to play bank account chicken where you wire them the full contents of your account and say “bet you won’t send it back” but our wives made us stop
How can you visualize the entire observable universe in a relatively small rectangular area? Using the logarithmic scale, as Pablo Carlos Budassi did, locating the most notable astronomical objects as far away as the edge of time
[source, zoomable: buff.ly/3Av83hn]
In total despair reading this. At the public for being apathetic and at the media for being too vacuous, dumb and cowardly, to report this with the shock and horror it deserves theguardian.com/environment/20…
Pale Blue Dot is a photo of Earth that was taken by the Voyager 1 space probe in 1990 from a distance of about 6 billion kilometers (3.7 billion miles) as it was leaving our solar system. This is what Carl Sagan said about the photo:
"Look again at that dot. That's here. That's
If you’re outdoors in these temperatures you need to be primarily drinking water.
NOT red bull,
NOT iced coffee,
NOT that purple stuff all over tiktok,
W👏A👏T👏E👏R
Senator John Fetterman and two cosponsors have introduce a bill to cancel student lunch debt nationwide.
The Universal School Meals Program Act would provide free breakfast, lunch, dinner, and a snack to every child in America.
No kid should go hungry.
Israel and Gaza are not two countries at war. Gaza is a territory under siege, where every aspect of life is controlled by Israel.
Palestinians didn’t break through a “border” to enter Israel. They destroyed a fence separating them from the homes they were forced out of.