Happy TrumpFlation Day to all who celebrate (with a $9 coffee) www.nytimes.com/live/2026/06...
WWII Allied advance troops had a communications challenge & they solved it with BIRDS🐦 and BRAS👙.
Squad-level radios (SCR-300) were heavy (~40 lbs/18 kg), worn as a backpack.
Allied paratroopers operating in Europe needed something light, compact.
So they turned to homing pigeons.
Most people remember the "other" birds associated with Charles Darwin. You know, the Galapagos "finches" that are actually tanagers (but Chuck didn't know that).
The first chapter of "On the Origin of Species" was based on his work with PIGEON breeding. It started as research & ended as a hobby.
Want to know what it's like to be at the epicenter of the current #Ebola outbreak in the #DRC and helping to lead the response?
Read this outstanding interview with my colleague Chikwe Ihekweazu Executive Director of @who.int s Health Emergencies Programme.
www.science.org/content/arti...
My collection of microfictions finally has an official title: Still Life with Apocalypse. It will be out sometime in 2027 from Pink Beam Press.
The best superhero is Swamp Thing because sometimes Swamp Thing wanders around a planet a galaxy away as he has an existential debate with a copy of himself he made out of azure soil and sometimes Swamp Thing fights dracula at a gas station
so, this is deeply, deeply horrifying thedreydossier.substack.com/p/i-found-a-...
