I'm an artist who turned tail and became a geoscientist, working in mineralogy, sustainability and nonviolence.
https://osf.io/3zd68/
Daniel S Helman, PhD
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Interesting story on sea-ice-thickening research. Covers moral hazard, potential side effects, working with local stakeholders, scalability. Would like to hear from icy people on their take www.theguardian.com/environment/...
They're hiding the lede here: ground squirrels eating mammoth meat.
If you're a fan of a certain type of sci-fi, then you know how fun it is to have your perceptions shift & turn as you are reading.
Check out this really creative novelette by Arula Ratnakar for a great one?
And hang in there?
It gets very rich & very deep.
clarkesworldmagazine.com/ratnakar_05_...
A farm in Fife decided to kill 271 healthy cows under its care after a Scottish government inspection found the animals were unidentifiable. 🐮💔
https://veganfta.com/articles/2026/06/12/scottish-governments-inspection-leads-to-the-decision-to-kill-271-healthy-cows-for-being-unidentifiable/
WHITESIDES: The truth is the cheapest form of energy on a per unit basis is daytime solar. Is that not true?
CHRIS WRIGHT: It depends--
WHITESIDES: No it doesn't depend! It's true. You are amazingly misleading the American public.
WRIGHT: It depends--
WHITESIDES: No!
Really hard to imagine becoming a trillionaire and not wanting to immediately liquidate enough assets to give at least a few hundred billion to organizations making the world a better place.
Washington Nat'l Opera sues the Kennedy Center alleging that the Center STOLE the opera's endowment.
WNO had a longterm agreement where KC ran the opera's development back office, and in 2025 KC just ... stopped doing it and seized the funds.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
I remember the bombs. I remember walking past burning cars to get to work. I remember the shootings. I remember the fear. I remember the hope everyone felt as we voted for the Good Friday agreement. I remember us believing that future generations wouldn't have to suffer this.