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When I talk about the environment I usually say “Climate change & Environmental Degradation.” It’s important to understand that while these two reinforce each other, they aren’t the same thing.

A UK-wide decline in bug splats recorded on car number plates indicates an “alarming” fall in the number of flying insects, UK scientists said in a survey published yesterday.

The 2024 Bugs Matter report revealed the numbers of flying insects found stuck to vehicle number plates had dropped by nearly 63 per cent since 2021.

This study from Germany in 2017 found a:

Pg. 49: Your ox dies from dysentery. Two days later, you die from grief.

Pg. 72: In a world of apocalyptic warfare, drone massacres, and nuclear devastation, there is no market for Lisa Frank–inspired iPhone cases. Your microbusiness fails.

Pg. 48: A man named John Cigarettes offers you a cigarette. You accept the cigarette. You like how it makes you feel. It’s almost like the world stops while you smoke. When you finish the cigarette, you ask John for another. “Sorry,” he says, “I’m all out.” But you can tell that his pack of cigarettes is full, and that John is not telling the truth. When you return to the Church of the Holy Redeemer and Fiefdom of the Executor of Heretics, you tell them that John is a heretic. They find and crucify John.

The Liberals have been reduced to a rump but Labor’s historic victory is not the emphatic endorsement of Albanese’s agenda that it might seem.

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Psychologists have known about the ‘halo effect’ for ages. New research suggests the power of language can help explain it

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Saltwater is killing trees along low-lying coasts, and marshes may move in

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What I discovered about my dad and myself at the lab where his brain resides

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These symbols of romance are geometrical enigmas

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A day after being attacked by a pro-Israel mob, protesters were shot by rubber bullets — whose use is restricted by California law.

The post Police Shot Them in the Head With Rubber Bullets. Now UCLA Gaza Protesters Are Suing. appeared first on The Intercept.

On 8 January, almost as soon as the Christmas holidays were over, workers at Solace Women’s Aid in Tower Hamlets were informed by email that the organisation would be making up to a third of their staff redundant in the following 13 days. The email cited ‘funding issues’. Solace Tower Hamlets is the primary independent […]

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In politics, as in medicine, a cure based on a false diagnosis is almost always worthless, often worsening the condition that is supposed to be healed. The United States, today, suffers from a plethora of public ills. Most of them can be traced to the militarism and imperialism that have led to the near-collapse of our Constitutional system of checks and balances. Unfortunately, none of the remedies proposed so far by American politicians or analysts addresses the root causes of the problem. According to an NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll, released on April 26, 2007, some 78% of Americans believe their country to be headed in the wrong direction. Only 22% think the Bush administration’s policies make sense, the lowest... Read more

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Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – May 4, 2025

by Tony Wikrent

Trump not violating any law

‘He who saves his Country does not violate any Law’

‘We’re Not Stopping’: Trump Border Czar Vows to Ignore Judges

[The Daily Beast, via MSN 03-18-2025]