"Much of the brittle, upper crust of Venus is broken into fragments that jostle and move – and the slow churning of Venus’ mantle beneath the surface might be responsible."
"It might be tempting to shrug at the scorching weather across large swaths of the West. This just in: It gets hot in the summer… But this record-setting heat wave's remarkable power, size and unusually early appearance is giving meteorologists and climate experts yet more cause for concern about the routinization of extreme weather in an era of climate change." We're boned.
"The Great Barrier Reef could have its prestigious World Heritage status downgraded after a report from the United Nations said Australia wasn't doing enough to protect it from the effects of climate change… Australia, which attracts millions of snorkeling tourists and beachgoers each year, vowed Tuesday to fight any change of status that could hurt its travel industry or see the U.N. step in to take tougher measures to reduce the country's greenhouse gas emissions." The Great Barrier reef is a living system, and if it dies, then it's no longer the world heritage site. Seems pretty simple.
"'We were sleeping and woke up by a sound inside our kitchen,' said Ratchadawan Puengprasoppon, a resident of Hua Hin district in western Prachuap Khiri Khan province. 'So we rushed downstairs and saw this elephant poked its head into our kitchen where the wall was broken.'… Her wall already had a hole in it from when an elephant had smashed into her house last month, she said. The damage had not yet been repaired when the elephant showed up on Saturday and stuck its head through the hole."
"Young Americans are less likely to get vaccinated against COVID-19 than their elders, a new Centers for Disease Control and Prevention study showed." Also waves from exurbia.
"Of the six people infected, five were hospitalized. One employee who was in the hospital died and another employee who was not hospitalized also died, Hopes told CNN's Erin Burnett… The only exposed employee in the IT office who was vaccinated did not get infected, Hopes said." Get the goddamn shot (if you can).
"Employers in California's Santa Clara County, including Christopher Ranch, are required as of June 1 to ascertain if their workers have been vaccinated and check in every 14 days on those who say they have not or who decline to answer." And, of course, they aren't happy about that.
"Amazon marks millions of unsold products for destruction each year in the UK, according to a new investigation by British television program ITV News. ITV found stacks of boxes marked 'destroy' that were filled with electronics, jewelry, books, and other new or gently used items in one warehouse’s 'destruction zone.'"
"Facebook researchers say they've developed artificial intelligence that can identify so-called 'deepfakes' and track their origin by using reverse engineering." Uh huh, sure. Remember the last Facebook AI claim (content monitoring) that turned out to be a few thousand low-wage workers in foreign countries doing the hard work?
"A driver in a pickup truck plowed into bicyclists during a community road race in Arizona on Saturday, critically injuring several riders before police chased the driver and shot him outside a nearby hardware store, authorities said."
"Yet the UNC-Chapel Hill board of trustees declined to act upon (Nikole Hannah-Jones) proposed appointment. That tenure proposal ran aground on race, politics and, perhaps surprisingly, on a clash between diverging views of journalism." "Fairness" and "impartiality" favor those in power, who got to that position by ignoring fairness and impartiality.
"Russian President Vladimir Putin has said the 2014 popular uprising that saw former Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovich forced from office was the result of a “coup” orchestrated by the United States and supported by Washington’s European allies and appealed for greater cooperation on the continent." No, you're the puppet.
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