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'Stonecipher’s other big cultural transformation was focused on maligning and marginalizing engineers as a class, and airplanes as a business. “You can make a lot of money going out of business” was something he liked to say'
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A beautiful kelpfish (Gibbonsia metzi) from an after-dark negative tide near Santa Cruz, CA. Look at his little striped mittens! 🐟🐠🐟
November 11, 2025 at 6:20 AM
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NEWS: The UK is no longer sharing intelligence with the US about suspected drug trafficking vessels in the Caribbean because it does not want to be complicit in US military strikes and believes the attacks are illegal, sources familiar with the matter told CNN. edition.cnn.com/2025/11/11/p...
Exclusive: UK suspends some intelligence sharing with US over boat strike concerns in major break | CNN Politics
The United Kingdom is no longer sharing intelligence with the US about suspected drug trafficking vessels in the Caribbean because it does not want to be complicit in US military strikes and believes ...
edition.cnn.com
November 11, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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'Sizewell C #nuclear station is now predicted to cost £47 billion, with the govt acknowledging even this estimate may rise significantly. New nuclear means massive costs, a poisoned legacy to future generations, and whopping radioactive pollution.'
labouroutlook.org/2025/11/10/d...
Does Britain really need nuclear power? – Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament
With funding confirmed for a new nuclear power station in Suffolk, Dr Ian Fairlie, CND Vice-President and science adviser, asks why the Government is so fixated with nuclear power.
labouroutlook.org
November 11, 2025 at 10:17 AM
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First-ever atlas of brain development shows how stem cells turn into neurons
There are 6 excellent human brain development papers in Nature - www.nature.com/articles/d41... Check them out!
November 11, 2025 at 12:13 AM
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7,261 elderly/vulnerable people in care homes given ‘notice to quit’.

Major reason: "revenge evictions’. people “threatened with eviction as a result of raising a complaint"

Care homes are mostly in the private sector, owned by corporations and private equity, profit margins of up to 40%.
Revealed: Thousands of elderly people evicted from care homes every year
Thousands of elderly and vulnerable people have received eviction notices from their care homes in the last year, the Big Issue has found.
www.bigissue.com
November 11, 2025 at 7:43 AM
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The finale of the great TV comedy show Blackadder goes Forth.
Back then I didn't expect one of the funniest programmes ever to end with a scene that makes me cry every time I see it.
Every single time.
November 11, 2025 at 12:33 PM
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The guys behind the enshitification of everything are now working on the human race: Genetically Engineered Babies Are Banned. Tech Titans Are Trying to Make One Anyway. www.wsj.com/tech/biotech...
Genetically Engineered Babies Are Banned. Tech Titans Are Trying to Make One Anyway.
Silicon Valley startups are pushing the boundaries of reproductive genetics, hoping to prevent diseases as well as improve chances for a high IQ and other traits.
www.wsj.com
November 11, 2025 at 12:29 PM
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The indictment of Istanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu is a textbook example of how hybrid regimes operate: elections continue, but the field is tilted beyond recognition.

It’s a sobering signal for Turkey — and for other democracies, including the US - that is under threat.

apnews.com/article/turk...
Istanbul's jailed mayor Imamoglu faces 142 criminal charges in corruption probe
Istanbul’s chief public prosecutor has filed an indictment against the city's jailed mayor, Ekrem Imamoglu.
apnews.com
November 11, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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Emergency accommodation is a lifeline for families fleeing domestic violence.

At a time of crisis, our partnership with Women’s Aid and Airbnb will help families get the care and support they need.
Airbnb to provide 60 domestic abuse survivors with temporary accommodation
Platform partnering with Women’s Aid and City Hall in launch of London pilot
www.independent.co.uk
November 11, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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A pilgrimage I have not made for many years – Hutton’s Unconformity at Lochranza, Arran. The site where Hutton could finally prove the earth was unimaginably ancient. A place of deep history in every way.
November 10, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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Holtec now allowed to dump tritiated water into the Hudson, with around 1.5 million gallons expected to enter the river in the next several years.
#nuclear
www.thecooldown.com/green-busine...
Residents outraged as US nuclear plant gets greenlight to dump radioactive waste into major river: 'Potential long-term consequences'
A federal court has ruled that a nuclear plant in New York can dump radioactive waste into the Hudson River.
www.thecooldown.com
November 11, 2025 at 10:29 AM
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Oxitec withdraws application to release its #GMO mosquitoes in Australia. Plan had attracted strong opposition from the public and scientists. “GM mosquito releases in North & South America failed and would have failed here too while causing health and environment havoc.” gmwatch.org/en/106-news/...
Oxitec withdraws application to release its GM mosquitoes in Australia
GM mozzies plan had attracted strong opposition from the public and scientists
gmwatch.org
November 10, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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Hope not Hate, after conducting an in-depth investigation into a company closely intertwined with Herasight, accused Anomaly and several others associated with the firm of having links to scientific racism and far-right activists. investigations.hopenothate.org.uk/superbaby-fa...
November 10, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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Scientists have discovered that the Huchthausen family from the village of Förste (Lower Saxony) has lived there continuously for around three millennia.
DNA analysis showed that the ancestors of Manfred Huchthausen lived just two kilometers away — in the Lichtenstein Cave, around 1000 BC
November 9, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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When Boris Johnson was Prime Minister one of his senior advisers confided to me that one of the only things in politics his boss actually cared about was “killing off the BBC”.

Five years on, and it is a campaign that appears to be finally coming to fruition.

bylinetimes.com/2025/11/10/t...
The BBC’s Attempts to Appease the 'Right-Wing Coup' Against It Are Now Seeding Its Own Destruction
By attempting to appease those forces seeking to destroy them, the BBC has helped trigger a crisis that now threatens its very future, argues Adam Bienkov
bylinetimes.com
November 10, 2025 at 12:49 PM
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November 10, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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Beef, #PalmOil, pulp & paper, rubber, soy & timber are wiping out forests, but Big Agribusiness isn’t acting alone. Banks are bankrolling it.

Read Forest & Finance’s report Banking on Biodiversity Collapse:
https://forestsandfinance.org/banking-on-biodiversity-collapse/

#DefundDeforestation
November 9, 2025 at 6:10 PM
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"With how logging works here in BC, there isn’t really a way for Drax to be operating in these areas and not include old-growth forests in their wood supply.

The people of the UK should know that the risk of old-growth trees being cut down to produce wood pellets is higher than ever."
November 10, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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Read my statement on IDF soldiers platformed at Canadian universities here: www.heathermcpherson.ca/statement_on...
November 10, 2025 at 2:56 AM
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Residents of Alaska’s storm-battered Native towns consider moving to higher ground
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Residents of Alaska’s storm-battered Native towns consider moving to higher ground
Damage from Typhoon Halong underscored the vulnerability of villages in western Alaska to climate crisis
www.theguardian.com
November 10, 2025 at 9:41 AM