George Washington Carver developed 300 derivative products from peanuts among them cheese, milk, coffee, flour, ink, dyes, plastics, wood stains, soap, linoleum, medicinal oils and cosmetics. #BlackHistoryMonth

Advocacy, Inc. argues that as advocacy organizations are pressured to act like businesses, they risk ignoring the root causes of forced labor, allowing corporations to claim "hero" status while practices of labor exploitation continue unchecked in the global economy.

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Abolish and prosecute ICE

Mexico's War on Drugs has unleashed an endless cycle of violence in the country. Atrocity Without Punishment by Juan Espíndola advances compelling reasons to impose lenient sentences on offenders involved in drug trafficking, including many who commit serious offenses

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I went undercover on Moltbook and loved role-playing as a conscious bot. But rather than a novel breakthrough, the AI-only site is a crude rehashing of sci-fi fantasies.

The objects featured here are HH49 and HH50, as captured by the James Webb Space Telescope. HH stands for Herbig–Haro object, which is a type of nebula formed when narrow jets of gas are created from newborn stars colliding with the nearby gas clouds they formed out of.

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Is ChatGPT Actually Reducing Burnout Or Adding To It?

"Historically informed, ethnographically robust, and gracefully written, Paul Kohlbry's Plots and Deeds is a must read for understanding the contradictions and potential futures of land justice in Palestine and beyond"
—Beshara Doumani, Brown University

Out now! https://ow.ly/YvoY50Y7USa

In his book "The Intimate Animal," sex and relationships researcher Justin Garcia says people have miscalculated their need for human intimacy, which is the real issue at root of the loneliness epidemic. www.wired.com/story/justin...

This Thursday (2/5), 4 PM — Join Elana Resnick for a discussion of her new book Refusing Sustainability: Race and
Environmentalism in a Changing Europe.

Part of UCSB's Interdisciplinary Humanities Center series.

@ihcucsb.bsky.social #ReadUP

We've refined Transitland's global map to emphasize where riders can access the most frequent transit service.

Thanks to staff at San Francisco's transit agency (including @jeffreytumlin.bsky.social) for informing this improvement:

www.interline.io/blog/giving-...

The best opportunity to view this spectacle will be shortly after sunset on December 4. www.wired.com/story/cold-m...

There's a hearing aid so elite that Bob Balaban -- THE GOD -- was worried he couldn't get one (he did, thank goodness) www.wired.com/story/hearin...