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Original forests vs current forests [🎞️ globaia]

Rollercoasters in Physics — the total energy is just being transformed back and forth between gravitational potential energy and kinetic energy!

JUST IN: A federal judge has just ORDERED Llano County Texas to return "all books" that were removed from their libraries due to their content or viewpoint. Library patrons successfully argued that "content-based restrictions" were likely unconstitutional. The Texas judge is also prohibiting the officials from removing any more books while a lawsuit remains pending. The books that were banned included a book for teens that calls the Ku Klux Klan a terrorist group, Isabel Wilkerson’s “Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents” and a comedic children’s book with three stories from Dawn McMillan’s “I Need a New Butt!” series. The decision could set wide reaching precedent in light of recent book banning in Florida, supported by Ron DeSantis. What a great victory for books! 💙

@SchneidRemarks @nickyknacks he's gone

@SchneidRemarks @nickyknacks Relayed this story to my boyfriend who wonders what the job was. Some jobs are more suitable for men, he says.

@FCDOPeterAbbott This is snow! Just made some. 9 deg. F

I had to give this a go last night: boiling water turning to steam in seconds. Science is amazing! Record-breaking levels of #cold in #Boston right now. Stay warm, New England! 🥶

Encased in acrylic and carefully labeled, this display collection by Tim and Cory Marriott shows five noble gasses are subjected to the high frequency electric field of a miniature Tesla coil [source, read more: buff.ly/3KV8Mdy]

The fish is using a rock as a tool to help it break open its hard-shelled prey 🔨 15 wrasse species have been observed using tools to date 🐟 Help us discover new species! Report your observation of this behavior at fishtooluse.com or contact me.

@KaylaChowShow What time?

Would you run, naked, through a mall for 1 minute for $1 million?

The long term impacts are still unknown. trib.al/WmQMgyz

Yes! Seattle's schools are suing tech giants for harming young people's mental health npr.org/2023/01/08/114…

@DanielPink "And as I go, I love to sing..."

The B-52s were right: We should roam if we want to. Research shows that wandering to new, varied and unexpected places boosts happiness and sharpens creativity. Resolution: Make 2023 a Wander Year. wsj.com/articles/the-e…

If we think lithium is our key to surviving and curbing climate change we should be investing in desalination technology that harvests Li from the concentrated brine byproduct of desalination facilities, instead of ripping it from the earth and exploiting labor abroad.

The books I read in 2022 (click a cover to read the review): richardcarter.com/books-2022/ #AmReading

Every 4 to 10 years, certain oak populations will synchronize to produce almost no acorns at all (starving off mammals), only to rain them down excessively the following year. This happens because only one in 10,000 acorns results in an eventual tree buff.ly/3oIHlK5

@tjscience @bug_gwen This is a thing? Bugs faking death?

@bug_gwen Here’s some bug-action!! My blue death feigning crew being dramatic when they met my elementary science methods students (one diabolical ironclad in there too)

@Unpop_Science @FossilLocator Excellent article 👍

For the past several months, I’ve been investigating the case of the Arctic crab collapses. I interviewed observers, whistleblowers, fishermen, government officials, and marine biologists. Here is my published story and a thread of final thoughts: nautil.us/where-have-all…