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drjudystone

‘This place wanted to be a wetland’: how a farmer turned his fields into a wildlife sanctuary theguardian.com/us-news/2023/o?

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Dr. Lucky Tran :verified:

“Placing HEPA air filters into classrooms in the Bradford area of the UK reduced the number of covid-19-related absences among students by more than 20 per cent”

Clean air works. Why are we not doing this more?

newscientist.com/article/23987

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George Takei :verified: 🏳️‍🌈🖖🏽

This is what "freedom" means to the right wing. comicsands.com/tp-usa-david-bo

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Gaythia Weis

@freemo @futurebird @andyhilmer I think that "banned" is the wrong term to uses in most school districts. They simply lack the capacity to teach advanced math, including Calculus, even if they thought it was important and wanted to do so. Starting with early grades, they think of math as a series of drills to be memorized. Who would teach the needed abstract reasoning concepts?

It is the lefty liberal districts, that do have some math capable teachers who do actually ban access to higher level math. They do so because they are worried about "gaps", the early sorting of students into high and low math tracks, a practice that disproportionately disadvantaged Black and Latino students and made it harder for them to access advanced courses down the line. If you prohibit Algebra until 9th grade, some students are either getting outside supplementation, or they are being slowed down. Opportunities to burst forward are also not accessible. edweek.org/teaching-learning/s

Of course the issue isn't just school sorting, it is social and educational privilege that enables some families to provide their offspring with enriched environments, starting at the preschool level.

It is hard to create catch up opportunities in public schools, especially when so many elementary school teachers have week abstract learning/math skills themselves.

And we are a far cry from being a society where most adults understand at least the basic concepts of rate of change or approaching a limit. People don't understand that Calculus might actually have some relevance.

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Gaythia Weis

@dayglojago Ooo. Way back my father was a PCC math instructor who loved that system for the reasons you explain. Glad it worked out for you!

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Timnit Gebru (she/her)

"I admit that I started thinking about this after spending the weekend walking underneath a grove of hundreds-of-feet-tall, centuries-old California Redwoods. As I gazed at the morning fog settling over the giant trees, I wondered: Why are we really spending billions on GPUs and data centers, fueling a spike in water consumption during a drought? For products consumers may or may not want or need?" -Sharon Goldman

venturebeat.com/ai/why-ai-is-t

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Timnit Gebru (she/her)

Wow it gets better.

“she was forced to leave Temple University for neighbouring UPenn after a dispute with her boss, who then attempted to have her deported.”

& Penn

“They issued an ultimatum, if she wanted to continue working with mRNA she would lose her prestigious faculty position, & face a…pay cut.”

”…that same week, I had just been diagnosed with cancer…I was facing 2 operations, & my husband, who had gone back to Hungary to pick up his green card…got stranded…”

wired.co.uk/article/mrna-coron

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Galbinus Caeli 🌯

This is huge. And likely to go under the media radar.
thehill.com/homenews/state-wat

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Ariadne

The Guardian article on the #NYC #rainfall #deluge and #flooding and the analysis on which it is based are okay, but entirely miss the key point - "with every degree (Celsius) of warming, the atmosphere can hold 7% more moisture"[1]. In greater #NY / #NJ the temperature is now about 2.2C over the 1900 - 2020 average [2]. This equates to the atmosphere holding 15.4% more water than average. No "rapid attribution study" necessary. It's simple atmospheric #physics.

Guardian - "Type of storm that drenched New York is up to 20% wetter due to #ClimateCrisis. Rapid attribution study finds storm 10-20% wetter after city experienced a month’s worth of rain in just a few hours on Friday"

Guardian article -
theguardian.com/environment/20

[1] ZDF Report (in German) -
per #ZDF weather expert, meteorologist Özden Terli
zdf.de/nachrichten/panorama/kl

[2] US Temperature Data per #US #EPA
epa.gov/climate-indicators/cli

#ClimateEmergency #Climate #Klimakrise #Klima #ClimateDiary #GlobalWarming #NewYork #NewJersey #Weather #TorrentialRain #Floods #FlashFlood #FlashFloods #Meteorology

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Chuck Darwin

The University of Pennsylvania, where Kariko was on track for a professorship, decided to pull the plug on her when her grant rejections piled up.

"I was up for promotion, and then they just demoted me and expected that I would walk out the door," she told AFP in an interview from her home in Philadelphia in December 2020.

Kariko didn't yet have a green card and needed a job to renew her visa. She also knew she wouldn't be able to put her daughter through college without the hefty staff discount.

She decided to persist as a lower-rung researcher, scraping by on a meager salary.

It was a low point in her life and career, but "I just thought...you know, the (lab) bench is here, I just have to do better experiments," she said.

Now, her pioneering work—which paved the way for the Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna COVID-19 vaccines—has won her the Nobel Prize in Medicine.
#NobelPrize #medicine #nobel #mrna #Kariko
medicalxpress.com/news/2023-10

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Dr. Lucky Tran :verified:

Psst... get your COVID booster everyone, it's based on Nobel Prize-winning technology!

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Steve Herman

On Monday, President Biden is to deliver remarks to celebrate the Americans with Disabilities Act (#ADA), which he cosponsored as a senator, and to mark #DisabilityPrideMonth, according to the White House.

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Richard Ashwell

Major UK methane greenhouse gas leak spotted from space

Its detection by satellite raises hopes that future leaks can be stopped more quickly.

#Methane has 28 times the heating potential of CO2 and is a major contributor to #GlobalWarming.

#Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateEmergency #ClimateCrisis

bbc.co.uk/news/science-environ

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Timnit Gebru (she/her)

Sigh.
washingtonpost.com/technology/

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George Takei :verified: 🏳️‍🌈🖖🏽

There’s another GOP candidate debate coming up with the leader of the pack notably missing again. The rest of them should have to answer questions that he has raised in his latest “Truth Social” postings about Gen. Mark Milley, Jack Smith and Fani Willis. Do they agree with him? Do they condemn his words? The GOP has got to start to take ownership for the things their de facto leader says. They can’t be allowed to continue to deflect and dissemble.

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@blk_intellect

Research Warns White Supremacists Are Building a Shadow Militia voanews.com/a/research-warns-w

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Zee

This makes my heart happy
#JimmyCarter

Jimmy, #RosalynnCarter surprise parade crowd at Georgia festival - UPI.com

upi.com/Top_News/US/2023/09/23

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Molly B

@MikeDunnAuthor I live in Oklahoma, and my kid’s school system has been targeted by the state superintendent. We have lost so many really good teachers. One of our favorites was a social studies teacher who went to work in a remote tech job for probably more than 2x the salary—and no need to worry about getting death threats for teaching about the Tulsa Race Massacre. I don’t blame her one bit.

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Sheril Kirshenbaum

I got the new #COVID mRNA vaccine. If it’s available where you are, it’s a great way to protect you & your community from serious illness.

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Waldo Jaquith

Clarence Thomas twice spoke at the Koch brothers’ annual fundraising retreat. A sitting Supreme Court justice is actually fundraising for a partisan organization that routinely brings cases before the Supreme Court, which he routinely rules in favor of. Naturally he has not disclosed this. propublica.org/article/clarenc

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