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By the time a large whale dies, it has removed 33 tons of carbon from the atmosphere and will store it at the bottom of the ocean for centuries. Each whale has been calculated to be worth $2 million to the world economy this way.

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Slowly saving and deleting one by one all my photos and videos on FB.

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Cats kill 10,000 times as many birds as wind turbines do.

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“In the past, censorship worked by blocking the flow of information. In the twenty-first century, censorship works by flooding people with irrelevant information … In ancient times having power meant having access to data. Today having power means knowing what to ignore.” - Yuval Noah Harari

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The first step in quieting your mind is to shut your mouth.

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Last month, beavers built several dams almost overnight in an area of the Czech Republic where the local authorities had been discussing a dam project for seven years. Having done so ‘without any project documentation and for free’, the beavers saved them about £1 million.

submitted 29 days ago • 7 comments

Word of the Day: AMPHIBOLY - a sentence or phrase that can be interpreted in more than one way. ‘She is a lesbian vampire killer’ could mean she is a lesbian who kills vampires, she is a killer of lesbian vampires, or she is a lesbian vampire who kills.

submitted 27 days ago • 23 comments

Chernobyl’s frogs have evolved to be black instead of green. The extra melanin in their bodies protects them from radiation.

submitted 14 days ago • 15 comments

Question authority.

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Thanks to Columbia Journalism Review for commissioning this piece in the days following Inauguration. Working on it really helped me to process so much happening all at once.

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Lemon or lime juice can cause a chemical burn if it makes contact with the skin on hot days. The condition is called ‘margarita dermatitis’ due to its prevalence among people drinking the cocktail outside.

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Much respect to @ricksteves.bsky.social rewatching this explanationof fascism in the context of how it starts, how it continues, how it ends and is prevented from returning. "We are partipants, we are all responsible. " youtu.be/aLWWqUUm2uk?...

submitted 24 days ago • 8 comments

Just deleted Instagram. Slowly dismantling Facebook. It’s gonna take a while.

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Welcome.

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