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The Walrus Talks at Home: Public Education and Philanthropy, presented by TakingITGlobal, addresses the strain on parents – especially in the North – who struggle to find extracurricular programs for their children. Join us to learn more twthpeandp.eventbrite.ca/?aff...

We're starting a column called Today in National Parks News Where we'll try and keep you up to date on the latest Please forgive the volume as we try and balance the bad news with the good. www.kbzk.com/news/local-n...

We're not giving up, nope, we're inching closer to our goal & getting back to the park and another successful year of field work. We're a 501c3. All our certificates are publicly available. Just follow the links. We are AltYelloNatPark™ AltYelloNatPark.org Please donate tonight gofund.me/babd9034

The Algoma Steel buyout helped restructuring adviser Ron Bloom  appreciate just how much leverage trade unions can have during bankruptcy proceedings. The case to make is a simple one: a living mill is better than liquidation. thewalrus.ca/how-canada-once-...

There is only one love

@buickmakane71.bsky.social when the time is right I’ll build this so you can find your way home.

Happy day-before-chocolate-sales day!

"A few kind words can make all the difference." Indeed.

evergreen sentiment

DISEASES ERADICATED OR DECIMATED BY SCIENCE: 1. Chickenpox 2. Diphtheria 3. Measles 4. Pertussis 5. Pneumococcal Infection 6. Polio 7. Tetanus 8. Typhoid 9. Yellow Fever 10. Smallpox DISEASES ERADICATED OR DECIMATED BY RFK JR. OR PRAYER: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.

Do not mess with librarians. They let complete strangers borrow their books. For a living. Even the hardcovers. They are so much stronger than you know.

Hey, elites, politicians, and those in power! Dystopian novels are 𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴𝘀, not 𝗵𝗼𝘄-𝘁𝗼 𝗴𝘂𝗶𝗱𝗲𝘀 for building the perfect state! You’re not supposed to read "1984" or "The Handmaid's Tale" and think, “𝘎𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘵 𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘢𝘴, 𝘭𝘦𝘵’𝘴 𝘪𝘮𝘱𝘭𝘦𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘴𝘦.” 🙃

The Trump administration’s cuts to university research grants will make America sicker and poorer in the long run, David Deming writes. DOGE should stop "confusing efficiency with ill-conceived budget cuts."

📰 Now on the #Princeton Homepage! "Teaching Computers to Understand African Languages," a new Freshman Seminar taught by CDH/PAHC Postdoc @happybuzaaba1.bsky.social, focuses on the challenges around increasing the representation of African languages in LLMs and access to the benefits of AI.

African American inventor Marie Van Brittan Brown invented a closed-circuit television security system, which put technology on the path to modern home security systems used today. If you have a Ring or ADT, you have Marie Van Brittan Brown to thank.

Reposting as Sagan is so prescient from 30 years ago.

ASL interpreters who work in the arts (concerts, opera, theatre, etc) deserve to be valued as artists too. it takes so much skill to be this good at capturing the FEEL of music beyond just translating the meaning of the text and it’s an invaluable accessibility service

And they are yummy!

Conducting plant surveys in the woods for math class, scheduling breaks during hunting season—schools in the Yukon are reorienting their instruction around First Nations ways of life, helping students develop a deeper awareness of the place they call home. thewalrus.ca/first-nation-sch...

The right way of "sportsing!"

Just saying…

Duolingo social media admin is brutal!

Any dictionary can be a pocket dictionary with big enough pants.

This is the most relevant article to NIH and research cuts I’ve seen. Imagine if this was today , how many people would be saying “Why are we studying Gila Monsters and their impact on diabetes ? That’s wasted money !” globalnews.ca/news/9793403...

Monday thought:

“Rather than fascism or single-party dictatorship, the United States is sliding toward a more 21st-century model of autocracy: competitive authoritarianism,” Steven Levitsky writes:

I just realized that the next four years are basically going to be one giant Festivus ‘celebration’. We have an old guy and a daily airing of grievances. For all we know there is a giant aluminum pole in the White House, EM arm wrestling random cabinet nominees and DOGE bros in feats of strength.

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