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· Feb 15
Research reveals how Earth got its ice caps
The cool conditions which have allowed ice caps to form on Earth are rare events in the planet's history and require many complex processes working at once, according to new research.
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We now know that —is due to a coincidental combination of very low rates of global volcanism, and highly dispersed continents with big mountains, which allow for lots of global rainfall and therefore amplify reactions that remove carbon from the atmosphere," he explained.
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"continuation vehicles"
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/24/b...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/24/b...
Investors Warn of ‘Rot in Private Equity’ as Funds Strike Circular Deals
www.nytimes.com
December 26, 2025 at 8:30 PM
"continuation vehicles"
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/24/b...
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Good mail week. All that for $30CA and free shipping, from an Ontario warehousing/returns outfit. Inspired by your book post @lbugrankin.bsky.social
December 2, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Good mail week. All that for $30CA and free shipping, from an Ontario warehousing/returns outfit. Inspired by your book post @lbugrankin.bsky.social
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It’s being done with coal plants so nuclear isn’t a stretch www.powermag.com/canada-bitco...
Canada Bitcoin Miner Acquiring Two Pennsylvania Coal Plants
A Canada-based crypto mining company is acquiring two Pennsylvania coal-fired power plants as part of its purchase of a digital mining group.
www.powermag.com
December 26, 2025 at 6:46 PM
It’s being done with coal plants so nuclear isn’t a stretch www.powermag.com/canada-bitco...
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Texas hopes the Permian basin's oil and gas will make it the center of the US data center boom. But geological instability caused by the industry's wastewater complicates this economic development strategy - and threatens widespread environmental damage. [gift link] www.wsj.com/business/ene...
America’s Biggest Oil Field Is Turning Into a Pressure Cooker
Drillers’ injection of wastewater is creating mayhem across the Permian Basin, raising concern about the future of fossil-fuel production there.
www.wsj.com
December 26, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Texas hopes the Permian basin's oil and gas will make it the center of the US data center boom. But geological instability caused by the industry's wastewater complicates this economic development strategy - and threatens widespread environmental damage. [gift link] www.wsj.com/business/ene...
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This is SO cool! Thanks for sharing.
Archaeologists use Munsell books to describe soil colour all the time. I never thought to dig deeper into this colour system!
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*Atlas of the Munsell Color System* (1915)
Munsell envisioned his atlas as a system akin to musical notation, which would liberate visual description from commercially-driven colour names.
publicdomainreview.org
December 24, 2025 at 12:55 AM
This is SO cool! Thanks for sharing.
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Ancient Sound. Abstract on Black Background https://www.wikiart.org/en/paul-klee/ancient-sound-abstract-on-black-background-1925
December 13, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Ancient Sound. Abstract on Black Background https://www.wikiart.org/en/paul-klee/ancient-sound-abstract-on-black-background-1925
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GOP operatives Jacob Wohl and Jack Burkman, convicted election fraudsters, were paid $960,000 in the second quarter to secure a pardon for a former nursing-home operator who defrauded the government of $38 million. Trump pardoned the man, Joseph Schwartz, last month.
Inside the New Fast Track to a Presidential Pardon
Even some of the president’s closest advisers have been surprised by a number of the recent series of pardons.
www.wsj.com
December 25, 2025 at 10:35 PM
GOP operatives Jacob Wohl and Jack Burkman, convicted election fraudsters, were paid $960,000 in the second quarter to secure a pardon for a former nursing-home operator who defrauded the government of $38 million. Trump pardoned the man, Joseph Schwartz, last month.
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Behold! My Solar System Christmas tree 🎄
Created 5 years ago, it’s a black tree with hand painted ornaments. Each year I added something new—asteroids from clay, moon ornaments, tree skirt, more stars, and even made it rotate. One year it was my favorite exoplanetary system, TRAPPIST-1. 🔭🧪🐡
Created 5 years ago, it’s a black tree with hand painted ornaments. Each year I added something new—asteroids from clay, moon ornaments, tree skirt, more stars, and even made it rotate. One year it was my favorite exoplanetary system, TRAPPIST-1. 🔭🧪🐡
December 25, 2025 at 2:23 AM
Behold! My Solar System Christmas tree 🎄
Created 5 years ago, it’s a black tree with hand painted ornaments. Each year I added something new—asteroids from clay, moon ornaments, tree skirt, more stars, and even made it rotate. One year it was my favorite exoplanetary system, TRAPPIST-1. 🔭🧪🐡
Created 5 years ago, it’s a black tree with hand painted ornaments. Each year I added something new—asteroids from clay, moon ornaments, tree skirt, more stars, and even made it rotate. One year it was my favorite exoplanetary system, TRAPPIST-1. 🔭🧪🐡
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#PPOD: This Hubble Space Telescope image shows the largest planet-forming disk ever observed around a young star. It spans nearly 400 billion miles — 40 times the diameter of our solar system. Tilted nearly edge-on as seen from Earth, the dark, dusty disk resembles a hamburger. 🧪 🔭 👩🔬
December 25, 2025 at 4:00 PM
#PPOD: This Hubble Space Telescope image shows the largest planet-forming disk ever observed around a young star. It spans nearly 400 billion miles — 40 times the diameter of our solar system. Tilted nearly edge-on as seen from Earth, the dark, dusty disk resembles a hamburger. 🧪 🔭 👩🔬
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A good way to put your #tbrlist to work 😏
Also, #merrychristmas to all who celebrate, and #happyholidays to everyone!
#Booksky #bookishnerds #bookworm #bookaholics #bookperson #bookworms #booknerd #books
#bookdragon #bookaddict #bookaddicted #bookaddicts #bookaddiction #booklover #bookishworm
Also, #merrychristmas to all who celebrate, and #happyholidays to everyone!
#Booksky #bookishnerds #bookworm #bookaholics #bookperson #bookworms #booknerd #books
#bookdragon #bookaddict #bookaddicted #bookaddicts #bookaddiction #booklover #bookishworm
December 25, 2025 at 2:40 PM
A good way to put your #tbrlist to work 😏
Also, #merrychristmas to all who celebrate, and #happyholidays to everyone!
#Booksky #bookishnerds #bookworm #bookaholics #bookperson #bookworms #booknerd #books
#bookdragon #bookaddict #bookaddicted #bookaddicts #bookaddiction #booklover #bookishworm
Also, #merrychristmas to all who celebrate, and #happyholidays to everyone!
#Booksky #bookishnerds #bookworm #bookaholics #bookperson #bookworms #booknerd #books
#bookdragon #bookaddict #bookaddicted #bookaddicts #bookaddiction #booklover #bookishworm
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I adore you Ms. Alex.This was the most wonderfully powerful accurately historical documentaries I have ever, EVER seen.
@eddsmitty.bsky.social I want to make sure you see this brother.
@eddsmitty.bsky.social I want to make sure you see this brother.
There's no question the current regime has raised the bar on anti-freedom rhetoric and propaganda, but
political doublespeak in the service of preserving patriarchy and white supremacy has been going on for a long, long time.
youtu.be/krfcq5pF8u8?...
political doublespeak in the service of preserving patriarchy and white supremacy has been going on for a long, long time.
youtu.be/krfcq5pF8u8?...
13TH | FULL FEATURE | Netflix
YouTube video by Netflix
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December 25, 2025 at 6:45 AM
I adore you Ms. Alex.This was the most wonderfully powerful accurately historical documentaries I have ever, EVER seen.
@eddsmitty.bsky.social I want to make sure you see this brother.
@eddsmitty.bsky.social I want to make sure you see this brother.
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Christmas in 1950 was a low time for Langston Hughes. So instead of giving his friends Christmas gifts, he sent out typewritten postcards that expressed his financial state, and enduring holiday cheer.
Christmas Cheer from a Lean Year: The 1950 Holiday Cards of Langston Hughes
The Beinecke Library at Yale University is exhibiting Hughes's typewritten 1950 Christmas postcards, along with holiday cards he received from friends.
hyperallergic.com
December 25, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Christmas in 1950 was a low time for Langston Hughes. So instead of giving his friends Christmas gifts, he sent out typewritten postcards that expressed his financial state, and enduring holiday cheer.
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Keith Haring, The Nativity, subway drawing, c. 1983
December 25, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Keith Haring, The Nativity, subway drawing, c. 1983
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“I cared for patients with new shrapnel injuries, new gunshot wounds every day.”
American volunteer surgeon in Gaza Irfan Galaria tells @mehdirhasan.bsky.social the ceasefire in Gaza has not stopped the annihilation of Palestinians.
Watch the full interview: zeteo.com/p/i-did-not-...
American volunteer surgeon in Gaza Irfan Galaria tells @mehdirhasan.bsky.social the ceasefire in Gaza has not stopped the annihilation of Palestinians.
Watch the full interview: zeteo.com/p/i-did-not-...
December 25, 2025 at 3:03 PM
“I cared for patients with new shrapnel injuries, new gunshot wounds every day.”
American volunteer surgeon in Gaza Irfan Galaria tells @mehdirhasan.bsky.social the ceasefire in Gaza has not stopped the annihilation of Palestinians.
Watch the full interview: zeteo.com/p/i-did-not-...
American volunteer surgeon in Gaza Irfan Galaria tells @mehdirhasan.bsky.social the ceasefire in Gaza has not stopped the annihilation of Palestinians.
Watch the full interview: zeteo.com/p/i-did-not-...
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Epstein Survivor Lisa Phillips: Many survivors came forward, and we began comparing notes and working with people in Congress.
As we started connecting the dots, we realized that some of us were sent to the same person in Hollywood for movie auditions. Some of us went to the same modeling agency…
As we started connecting the dots, we realized that some of us were sent to the same person in Hollywood for movie auditions. Some of us went to the same modeling agency…
December 25, 2025 at 1:10 AM
Epstein Survivor Lisa Phillips: Many survivors came forward, and we began comparing notes and working with people in Congress.
As we started connecting the dots, we realized that some of us were sent to the same person in Hollywood for movie auditions. Some of us went to the same modeling agency…
As we started connecting the dots, we realized that some of us were sent to the same person in Hollywood for movie auditions. Some of us went to the same modeling agency…
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There's something SO relatable about Eli Whitney writing home to his dad from college: "I must beg you sir again & again to send me as much money as you possibly can...I have succeeded very well in my studies, & meet with no other difficulty but the want of money, which indeed is very great."
December 24, 2025 at 1:51 PM
There's something SO relatable about Eli Whitney writing home to his dad from college: "I must beg you sir again & again to send me as much money as you possibly can...I have succeeded very well in my studies, & meet with no other difficulty but the want of money, which indeed is very great."
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Consider this your personal year-end reading list. Revisit the top New Yorker stories of 2025.
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newyorkermag.visitlink.me/qzned0
The Top Twenty-five New Yorker Stories of 2025
Consider this your personal year-end reading list, one that we hope provides hours of pleasure.
newyorkermag.visitlink.me
December 24, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Consider this your personal year-end reading list. Revisit the top New Yorker stories of 2025.
newyorkermag.visitlink.me/qzned0
newyorkermag.visitlink.me/qzned0
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RIP Mohammad Bakri: www.middleeasteye.net/news/mohamma...
Mohammad Bakri, renowned Palestinian director of Jenin, Jenin, dies at 72
Acclaimed actor and filmmaker, known for highlighting Palestinian suffering, passes away in Nahariya
www.middleeasteye.net
December 24, 2025 at 8:27 PM
RIP Mohammad Bakri: www.middleeasteye.net/news/mohamma...
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‘The magic in Gaston Bachelard’s work is often wonderful, but it may be even more remarkable for what it doesn’t include, doesn’t invite to the eclectic seminar.’
Michael Wood on the philosopher of science.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Michael Wood on the philosopher of science.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Michael Wood · Spellbound Gloaming: Bachelard’s Dreamwork
Gaston Bachelard is inviting us to go beyond what we think we know. That is, how to counter boring intuitions with...
www.lrb.co.uk
December 24, 2025 at 8:30 PM
‘The magic in Gaston Bachelard’s work is often wonderful, but it may be even more remarkable for what it doesn’t include, doesn’t invite to the eclectic seminar.’
Michael Wood on the philosopher of science.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Michael Wood on the philosopher of science.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Today in White Sox History: December 24.
Curt Flood paves the way to eventual free agency for all his fellow players.
Curt Flood paves the way to eventual free agency for all his fellow players.
Today in White Sox History: December 24
Curt Flood paves the way to eventual free agency for all his fellow players
www.southsidesox.com
December 24, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Today in White Sox History: December 24.
Curt Flood paves the way to eventual free agency for all his fellow players.
Curt Flood paves the way to eventual free agency for all his fellow players.
Didn't know it was 'legal' or not illegal enough?
www.dw.com/en/venezuela...
www.dw.com/en/venezuela...
Venezuela passes bill criminalizing oil tanker seizures – DW – 12/24/2025
The move comes after the US seized two tankers transporting Venezuelan oil this month. At an emergency UN meeting requested by Caracas, China and Russia accused the US of "bullying" the South American...
www.dw.com
December 24, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Didn't know it was 'legal' or not illegal enough?
www.dw.com/en/venezuela...
www.dw.com/en/venezuela...
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Edward Hopper, Christmas card, 1928 whitney.org/collection/w...
December 24, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Edward Hopper, Christmas card, 1928 whitney.org/collection/w...
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Please post a book you loved in 2025 No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 💙📚
#BookSky #bookchallenge #readingchallenge #readingcommunity #booktok #bookish #books
#BookSky #bookchallenge #readingchallenge #readingcommunity #booktok #bookish #books
December 24, 2025 at 5:15 AM
Please post a book you loved in 2025 No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 💙📚
#BookSky #bookchallenge #readingchallenge #readingcommunity #booktok #bookish #books
#BookSky #bookchallenge #readingchallenge #readingcommunity #booktok #bookish #books