GregoryP
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Acute appendicitis is a leading cause of abdominal pain and emergency surgery in children and adults worldwide. A Primer in Nature Reviews Disease Primers reviews its epidemiology, diagnosis, management, and future research directions. go.nature.com/4ru8Vuq #medsky 🧪
December 4, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Acute appendicitis is a leading cause of abdominal pain and emergency surgery in children and adults worldwide. A Primer in Nature Reviews Disease Primers reviews its epidemiology, diagnosis, management, and future research directions. go.nature.com/4ru8Vuq #medsky 🧪
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337 of #365Minerals 🧪⚒️
Chalcosiderite:
- A rare phosphate mineral
- Forms in the oxidised zone of some hydrothermal deposits
- Its name comes from the Greek words "χαλκος/chalkos" (copper) and "σίδηρος/sideros" (iron) because of its composition #minerals
Chalcosiderite:
- A rare phosphate mineral
- Forms in the oxidised zone of some hydrothermal deposits
- Its name comes from the Greek words "χαλκος/chalkos" (copper) and "σίδηρος/sideros" (iron) because of its composition #minerals
December 3, 2025 at 10:22 AM
337 of #365Minerals 🧪⚒️
Chalcosiderite:
- A rare phosphate mineral
- Forms in the oxidised zone of some hydrothermal deposits
- Its name comes from the Greek words "χαλκος/chalkos" (copper) and "σίδηρος/sideros" (iron) because of its composition #minerals
Chalcosiderite:
- A rare phosphate mineral
- Forms in the oxidised zone of some hydrothermal deposits
- Its name comes from the Greek words "χαλκος/chalkos" (copper) and "σίδηρος/sideros" (iron) because of its composition #minerals
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December 2 is the International Day for the Abolition of Slavery.
An estimated 50,000,000 people are enslaved today in various forms of modern-day slavery.
www.un.org/en/observanc...
#AbolishSlavery #HumanRights #16DaysOfActivism
An estimated 50,000,000 people are enslaved today in various forms of modern-day slavery.
www.un.org/en/observanc...
#AbolishSlavery #HumanRights #16DaysOfActivism
December 2, 2025 at 9:37 PM
December 2 is the International Day for the Abolition of Slavery.
An estimated 50,000,000 people are enslaved today in various forms of modern-day slavery.
www.un.org/en/observanc...
#AbolishSlavery #HumanRights #16DaysOfActivism
An estimated 50,000,000 people are enslaved today in various forms of modern-day slavery.
www.un.org/en/observanc...
#AbolishSlavery #HumanRights #16DaysOfActivism
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Africa’s forests transformed from carbon sink to carbon source, study finds
Alarming shift since 2010 means planet’s three main rainforest regions now contribute to climate breakdown.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
#GlobalHeating
Alarming shift since 2010 means planet’s three main rainforest regions now contribute to climate breakdown.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
#GlobalHeating
December 1, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Africa’s forests transformed from carbon sink to carbon source, study finds
Alarming shift since 2010 means planet’s three main rainforest regions now contribute to climate breakdown.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
#GlobalHeating
Alarming shift since 2010 means planet’s three main rainforest regions now contribute to climate breakdown.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
#GlobalHeating
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"Strong floor, no ceiling" is very literally the basis of like every Gilded Age political cartoon
November 30, 2025 at 9:41 PM
"Strong floor, no ceiling" is very literally the basis of like every Gilded Age political cartoon
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Terribly timeless toons.
The wrecking balls of Wall Street?
· Private Press
· General Unscrupulousness
· False Reports
· Trickery
(from 1882 about the 1869 stock market crash)
The wrecking balls of Wall Street?
· Private Press
· General Unscrupulousness
· False Reports
· Trickery
(from 1882 about the 1869 stock market crash)
![A political cartoon from the market crash of 1869.
This print from March 1882 depicts Jay Gould bowling on Wall Street using bowling balls labeled “Private Press, General Unscrupulousness, False Reports, [and] Trickery” to knock down pins labeled “Banker, Small Operator, Speculator, Stock Dabbler, Broker, Inexperienced Investor, Capitalist, [and] Curb Stone Broker.”
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (LC-DIG-ppmsca-28461)](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ut24bhoexaye33uqw4427ixt/bafkreih2xpw63uxiz5lq7z7atpsu3pniqxhawcs6nqx7q5hnokhfjprxm4@jpeg)
November 30, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Terribly timeless toons.
The wrecking balls of Wall Street?
· Private Press
· General Unscrupulousness
· False Reports
· Trickery
(from 1882 about the 1869 stock market crash)
The wrecking balls of Wall Street?
· Private Press
· General Unscrupulousness
· False Reports
· Trickery
(from 1882 about the 1869 stock market crash)
OBGYN - SNL
YouTube video by Saturday Night Live
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November 29, 2025 at 10:09 AM
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University of Nevada Reno Special Collections has a photo of northern Paiute Wuzzie Dick George and her grandchildren taken at Stillwater, NV, Nov 27, 1958. tinyurl.com/2zbs3f2k
Note: Wuzzie is anglicized for WiziɁi where "Ɂ" is a glottal stop, like we might use saying uh-oh.
Note: Wuzzie is anglicized for WiziɁi where "Ɂ" is a glottal stop, like we might use saying uh-oh.
November 27, 2025 at 11:45 PM
University of Nevada Reno Special Collections has a photo of northern Paiute Wuzzie Dick George and her grandchildren taken at Stillwater, NV, Nov 27, 1958. tinyurl.com/2zbs3f2k
Note: Wuzzie is anglicized for WiziɁi where "Ɂ" is a glottal stop, like we might use saying uh-oh.
Note: Wuzzie is anglicized for WiziɁi where "Ɂ" is a glottal stop, like we might use saying uh-oh.
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I love early modern exercise books. They are the basic components of many bound manuscripts, which contain these fascicles bound together. But they also remained solo like here, and I love an exercise book which contains prophesies of Nostradamus and St Bridget.
November 27, 2025 at 3:09 PM
I love early modern exercise books. They are the basic components of many bound manuscripts, which contain these fascicles bound together. But they also remained solo like here, and I love an exercise book which contains prophesies of Nostradamus and St Bridget.
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Stopped by one of my happy places yesterday, John K. King Used & Rare Books in Detroit. It's a massive 4-story bookstore in one of the oldest warehouses in the city and is one of my most favoritest places in the world. It's like magic to me. You never know what treasure you'll find.
November 27, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Stopped by one of my happy places yesterday, John K. King Used & Rare Books in Detroit. It's a massive 4-story bookstore in one of the oldest warehouses in the city and is one of my most favoritest places in the world. It's like magic to me. You never know what treasure you'll find.
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November 27, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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"Every life is many days, day after day."
— James Joyce, Ulysses, 1922.
The Museum of Literature Ireland in Dublin displays Copy No. 1 of the first edition of 'Ulysses' by James Joyce.
📷 Literary Journeys | Existential Literature, Art, Music and Film
— James Joyce, Ulysses, 1922.
The Museum of Literature Ireland in Dublin displays Copy No. 1 of the first edition of 'Ulysses' by James Joyce.
📷 Literary Journeys | Existential Literature, Art, Music and Film
November 27, 2025 at 9:53 PM
"Every life is many days, day after day."
— James Joyce, Ulysses, 1922.
The Museum of Literature Ireland in Dublin displays Copy No. 1 of the first edition of 'Ulysses' by James Joyce.
📷 Literary Journeys | Existential Literature, Art, Music and Film
— James Joyce, Ulysses, 1922.
The Museum of Literature Ireland in Dublin displays Copy No. 1 of the first edition of 'Ulysses' by James Joyce.
📷 Literary Journeys | Existential Literature, Art, Music and Film
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Communities need used-book shops.
As the trends in our world are increasingly standardized and entrenched by "predictive" technologies that stifle innovation and reduce human actions into economic categories...
We need a full range of possibilities for readers and communities to explore and share.
As the trends in our world are increasingly standardized and entrenched by "predictive" technologies that stifle innovation and reduce human actions into economic categories...
We need a full range of possibilities for readers and communities to explore and share.
November 27, 2025 at 11:11 PM
Communities need used-book shops.
As the trends in our world are increasingly standardized and entrenched by "predictive" technologies that stifle innovation and reduce human actions into economic categories...
We need a full range of possibilities for readers and communities to explore and share.
As the trends in our world are increasingly standardized and entrenched by "predictive" technologies that stifle innovation and reduce human actions into economic categories...
We need a full range of possibilities for readers and communities to explore and share.
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Scientists Just Found Another Way Antarctica Is Falling Apart
https://www.europesays.com/uk/597875/
The West Antarctic Ice Sheet covers some 760,000 square miles and is up to 1.2 miles thick. If…
https://www.europesays.com/uk/597875/
The West Antarctic Ice Sheet covers some 760,000 square miles and is up to 1.2 miles thick. If…
Scientists Just Found Another Way Antarctica Is Falling Apart - United Kingdom
The West Antarctic Ice Sheet covers some 760,000 square miles and is up to 1.2 miles thick. If it were to ever melt away entirely, it would add 10 feet to
www.europesays.com
November 27, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Scientists Just Found Another Way Antarctica Is Falling Apart
https://www.europesays.com/uk/597875/
The West Antarctic Ice Sheet covers some 760,000 square miles and is up to 1.2 miles thick. If…
https://www.europesays.com/uk/597875/
The West Antarctic Ice Sheet covers some 760,000 square miles and is up to 1.2 miles thick. If…
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Beijing has built or invested in commercial shipping ports on every continent sav Antarctica. Some can be used for military purposes, which has the US increasingly worried.
China Has a Network of Ports Encircling the Globe
With shipping outposts on six continents, Beijing has cemented its trade dominance. That some could be used by its navy has other nations worried.
bloom.bg
November 27, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Beijing has built or invested in commercial shipping ports on every continent sav Antarctica. Some can be used for military purposes, which has the US increasingly worried.
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Mawson station via https://www.antarctica.gov.au/antarctic-operations/webcams/mawson/ #southpole #antarctica #view #webcam
November 28, 2025 at 12:36 AM
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This is another weird Thanksgiving in the Trump Era, which in this second term has become even more frightening than the first time around. We thought it was pretty awful then, and seems certain to require far more reconstruction than after the
This is another weird Thanksgiving in the Trump Era, which in this second term has become even more frightening than the first time around. We thought it was pretty awful then, and seems certain to require far more reconstruction than after the
'No Matter What, We Must Eat To Live.' Your Thanksgiving Poem For A Hungry Winter, 2025.
Give thanks. And give EVERYBODY eat.
open.substack.com
November 28, 2025 at 6:27 AM
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This is another weird Thanksgiving in the Trump Era, which in this second term has become even more frightening than the first time around. We thought it was pretty awful then, and seems certain to require far more reconstruction than after the
This is another weird Thanksgiving in the Trump Era, which in this second term has become even more frightening than the first time around. We thought it was pretty awful then, and seems certain to require far more reconstruction than after the
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#OTD 28 Nov 1489
#MargaretTudor, eldest daughter of #HenryVII & #ElizabethofYork was born
She became #Queenofthescots at 12 marrying #JamesIV who was killed at the Battle of Flodden
Through her marriages she was grandmother to both Mary Queen of Scots & Henry Stuart Lord Darnley
#Tudor
#History
#MargaretTudor, eldest daughter of #HenryVII & #ElizabethofYork was born
She became #Queenofthescots at 12 marrying #JamesIV who was killed at the Battle of Flodden
Through her marriages she was grandmother to both Mary Queen of Scots & Henry Stuart Lord Darnley
#Tudor
#History
November 28, 2025 at 6:21 AM
#OTD 28 Nov 1489
#MargaretTudor, eldest daughter of #HenryVII & #ElizabethofYork was born
She became #Queenofthescots at 12 marrying #JamesIV who was killed at the Battle of Flodden
Through her marriages she was grandmother to both Mary Queen of Scots & Henry Stuart Lord Darnley
#Tudor
#History
#MargaretTudor, eldest daughter of #HenryVII & #ElizabethofYork was born
She became #Queenofthescots at 12 marrying #JamesIV who was killed at the Battle of Flodden
Through her marriages she was grandmother to both Mary Queen of Scots & Henry Stuart Lord Darnley
#Tudor
#History
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Man jailed for keeping eight people enslaved in London car wash
https://www.europesays.com/2598363/
Man jailed for keeping eight people enslaved in London car wash https://news.sky.com/story/man-jailed-for-keeping-eight-people-enslaved-in-london-car-wash-13476151 by topotaul
https://www.europesays.com/2598363/
Man jailed for keeping eight people enslaved in London car wash https://news.sky.com/story/man-jailed-for-keeping-eight-people-enslaved-in-london-car-wash-13476151 by topotaul
Man jailed for keeping eight people enslaved in London car wash - EUROPE SAYS
Man jailed for keeping eight people enslaved in London car wash
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November 28, 2025 at 5:31 AM
Man jailed for keeping eight people enslaved in London car wash
https://www.europesays.com/2598363/
Man jailed for keeping eight people enslaved in London car wash https://news.sky.com/story/man-jailed-for-keeping-eight-people-enslaved-in-london-car-wash-13476151 by topotaul
https://www.europesays.com/2598363/
Man jailed for keeping eight people enslaved in London car wash https://news.sky.com/story/man-jailed-for-keeping-eight-people-enslaved-in-london-car-wash-13476151 by topotaul
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Earth's prehistoric oceans may not have been blue, claim experts #Science #EarthSciences #Oceanography #PrehistoricOceans #EarthScience
Earth's prehistoric oceans may not have been blue, claim experts
Our planet has had an ocean for around 3.8 billion years, but new research suggests it hasn't always been blue. Away from coastal areas, the sea today is blue because of the way water absorbs longer wavelengths...
purescience.news
November 28, 2025 at 1:42 AM
Earth's prehistoric oceans may not have been blue, claim experts #Science #EarthSciences #Oceanography #PrehistoricOceans #EarthScience
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Invertebrates were present on 98% of the objects. Pelagic species showed up on more than 94% of the pieces, and coastal species on a bit over 70%.
They hosted both coastal and pelagic species at the same time, so these very different organisms were sharing the same floating “islands”
They hosted both coastal and pelagic species at the same time, so these very different organisms were sharing the same floating “islands”
The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is now so large that dozens of species call it ‘home’ — Earth.com
When we picture the open Pacific, we imagine endless blue water and not much else. Marine researchers, however, are now seeing something very different: places like the Great Pacific Garbage Patch whe...
apple.news
November 28, 2025 at 3:32 AM
Invertebrates were present on 98% of the objects. Pelagic species showed up on more than 94% of the pieces, and coastal species on a bit over 70%.
They hosted both coastal and pelagic species at the same time, so these very different organisms were sharing the same floating “islands”
They hosted both coastal and pelagic species at the same time, so these very different organisms were sharing the same floating “islands”
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7 Amazing Malaysian Marine Conservation Projects
Marine Conservation, science and research in Malaysia
Malaysia is a diver’s paradise, where every p...
🤿 Full story in comments 👇
Marine Conservation, science and research in Malaysia
Malaysia is a diver’s paradise, where every p...
🤿 Full story in comments 👇
November 28, 2025 at 4:02 AM
7 Amazing Malaysian Marine Conservation Projects
Marine Conservation, science and research in Malaysia
Malaysia is a diver’s paradise, where every p...
🤿 Full story in comments 👇
Marine Conservation, science and research in Malaysia
Malaysia is a diver’s paradise, where every p...
🤿 Full story in comments 👇
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Zehn Jahre nach den Panama Papers muss ein Ex-Mitinhaber der Skandalkanzlei Mossack Fonseca in Deutschland wegen Steuerhinterziehung und Bildung einer kriminellen Vereinigung vor Gericht www.derstandard.at/story/300000...
Ex-Mitinhaber der "Panama Papers"-Kanzlei steht in Deutschland vor Gericht
Zehn Jahre nach den Panama Papers muss ein Ex-Mitinhaber von Mossack Fonseca in Deutschland wegen Steuerhinterziehung und Bildung einer kriminellen Vereinigung vor Gericht
www.derstandard.at
November 28, 2025 at 5:07 AM
Zehn Jahre nach den Panama Papers muss ein Ex-Mitinhaber der Skandalkanzlei Mossack Fonseca in Deutschland wegen Steuerhinterziehung und Bildung einer kriminellen Vereinigung vor Gericht www.derstandard.at/story/300000...
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China Enters the Race for Madagascar’s Critical Minerals as the US Expands Its Own Push
China Enters the Race for Madagascar’s Critical Minerals as the US Expands Its Own Push
China seeks deeper mining ties with Madagascar’s new military-led government Beijing aims to boost investor interest, expand role in critical minerals sector U.S. firm Energy Fuels leads major…
www.ecofinagency.com
November 28, 2025 at 3:35 AM
China Enters the Race for Madagascar’s Critical Minerals as the US Expands Its Own Push