JR
@jjr1984.bsky.social
M.A. in Media Studies | Art Historian | Media Scientist | Film Archivist
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If a phone still works fine, it’s not “device hoarding” to keep using it. It’s common sense.
November 27, 2025 at 3:58 PM
If a phone still works fine, it’s not “device hoarding” to keep using it. It’s common sense.
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the price of populism
"By 2025, Brexit had reduced UK GDP by 6% to 8%, with the impact accumulating gradually over time. We estimate that investment was reduced by between 12% and 18%, employment by 3% to 4% and productivity by 3% to 4%"
Read the Stanford report:
siepr.stanford.edu/publications...
Read the Stanford report:
siepr.stanford.edu/publications...
The Economic Impact of Brexit
Other
siepr.stanford.edu
November 25, 2025 at 7:43 PM
the price of populism
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Early mornings can be calm and satisfying in unexpected ways—but not everyone is built to feel their best at the same time of day. In the Wonder Reader, @isabelfattal.bsky.social explores how different people prefer to get through the earliest hours of the day:
How People Make the Most of Their Mornings
Taking advantage of the early hours can add calm to your day if you do it right.
bit.ly
September 14, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Early mornings can be calm and satisfying in unexpected ways—but not everyone is built to feel their best at the same time of day. In the Wonder Reader, @isabelfattal.bsky.social explores how different people prefer to get through the earliest hours of the day:
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This livestream of sea life in the South Atlantic has attracted more than 1.6 million views a day on YouTube and has Argentines hooked.
A livestream of deep sea creatures transfixes Argentina and sparks calls for refunding science
Transparent-faced fish drift through dusky waters. Snowlike flecks of dead plants sift down from the world above. Soft sponges peek through the soot of the seafloor.
bit.ly
August 5, 2025 at 7:00 PM
This livestream of sea life in the South Atlantic has attracted more than 1.6 million views a day on YouTube and has Argentines hooked.
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Astronomers see formation of new solar system around distant sun for first time
Astronomers see formation of new solar system around distant sun for first time
Seeds of rocky planets forming in gas around star Hops-315 is called glimpse of ‘time zero’, when new worlds start to gel
Astronomers have discovered the earliest seeds of rocky planets forming in the gas around a baby sun-like star, providing a precious peek into the dawn of our own solar system.
It’s an unprecedented snapshot of “time zero”, scientists reported on Wednesday, when new worlds begin to gel. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
July 16, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Astronomers see formation of new solar system around distant sun for first time
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Boldly growing where no spore has grown before.
July 15, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Boldly growing where no spore has grown before.
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This is so Indiana Jones-y. Jungle, ruins, a buried tomb, a death mask, and an archaeologist couple who've been working together for 40 yrs.
Caracol in Belize is incredible BTW. A bit tough to get to (we had to have a military escort back in 2013) but way worth it
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/10/w...
Caracol in Belize is incredible BTW. A bit tough to get to (we had to have a military escort back in 2013) but way worth it
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/10/w...
Maya Ruler’s Tomb Is Unearthed in Belize, With Clues to His Ancient World
www.nytimes.com
July 11, 2025 at 1:51 PM
This is so Indiana Jones-y. Jungle, ruins, a buried tomb, a death mask, and an archaeologist couple who've been working together for 40 yrs.
Caracol in Belize is incredible BTW. A bit tough to get to (we had to have a military escort back in 2013) but way worth it
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/10/w...
Caracol in Belize is incredible BTW. A bit tough to get to (we had to have a military escort back in 2013) but way worth it
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/10/w...
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Archaeologists recovered 22 blocks from the Lighthouse of Alexandria, an ancient wonder. Using 3D scans, researchers aim to digitally reconstruct it, shedding light on its design and collapse. The blocks were found in the harbor off Alexandria.
🧪📜
#AncientEgypt
#Archaeology
#DigitalReconstruction
🧪📜
#AncientEgypt
#Archaeology
#DigitalReconstruction
Massive blocks from the Lighthouse of Alexandria, an ancient wonder, hauled up from the Mediterranean
French and Egyptian researchers are making a "digital twin" of the Lighthouse of Alexandria in Egypt after lifting its ancient submerged blocks out of the Mediterranean Sea.
www.livescience.com
July 8, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Archaeologists recovered 22 blocks from the Lighthouse of Alexandria, an ancient wonder. Using 3D scans, researchers aim to digitally reconstruct it, shedding light on its design and collapse. The blocks were found in the harbor off Alexandria.
🧪📜
#AncientEgypt
#Archaeology
#DigitalReconstruction
🧪📜
#AncientEgypt
#Archaeology
#DigitalReconstruction
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David Attenborough ist nun schon 99 Jahre alt. Sein neues Buch "Ozeane" ist so etwas wie die Summe seines Meeresforscherlebens. Es liest sich mitreißend.
"Ozeane" von David Attenborough: Seiten zum Eintauchen
David Attenborough ist nun schon 99 Jahre alt. Sein neues Buch "Ozeane" ist so etwas wie die Summe seines Meeresforscherlebens. Es liest sich mitreißend.
www.zeit.de
July 6, 2025 at 6:05 PM
David Attenborough ist nun schon 99 Jahre alt. Sein neues Buch "Ozeane" ist so etwas wie die Summe seines Meeresforscherlebens. Es liest sich mitreißend.
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I told you we’d be back
June 12, 2025 at 4:15 PM
I told you we’d be back
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The ignorance mixed with arrogance hurts my lobes.
June 5, 2025 at 3:10 AM
The ignorance mixed with arrogance hurts my lobes.
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It’s weird to live in a time when basic principles like cruelty is wrong, cheating is empty & the idea that curiosity, generosity, originality, the satisfaction of earned accomplishments & loving intimacy are the center of a good life feel like countercultural concepts
May 7, 2025 at 4:44 PM
It’s weird to live in a time when basic principles like cruelty is wrong, cheating is empty & the idea that curiosity, generosity, originality, the satisfaction of earned accomplishments & loving intimacy are the center of a good life feel like countercultural concepts
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If a foreign adversary snuck into our Federal budget and cut science research and education the way we’re cutting it ourselves — strategically undermining America’s long-term health, wealth, and security — we would likely consider it an act of war.
May 19, 2025 at 7:36 PM
If a foreign adversary snuck into our Federal budget and cut science research and education the way we’re cutting it ourselves — strategically undermining America’s long-term health, wealth, and security — we would likely consider it an act of war.
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The Human Genome Project cost taxpayers $3 Billion.
Two decades on, it has generated a staggering return on investment of $1 Trillion, with benefits in medicine, agriculture, energy, the environment, & more.
If you want to boost the economy, funding science is one of the best things you could do.
Two decades on, it has generated a staggering return on investment of $1 Trillion, with benefits in medicine, agriculture, energy, the environment, & more.
If you want to boost the economy, funding science is one of the best things you could do.
May 2, 2025 at 7:00 PM
The Human Genome Project cost taxpayers $3 Billion.
Two decades on, it has generated a staggering return on investment of $1 Trillion, with benefits in medicine, agriculture, energy, the environment, & more.
If you want to boost the economy, funding science is one of the best things you could do.
Two decades on, it has generated a staggering return on investment of $1 Trillion, with benefits in medicine, agriculture, energy, the environment, & more.
If you want to boost the economy, funding science is one of the best things you could do.
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Looks like the evidence for this weird chemical abundance in an exoplanet atmosphere has gotten stronger with new JWST data: www.nytimes.com/2025/04/16/s...
Is it really a sign of life? That’s still not clear; lots of analysis left to do. But it’ll be interesting to see how it all pans out! 🧪 🔭
Is it really a sign of life? That’s still not clear; lots of analysis left to do. But it’ll be interesting to see how it all pans out! 🧪 🔭
April 17, 2025 at 3:00 AM
Looks like the evidence for this weird chemical abundance in an exoplanet atmosphere has gotten stronger with new JWST data: www.nytimes.com/2025/04/16/s...
Is it really a sign of life? That’s still not clear; lots of analysis left to do. But it’ll be interesting to see how it all pans out! 🧪 🔭
Is it really a sign of life? That’s still not clear; lots of analysis left to do. But it’ll be interesting to see how it all pans out! 🧪 🔭
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Ecuador wählt an diesem Sonntag, auch geopolitisch: Im Krieg gegen Drogenbanden setzt Präsident Daniel Noboa auf Hilfe aus den USA. Seine Rivalin warnt vor Abhängigkeit.
Wahl in Ecuador: Wie viel USA will Ecuador?
Ecuador wählt an diesem Sonntag, auch geopolitisch: Im Krieg gegen Drogenbanden setzt Präsident Daniel Noboa auf Hilfe aus den USA. Seine Rivalin warnt vor Abhängigkeit.
www.zeit.de
April 13, 2025 at 10:15 AM
Ecuador wählt an diesem Sonntag, auch geopolitisch: Im Krieg gegen Drogenbanden setzt Präsident Daniel Noboa auf Hilfe aus den USA. Seine Rivalin warnt vor Abhängigkeit.
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They were careless people, Tom and Daisy- they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.
-FS Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, published 4/10/1925.
-FS Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, published 4/10/1925.
April 10, 2025 at 12:32 PM
They were careless people, Tom and Daisy- they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.
-FS Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, published 4/10/1925.
-FS Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, published 4/10/1925.
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Pretty simple story, really:
The shift from knowledge and wisdom as hard-earned and contingent to the fantasy of easy, ubiquitous information led to a devaluation of expertise, a leveling out of truth and falsehood as competing “perspectives,” and suspicion of remaining hierarchies of knowledge.
The shift from knowledge and wisdom as hard-earned and contingent to the fantasy of easy, ubiquitous information led to a devaluation of expertise, a leveling out of truth and falsehood as competing “perspectives,” and suspicion of remaining hierarchies of knowledge.
In 100 years we are going to get a definite explanation for how the dawn of The Information Age resulted in the dumbest people imaginable running the country
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. says he plans to tell CDC to stop recommending fluoride in drinking water.
April 8, 2025 at 11:18 AM
Pretty simple story, really:
The shift from knowledge and wisdom as hard-earned and contingent to the fantasy of easy, ubiquitous information led to a devaluation of expertise, a leveling out of truth and falsehood as competing “perspectives,” and suspicion of remaining hierarchies of knowledge.
The shift from knowledge and wisdom as hard-earned and contingent to the fantasy of easy, ubiquitous information led to a devaluation of expertise, a leveling out of truth and falsehood as competing “perspectives,” and suspicion of remaining hierarchies of knowledge.
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#FDA top vaccines regulator Peter Marks is forced out by HHS Secretary Kennedy. Marks didn't mince words in his resignation letter: "It has become clear ... [Kennedy] wishes subservient confirmation of his misinformation and lies.” www.statnews.com/2025/03/28/f...
Peter Marks, FDA’s top vaccine regulator, forced out
Top FDA official Peter Marks was forced to resign as the director of the Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research.
www.statnews.com
March 29, 2025 at 3:49 AM
#FDA top vaccines regulator Peter Marks is forced out by HHS Secretary Kennedy. Marks didn't mince words in his resignation letter: "It has become clear ... [Kennedy] wishes subservient confirmation of his misinformation and lies.” www.statnews.com/2025/03/28/f...
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I know this first hand. When I was a child, my entire community was branded as spies and sabateurs, justifying our internment inside barbed wire camps for years without due process, trial or charge.
March 17, 2025 at 6:30 PM
I know this first hand. When I was a child, my entire community was branded as spies and sabateurs, justifying our internment inside barbed wire camps for years without due process, trial or charge.
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Forscher verfolgen eine kuriose Spur bei der Suche nach Aliens. Sie führt auf eine 124 Lichtjahre entfernte Welt namens K2-18b. Aber lebt dort wirklich etwas?
James-Webb-Teleskop: Außerirdische, die bestialisch stinken
Forscher verfolgen eine kuriose Spur bei der Suche nach Aliens. Sie führt auf eine 124 Lichtjahre entfernte Welt namens K2-18b. Aber lebt dort wirklich etwas?
www.zeit.de
February 3, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Forscher verfolgen eine kuriose Spur bei der Suche nach Aliens. Sie führt auf eine 124 Lichtjahre entfernte Welt namens K2-18b. Aber lebt dort wirklich etwas?
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Lots of speculation about the Antioch HS shooter’s 300-page “manifesto” including incel and other extremist content. The truth about this stuff often isn’t what it seems. For more on this, see my cover story, “Lessons From a Mass Shooter’s Mother” www.motherjones.com/criminal-jus... @motherjones.com
Lessons from a mass shooter's mother
A decade after her son committed a massacre, Chin Rodger is on a quest to help prevent the next tragedy.
www.motherjones.com
January 24, 2025 at 5:21 AM
Lots of speculation about the Antioch HS shooter’s 300-page “manifesto” including incel and other extremist content. The truth about this stuff often isn’t what it seems. For more on this, see my cover story, “Lessons From a Mass Shooter’s Mother” www.motherjones.com/criminal-jus... @motherjones.com