That bird came back to Midway this past November — for the 2026 nesting season — and found her mate waiting.
Her name, these days, is Wisdom, band number Z333, and she is the oldest known wild bird on Earth.
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This system does not just produce liars – it produces people who can no longer clearly distinguish truth from the narrative they have been trained to emit.
This environment also produces a kind of cognitive adaptation often described as doublethink – the ability to hold two contradictory beliefs at the same time, and to accept both as true when required. It is not merely lying to others, but a learned internal tolerance toward contradiction itself, where inconsistencies are tolerated because survival depends on it.
Literally twisting the minds.
Poles, Czechs, Hungarians, and others who lived through this recognize the pattern immediately when they see it in Western institutions today. The show trials of Twitter mobs. The compelled speech. The ideological litmus tests for employment. The memory-holing of inconvenient facts. The ritualistic confessions of privilege. To a post-communist eye, it is unmistakable.
To eyes that have only known freedom, it looks like a passionate, if misguided, social movement.
Inside of New York, there are two grids. //
There are two electric grids: the physical one and the policy one. For New Yorkers, these two grids have been working against each other for a long time. The result is electricity and infrastructure that is increasingly more expensive and less reliable. Understanding this, and demanding better policies, is the only way to fix the problems that our two grids are facing.
And there’s no more important place for people to learn about these issues than in the Hudson Valley, which has always been a bellwether for the nation’s infrastructure and energy issues. And so, last week, we hosted Meredith Angwin, a celebrated energy researcher, chemist and author of 2020’s Shorting the Grid, for an audience of about 30 residents, some of whom traveled from over two hours away for the talk at a historic church in Hurley, NY. //
Angwin’s first slide made the distinction the whole evening kept returning to: there is a physical grid and a policy grid, and almost everything you read in the newspaper or from politicians is about the policy grid. //
The fatal trifeca consists of an over-reliance on renewables that start and stop on their own schedule; backing them with just-in-time natural gas delivered by pipeline, where homes have priority over power plants; and counting on imports from neighbors who are usually having the same weather you are.
Norway halts exports to Britain when the reservoirs run low, she noted: “Every now and again Norway says: sorry. We don’t have it, so you can’t have it.”
On batteries, she pointed to our recent charging-mix work: New York’s batteries are not filled by wind and sun, because there isn’t remotely enough of either on the grid. They’re filled by the ordinary mix, with extra gas firing up on the margin, and lose energy on the round trip. //
We joined Angwin up front to answer: About half of the increase is fuel: when Indian Point’s 2,000 carbon-free megawatts closed in 2021, the void was filled not by “cheap renewables” but by two new gas plants, Cricket Valley and CPV Valley, which now run at 75–80 percent capacity factors, so Hudson Valley bills ride the gas market.
It’s not the data centers themselves that people fear, it’s the AI revolution they will enable. That’s what no one wants to talk about.
Investigators believe a single mosquito that survived a long-haul flight is to blame for the deaths of two workers at Frankfurt Airport, alongside another four who fell seriously ill, despite none of them having set foot outside Germany, let alone a malaria zone. //
Fraport, the company that operates Frankfurt Airport, has confirmed that six employees were diagnosed with malaria tropica, the most dangerous form of the disease, after falling ill between Saturday July 4 and Monday July 6. One worker died in early July. A second death was confirmed on Wednesday August 26, according to the Frankfurt health authority. The four other employees who were infected have been treated and are recovering. //
Mosquito traps have since been placed around the site, and any specimens caught are being sent to the Institute of Tropical Medicine in Antwerp, Belgium, for genetic testing to confirm the source. //
Cases like this are known in medical literature as airport malaria: an infected mosquito survives a flight from a country where the disease is endemic, then bites someone who has never left the country it lands in.
It doesn’t happen often though. Research cited by health officials has recorded fewer than 150 confirmed cases across European airports since the late 1960s
This simple (yet very effective) tool allows you to add documents, move the documents (to organize them), search them (by title or even within the body), export them, add keywords and labels to documents, view document properties, search by keyword(s), and change the document view. //
The Paperwork feature list includes scanner support, PDF support, auto-detection of page orientation, OCR, document labels, auto-guessing of labels to apply to new documents, search, keyword suggestions, and quick scan edits.
Paperwork is free and can be installed on any Linux distribution and even Windows.
In the summer of 1962, a 23-year-old French geologist spent 63 days alone in a glacier cave with no clock and no sun. When his team called him up on 14 September, he insisted it was still 20 August. The gap opened a new field of biology.
AB 1856 excludes open-source operating systems from the upcoming Digital Age Assurance Act.//
These amendments redefine the term “operating system provider” to exclude any person or entity that distributes an OS or application “under license terms that permit a recipient to copy, redistribute, and modify the software.” Any software distributed under the GPL, MIT, BSD, and Apache licenses satisfies that test, which removes the likes of Debian, Fedora, Ubuntu, Arch, and the BSD family from AB 1856’s scope.
From extra engines to wild-looking fuselages to gigantic radar dishes, here are ten of the strangest Boeings ever made.
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The Nuclear Regulatory Commission is preparing to change a foundational rule designed to minimize radiation exposure. The update is part of President Trump's expansive changes to nuclear oversight, as his administration seeks to revive nuclear energy to power data centers for artificial intelligence.
Under a new proposed rule, the agency is eliminating a 50-year-old standard known as "As Low As Reasonably Achievable" (ALARA), which requires the nuclear industry to drive radiation exposure for workers and the public below the stated limits where possible. The new rule also creates a carveout for some workers to get higher exposures to radiation in special circumstances. //
For some, the elimination of ALARA is overdue. "Keeping doses as low as reasonably achievable was a fair idea," said Emily Caffrey, a radiation health physicist at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. But in practice, the standard forced companies to take increasingly stringent radiation protection measures. It also created ambiguity, Caffrey said, "because what's 'reasonable' to one person isn't reasonable to another person."
But others warn that the change could lay the groundwork for higher radiation exposures.
"Removing it would remove that incentive for these companies to continue to maintain the practices that protected their workers and the public," said Edwin Lyman, director of nuclear power safety at the Union of Concerned Scientists, a watchdog group.
The public comment period for the new rule ends Aug. 31. It could go into effect early next year. //
The NRC decided not to change its scientific model of radiation risk, known as the Linear No Threshold model, but it has proposed eliminating ALARA.
Speaking this week on the Federal News Network, NRC Chairman Ho Nieh said that ALARA is no longer working. //
The proposed NRC rule doesn't change its other regulatory limits, but it does create some carve-outs. In particular, the industry would now be able to ask for a "planned occupational dose limit extension," which would allow workers to receive 10 rem instead of 5 in any given year, providing their overall exposure doesn't pass 25 rem in a five-year period. //
But Lyman, with the Union of Concerned Scientists, thinks that ALARA should stay. He said while it may be imperfect, its net effect has been to reduce radiation exposure to very low levels. The harms of low-dose radiation exposure are difficult to see, but Lyman says NRC's own models suggest those harms exist.
In his opinion, the revised rule ignores that risk and is designed to desensitize the public to the dangers of radiation. "It's trying to devalue and deemphasize the harm of ionizing radiation exposure," he warned.
If reading this has you deciding to try using Windows 11 without transparency effects as well, you can disable them either by going to Settings > Personalization > Colors and turning off the Transparency effects toggle, or by visiting Settings > Accessibility > Visual effects, where you can disable the same toggle. //
To disable animations, go to Settings > Accessibility > Visual effects. There you'll find the Animation effects toggle, which you can turn off. If you want to keep some animations while disabling others, you can also search for Advanced System Settings in Windows Search and click the appropriate result—Windows being Windows, there are now two Advanced System Settings menus—then open Performance settings and deactivate only the animations you want in the Visual Effects tab. //
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Replacing a widebody jet on a premier long-haul corridor with a single-aisle aircraft sounds like a masterclass in fuel efficiency, but Air Canada quietly abandoned that exact strategy before the first passenger even boarded. When schedule filings initially showed the carrier deploying its brand-new Airbus A321XLR on AC852 between Toronto Pearson(YYZ) and London Heathrow(LHR), it appeared to begin the evolution with which North American network carriers would manage top-tier transatlantic trunk routes. Within months, however, Air Canada pulled the narrowbody from the schedule, restoring twin-aisle Boeing 777 and 787 Dreamlinerservice to protect high-density seat inventory and premium belly-freight capacity.
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Again, under the law any death due to measles would be required to be reported to the County Coroner. He has no report.
Given the other apparent deception here it is fair to ask whether the facts of the second case have been materially manipulated similar to the first case, or whether the second case exists at all. //
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I guess those 10 plus million illegal aliens who crossed our border unvetted and not vaccinated have nothing to do with the increases in disease cases nationwide. //
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So....if this country had essentially eliminated measles several years ago, then how do you suppose it was re-introduced to this country? Perhaps through unvaccinated illegals pouring into all parts of the country? Not a great leap to make.
Data centers are often considered as the backbone of the digital world, powering everything from social media to cloud computing.
In this graphic we visualize how many each country has, as of March 2024, using data from Cloudscene (accessed via Statista). //
Countries with the most data centers include the U.S. (45.6% share of total), Germany (4.4%), and the UK (4.4%).
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Several years ago, a medical missionary wrote to the British medical journal Lancet that an electric shock appeared to have been a successful treatment for a snake-bite. This treatment became popularly advertised for a number of reasons, two being 1) a push from stun-gun manufacturers who believed this would increase sales, and 2) medical missionaries thought that this would be a cheap and effective method of treatment of a not-uncommon problem in third-world countries. Unfortunately, this treatment has not passed a number of laboratory tests. In fact, it can create even greater problems for a victim of venomous snakebite. ////
Majority of criticisms is use of voltage that was acknoledged by Guderian to be much too high (max 20kV)
- Guderian, R.H., C.D. Mackenzie, and J.F. Williams. 1986. High voltage shock treatment for snakebite. Lancet 2:229.
- Kroegel, C., and K.H. Meyer zum Buschenfelde. 1986. Biological basis for high-voltage-shock treatment for snakebite [letter]. Lancet 2(8519): 1335.
- Mueller, L. 1988. A shock cure. Outdoor Life June: 64-65, 110-112.
- Mueller, L. 1988. A shocking cure for snakebite. Outdoor Life ?: 45-47, 76-78.
- Schmutzhard, E. 1986. Electric shocks for snakebite [letter]. Lancet 2(8506): 578.