Ohio voters: The extremist GOP Secretary of State is canceling votes, purging thousands of names recently from the voter rolls, right before this important referendum on abortion rights. Make sure you were not among them! Check here for your status: https://voterlookup.ohiosos.gov/voterlookup.aspx
Hey any journalists on here plz turn your public post indexing on, because most of you haven't and thats why people looking for public information cant find you.
Go to settings > public profile > privacy and reach, select "include public posts in search results"
Not all the fedi wants to be a public space, and thats fine, but some parts should be right now.
Pinning a quote from a lost toot of @oliphant :
No Democratic Presidential candidate has received a majority of the white vote since the 60s. (Since the Civil Rights act and realignment of the parties.)
Not one. Not any of them.
None.
Even in the last election, which was the easiest election to make the easiest choice and they failed.
It's why suppressing the black vote is so key to these assholes. Black people understand the assignment. Everyone understands the assignment.
World's smallest particle accelerator is 54 million times smaller than the Large Hadron Collider, and it works
Scientists have created world's first nanophotonic electron accelerator, which speeds negatively charged particles with mini laser pulses and is small enough to fit on a coin.
https://www.livescience.com/physics-mathematics/particle-physics/worlds-smallest-particle-accelerator-is-54-million-times-smaller-than-the-large-hadron-collider-and-it-works #worlds #smallest #particle #accelerator #laserpulses
Geoscientists Discover Ancient River-Carved Landscape beneath East Antarctic Ice Sheet
Geoscientists from Durham University and elsewhere have discovered a landscape that appears to have been formed by rivers at least 14 million years ago and possibly even before the initial growth of the East Antarctic ice around 34 million years ago.
https://www.sci.news/othersciences/geoscience/ancient-river-carved-landscape-east-antarctic-ice-sheet-12390.html #antarctica #ancient #river #IcePenetratingRadar #IceSheet
Spy photos of Syrian desert reveal ancient Roman forts
Structures likely protected traders rather than being actively used in warfare
https://www.science.org/content/article/spy-photos-syrian-desert-reveal-ancient-roman-forts #spy #satellites #photos #roman #forts #syria #desert #tells
Civilizations are Probably Spreading Quickly Through the Universe
In a recent study, a team from the University of the Philippines Los Banos looked beyond traditional Percolation Theory to consider how civilizations might grow in three different types of Universes (static, dark energy-dominated, and matter-dominated). Their results indicate that, depending on the framework, intelligent life has a finite amount of time to populate the Universe and is likely to do so exponentially.
https://www.universetoday.com/163814/civilizations-are-probably-spreading-quickly-through-the-universe/ #civilizations #universes #spread
Brown, red, black, riceberry – what are these white rice alternatives, and are they actually healthier?
Throughout history, rice has remained an important food staple. It supports the nutritional needs of more than half of the global population.
While you might be familiar with a handful of types, there are more than 40,000 different varieties of cultivated rice – a testament to the diversity and adaptability of this staple crop.
https://theconversation.com/brown-red-black-riceberry-what-are-these-white-rice-alternatives-and-are-they-actually-healthier-214388 #rice #food #varieties #cultivars
Ancient Human Faces Emerge in The Amazon as Extreme Drought Grips
An extreme drought in parts of the Amazon has led to a dramatic drop in river water levels, exposing dozens of usually submerged rock formations with carvings of human forms that may date back some 2,000 years.
https://www.sciencealert.com/ancient-human-faces-emerge-in-the-amazon-as-extreme-drought-grips #amazon #drought #submerged #faces #archeology #climate
Hackers ‘may have had access to the full voter roll,’ Washington, DC officials say
Officials at Washington, D.C.’s Board of Elections (DCBOE) confirmed that hackers accessed the city’s voter rolls, which includes personal information such as partial Social Security numbers and driver’s license numbers.
https://therecord.media/washington-dc-voter-roles-hackers #hackers #WashingtonDC #voter #rolls #access
36,500-Year-Old Human Genomes from Crimea Shed New Light on First Europeans
initial interactions between these groups are unclear due to the lack of genomic evidence from the earliest periods of the migration. In a new study, scientists sequenced and analyzed the genomes of two 36,000-37,000-year-old individuals from the site of Buran-Kaya III in Crimea, Ukraine, and found that they belonged to this newer migration.
https://www.sci.news/genetics/buran-kaya-iii-crimea-ukraine-genomes-12380.html #ukraine #crimea #paleoanthropology #europeans #genetics #migration
Where the heck did all those structures inside complex cells come from?
Scientists agree that eons ago, a bacterium took up residence inside another cell and became its powerhouse, the mitochondrion. But there are competing theories about the birth of other organelles such as the nucleus and endoplasmic reticulum.
https://knowablemagazine.org/article/living-world/2023/how-endomembrane-system-of-eukaryotic-cells-evolved #microbiology #cells #organelles #bacteria
Could gut fungi be linked to severe COVID? What to make of new research findings
Now, a new study has found severe COVID may be related to fungal bugs in our gut microbiome. This could be through a variety of changes to the immune system in response to specific fungal species.
https://theconversation.com/could-gut-fungi-be-linked-to-severe-covid-what-to-make-of-new-research-findings-216084 #gut #fungi #microbiome #COVIDー19 #immunesystem
Mapped: Which States Californians Moved To (2020-2021)
Californians have had a hard time with it in recent years. Because of the state’s ballooning cost of living, many residents—particularly from middle and low income families—have departed for more affordable states.
But where did they go?
https://www.visualcapitalist.com/cp/california-migration-2020-2021/ #infographic #US #california #migration #states
The NHS is holding a public consultation on the use of puberty blockers in trans kids. It closes today. Please respond if you are able to do so.
I'm not putting this under a CW because I want to ensure everyone with capacity and inclination to help sees it. But I will hold the details until further down the thread.
#TransRightsAreHumanRights #ProtectTransKids #NHS #TransRights #TERFIsland
Opinion: Some scientists say we don’t have free will. As a philosopher I say, of course we do
Although philosophy isn’t about majority rule (nor should it be!), many of us inside the field — and likely outside it, too — find this skepticism toward free will and moral responsibility deeply problematic.
https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2023-10-22/humans-free-will-biology-neuroscience #philosophy #FreeWill #morals #nature #determinism
Neanderthals Might Not Be The Separate Species We Always Thought
"More than different species, I would speak of different human forms," says University of Trento archaeologist Diego Angelucci, the lead author of a recent study summarizing decades of research on what was home to families of Neanderthal more than 71,000 years ago.
https://www.sciencealert.com/neanderthals-might-not-be-the-separate-species-we-always-thought #neanderthal #species #form #taxonomy
'Christ' tattoo discovered on 1,300-year-old body in Sudan
A tattoo referencing Christ was found on the 1,300-year-old body of an individual in what is now Sudan.
https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/christ-tattoo-discovered-on-1300-year-old-body-in-sudan #archeology #christ #tattoo #sudan
Geologist from Wisconsin at home in Japan.
Always exploring this world.