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Sen. Baldwin, bipartisan group throw support behind striking UAW workers
The United Auto Workers strike is now over a month in and U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin, D-Wis., and a bipartisan group of colleagues threw their support behind workers on the picket line.
https://spectrumnews1.com/wi/milwaukee/news/2023/10/19/a-bi-partisan-group-of-lawmakers-introduce-a-resolution-in-support-of-striking-uaw-workers- #tammybaldwin #bipartisan #striking #UAW #support #wisconsin

Have polls shown 70% of Americans believe same-sex marriage should be legal?
Yes.
A May Gallup poll found 71% of U.S. adults said same-sex marriage should be valid, matching the result from one year earlier.
The poll conducted May 1-24, 2023, asked: “Do you think marriages between same-sex couples should or should not be recognized by the law as valid, with the same rights as traditional marriages?”
https://wisconsinwatch.org/2023/10/fact-brief-same-sex-marriage-us-polls/ #majority #samesex #marriage #legal #relations #VALID

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Researchers peer into the black box of airline pricing and find some surprises
Buy your ticket on a Tuesday. Search in your browser's incognito mode. Use a VPN to pretend you live in Suriname.
The system that she found, which is representative of airlines around the world, was strikingly at odds with what many economists would expect—and most consumers assume.
https://phys.org/news/2023-10-peer-black-airline-pricing.html #savethisone #youllneedit #airline #pricing #blackbox

Jordan help Donald Trump try to overturn the 2020 presidential election result?
Yes.
The U.S. House Jan. 6 committee report said Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, “was a significant player” in President Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election.
https://wisconsinwatch.org/2023/10/fact-brief-jim-jordan-donald-trump-2020-election/ #jimjordan #overturn #election #results #true #traitor

Strange anomaly in sun's solar cycle discovered in centuries-old texts from Korea
Aurora records in royal chronicles from Korea show that during the 'Maunder Minimum' between 1645 and 1715, the sun's solar cycles became several years shorter than they are today.
https://www.livescience.com/space/the-sun/strange-anomaly-in-suns-solar-cycle-discovered-in-centuries-old-texts-from-korea #korea #solar #cycle #data #MaunderMinimum #aurora

New data show employee owned businesses deliver an 8 to 12% productivity boost
New research suggests the fast-growing UK employee ownership sector is markedly outperforming the UK's national productivity trend while simultaneously contributing to employee well-being, fair pay, community resilience and commitment to net zero.
https://phys.org/news/2023-10-employee-businesses-productivity-boost.html #employeeーowned productivity #wellbeing

Charted: 50 Years of Music Industry Revenues, by Format
In the ever-changing world of music, 2022 marked yet another milestone.
For the seventh year in a row, recorded music revenues in the United States rose, hitting a record high of $15.9 billion.
https://www.visualcapitalist.com/music-industry-revenues-by-format/ #infographic #music #media #format #vinyl #cassette #CD #MP3 #streaming

How free-roaming cats impact wildlife, disease transmission
Cats are hunters by nature, which is why it's not uncommon for an outdoor cat to bring home a "gift," left on their owner's doorstep.
Yet Molly Guyette says cats put both themselves and local wildlife at risk of injury or illness when they hunt other animals.
https://phys.org/news/2023-10-free-roaming-cats-impact-wildlife-disease.html #freeroaming #cats #impact #wildlife #disease #transmission

Mystery blobs in Earth's mantle may be linked to ancient gold and platinum that arrived from space
The gold and platinum that came from giant space rocks should have sunk into Earth's core instead of rising to the crust. Scientists have now worked out how this happened — and it may explain some really weird blobs deep in our planet's mantle.
https://www.livescience.com/planet-earth/geology/mystery-blobs-in-earths-mantle-may-be-linked-to-ancient-gold-and-platinum-that-arrived-from-space #gold #platinum #space #earth #mantle #blobs

Safely removing nanoplastics from water using 'Prussian blue', a pigment used to dye jeans
Prussian blue, a metal-organic frameworks-based substance made by adding iron (III) chloride to a potassium ferrocyanide solution, is the first synthetic pigment used to dye jeans a deep blue color and has recently been used to adsorb cesium, a radioactive element, from Japanese nuclear plant wastewater.
https://phys.org/news/2023-10-safely-nanoplastics-prussian-blue-pigment.html #prussianblue #remove #plasic #nanoparticles #jeans #pigment ##hipster #Bioremediation

NASA Reveals Terrifying Gap in Our Knowledge About Asteroid Threats
Space
Everyone likes a cool infographic, right? Does that statement hold even if the infographic points out a gap in our knowledge that could kill millions of people? Because that's what a cool-looking infographic NASA released on October 16th does.
https://www.sciencealert.com/nasa-reveals-terrifying-gap-in-our-knowledge-about-asteroid-threats #NASA #asteroid #threat #PlanetaryDefense #knowledgegap
#DUNーDUNーDUUUUN!!!

NASA's Lucy spacecraft preparing for its first asteroid flyby
NASA's Lucy spacecraft is preparing for its first close-up look at an asteroid. On Nov. 1, it will fly by asteroid Dinkinesh and test its instruments in preparation for visits in the next decade to multiple Trojan asteroids that circle the sun in the same orbit as Jupiter.
https://phys.org/news/2023-10-nasa-lucy-spacecraft-asteroid-flyby.html #NASA #lucy #flyby #Dinkinesh # jupiter #trojan #asteroid #Donaldjohanson #SecondBelter

Glacial rock flour creates new opportunities for Greenlandic agriculture
New research indicates that the use of glacial rock flour could enhance water absorption in cultivated fields in Greenland. This could be groundbreaking for Greenlandic agriculture as the use of glacial rock flour may reduce the risk of water erosion and improve plant growth conditions.
https://phys.org/news/2023-10-glacial-flour-opportunities-greenlandic-agriculture.html #greenland #glacial #rockflour #agriculture

Drone Photographer Was Hired by a Township to Spy on a Civilian
Michigan Supreme Court has heard a remarkable case in which a man has complained that his Fourth Amendment rights were violated after the township he lives in hired a drone photographer to spy on his property.
https://petapixel.com/2023/10/20/drone-photographer-was-hired-by-a-township-to-spy-on-a-civilian/ #drone #photographer #spy #civilian #michigan

Why NASA’s return to the Moon will likely succeed this time
For the first time in six decades, geopolitics and deep-space exploration align.
https://arstechnica.com/space/2023/10/why-nasas-return-to-the-moon-will-likely-succeed-this-time/ #NASA #moon #race #coldwar #peace

The encounter between Neanderthals and Homo sapiens as told by their genomes
Researchers at the University of Geneva (UNIGE) have analyzed the distribution of the portion of DNA inherited from Neanderthals in the genomes of humans (Homo sapiens) over the last 40,000 years. These statistical analyses revealed subtle variations in time and geographical space.
https://phys.org/news/2023-10-encounter-neanderthals-homo-sapiens-told.html #paleoanthropology #genetics #statistics #neanderthal #homosapiens