Sunday, December 22, 2024

Today's news and jokes

Still featured on the architect's site, a "moat" for surfers in the summer, and ice skaters in the winter





("Houthi missile strike injures more than a dozen in Tel Aviv")











Remember the female officer who made the news due to the suspiciously high amount of overtime she earned? (article is quite explicit)











("The death of Justice Antonin Scalia in 2016 during a free stay at a Texas businessman’s hunting lodge brought attention to the more than 250 privately funded trips he had accepted over a 10-year period")









(This month, he was honored at a star-studded event celebrating men who “elevate women, combat gender-based violence and promote gender equality worldwide.” )





(Haven't seen a news report confirming this)













(“We’re getting an average conductive ice shell thickness for the region covered by MWR of about 35 kilometers,” he told meeting attendees. That’s the height of four Mount Everests and three times deeper than humans have ever drilled on Earth.) (Running out of places to be optimistic about) (FYI, if you're a Kim Stanley Robinson fan, here's a chapter by chapter write-up on technical details in Red Mars)





("the hornet most likely arrived from a mated queen that sought shelter for the winter — perhaps in a vehicle, shipping container or potted plant that was then brought to the area.")

























































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