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Traditional owners in WA celebrate new position of strength for stunning stretch of country. Janella Isaac's elders have fought for nearly 20 years to ensure the deep cultural and environmental significance of their homeland in Western Australia's north is recognised.

My book, Petroleum-238: Big Oil's Dangerous Secret and the Grassroots Fight to Stop It [protectpt], due to be published by Simon & Schuster the following spring, was the product of a seven-year investigation into the radioactivity brought to the surface by oil and gas development, and the various threats it posed to the industry's workers, the public, and the environment. KKR's purchase of Simon...

Solar ponds use a large, salty lake as a kind of a flat plate collector that absorbs and stores energy from the Sun in the warm, lower layers of the pond Driven by the impetus of the dark days of the 1970s oil crises, many nations looked to their own natural resources to reduce dependency on imports and provided increased support to renewable energy....

I believe that opera is not merely pleasurable but necessary, and keeping it alive means transforming institutions like the Met into palaces of the people: places where the productions are accessible to anyone in need of the succor and catharsis that great opera can provide. This doesn't mean we should all throw money at already wealthy institutions with incoherent and outdated industrial nonprofit funding...

The last surviving member of The Band, keyboardist, multi-instrumentalist, musical genius, and gloriously weird old man Garth Hudson passed January 21st at the age of 87. A magisterial eulogy in The Ringer by fellow keyboard/accordionist Franz Nicolay traces "the ever-expanding breadth and depth of his musical reference—Anglican hymns, Bach, country polka, parlor song, jazz, R&B—broadening what had been a very good bar band into...

"These things in the Bible seem to uplift me and tell me the truth." - Bob Dylan addressing a Toronto audience in 1980"I Believe In You" "Are You Ready?" "Every Grain of Sand" Raygun Busch: I don't believe in God at all, but I do believe that quality art comes from passion, and Bob happened to be extremely passionate about Christ, which threw a...

64 years ago the multi 100 Kflop/s IBM 7094 mainframe, usually employed in things like correcting satellite orbital calculations, took time to sing a song.Modern descendant Hatsune Miku (codename "Daisy") joins for a duet with her grandfather.

Aged care centre recognised as the best in rural Australia. So what is it doing differently? A lack of aged care facilities in WA's far north often means Indigenous elders have to leave their country and culture behind, but an aged care provider in Roebourne is helping them see out their final days.

r/CollapseMusic has a wonderfully varied collection of music all somehow related to the collapse of the biosphere and civilization.As six years of music links across all genres feels daunting, you might try searching bands you already like, since reddit's search actually works.

Trump pardons Silk Road dark web market creator Ross Ulbricht [BBC]How Trump Was Persuaded to Pardon an Online Drug Kingpin [NYT; ungated] Previously: Silk Road shut down, owner indicted [2013] Who is Dread Pirate Roberts? [2015] Jailed pirate Roberts [2015]

Stuart Slade's "The Salvation War," humanity-fuck-yeah fiction in which the human race devastates Hell and fires a thermonuclear warhead at Jesus. In two parts, Armageddon and PantheocideA voice from Heaven announces that the gates are closed and that everyone needs to just lie down and die, kthxbye. Humans instead decide to fight back. This is VERY not for everyone. It's very "Lt. Smith increased...

Most people come to vintage-Ladybird-appreciation after using the books in childhood. A few people come to appreciate them as adults. But one of the strangest routes I've yet come across is via an Indonesian biscuit tin.

Wikipedia: Giant Rock is a large freestanding boulder in the Mojave Desert near the 29 Palms Marine Corps Center and Landers, California (whose residents are sometimes referred to as "Landroids"). The rock cleaved in the year 2000, the day after a group of devotees held a Long Dance at the nearby Integratron... but the story really begins in 1931, when Frank Critzer arrived. He...

Full list of nominations Best picture Anora The Brutalist A Complete Unknown Conclave Dune: Part Two Emilia Pérez I'm Still Here Nickel Boys The Substance Wicked Performance by an actor in a leading role Adrien Brody, The Brutalist Timothée Chalamet, A Complete Unknown Colman Domingo, Sing Sing Ralph Fiennes, Conclave Sebastian Stan, The Apprentice Performance by an actor in a supporting role Yura Borisov,...

Yes, excessive alcohol consumption is harmful. But the advice on moderate drinking can seem bewildering. Oh no! A report from the Surgeon General recommends a warning label on cancer risks. But wait! A report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine finds that "moderate alcohol consumption is associated with lower all-cause mortality." Ugg! The Interagency Coordinating Committee for the Prevention of Underage...

Wolfskin, a short comic about love. A lovely little story, written and illustrated by Jessica Boehman. (FYI, a friend and schoolmate of mine.) And as a bonus, another little comic about an unusual student appearing in one of her classes.

Doctor Explains Why The Neurodivergent Feel Younger Than Their Age [Youtube 13 Mins] A video made by a clinician based in the U.S.A - who works with Autistic people, and is also Neurodivergent themselves. "I am neurodivergent, and so is my wife and others in my life. I love to identify autism in others who have been misdiagnosed for years, have not been taken...

Brancalonia is a campaign setting for 5E "based on Italian tradition, folklore, history, landscapes, literature, and pop culture". But the setting might be just an excuse for the art. (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7)

If you want to become the next Prime Minister of Canada, today is the last day to get your application in for the Liberal Party of Canada leadership race. You'll need to pay a lot of money, though, and you'll be up against some heavy hitters. If you want to vote for the next Prime Minister, you have four more days to join the...

Better without AI explores moderate apocalypses that could result from current and near-future AI technology. These are relatively overlooked risks: not extreme sci-fi extinction scenarios, nor the media's obsession with "ChatGPT said something naughty" trivia. Rather: realistically likely disasters, up to the scale of our history's worst wars and oppressions. Better without AI suggests seven types of actions you, and all of us, can...

The War That Almost Broke a Classic Fandom. Blake's 7 fans and actors mixed regularly at cons and on the pages of zines—until an anonymous letter changed everything.

url links to streetartutopia.com of a recent scene in Berlin Led by Donkeys leave me speechless. I', reasonably certain this this is a real image of a real event in Berlin today or yesterday as Led by Donkeys only do real things. They acknowledge Zentrum für Politische Schönheit /Political Beauty [link to org website].

An endangered plant known as the "corpse flower" for its putrid stink is about to bloom in Australia - and captivated the internet in the process, with thousands already tuned in to a livestream ahead of its grand debut.

In 1998 Greek neurosurgeon Dr. Stergios Tegos published a documentary of his work in the field of microneurosurgery. Nearly 11 hours across three VHS tapes and accompanied by a 253 page book, Tegos' film Μικρονευροχειρουργική με βίντεοταινίες, or "Microneurosurgery With Video Tapes", shows- in graphic detail-educational footage of brain surgery techniques over 35 separate surgical cases. Sensing that 10 hours of spinal lesion surgery...