SCRAPINGS OF THE DAY – 07/31/23

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Republican led states are passing more laws to roll back limits on child labor.

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/7/31/2184414/-Another-Aspect-Of-The-Republican-Agenda-Child-Exploitation-Political-is-Also-Personal

Elon Musk doesn’t like having and outside group call his Twitter, or “X”, or whatever he’s going to call it next week to account for allowing more hate speech.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/twitter-elon-musk-center-for-countering-digital-hate-legal-threat-letter_n_64c7d874e4b03d9b515cc5c4

Numerous ways are being invented to suck CO2 out of the atmosphere and do something with it. Could it be the silver bullet?

Could Engineered Carbon Removal Solve the Climate Crisis?

The supposed strong division of labor between the sexes in the ancient world is falling on hard times.

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/7/29/2183982/-More-and-more-archaeological-evidence-directs-a-big-re-think-of-women-s-roles-in-the-ancient-world

They asked where bees originated and what they evolved from, and where. The photos of bees are great too.

The First Bees Evolved on an Ancient Supercontinent More Than 120 Million Years Ago

SCRAPINGS OF THE DAY – 07/30/23

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Hidden Brain takes up how we do and don’t learn from mistakes and feedback (part1 of 2)

Learning From Your Mistakes

At On The Media, the investigators working to trace children stolen from Ukraine and gathering the evidence to hold Putin and others criminally responsible.

https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm/episodes/on-the-media-investigating-russia-war-crimes-ukraininan-children

Electronic Frontier Foundation recognizes a project to make peer reviewed scientific research more available outside of the paywalled journals.

https://torrentfreak.com/sci-hubs-alexandra-elbakyan-receives-eff-award-for-providing-access-to-scientific-knowledge-230728/

Teri Kanefield gives the “Cliff Notes” review of the differences between the old and new indictments in the Trump documents case.

Superseding Indictment: The Boss (Trump) Told His Staff to Destroy Evidence (Over the Cliff Notes)

The Arizona desert has been too hot and dry for too long for it’s famous cactus. When it’s too hot for cactus, that could be taken as a warning.

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/7/29/2183782/-Saguaro-cactus-are-collapsing-from-the-longevity-of-the-current-heat-crisis-brutalizing-Arizona

SCRAPINGS OF THE DAY – 07/29/23

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Phoenix had a really big lake of underground water under the nearby desert. In the 1980s they planned to set it aside for the future. Now, mega-farms are using it to grow hay for export. What happened?

The Great Arizona Water Grab

That story makes this one, this novel of a near future South West, very believable, except for the part about there being a secret map to an untapped aquifer under AZ, but where it is hidden is appropriate to perfection. The Water Knife is a man sent by his employers in Las Vegas to get that map, buy any means necessary. But, he isn’t the only one.

https://www.npr.org/2015/05/28/408295800/the-water-knife-cuts-deep

Meanwhile, I begin to wonder how bad, how hot, how dry, how wild it has to get for some people to take what’s happening seriously.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/climate-change-heat-republicans_n_64c3c5bfe4b024f8ebc870f5

She doesn’t try to convert the “originalists” and “textualists” to a different approach. She makes their approach support her conclusions.

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2023/07/supreme-court-ketanji-brown-jackson-originalism-jujitsu.html

Insect mathematicians and architects.

https://www.salon.com/2023/07/27/scientists-just-learned-how-bees-and-wasps-build-their-nests-with-hexagons–and-it-blew-their-minds/