Sep 23, 2024 | Salon.com
While many approach the subject of fossil fuels through the lens of finance, science and politics, Roishetta Ozane, a Black single mother with six children, spoke with restrained emotion when discussing the extraction of liquid natural gas (LNG). Ozane has a much more personal and painful connection to the multi-billion dollar industry....
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Sep 22, 2024 | Salon.com
Dr. Rebecca Brenner Graham is an accomplished intellectual. Currently a postdoctoral research associate at Rhode Island’s Brown University, Graham formerly taught history at a Virginia high school and is writing a soon-to-be-published biography of Frances Perkins, America’s first female cabinet member (as Secretary of Labor) and a notably progressive adviser to President Franklin D....
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Sep 22, 2024 | Elections, Salon.com
Donald Trump made antisemitic comments at a pair of Jewish-hosted events on Thursday. One might expect this to hurt his chances among Republican Jews, yet as historians explained to Salon, partisan loyalties may very well trump self-preservation among a substantial set of Jewish voters.
In his first Thursday speech, Trump falsely claimed that his Democratic opponent, Vice President Kamala Harris, supports “Hamas sympathizers, antisemites, Israel haters on college campuses and everywhere else.”...
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Sep 20, 2024 | Salon.com
When Dutch artist Vincent Van Gogh produced “The Starry Night” in 1889, he is believed to have put paint to canvas to illustrate the chaotic conditions inside his own mind. Yet according to a new article the journal Physics of Fluids, “The Starry Night” did more than simulate Van Gogh’s struggles with mental illness; it also displayed an intuitive understanding of mathematics and science....
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Sep 20, 2024 | Salon.com
Scientists aren’t sure if 2024 PT5 is an asteroid. At roughly 10 meters in length, 2024 PT5 is difficult to spot without a telescope. Yet a new study reveals that for the next two months, 2024 PT5 will join our Moon in orbit around our planet, which means Earth will (temporarily) have a second moon, from September 29 to November 25....
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Sep 19, 2024 | Salon.com
Most people recognize that our current relationship with fossil fuels is untenable. The more we burn them, the faster we cook our planet, turning the climate hotter and “weirder,” triggering disastrous and deadly extreme weather, withering crops and undermining infrastructure.
Renewable energy (and arguably nuclear power as well) is presented by scientists and environmentalists as our ticket out of this mess....
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Sep 18, 2024 | Salon.com
For a galaxy at its age, Pablo’s Galaxy is massive. Formed during an early period in the universe’s history and officially known as GS-10578, Pablo’s Galaxy received its nickname from a scientist who observed it in detail and noted its immense size: Its total mass is about 200 billion times the mass of our Sun....
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Sep 18, 2024 | Elections, Republicans, Salon.com
Even though the two would-be assassins were reportedly both former supporters of Donald Trump whose subsequent politics can be best described as murky, President Trump and his supporters are now blaming the Republican nominee’s political opponents for the recent assassination attempts against him. Trump accused both President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris, the Democratic nominee, of taking “politics in our Country to a whole new level of Hatred.”...
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Sep 18, 2024 | Salon.com
When Dr. Lindsey Swierk studies water anoles in Central and South America, she can feel their presence even when she doesn’t see them.
The assistant research professor of biological sciences at Binghamton University studies Anolis aquaticus, the lizard best known for being semi-aquatic, color-changing and 5 to 8 inches long (13 to 20 centimeters.)...
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Sep 15, 2024 | Salon.com
When a person with a uterus decides to freeze their eggs, any number of things can go wrong. Ice crystal can form, killing an otherwise viable ovum. A fertilized egg may fail to properly implant, or the egg may not even get fertilized in the first place. When potential parents decide that one partner should freeze their eggs, they are urged not to make that decision lightly....
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