If you're not busy building it… it is slowly but surely falling apart. That's called entropy, and it is the way the universe works.

Oooooooooo @erinlynnnash

My kid's school asked me to donate supplies. Paper. Pencils. Hand sanitizer. Tissues. I pay property taxes. My state has a $4 billion surplus. The federal education budget is $238 billion. And the teacher is buying pencils out of her own paycheck. And I'm sending in Ziploc bags. We fund stadiums for billionaires with public money. We fund schools with bake sales. And then blame teachers when test scores drop.

We're in a weird era where a guy gets publicly shamed for running his sprinklers on a Tuesday, while a data center the size of a Costco quietly drains a reservoir so AI can generate a picture of your cat as a medieval knight. And the data center gets a tax incentive for it.

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Four days in the wilderness without screens improved creative problem-solving by 50%. The modern brain is not underloaded. It is interrupted.

Hey guys...something cool is happening. The Andes virus discussion is scientific consensus evolving in public. A statement from the International Hantavirus Society and dozens of hantavirus researchers is a great example of science communication in motion. 🧵

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Can we get AI to actually pick plastic out of the ocean, or do all the robots have to become screenwriters?

A solar farm in Minnesota planted native wildflowers between its panel rows. Five years later, total insect populations tripled. Native bees increased 20-fold. Not only did insect populations boom, soybean fields next to the solar arrays got twice as many bee visits as fields farther away. Two of the things we usually think of as competing turned out to reinforce each other. One study, published in Environmental Research Letters in late 2024, tracked two utility-scale solar sites built on retired farmland in southern Minnesota, where the developer seeded native prairie species between rows of panels in 2018. By 2022, the sites looked less like industrial energy infrastructure and more like remnant prairie. Goldenrod soldier beetles colonized the goldenrod stands. Bumblebees nested in the soil. Monarch butterflies passed through during migration. The wildflower diversity grew sevenfold; insect diversity grew eightfold. This matters because, like it or not, utility-scale solar is going to take up real space. The US is on track to cover roughly six million acres in panels by 2050. The default approach is turfgrass, gravel, or herbicide-maintained bare ground, which is ecologically dead. The Argonne study shows the alternative isn't more expensive or harder to maintain. It's just a different seed mix.

College tuition has increased 914% since 1983, per CNBC.

It is a crime against the working class that this isn’t true in every state.

I figured out why the Artemis stream felt so different It's because for the first time in decades, we collectively witnessed something that was untouched by politics, celebrities and influencers

Not a SINGLE SpaceX mission has ever garnered the kind of press & goodwill of Artemis II. And that's for good reason: humanity can never truly rally behind a corporation. NASA is for the people and by the people. SpaceX is for the shareholders.

NEWS: Massive budget cuts for US science proposed again by Trump administration "It's an extinction-level event for science". The US government is proposing massive cuts to almost every branch of science, from NASA to the National Institutes of Health. NSF would completely eliminate the social, economic and behavioral sciences directorate. This would decimate the world's leading scientific system. nature.com/articles/d41586-0…

U.S. bioscience research is collapsing. This is the map of a systemic rot. NIH new award pace this year: 14.6% of normal. If you wanted to stall science, you don't pick & choose states. You just freeze the entire map. In case you missed it: ▫️ ~95,000 scientists gone (@nytimes) ▪️ ~$2.4B in NIH research wiped out ▫️ ~$6B in economic loss (@DrCatharineY / PNAS) This is what (predictably) follows next: ⇣ early-career scientists exit for good ⇣ breakthrough discoveries never made ⇣ trials that never open ⇣ labs that quietly shut down ⇣ global talent choosing other countries ⇣ the next decade of innovation erased before it starts Sadly, you don’t "bounce back" from 14% you just hollow out the system. For a country that leads in science, this is the mo(u)rning after “National Science Appreciation Day” ========== Source: NIH RePORTER via @Jori_health Plot note: NIH new-award counts were compared to the 5-year historic median for every state (as of the first week of March, Q2). ==========

At some point, you’re going to want a president that doesn’t fire all of the smart folks and replace them with idiots.

Unbelievable presentation of our health insurance a rip off unscrupulous business‼️

They are banning American bison from what’s left of the prairie. It’s the most un-American thing ever. The bison is America’s national animal, and fewer than 0.1% of them remain. Waging war on bison is the most un-American thing ever. Shame on the GOP.

‘I rarely get outside’: scientists ditch fieldwork in the age of AI. This will have a cost. nature.com/articles/d41586-0…