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Nullary Sources @nullarysources

Current events, '90s nostalgia, kickin' rad tunes, Andy Rooney, and some other stuff. Hosted by @cbarrett and @CHz16.

Joined April 2011
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Brazil reports drop in Amazon deforestation rates, pushing back on US tariff accusations: nullarysources.tumblr.com/po…

Brazil reports drop in Amazon deforestation rates, pushing back on US tariff accusations

Gabriela Sá Pessoa for the AP: Brazilian officials on Thursday announced a sharp drop in deforestation rates, pushing back on one of the arguments that the Trump administration used last week to...

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Are Memories Transferable — or Edible?: nullarysources.tumblr.com/po…

Are Memories Transferable — or Edible?

Claire L. Evans for Quanta Magazine: In the 1960s, an eccentric behavioral psychologist named James McConnell (opens a new tab) convinced the scientific establishment that planarian worms, like...

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Single high dose of psilocybin temporarily restores lost abilities in an 80-year-old Alzheimer’s patient: nullarysources.tumblr.com/po…

Single high dose of psilocybin temporarily restores lost abilities in an 80-year-old Alzheimer's...

Sanjukta Mondal for Medical Xpress: A recent study in Frontiers in Neuroscience set out to see whether a high dose of psilocybin could help patients with advanced Alzheimer's disease. The researche...

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Galaxy-killing wind discovered in the early universe: nullarysources.tumblr.com/po…

Galaxy-killing wind discovered in the early universe

News release from the Royal Astronomical Society: Astronomers have discovered a 'galaxy-killing wind' that may explain why there are far more massive 'dead' galaxies than expected in the early...

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Huh? A Seiko Apple Smart Watch Is Set To Hit The Auction Block: nullarysources.tumblr.com/po…

Huh? A Seiko Apple Smart Watch Is Set To Hit The Auction Block

Here's a 2021 post by Danny Milton for watch site Hodinkee about a product I'm real mad I'd never heard of before: Yesterday, news broke that an auction website called Comic Connect would be listing...

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From his 2021 album Side-Eye NYC (V1.IV) with his newish band Side-Eye, here’s “Zenith Blue” by Pat…: nullarysources.tumblr.com/po…

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From his 2021 album Side-Eye NYC (V1.IV) with his newish band Side-Eye, here's "Zenith Blue" by Pat Metheny, a cool track I hadn't heard before. Though I could probably describe any Metheny track...

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Greenland’s independence champion despised Denmark. Trump changed his mind: nullarysources.tumblr.com/po…

Greenland's independence champion despised Denmark. Trump changed his mind

Pete McKenzie for Reuters: Aqqaluk Lynge, Greenland's champion of independence, has undergone a radical conversion. Half a century ago, the Inuit activist and poet co-founded one of the island's...

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Australian cockroach kingpin caught with 100,000 illegal insects in record bug bust: nullarysources.tumblr.com/po…

Australian cockroach kingpin caught with 100,000 illegal insects in record bug bust

Charlotte Graham-McLay for the AP: More than 100,000 live cockroaches illegal to keep in Australia were confiscated from a single breeder in the country's largest-ever seizure of exotic invertebrat...

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‘They surprise me every time’: bees can use tools to solve problems, study finds: nullarysources.tumblr.com/po…

'They surprise me every time': bees can use tools to solve problems, study finds

As part of our continuing coverage of bees, here's Hannah Devlin for The Guardian: Bumblebees can use tools to solve a problem, according to experiments that demonstrate their remarkably advanced...

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How I Did the Animorphs Covers: nullarysources.tumblr.com/po…

How I Did the Animorphs Covers

Here's a post by David Mattingly, the guy who did all those Animorphs book covers, on how he did all those Animorphs book covers. It was all done in software with photos, but he sketched out all...

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Experimental pill promises new hope for deadly pancreatic cancer: nullarysources.tumblr.com/po…

Experimental pill promises new hope for deadly pancreatic cancer

Lauran Neergaard for the AP: A novel pill helped people with advanced pancreatic cancer live longer, researchers reported Sunday, raising hopes of long-needed better treatments for one of the...

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Indonesia’s air quality got worse after China banned plastic waste imports: nullarysources.tumblr.com/po…

Indonesia's air quality got worse after China banned plastic waste imports

Brigitta Rongstad Strong with a news release from the University of Colorado Boulder: When China banned plastic waste imports in 2018, countries like the United States, the Netherlands, Australia,...

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Here’s a paper and fabric stop-motion recreation of the Beastie Boys’ “Sabotage” by Corduroy Frames…: nullarysources.tumblr.com/po…

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Here's a paper and fabric stop-motion recreation of the Beastie Boys' "Sabotage" by Corduroy Frames that took five years to make, because god stop-motion animation is a time-consuming nightmare....

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Astronomers clarify exoplanet atmospheres with new cloud-detection technique: nullarysources.tumblr.com/po…

Astronomers clarify exoplanet atmospheres with new cloud-detection technique

Mike Peña for the University of California, Santa Cruz: By analyzing the light passing through WASP-94A b's limbs as it crossed its star, the team found that the "morning" side is completely covere...

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A Trip to 90s Kansai: Exploring the XD FirstClass Network BBS: nullarysources.tumblr.com/po…

A Trip to 90s Kansai: Exploring the XD FirstClass Network BBS

Here's a new post by Misty De Méo at CD Journal: If you've been reading this blog, you can probably tell that I buy a lot of CD-ROMs. I usually do my research ahead of time but if something is...

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Mosquitoes can become attracted to insect repellant, study suggests: nullarysources.tumblr.com/po…

Mosquitoes can become attracted to insect repellant, study suggests

Nicola Davis for The Guardian: It is a spray used worldwide to protect humans from mosquito bites, but now research suggests Deet can become attractive to the insects if they associate it with...

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Electrical pulses reverse aging in sea squirts, offering clues for extending human longevity: nullarysources.tumblr.com/po…

Electrical pulses reverse aging in sea squirts, offering clues for extending human longevity

Rob Jordan in a news release from Stanford: A tiny sea creature might hold the secret to reversing the aging process. When treated with a brief series of electrical pulses, sea squirts experience...

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Ex-CIA official charged with stealing millions of dollars in gold bars from the federal government: nullarysources.tumblr.com/po…

Ex-CIA official charged with stealing millions of dollars in gold bars from the federal government

Philip Marcelo for the AP: A former senior CIA official with top secret-level clearance is accused of stealing hundreds of gold bars worth more than $40 million from the federal government and...

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New fossil salamander species related to the famous axolotl is discovered in Mexico: nullarysources.tumblr.com/po…

New fossil salamander species related to the famous axolotl is discovered in Mexico

Jorge A. Herrera-Flores for Phys.org: The Mexican axolotl (Ambystoma mexicanum) is famous because adults look like overgrown babies, or tadpoles, retaining juvenile features as adults and capable...

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Here’s a short and cute piece by a composer I’ve never heard of, “Dessin #11” by Mizuki Yanagawa….: nullarysources.tumblr.com/po…

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Here's a short and cute piece by a composer I've never heard of, "Dessin #11" by Mizuki Yanagawa. Dessin is apparently a loanword from French that just means a sketch, which I guess checks out.

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