The Madcap History of Mad Magazine Will Unleash Your Inner Class Clown
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/madcap-history-mad-magazine-unleash-inner-class-clown-180985063/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into Arts & Culture @arts-culture-Smithsonianmag
These houses survived one of the country's worst wildfires. Here’s how
The wildfire in Lahaina, Maui spread through extreme winds and intense heat. Still, a handful of houses were untouched thanks to the owners preparing the buildings and yards.
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Springfield Haitian restaurant draws crowds; manager says, ‘We came here to work’
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It's a local paper for a small town of ~58K people - they likely don't have the resources for GDPR compliance.
"Get ready for a partial lunar eclipse and supermoon, all rolled into one. The spectacle will be visible in clear skies across North America and South America Tuesday night and in Africa and Europe Wednesday morning."
From AP: flip.it/ULU3bU
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#Karpenter 1.0 is here! This release marks Karpenter's graduation from beta status and introduces stable APIs and several new features.
Karpenter is an #opensource #Kubernetes cluster auto-scaling tool.
More on #InfoQ 👉 bit.ly/47trZPW
The Sprawling Sculpture at the Center of the National World War I Memorial Has Been Unveiled in Washington, D.C.
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/the-sprawling-sculpture-at-the-center-of-the-national-world-war-i-memorial-has-been-unveiled-in-washington-dc-180985087/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into Smartnews @smartnews-Smithsonianmag
Plants 'Talk' to One Another in Languages We Might Soon Translate
https://www.sciencealert.com/plants-talk-to-one-another-in-languages-we-might-soon-translate?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into Nature @nature-ScienceAlert
11% originate from flowering plants and 25% of prescription drugs come from plant-derived ingredients. Life-saving drugs like common chemotherapy medicine Paclitaxel originate from yew tree bark, penicillin, & compounds found in fungi
Climate change and biodiversity loss puts a halt on how medicinal innovation develops
losing an important drug every two years due to biodiversity loss as extinction rates are 100 to 1000 times faster than previous years
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Consider the (#Conservative) mindset here: Inventing a threat b/c no one is taking your "imagined" threat seriously.
I think we've seen this movie:
A scientist/activist who is concerned people aren't taking some imagined threat seriously ("giant radioactive spiders", "mass shooting in a theme-park", "wildfires", etc) that they CREATE the threat themselves just to get people to realize "the threat is real".
And the resulting death & destruction is therefore justified. 🤔
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