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Baby botulism outbreak: FDA still doesn't know cause—or how to prevent it

11d 23h ago in publichealth@mander.xyz from arstechnica.com

Biggest Revelations From Jill Biden’s New Memoir

12d 7h ago in theonion@midwest.social from theonion.com

US-Iran war pushing millions into food crisis, warns UN

12d 8h ago in collapse@slrpnk.net from www.aljazeera.com

Solar panel recycling yet to close cost gap before waste surge

12d 8h ago in energy@slrpnk.net from pv-magazine-usa.com

This article isnt sayjng "renewables are bad". Its saying "EPR is good". We need those frameworks in place preferably before we get more panels ending up in landfills, because that's simply wasteful.

The Trespass: A Proposed Pipeline Brings Questions for the Gitxsan

14d 3h ago in landback@slrpnk.net from thetyee.ca

A child's tooth and strange green stones uncover a 5,500-year-old mystery

14d 4h ago in archaeology@mander.xyz from www.sciencedaily.com

Global battery additions reached 108 GW in 2025, according to IEA

14d 4h ago in energy@slrpnk.net from pv-magazine-usa.com

This swirling gyre spawns storms. How will climate change affect it?

14d 4h ago in climate@slrpnk.net from yaleclimateconnections.org

Storing Solar Energy As Ice For Air Conditioning

2mon 26d ago in technology@piefed.social from hackaday.com

size and weight of a car

blocks of ice measuring 4 ft × 4 ft × 2 ft.

This you?

Because 32 cubic ft is about the volume of most residential AC units.

Is it?

92kWh/m^3 of energy is a lot of cooling. It'd be hard to not be effective.

I think youre misunderstanding one thing, which is that the ice is a replacement for batteries. While the system had a small battery for running a small pump and fan, its a small cheap one that doesn't store much and the water has substantially more energy, equivalent to something like a large lithium battery.

The thermal battery is also far smaller, cheaper, and more robust than a lithium battery and it won't deteriorate with repeated cycling. The obvious trade off is that in this case it can only be used for refrigeration and only down to 0C. So while its very niche, it is quite effective for home air conditioning.

These maps never include Alaska or Hawaii despite the myriad risks in those places.

Something Is Wrong With Russia’s Children

5mon 2d ago in collapse@slrpnk.net from www.theatlantic.com

I actually find the fact that becoming a more militarized wartime state has induced similar instances of violence in Russia to be really interesting. Up until this point, most other countries assumed there was something unique about US culture that resulted in school shootings, but showing some sort of hypothetical link between wartime mobilization and mass violence is interesting and the US interventionism has only been increasing along with their mass shootings.

EDIT: AI slop, please downvote

5mon 4d ago in collapse@slrpnk.net from slrpnk.net

I'll just remove the post. Everyone has to wade through slop now adays and everyone is gonna fall for it at some point.

What Can We Do To Combat Medical Misinformation?

11mon 14d ago in health from www.damemagazine.com

Nothing is going to solve all our problems, but triage is important and if you can get your weird cousin to vaccinate their kids, you've done measurable good for society.

First They Brought Back Dire Wolves. Next Up Is the World’s Tallest Bird

11mon 14d ago in conservation@slrpnk.net from www.rollingstone.com

Realistically, she's right they're not truely the same, however thats not really the point either. The goal is that something fills the ecological niche that was destroyed by human activity, ideally bringing back more balance and robustness to the ecosystem.

NOAA forecasts an average summer 'dead zone' in Gulf of Mexico

1y 10d ago in collapse@slrpnk.net from phys.org

I just pulled the title from the headline, but I've made the change because you're right. It shouldn't be normalized.