Notes on Ecology, Technology and Culture

Notes on Ecology, Technology and Culture

Seeds

Ideas Planted Elsewhere

A thousand UK musicians release a silent album protesting a government proposal that lets AI companies freely pillage their work.

What happens when USAID is gone? It's only been a few days and so far it's chaos.

The universe is a strange place. Scientists just discovered a planet with 20,000 mile per hour winds.

We’re not rocket scientists but with weather in the contiguous United States getting hotter, wetter and pricier, now might not be the best time to scrub data from governmental web sites.

Potatoes are awesome. Big Potato, not so much. In the United States, it faces lawsuits over price fixing.

A delivery truck carrying 44,000 pounds of chickpeas combusted as it drove through California’s Death Valley. We did the math. That’s a lot of hummus.

Three oarfish washed up on California's shore in the last few months. Scientists only know of 19 in the previous 123 years. What gives?

"Having spent a lifetime trying to speak what I believe to be the truth, I am profoundly disturbed to find that these days, my identity is being stolen by others and greatly object to them using it to say whatever they wish." – David Attenborough

Ideas

Articles & Essays
Abandoned gas well on refuge lands in Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge. Work of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Environment

Texas Has a Leaky Problem

Thousands of orphan oil and gas wells are polluting groundwater. Allocated funds to clean them up is not being distributed.

Videos

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