this is entirely true whether or not there was a ceasefire: trump has been silencing pro-palestine activists on arbitrary basis because israel has lost public favor and was not likely to regain it anytime soon, and their only current media strategy to accomplish their genocidal goals is to silence palestinian sympathy and render it dangerous. no matter what israel does or does not do over the next few days, weeks and months, the only way it regains standing with the american public is through violent enforcement and not persuasion
this was a strategy laid out already by the democrats, but trump has escalated it in the manner of middle-eastern autocrats. make an example out of someone, prove that criticizing israel is now a crime that puts you beyond the reach of the first amendment, civil rights and due process, and watch everyone fall in line.
One-Of-A-Kind Orange Snowy Owl Leaves Scientists Scratching Their Heads
Wildlife photographer Julie Maggert has been taking pictures of snowy owls for years.
So when she heard that a strange, orange-colored snowy owl had been spotted flying around Michiganâs Thumb area, she knew she had to see the bird for herself.
Maggert drove two hours out to where the owl had been observed. Before long, she spotted her in the middle of a field. She couldnât believe her eyes â she really was orange...
Read more: One-Of-A-Kind Orange Snowy Owl Leaves Scientists Scratching Their Heads - The Dodo
In my hometown there's a hospital that won awards for the brilliant architectural vision of the great man who designed it.
The fact that even before it opened they'd begun building the extension, because it was too small to accommodate the number of patients, and even then too small to accommodate visitors, apparently didn't matter.
I've worked in multiple award-winning buildings, and every one of them was a terrible work environment. Confusing internal layouts, bad HVAC, inaccessible spaces, lacking basic amenities, horrible acoustics, just bad places to work all around.
But hey, the lines of the buildings look great from the outside.
I worked as an admin for 2 months at a multiple award-winning architectural firm. When I got to see a restaurant design in progress, I pointed out that the design of the bar in said restaurant would end up causing injuries to the workers. I was told that I didn't know what I was talking about.
I had left bartending to go to that job and I left that job to go back to bartending.
the university where i work has this big innovative 'green' building that was the jewel in the crown of our environmental studies program and a big draw to new students. it has gardens embedded into windowed panels in the walls, the roof collects rainwater to be used in the toilets, etc
the building got legionnaire's disease from all the accumulated moisture in the air ducts & other systems and had to be shut down
Birds building nests in unconventional locations, unknowingly generating breathtaking symbolism and visual art > literally anything hollywood can hope to achieve
Prepare for bird puppet spamming! These puppets are used in rehabilitation and captive breeding programs to prevent human imprinting in young birds.
San Diego Zoo & Safari parkâs well known California Condor puppet that aids in the California Condor Recovery Program.
African Raptorâs Centreâs hyper realistic Bearded Vulture puppet used for propagation.
Saint Louis Zooâs King Vulture puppet used for captive rearing of a King vulture chick.
Denver Zooâs vulture puppet used for captive rearing of a Cinereous vulture chick. âMmmmmmmmmmâŚâ Sorry, just a Dark Crystal reference..
Libertyâs Owl, Raptor & Reptile Centreâs Falcon & Turkey Vulture puppets used for captive rearing.
Raptor head puppet used at Beijingâs Raptor Rescue Center for rehabilitation. *Extends Xenomorph baby feeding tongue.*
A childhood favorite! A sock puppet! Used at the Jersey Zoo for captive rearing Javan Green Magpies. (Cue Lamb Chopâs song!)
Last but not least, Philippine Eagle Foundationâs hyper realistic Philippine Eagle puppet used for propagation. This amazing puppet was made by Nambroth who makes spectacular bird related fursuit/cosplay pieces.
Philippine Eagle hand-feeding puppet by Nambroth on DeviantArt
A new study reveals an unexpected hero in forest recovery after wildfires: The Chinese pangolin!
Researchers found that Chinese pangolin burrows help restore biodiversity in forests devastated by fires. Over two years, areas with burrows had a higher diversity of plants and animals compared to sites without them.
These critically endangered mammals are expert diggers, burrowing as deep as 8 feetâcreating shelter for cold-blooded animals, ideal conditions for shade-loving plants, and even dust baths for birds. Small mammals also use burrows for foraging and hunting.
As forest fires worsen due to climate change, this study underscores the power of nature-based solutions. Protecting pangolins doesnât just save a speciesâit helps entire ecosystems recover.
King Arthur Baking Company is coming under fire for holding a competition exclusively for people of color-owned businesses and brands.
According to the companyâs website, âBaking Pitchfest 2024â offers a product edition geared toward baking brands founded and owned by people of color across the U.S., and a bakery edition, which focuses on people of color-owned bakeries in the Northeast and Washington state.
âHalf mentorship, half competition, Baking Pitchfest is an accelerator program designed to foster greater inclusivity and creativity in the baking world by providing equitable opportunities for People of Color entrepreneurs,â the website states, adding that winners will receive financial support, mentorship, and exposure.
But the initiative has generated outrage amongst conservatives online, who have blasted the competition eligibility rules as discriminatory against white people.
One X user critical of King Arthur Bakingâs contest posted an email she received from the company in response to her complaining.
âHelping build joyful, equitable communities that celebrate diversity is an important part of who we are as a company,â the email states, later adding: âWe love baking with anyone and everyone. Our simple expectation is that everyone show respect for one another.â
serious answer: I ran some quick math (below the cut) and found out that this ant would impart about ten times the amount of energy as an impact by a 45kg Howitzer round, or one thousand times the energy yield of a typical handgrenade. Ordinarily I would expect something like an ant to disintegrate on impact at high speeds, but there is simply so much energy in that ant that it would have nowhere else to go but forward - even if it completely exploded on impact without penetrating, you would definitely die and definitely need a closed-casket funeral. If it simply went straight through without meaningful disintegration, carrying the majority of its energy away with it, with this being a hypersonic projectile (actually, it's a relativistic one) it still would definitely shred at least a grapefruit-sized hole in you just from cavitation damage. Given the ridiculous speed, it would also create a significant amount of heat and a concussive sonic shockwave as it did so, definitely killing you instantly and probably turning you into charred ground beef.
TLDR yes you would be super mega dead
first let's use a more sensible unit than mph. 100000000mph is 44,704,000m/s. that's more significant figures than we need but I'll leave that to the end. for reference, c is exactly 299,792,458m/s meaning our unlucky ant is traveling at about 15% of the speed of light.
next let's find the mass of an ant. googling it, it looks like 1-5mg is an oft-cited figure, so let's say it's a little sugar ant that only weighs 1mg (because that's an easy number for math, and because I want to know the best-case scenario in case this is somehow survivable). that's 0.001g or 0.000001kg (important for next step.)
to find how much energy the ant will impart, we use the formula E(k) = 1/2 * mv², which results in a value of very nearly one gigajoule (1GJ â 999MJ), which is neat because we started with one significant figure and now we're ending with one too.
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