August 29, 2023
Greater bilby numbers soar through Taronga Western Plains Zoo
Greater bilby numbers soar through Taronga Western Plains Zoo rehabilitation program. The quest to save Australia's threatened greater bilby has been an amazing success at Taronga Western Plains Zoo where the population has jumped from 18 to 136 since 2019.
20,000 Octopuses nesting near the base of an extinct underwater volcano
Scientists solve mystery of why thousands of octopus migrate to deep-sea thermal springs [more inside]
When It Came To drinking, I Was Damn Good At It
The subject of all great literature is either about redemption or its loss. Soteriology—that is the branch of theology that concerns itself with salvation—is the only worthy topic of prose, poetry, or drama. Whether you take any of that God stuff literally or not is irrelevant to this discussion. Noble, heroic, and good people corrupted or degenerated; sinful and wicked men made whole—either/or—those are the narratives which should concern any genuine art, because the turmoil within an individual mind, the canker and possible curing of the soul, is the only drama commensurate with the broken, flawed, limited, damning, painful, horrible, and beautiful experience of being trapped in a human body and a human life. from Darkness Visible [Ungated] [CW: alcoholism]
The last song of the last show
Japanese band Number Girl played their last show on November 30, 2002, performing "Omoide In My Head" as their final song. The bittersweet finale was captured on video and you can hear the crowd let out their last scream for the band. 20 years later, Number Girl played the song again for the first time in front of an audience and it feels just as ephemeral.
Analyzing the groundwater crisis
"America has been slow to learn the lessons of overpumping." The New York Times offers a powerfully researched and visualized account of the building crisis in America's groundwater supply. (SLNYT)
Home School Nation
How the GOP and Christian millionaires plan to syphon billions of dollars from public schools
Florida is just the start.
Florida is just the start.
안녕하세요 to Tiny Desk Korea
NPR, in association with LG U+ and Something Special, has launched Tiny Desk Korea. First up is 김창완 밴드 (KIM CHANG WAN BAND). More about the project here, and more about artists to come here.
Free Online Browser tools: Big list of free In Browser, Single Use tools
You need to do a thing - NOW! For when you need to calculate a thing, or look up a thing, or be able to do the thing in your Browser without any faff.
Most of the tools listed are NOT from https://freetinytools.com/ but I had to put a link in the description.... [more inside]
!umich!blackhole
The University of Michigan, a community of over 120,000 people, has gone offline in response to a security incident. [more inside]
"I just published a wildly over-researched article--
--about a question that has been plaguing me for months: Why is this bridge here?" The deepest of deep dives into the history of a seemingly trivial phenomenon: a footbridge over a suburban freeway south of Minneapolis. At the same time, an amazing piece of citizen research and reporting on a bit of pre-internet local history. (via)
Good Luck Finding a Therapist with Cultural Competence
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