In much of the US, it’s the last week to register to vote in the US election in November. Do not miss your opportunity (and if you are registered, to check your registration to make sure it is still valid). Get registered and encourage everyone you know to register. Here’s where to start: Vote.gov
Find the information you need to make registration and voting easy. Official voter registration website of the United States government.
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Robot Fungal apocalypse was not on my bingo card for this year www.earth.com/news/mushroo...
Cornell scientists used king oyster mushrooms to control robots by harnessing their electrochemical signals.
What is common knowledge in your field, but shocks outsiders? That academics don’t get paid for most of what we write, or review, or edit, but our universities do have to pay for us to read it
Ultimately, this came down to values. I say now what I have said this whole campaign: I am a parasite and I do not have the country’s best interests at heart. So it is clear to me now that I have no choice but to drop out of the race and support Donald Trump. wapo.st/4cGm2QP
There clearly is only one logical home for me in the 2024 election. I did not want to say so earlier for fear of alienating my host.
Excellent news: updated COVID vaccines, targeting the KP.2 variant that has been responsible for much of the summer surge, are expected to be approved late next week and likely available to consumers before Labor Day.
The arrival of updated Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna vaccines for the KP.2 variant comes well into a summer wave when Americans have struggled to find an existing shot.
At this instant 79 years ago (8:15am August 6, local time), Little Boy—a 15-kiloton, uranium-fueled atomic bomb—destroyed Hiroshima, killing (per US military estimates) ~70,000 men, women, and children, including 12 American POWs. Independent estimates later maintained ~140,000 people were killed.
