END CREDITS EP by GHOST COP
Released October 30, 2020.
Exclusively on bandcamp for the moment, END CREDITS is the soundtrack to a movie that doesn't exist.
via GHOST COP
US Republicans are starting to look a lot like authoritarian parties in Hungary and Turkey, study finds
The GOP is starting to look a lot like an autocratic party, a large study into political identity has found.
CNN
'Sleeping giant' Arctic methane deposits starting to release, scientists find
Scientists have found evidence that frozen methane deposits in the Arctic Ocean – known as the “sleeping giants of the carbon cycle” – have started to be released over a large area of the continental slope off the East Siberian coast, the Guardian can reveal.
The Guardian
A Scholar of American Doom Doesn’t See How Capitalism Can Fix This Crisis
“The elements are there” for a radical transformation, says Mike Davis.
Mother Jones
teccotoys® Age Of Mecha™ Kickstarter
Age Of Mecha™ is a 1/35 scale, highly detailed Sci-Fi action figure collectible toy line, set in the year 2150 and focused on powerful Mech walkers and their respective hero pilot action figures.
via Kickstarter
Ron Cobb, Designer of the 'Alien' Ship and the 'Back to the Future' DeLorean, Dies at 83
Ron Cobb, the underground cartoonist turned production designer who influenced the making of E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial and helped shape the worlds of Conan the Barbarian, Alien and Back to the Future, has died.
The Hollywood Reporter
Climate Change Will Force a New American Migration
Wildfires rage in the West. Hurricanes batter the East. Droughts and floods wreak damage throughout the nation. Life has become increasingly untenable in the hardest-hit areas, but if the people there move, where will everyone go?
ProPublica
New Climate Maps Show a Transformed United States
Recent research shows that the most habitable climate in North America will shift northward and the incidence of large fires will increase across the country—this suggests that the climate crisis will profoundly interrupt the way we live and farm in the United States. See how the North American places where humans have lived for thousands of years will shift and what changes are in store for your county.
ProPublica
Possible hint of life discovered on Venus
Phosphine gas (PH3), a chemical long thought to be a signature of life, has been found floating around in the clouds of Venus.
Live Science
How Big Oil Misled The Public Into Believing Plastic Would Be Recycled
NPR and PBS Frontline spent months digging into internal industry documents and interviewing top former officials. We found that the industry sold the public on an idea it knew wouldn't work — that the majority of plastic could be, and would be, recycled — all while making billions of dollars selling the world new plastic.
The Arctic is burning like never before — and that’s bad news for climate change
Fires are releasing record levels of carbon dioxide, partly because they are burning ancient peatlands that have been a carbon sink.
Nature
An Interview With The Creators of First Knife
Leading up to the release of the collected trade release of the series, we spoke to Simon Roy, Daniel M Bensen and Artyom Trakhanov, writers and artist of the series First Knife. We go into the series’ life up to now, the potential for the universe and the current comics industry.
Stephen Clark | Geek Elite Media
Sea level rise from ice sheets track worst-case climate change scenario
Ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica whose melting rates are rapidly increasing have raised the global sea level by 1.8cm since the 1990s, and are matching the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's worst-case climate warming scenarios.
“The melting is overtaking the climate models we use to guide us, and we are in danger of being unprepared for the risks posed by sea level rise.”
University of Leeds | Phys.org
"Newly-declassified" footage of the Tsar Bomba nuclear test
Rosatom, the Russian state energy company, posted a documentary about the 1961 Tsar Bomba nuclear weapons test, the most powerful on record. The documentary (itself obviously of the era) contains footage that was previously unreleased, according to commentators. The 50-megaton action starts about 22m in.
This new video purports to be a compilation of the freshly-declassified bits.
via Boing Boing
John Was Trying to Contact Aliens
A rural electronics whiz broadcasts radio signals into space and monitors for signs of aliens, but makes a more important connection here on Earth.
A 2020 short documentary starring John Shepherd. Directed by Matthew Killip.
About Feeds
A single page website, for linking wherever you keep your web feed, to explain how it works for someone new to using RSS. The sections are:
- A short intro
- What is a feed? (a.k.a RSS.) - overview and benefits
- How do I get a newsreader app? - with suggested apps
- How do I use my new newsreader app to subscribe to a feed? - instructions!
Created by Matt Web
Broken Cable Damages Arecibo Observatory
The National Science Foundation facility is closed while engineers review the damage and assess the extent of repairs that will be needed to bring the telescope back online.
Research | UCF Today
Getting from November to January
Wargaming shows that we may be headed for a severe constitutional crisis.
The bad news: in each scenario other than a Biden landslide, we ended up with a constitutional crisis that lasted until the inauguration, featuring violence in the streets and a severely disrupted administrative transition. The good news: we also learned a great deal about how to prevent the worst from transpiring. There were six major takeaways.
The American Interest