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The study paper is open, not behind a paywall! Fair dinkum. Read more

Remember when Greg Abbott went on Fox News, days after the storm, and blamed the power grid failure on The Green New Deal? And then everyone reminded him that Texas doesn’t follow the Green New Deal? Read more

Meh. I grew up in Mass, and Sam Adams is a taste I associate with concession stands at places like the Garden, where the choices were Sam, Heineken, and Bud Light.  So, yeah - Sam wins, unless there's Harpoon at the next stand.

“As someone raised in Massachusetts and in an era before the explosion of craft breweries, it was the peak of novelty at the time.” Read more

Is this one of those plant-based beers I’ve been hearing so much about?

Here’s the thing; don’t overreact to bad-faith takes by the Conservative media. Read more

Thanks for clarifying. I think you & I are probably mostly on the same page!

I especially enjoyed the bit about how the local ecosystems may see a net benefit from oil spills because, in the wake of these disasters, humans temporarily stop fishing in these areas allowing the sea life to rebound. Read more

(Full disclosure: I’m vegan myself, so you can assume I have biases in that direction). Read more

This is not news. There has been a vomit inducing caterpillar living in Washington for the past four years. 

Gizmodo to oil and car industry: F-U. Read more

I followed the Jurassic Park link and of course ended up reading through the Fandom Jurassic Park wiki. I like this quote regarding sheltering during the storm: Read more

Stabbed through the heart? And a loon’s to blame?
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Had to know this was coming.

Don’t fuck with us. Read more

The loon is prominent on Canadian coins. Their one-dollar coin is often called a “loonie.” The eagle is prominent on American coins and national branding. Read more

There’s a reason the loon is on Canada’s money. Read more

Samantha Grasso recently wrote a really good article about how COVID-19 illustrates a long-term conflict in US politics between the rights of individuals and the rights of communities. Climate change is the same kind of conflict: if I, as an individual, can pollute the community as much as possible without any kind of… Read more

I am not sure that Earther’s commenting community is able to handle a conversation about sex positivity. It doesn’t help that this article has already been shared to Gizmodo.

If nudes can inspire the governments of the world to move to a post-carbon energy grid then that’s awesome. Sex is already used to sell plenty… Read more