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Thursday GNR: No Malarkey Edition [1]
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Date: 2023-06-01
We got through a lot of malarkey and meshugas, yes? I’m start June off today without them. No debt screaming, indictments, trials, Rushing to Ruin. Just real Good News from all over. But I am taking a moment to thank our Dark Brandon.
We don’t mind this Malarky, from Band of Brothers, of course.
Malarky Chosen To Lead Patrol - Band Of Brothers (HBO) - Prisoner Snatch Patrol
Our Usual Sources
Civil Eats (good news about food systems, with a lot of warnings)
These Farmers Recharged Groundwater by Catching Atmospheric Rivers
Future Crunch (based in Australia)
Good News on Global Homicide, Education in Sierra Leone and Solar in China
Plus, poverty reduction, sanitation in the Ivory Coast, LGBTQI+ rights in Romania, the end of native logging in our backyard, turtle conservation in Panama, incredible news about clean energy investment, and why Australia is the lucky country (again)
Good For All News (Jane Goodall’s site, with hopeful news about conservation and activism)
Inspiring Youth Project: Anti-Bias Book Festival
GoodGoodGood (similar to Good News Network)
This Pan-African NGO Aims To Educate 5 Million Girls By 2030
Good News Network (a wide range of stories, with occasional fluff)
Multiple Myeloma Cancer Treatment Has 90% Success Rate: ‘Dramatic Results’
Optimist Daily (a daily newsletter of good news)
Vent to your friends without bringing them down with these expert-approved tips
Let’s spread this advice around DK.
Bolivia isn’t known for its cuisine, but chef Marsia Taha is changing that with her award winning restaurant that serves only Bolivian ingredients sourced on trips deep into the Amazon. By celebrating the fare of the country’s 36 Indigenous groups, she is bringing them new income streams and cultural pride
Progress Network (positive opinion pieces and links to good news from all over)
What Could Go Right? 68 million child marriages averted
Steep declines in South Asia have pushed progress along.
Reasons to Be Cheerful (another positive newsletter)
News for when you’ve had too much news. Every Whiskey Distillery In Scotland Vows to Go Carbon Neutral A sprawling industry with a large carbon footprint is stumbling toward sustainability.
The hard part, according to the report, is giving up burning peat for the flavor. Peat is one of nature’s great carbon sequestration systems. If I were a drinker, I would drink a fine single malt to that.
First Signs of Rare Higgs Boson Decay Discovered by Physicists
Proton crashes inside two different detectors at the European Organization for Nuclear Research's (CERN) Large Hadron Collider (LHC), physicists bumped up the statistical precision of the rate at which the famous 'mass-giving' particle decayed into a photon and a Z boson.
Family, embarks on a mission to rescue seals entangled in deadly plastic pollution along the Namibian coastline
Drag bar Hamburger Mary’s is suing the state of Florida — here’s why
'Why women leave’: Wife who 'does everything' shares why she left her husband who did nothing
Waging Nonviolence (good news about organizing and activism)
Divest, decarbonize and disassociate — inside the bold new push to get fossil fuels off campus
Warp News (a mixed bag from Sweden — too many paywalled stories, but some good free ones)
Make the Future Come Sooner
The Angry Optimist
Mathias used to be a Member of Parliament, but choose not to run for reelection in 2018, because he had seen a big opportunity to have a more positive impact on the future. Over the years he had become angry over how pessimists were seen as rational. Frustrated when optimists were mocked. Annoyed with the news media for their focus on negative news. At the same time, he got more and more optimistic about the future of humanity. Life on Earth improved at a rate never seen before. But progress was slowed down by all the pessimism. To solve enormous challenges like climate change we need to move faster. Mathias started dreaming of a world where optimists are seen as rational. With news media showing a fact-based view of the world. And naive pessimists don't stand in the way of progress. Therefore he founded the non-profit Warp Institute Foundation with the mission to make the future come sooner.
Yes! (a magazine that emails a newsletter focusing on one or two good news stories)
A Young Person’s Guide to Spotting Fake News
And from Twitter, too.
x Decades ago ppl would have said this would never happen and that such a medicine would never exist. Thank science for that pic.twitter.com/HY1pmS079q — Optimistic Lizard 🌊proud to be a LIBERAL (@rex197878) June 1, 2023
Animals! Science! Weirdness!
Deacon Mushrat and Simple J. Malarkey. The Jack Acid Society Black Book, by Pogo, as told to Walt Kelly
x Using the #JWST, astronomers have identified a massive, densely packed galaxy 25 billion light years away. The galaxy, known as GS-9209, formed just 600 to 800 million years after the Big Bang, and is the earliest of its kind found to date.
👉
https://t.co/K84jy6zsyC pic.twitter.com/OYY41BcBiS — Erika (@ExploreCosmos_) May 22, 2023
25 billion light years is the estimated comoving distance, where GS-9209 is estimated to be now, as opposed to the lookback time of 13 billion years. The observable universe is estimated to have a radius of 46 billion light years.
A massive quiescent galaxy at redshift 4.658
x #wagnertonight#Maddow
Science break.
Researchers in China believe they have found the only living albino panda bear in the Wolong Natural Nature Reserve. It is considered a true albino because it has pink eyes. pic.twitter.com/U8NS7gUMQC — Firecaptain and Jack (@Firecaptain16) June 1, 2023
x An Israeli revolutionary breakthrough in cancer research has found a way to use bio-sensing technology to predict the response of cancer patients to immunotherapy with high levels of accuracy.#Israel | #Cancer
https://t.co/W8BVSm1qeJ — The Jerusalem Post (@Jerusalem_Post) May 31, 2023
x Rotary Foundation Trustee Aziz Memon highlights the narrowing geographic region of wild poliovirus along the border of the two wild polio endemic countries: Pakistan and Afghanistan. #EndPolio pic.twitter.com/lYTgRcW3qb — EndPolioNow (@EndPolioNow) May 30, 2023
x The false killer whale is a large dolphin that reaches over 6 metres in length!
(Photo Doug Perrine) pic.twitter.com/EU2NwyFwJs — Weird Animals (@Weird_AnimaIs) May 24, 2023
x #NASA's #Hubble revealed a pair of gravitationally bound quasars, both blazing away inside two merging galaxies. They existed when the universe was just 3 billion years old.#astronomy #Astrophotography #space #cosmology pic.twitter.com/23yiUqnR4u — Will (@dreamsNscience) June 1, 2023
In today’s newsletter Will Wade explains why a billion-dollar plan to produce hydrogen using nuclear energy is on hold. You can read and share a free version of this story on Bloomberg.com. Subscribe to Bloomberg for unlimited access to climate and energy news, and to receive Bloomberg Green magazine.
Billion-Dollar ‘Pink Hydrogen’ Plan on Hold as US Weighs Rules Constellation Energy has paused its efforts to make hydrogen using nuclear power as the Biden administration considers limiting tax credits.
x Over 5,000 previously unknown sea creatures, including sea sponges, worms and urchins, were discovered in an almost untouched area of the Pacific Ocean.#Pacific | #Science | #deepsea
https://t.co/geRzqIUEEH — The Jerusalem Post (@Jerusalem_Post) June 1, 2023
x This is the moment a sand tiger shark bared it’s razor sharp teeth to a diver
The jaw protruding is an important element in feeding behaviour
📹 Matt Prior
pic.twitter.com/KwbzkhXGfv — Science girl (@gunsnrosesgirl3) May 31, 2023
x Great news coming out of #Ghana!
A new malaria vaccine developed at @UniofOxford has won regulatory approval after showing 80% efficacy.
Innovations in the fight against malaria help us tilt the scales of justice towards vulnerable communities.
https://t.co/TOOL1K0zb6 — Vestergaard (@vestergaard) May 30, 2023
x Time for a bed time story..
Good night! ❤️👋 pic.twitter.com/BrgAiWuIj5 — Buitengebieden (@buitengebieden) May 31, 2023
x Amazing Water & Sound Experiment
Applying sound to water flow at 25 Hz frequency makes water flows in wave pattern. Using a camera that shoots 24 fps to see the effect!
Video source: brusspup#engineering #science #sound #water #technology #innovation pic.twitter.com/Zgqb9D8Y5Y — Wevolver (@WevolverApp) June 1, 2023
Note that this is a camera trick, picking out drops of water on different paths, not the path of any single drop.
x A termite track and an ant track traveling past each other, each protected by a row of soldiers.pic.twitter.com/Z7Is3dAs3T — Wonder of Science (@wonderofscience) May 31, 2023
x This is the moment a sand tiger shark bared it’s razor sharp teeth to a diver
The jaw protruding is an important element in feeding behaviour
📹 Matt Prior
pic.twitter.com/KwbzkhXGfv — Science girl (@gunsnrosesgirl3) May 31, 2023
x Pygmy marmosets eating peas.. 😊 pic.twitter.com/PTvSlQGUUQ — Buitengebieden (@buitengebieden) May 31, 2023
Funny or Cry!
Well, I have to allow SOME malarkey here.
x 💖 🤍 💙 🖤 🤎 ❤️ 🧡 💛 💚 💙 💜
Happy Pride Month
💖 🤍 💙 🖤 🤎 ❤️ 🧡 💛 💚 💙 💜 pic.twitter.com/IFIBaEQc7X — 🌈The Where True Love is Movement 🏳️⚧️ (@WhereTrueLoveIs) June 1, 2023
Support your local cartoonists, and the striking writers.
I have omitted some DK comics that were too heavy on the malarkey, or where DK says
Image [file name] is not permitted for use.
No, I don’t know why it is OK for the cartoonists, but not for us.
Yes, send your little victories to
[email protected]
Mark Fiore
The famed drag activist group Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence were disinvited to an LA Dodgers LGBTQ+ Pride Event after pressure from right wing fanatics. But after even more public pressure from the non-fascist public, the baseball organization reconsidered, and reversed their decision.
Yes, they scream and cry and carry on, and we just keep calm and carry on.
First they ignore you. Then they laugh at you. Then they fight you. Then you win.
Mahatma Gandhi
And then they claim that it was their idea all along.
Me
Astro Joke of the Week
Yes, don’t you believe it.
OK, Weird, Play Us Out
WE'RE ALL DOOMED - Trump vs. Biden ft. "Weird Al" Yankovic
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