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Thursday GNR: Light More than One Candle [1]

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Date: 2025-07-17

We are not in denial of reality, but we didn’t come here just to curse the darkness. Every one of us has things worth doing to lighten our present darkness and make the way straight for the coming outbreak of righteousness in future elections. Meanwhile, we can all pray for those who follow Jesus as their Lord and Savior devotedly all the days of their lives…

only making sure never to catch up with Him.

Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall catch Hell from all sides.

Me

Rabidly Repellent Republicans Rushing to Ruin/Bad News for Them

FBI #2 and Rush Limbaugh wannabe Dan Bongino has accused Pam Bondi of lying about the Epstein client list because she said for months that she had it on her desk, and now says there is no list. Bondi hates Bongino. There are rumors that Bongino will quit, and FBI Director Kash Patel with him, and then Trump will fire Bondi. All of MAGAworld is furious in one direction or another. Alex Jones and Tucker Carlson say that Bondi is lying. Trump wants nothing to do with any of it.

I am just going to leave all of that there, and not quote any of them, not from X, not from Bluesky, not from the media. This, however, is a big deal.

Regular Good News

As the longest-running study of wild chimpanzees in the world, Gombe unlocks new insight into our closest living relatives with each year that passes. We are learning more than ever about the importance of social bonds, the effect of parental care on infant development, and our own evolutionary history. As threats to habitats and wildlife increase, Gombe also provides resources to find solutions. We are tracking habitat changes using Geographic Information Systems (GIS), monitoring Gombe’s biodiversity with bioacoustics to learn what species essential habitats like Gombe hold, and increasing local capacity so that communities around Gombe have the tools they need to be stewards of their own land

The woman from Guadeloupe, a French Caribbean island, isn't the only person with a blood type outside of the main eight types. There are actually 48 blood types in the world but the majority of people fit into one of the well known types. But when it comes to the woman of Guadeloupe, she's the first and only person with her blood type, which has now been named after the island in which she hails–GWADA NEGATIVE.

Waging Nonviolence—I posted about this in the More and Better Democracies group x After decades of armed struggle, the PKK is laying down its weapons and beginning a new nonviolent chapter in the Kurdish independence movement.



[image or embed] — Waging Nonviolence (@wagingnonviolence.org) July 15, 2025 at 2:17 PM Science! Lifeforms! Weirdness!

I don’t have a cat any more, but I’m sure you will enjoy these.

Toe beans on one paw of a white lion cub.

x LIGO Detects Most Massive Black Hole Merger to Date The powerful merger produced a final black hole approximately 225 times the mass of our Sun. 🧪🔭 www.caltech.edu/about/news/l...



[image or embed] — Daniel Pomarède (@pomarede.bsky.social) July 14, 2025 at 2:57 PM

x 🔫 Not all gun laws work the same way



A new study finds stronger state gun laws in the US are linked to lower firearm deaths, especially suicides



But to reduce homicides, laws must be paired with policies tackling poverty, racism, and inequality



🔗 doi.org/10.1001/jama...



#SciComm #GunPolicy 🧪



[image or embed] — Prof Sam Illingworth (@samillingworth.com) July 14, 2025 at 11:37 AM

x The Senate appropriations committee has voiced its intent to ignore the request by President Donald Trump to slash the budgets of the National Science Foundation and NASA science programs. scim.ag/4nW7XWi



[image or embed] — Science Magazine (@science.org) July 10, 2025 at 3:41 PM

Brown dwarfs are hot enough to fuse deuterium, but not hot enough to fuse hydrogen to deuterium to begin the proton-proton chain. x JWST observations of the young star cluster IC 348 revealed extremely low-mass brown dwarfs with signatures of hydrocarbons in their spectra: meet the members of the proposed “H” spectral class. aasnova.org/2025/07/14/f... 🔭🧪



[image or embed] — AAS Nova (@aasnova.org) July 14, 2025 at 11:20 AM

x The interstellar comet, A11pl3z or C/2025 N1, that was detected approaching the inner solar system is beginning to show signs of activity. 🧪🔭☄️ astronomerstelegram.org?read=17263



[image or embed] — Kenneth Becker (@geophotographer.org) July 3, 2025 at 3:16 PM

x New interstellar object #A11pl3Z is now designated #3I/ATLAS by the Minor Planet Center. Congratulations to our friends at #ATLAS for an amazing find. Looking forward to what further study of this strange object reveals. This orbit plot shows all 3 interstellar visitors known to this point. 🔭🧪



[image or embed] — David Rankin (@asteroiddave.bsky.social) July 3, 2025 at 3:16 PM

x Oooo, our press office putting in work! This project was a ton of fun. Big shout-out to our co-authors, including lead author Marwa Farrag, my friend Vitor Pomin and the Radoslav Goldman group at Georgetown. #glycotime 🧪



[image or embed] — Joshua Sharp (@joshuasharp.bsky.social) July 3, 2025 at 3:38 PM

It’s not just doomscrolling, if you do it right, as we do in our Good News Source Feed on Bluesky.

x A study in Nature Human Behaviour shows that following the news on social media increases current affairs knowledge, the ability to discern true from false news and trust in the news. go.nature.com/4lrYCDw 🧪



[image or embed] — Nature Portfolio (@natureportfolio.nature.com) July 3, 2025 at 5:53 PM

x Rubin's thousands of newly-discovered asteroids....now in your web browser! Introducing NSF–DOE Rubin Observatory's 3D Orbitviewer ☄️🪐 Follow along as Rubin discovers millions more asteroids in our Solar System in the coming years at orbitviewer.app 🔭🧪



[image or embed] — NSF–DOE Rubin Observatory (@vrubinobs.bsky.social) July 10, 2025 at 4:58 PM

x BEHOLD! One of Earth's greatest lineages of life: the lil wiggle arm guys, Meteora. These single-celled critters, originally found in deep-sea sediments, are SO DIFFERENT from other lifeforms on Earth that they're likely in their own kingdom (as in, the Animal Kingdom, the Plant Kingdom etc). 🧪🌿



[image or embed] — Rebecca R Helm (@rebeccarhelm.bsky.social) July 10, 2025 at 3:06 PM

x Siphonophores are a small group of colonial 'hydrozoans'. They belong in the phylum Cnidaria together with medusas and corals. Hydrozoans seem to be polyphyletic, which means they do not have a common ancestor not shared by other groups. 🧪



[image or embed] — Dr. Sven N. Nielsen (@snnielsen.bsky.social) July 10, 2025 at 3:16 PM

We can’t see Ele’s crocheted geode here, but try this.

Geode Tutorial Part 1

AI pioneer Marvin Minsky invented confocal laser microscopy in 1957 to try to do this, but it wasn’t good enough. I had a contract in the 1990s to document a confocal laser microscope for defect detection on semiconductor wafers at submicron resolution. The state of the art has gone far beyond that now, with much smaller features on ICs.

x Using a custom microscope, researchers mapped the entire peripheral nervous system of a mouse at micrometer resolution in 40 hours. The method reveals nerve paths from brain to organs and could help build full-body connectomes in other species.

🧪🐀🧠

#Neurotech

#Microscopy

#Neuroanatomy

#Biology



[image or embed] — Kenneth Becker (@geophotographer.org) July 10, 2025 at 5:14 PM

x Archaeologists at Caracol have uncovered the tomb of its first king, Te K’ab Chaak, dating to AD 350. Found with jade, carved bone, and Teotihuacan-linked artifacts, the burial reshapes understanding of early Maya diplomacy and royal power.

🧪⚒️

#MayaHistory

#Caracol

#Teotihuacan

#UHResearch



[image or embed] — Kenneth Becker (@geophotographer.org) July 10, 2025 at 5:45 PM

Buitengebieden doesn’t post all of his material on Bluesky yet.

x Dog picks up a little girl from school every day with a car made by het father.. 😊 pic.twitter.com/ydMbgxLK3T — Buitengebieden (@buitengebieden) July 5, 2025

x Elephants in Thailand have learned to exploit their right of way and stop passing sugar cane trucks to grab a quick snack.. pic.twitter.com/aMsQDIRFmF — Buitengebieden (@buitengebieden) July 11, 2025

x Durham cosmologists predict up to 100 hidden satellite galaxies around the Milky Way. Stripped of dark matter, these “orphan” galaxies may resolve the missing satellites problem and help guide future deep-sky surveys.

🧪🔭

#DarkMatter

#GalaxyFormation

Source:

conference.astro.dur.ac.uk/event/7/cont...



[image or embed] — Kenneth Becker (@geophotographer.org) July 10, 2025 at 6:22 PM

Smart brain-zapping implants could revolutionize Parkinson’s treatment

The next generation of deep-brain stimulation automatically corrects the precise brain waves that create symptoms of Parkinson’s disease. Can this approach target other conditions? x "In this cohort study, the use of GLP-1RAs semaglutide and

tirzepatide was associated with a lower risk of dementia, stroke, and all-cause mortality in adults with type 2 diabetes and obesity."

jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...



[image or embed] — Eric Topol (@erictopol.bsky.social) July 15, 2025 at 10:47 AM

Funny or Fuggedaboudit

Quoting The Onion:

Funny Music

This post originally said we couldn’t read it hear, but evidently our Charles Gaba/Brainwrap relented.

Foo. Well, they can’t stop us getting stuff that’s all over teh Interwebz.

Weird Al Yankovic - You Can Call Me Al (Paul Simon Cover Live @ Madison Square Garden 7/12/2025)

SPIKE JONES:Tchaikovsky Medley

Note the music with rocks in, as Terry Pratchett used to remind us.

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