Author: Phil Santiago

Science News – Science Daily

A crushed fossil revealed a dinosaur that shouldn’t have existed

A badly mangled dinosaur skull, once forgotten in a drawer, turned out to be a rare and important discovery. Reconstructed by a Virginia Tech student, it revealed a new species of early carnivorous dinosaur with unusual features never seen before. The fossil suggests some dinosaur groups were wiped out during the end-Triassic extinction, not just their rivals.

online posts – bluesky – ErinInthemorning.com

Some Birds Posted on Bluesky

Two new birds on my life list this morning on my morning walk, a female Hairy Woodpecker and a Northern House Wren. 🙂

video and transcript – Democracy Now

“The Future Is Peace”: Maoz Inon & Aziz Abu Sarah on Israelis and Palestinians Working Together

Israeli Maoz Inon and Palestinian Aziz Abu Sarah have closely worked together calling for peace in their communities. They just released a book titled “The Future Is Peace: A Shared Journey Across the Holy Land.”

global news – Associated press on pbs

Colombia’s enivronment minister says Iran war should accelerate transition to clean energy

Steven Grattan: In an interview with The Associated Press, Irene Vélez Torres said on Thursday instability in global energy markets underscores the need to speed up the shift from oil, gas and coal.

Features – NPR

A mine despoiled the beauty of the rainforest. This Goldman Prize winner took action

Theonila Roka Matbob grew up minutes from the Panguna copper and gold mine, which had been developed by Rio Tinto, one of the world’s largest mining companies with headquarters in Australia and the U.K. The mine near Roka Matbob’s home was run through the subsidiary Bougainville Copper Ltd. While the mine had long been abandoned, between 1972 and 1989 it produced millions of tons of copper and hundreds of tons of gold and silver.

Features – NPR

In this part of the world, nearly every chile pepper farmer is a woman

“More than 70% of agricultural activities in this region have always been carried out by women farmers,” says Vallal Kannan, a program coordinator for Krishi Vigyan Kendra, a government-run agricultural center. He says that’s because men prefer to take on the agricultural jobs that involve finances, such as supervising and selling, leaving the menial, labor intensive jobs to the women. The women farmers agree that in the chile pepper fields, the demanding nature of the work discourages men

product announcement – THe verge

Framework announces Laptop 13 Pro, ‘the MacBook Pro for Linux users’

With the option to order it preloaded with Ubuntu instead of only Windows, Framework CEO Nirav Patel says its goal for this computer is to be “the MacBook Pro for Linux users.” And — especially in anodized black, though it also comes in silver — it looks like it could play the part! With a 22 percent higher capacity battery (74Wh), an Intel Core Ultra Series 3 “Panther Lake” chip, and LPCAMM2 compression-mounted memory, Framework even claims it can (barely) beat the 14-inch M5 MacBook Pro in battery life — at least when it comes to streaming 20 hours of 4K Netflix at a go.