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UP8, 8 days ago to politics

✊🏽 Regents and UAW bureaucracy seek to contain political rebellion of UC academic workers

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2024/05/20/fzgt-m20.html

#politics #protest #california #gaza #strike #union #labor

UP8, 12 days ago to Anthropology

🏃‍♂️ Study supports theory that humans evolved the ability to run long distances to capture prey

https://phys.org/news/2024-05-theory-humans-evolved-ability-distances.html

#anthropology #humans #prehistory #running #biology #evolution

UP8, 14 days ago to science

Last week there was a meeting of the Institute for Liquid Atomization and Spray Systems in the Duffield Hall Atrium

https://web.cvent.com/event/1c0810c7-1820-42de-9a6e-c9b1612f051c/summary

This vendor exhibited a camera that can take 100,000 frames per second, other vendors had demonstrations where you could see individual droplets in a shower.

#cornell #science #conference #camera #photo #photography #engineering

UP8, 15 days ago to goodnews

📈 Graduate Workers at UPenn Just Won a Union

https://jacobin.com/2024/05/graduate-workers-penn-union-organizing/

#union #students #labor #organizing #goodnews

UP8, 15 days ago to workersrights

💪 University of California grad students overwhelmingly authorize strike against campus crackdowns

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2024/05/16/tqjn-m16.html

#labor #strike #college #gaza #protest #union

UP8, 24 days ago to food

🧑‍🌾 Bangladeshi farmers find zucchini’s high yields & low costs palatable

https://news.mongabay.com/2024/05/bangladeshi-farmers-find-zucchinis-high-yields-low-costs-palatable/

#food #agriculture #zucchini #Bangladesh

UP8, 26 days ago to skateboarding

🛹Skateboarding’s Latest Trick: Reviving Cities

https://reasonstobecheerful.world/cities-skateboarding-public-spaces/

#skateboarding #sports #cities #urban

UP8, 27 days ago to Japan

🗡️ How the discovery of a giant sword in Nara offers clues into ancient Japan

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2024/05/09/japan/history/nara-ancient-tomb/

#japan #ancient #archaeology #ruins

UP8, 27 days ago to IT

🫥 Novel attack against virtually all VPN apps neuters their entire purpose

https://arstechnica.com/security/2024/05/novel-attack-against-virtually-all-vpn-apps-neuters-their-entire-purpose/

#computers #security #vpn #cyber

UP8, 29 days ago to animals

🐬 We’ll Get You Out of Here—Just Follow the Sound of My Voice

https://hakaimagazine.com/news/well-get-you-out-of-here-just-follow-the-sound-of-my-voice/

#whales #animals #ocean #conservation #alaska #goodnews

UP8, 29 days ago to Japan

🦋 Harajuku strives to reclaim its former glory — and surpass it

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2024/05/02/harajuku-change/

#japan #design #culture #business

UP8, 1 month ago to Electronics

🚧 How to Build a $20 Billion Semiconductor Fab

https://www.construction-physics.com/p/how-to-build-a-20-billion-semiconductor

#semiconductors #electronics #business #investment #construction #technology

UP8, 1 month ago to NFL

🏈 NFL draft pool shrinks as NIL money entices more players to stay in school

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/sports/2024/04/25/more-sports/nfl-draft-nil-money/

#nfl #sports #football #americanfootball #nfldraft

UP8, 1 month ago to ocean

🐟 Alaska has a plan to save its salmon but some Native leaders are wary

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/apr/28/alaska-salmon-conservation-native-indigenous

#salmon #fish #rivers #ocean #alaska #indigenous #envrionment #conservation

UP8, 1 month ago to Futurology

🐀 Scientists regenerate neural pathways in mice with cells from rats

https://phys.org/news/2024-04-scientists-regenerate-neural-pathways-mice.html

#brain #science #rats #mice #animals #biology #medicine