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Solving the food waste problemPretty cool.
South Korea has cut household food waste going to landfill from 97% to almost nothing. New York City has started sending its scraps the same way.
We've been composting for decades, so we end up throwing away very little food waste.
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Word association threadcovfefe
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Word association threadMayor
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Meta-thread: Word association thread@jon-nyc - too funny that you posted de Blasio.
I meant to post this a long time ago. The guy on the right is obviously de Blasio. The guy on the left is someone I met in Rome when we were traveling to Italy with our respective moms.
https://nypost.com/2017/09/26/de-blasio-reminisces-about-napping-in-college/
Here is Peter, age 16, in the Vatican Gardens in 1977:
Peter is a pulmonologist working in NYC. I always meant to ask @jon-nyc if he has ever met him.
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Word association threadblasé
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Here kitty, kittyNew species of cat discovered. It's a cutie!
https://www.nbcnews.com/science/environment/new-wild-cat-species-identified-rcna598113
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A new doomsday approachesSaw this ad from Meta for the first time this morning on TV. It's been out for a while, was posted on Faceypage by Zuck a few months ago.
https://www.facebook.com/zuck/videos/1344461651205053/
TechCrunch had a story about this ad and some others.
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Word association threadBubba
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Very old fishIn the early 17th century, a refined version of the first telescope spotted some moons of the planet Jupiter, which is up to 54 light-minutes away. Horse riding was the fastest mode of land transportation, and smallpox ran rampant. Now, 400 years later, we have spotted a galaxy that is 13.5 billion light-years away. The fastest crewed train in the world has touched a speed of 375 miles per hour. We’ve completely eradicated smallpox.
And some fish in the Great Lakes may have been alive this entire time.
Research published this year in the Journal of Fish Biology suggests lake sturgeon (Acipenser fulvescens) have remarkable life spans. The study concludes that males may live up to 435 years, possibly more, which is nearly three times the age of the previously known oldest lake sturgeon. Still, the authors note the need for further research to confirm the findings.
“All sturgeon species now need to be reassessed for their age because of this paper,” says ichthyologist Prosanta Chakrabarty from Louisiana State University, who was not involved in the research.
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Smoked sturgeon is very tasty...just sayin'.....
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Word association threadPreserves
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Japanese centenariansThe number of people aged 100 or more in Japan has exceeded 100,000 for the first time, according to the health ministry.
Figures show Japan is now home to 107,677 centenarians, the highest number in the world, of whom 88% are women. The oldest woman is Kishimoto Fuyo, a 114-year-old from Kyoto City and the oldest man is Kato Hikaru, a 112-year-old from Kumamoto.
Health Minister Kenichiro Ueno said he was "delighted that so many people are living long, healthy and active lives", citing progress in medicine and technology.
But Kenichiro also warned of the challenge the country faces in maintaining a sustainable social security system.
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SwitzerlandChocolate!
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SwitzerlandBon voyage!! Can't wait to see one of the famous @steve-miller travelogues!!
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Word association threadshadows
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Word association threadcompany
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Canada calls his bluffCanada invited to become first 'associate member' of the EU
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen announced on Wednesday that Canada has been invited to become the first “associate member” of the EU.
She announced the move during her 2026 State of the Union address in Strasbourg, to an audience including not only MEPs but also Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney, who attended her speech in the midst of a trade war with the US.
Since late August, the Canadians have been pushing hard for the Europeans to build a closer relationship with them, though full EU membership is not an option as Canada is not a European state.
During her speech before the MEPs on Wednesday, von der Leyen invited the country to become “the first associate member of the European Union".
“We share one ocean, one set of values, one way of seeing the world. And we will now build our shared future as well,” she added.
https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2026/09/16/canada-to-become-first-associate-member-of-the-eu
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Roman road buildersThey were busy bees.
A multidisciplinary team of researchers from Aarhus University in Denmark, Queen Mary University of London and other European institutions analyzed a data set representing almost 300,000 kilometers (186,000 miles) of Roman roads across the former empire, creating the most detailed quantitative picture yet of how the Roman road network was structured.
Testing an imperial network
The study, published in Nature Communications on Sept. 15, challenges the idea that roads of the empire were uniformly straight and the famous saying that "all roads lead to Rome." The analysis draws on "Itiner-e, The Digital Atlas of Ancient Roads" and applies network centrality, a method for measuring how important a given point is to overall connectivity, to model the empire's road system.
