Finding: regulations reduce dairy farm nutrient losses when they’re implemented and enforced.

Implications: stop fighting and undermining regulations so we can have cleaner water.

.Sara Hall came to my town to do Sara Hall things🔥 this morning. 🙌🏽

Nice tune-up for the Boston Marathon in 15 days. Best wishes for it all coming together for her on 17 April! ⚡️

“Those who have suffered most from the brutality of slavery and colonialism should determine the restorative justice agenda. This requires institutions to give up control and power.”theguardian.com/news/ng-intera…

“It’s what the descendants of slaves in this room are fighting for: public education, public transportation, affordable housing, healthcare and access to jobs.”theguardian.com/us-news/2023/a…

“There is separation of colored people from white people in the United States. That separation is not a disease of colored people. It is a disease of white people. I do not intend to be quiet about it.”books.apple.com/us/book/einste…

“In California, the drought is not tied anymore to how much precipitation we get,” said Dr. Pablo Ortiz Dr. Pablo, a senior water & climate scientist for the Union of Concerned Scientists @ucsusa. “For many communities, there has always been a drought.” theguardian.com/us-news/2023/a…

500 years after Alexander VI’s Inter Caetera, the Vatican claims papal bulls were “not expressions of Catholic faith” and says “Oops.”

“It is only just to recognize these errors, acknowledge the pain experienced by indigenous peoples, and ask for pardon.”vaticannews.va/en/vatican-cit…

“The high score, which was based on self-reporting by JBS, has provoked incredulity. Twenty civil society groups are now calling on the London-based CDP to strip the score amid accusations of greenwashing and misleading investors, supermarkets, consumers.”theguardian.com/environment/20…

“The fruit-picking workforce of Huelva—migrants from Morocco and sub-Saharan Africa—are frequently paid less than the minimum wage and required to work overtime without pay. They have their passports or wages withheld to keep them working.”theguardian.com/global-develop…

“In little more than a century, Manchester [England] grew from a small market town into the world’s first industrial city. While complex, what’s clear is how integral systems of racial slavery in the Americas were to British industrialisation.”theguardian.com/news/ng-intera…

Embolisms and cavitations.

The feigned “surprise” must be good for publicity & funding.

Anyone with basic plant physiology background knows, as the only sensible person quoted here says, that ‘Any system of pipes that transport a fluid generates sounds.’”theguardian.com/environment/20…

I’ll note: “incrementalism” is not defined in vacuum.

“Incrementalism can seem slow, but modest changes are more likely than radical ones to earn a consensus across the political spectrum, and less likely to provoke a backlash and wind up being reversed.”economist.com/culture/2023/0…

“For years unsexy industries like industrial goods have struggled to compete with the tech industry for talent. Now they are pouncing. John Deere, an American tractor-maker, has been snapping up fired tech workers to help it make smarter farm machinery.”economist.com/business/2023/…

“Microsoft leads the way. One in three of its deals has involved ai-related firms. That is twice the share at Amazon and Alphabet. It is more than six times that of Meta, and infinitely more than Apple, which has made no such investments.”economist.com/business/2023/…

‘In Mesoamerica and other colonized places, European settlers—and archaeologists—“pretended the people they were colonizing had no real history, and therefore no claims to their land.” Studying ruins in the past is a way to center Indigenous perspectives.’science.org/content/articl…

“Drought, jihadism and war share the blame for 43,000 deaths by starvation.”economist.com/middle-east-an…

“Rice feeds more than half the world—but also fuels global warming and diabetes.”economist.com/asia/2023/03/2…

“5000 years ago, drying climate transformed Sahara grasslands to desert. A subset of mosquitoes may have adapted to lay their eggs in water containers along the desert’s edge. They then switched to feeding on the most plentiful food in this habitat: humans”science.org/content/articl…

Trying hard to inhabit my teenage self, this tool tells me I should have gone to UC-Irvine. The school I actually went to, New Mexico State, is 28th of 62 it found for me. NMSU was my fallback when students shut down my first choice (in Cd. Juárez, México)nytimes.com/interactive/20…