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F&SF Novelist (Terra Ignota), historian (U Chicago), Renaissance, book history, censorship, classics, disability activism, FILK music Sassafrass, manga/anime Tezuka […] 🌉 bridged from ⁂ wandering.shop/@adapalmer, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 22h

Panama tightens the net around its shark and ray trade (thank you, we’ll be here all night). Since January 2026, Panama has banned exports of any CITES-listed shark or ray species, while a bill currently before the legislature would extend that to a nationwide ban on targeted shark and ray […]

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 10/10/2026

New Zealand makes cervical cancer screenings free for all women aged 25 to 69. Until now, 55% of eligible women paid NZ$35 to over NZ$100 a visit, a cost that hit younger women hardest. The free screenings start March 2027; the move backs New Zealand’s goal of eliminating cervical cancer by 2040 […]

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

Thailand eliminates rubella as a public health problem. The milestone, verified by the WHO, is the result of a vaccination programme that began in schools in 1986 and expanded to all one-year-olds in 1993. Thailand is the seventh country in the region to achieve elimination […]

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

Judges have ordered wildlife officials to reconsider habitat protection for one of North America’s rarest mammals. Judge Dale Drozd ruled on 16 September that the Fish and Wildlife Service broke the Endangered Species Act by inventing its own legal test to refuse critical habitat for the […]

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026

The world’s smallest CT scanner now fits in one hand. China’s Institute of High Energy Physics built the 6 kilogram Xtomo-Cube, more than three times lighter than the previous record holder, running on battery power and skipping the heavy radiation shielding regular scanners need. Its scanning […]

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

Vancouver Island’s marmots have clawed back from 22 animals in 2003 to 427 today, the highest count on record. The Marmot Recovery Foundation released 41 captive-bred marmots this year, with 40 more due in 2026, while an estimated 120 pups were born in the wild in 2024 alone. Cougars, helped by […]

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

In DRC, the government has adopted its first-ever National Forest Policy. It requires free, prior and informed consent from communities before forest is allocated, and eases the path to Local Community Forest Concessions. Reminder, the DRC had the world’s third largest area of tropical forest […]

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026

China’s clean-air campaign has cut Beijing’s smog by 70% in a decade, and cut heavily polluted days from 58 a year to just one. The effort has prevented an estimated 680,000 premature deaths since 2020 and generated $715 billion in cumulative health benefits. The UN Environment Programme calls […]

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026

China’s clean-air campaign has cut Beijing’s smog by 70% in a decade, and cut heavily polluted days from 58 a year to just one. The effort has prevented an estimated 680,000 premature deaths since 2020 and generated $715 billion in cumulative health benefits. The UN Environment Programme calls […]

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

The global population of greater one-horned rhinos has hit a record 4,075. Kaziranga National Park in Assam, India, shelters more than 2,600 of them. Poaching, once the species’ biggest threat, has fallen 86% since 2016; India, Nepal and Indonesia all recorded zero rhino killings in 2025. That’s […]

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

Your brain isn’t one organ, it’s two, stitched together in the womb. Stanford researchers found that the forebrain and midbrain (which handle language and reasoning) and the hindbrain (which runs breathing and heartbeat) grow from two entirely different progenitor cells. The same split shows up […]

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

A new wild cat species has been identified for the first time in over a century. In 2017, Paola Nogales-Ascarrunz, a Bolivian biologist, got a call about a weird cat that a local man had taken home. The man had raised it as a pet for a year before realising this was no house cat. Nine years, one […]

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

Global meningitis is in retreat. Meningitis is one of the top ten infectious killers worldwide, causing an estimated 259,000 deaths in 2023. That’s down by a quarter compared to 2015 and by almost half since 2000, with the sharpest reductions coming in deaths among young children. The biggest […]

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

New Mexico shuts the door on new uranium mines. Land Commissioner Stephanie Garcia Richard signed an executive order on 6 September 2026, banning new uranium mining across 52,609 km² of state trust land, although two leases running into the 2030s will be allowed to keep operating. New Mexico has […]

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026

Wolves and wild horses have returned to Portugal’s Côa Valley. Rewilding Portugal has been working across the 3,180 km² Greater Côa Valley, releasing Sorraia horses and Tauros cattle since 2021 to restore natural grazing. Iberian wolves have now returned to the area on their own. The project has […]

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 27/09/2026

California is weaning itself off fossil gas, fast. Gas-fired electricity generation in California fell by 26% in the first half of 2026, as utility-scale solar, batteries and the new SunZia wind project feed power in via a dedicated transmission line. On its hottest day this year, 26 August 2026 […]

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026

New Zealand makes cervical cancer screenings free for all women aged 25 to 69. Until now, 55% of eligible women paid NZ$35 to over NZ$100 a visit, a cost that hit younger women hardest. The free screenings start March 2027; the move backs New Zealand’s goal of eliminating cervical cancer by 2040 […]

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026

Bison have returned to Mexico’s Chihuahuan Desert. 44 bison were released at Coahuila’s El Santuario reserve late last year, followed by 29 more into Sonora’s Cuenca Los Ojos region in February 2026, where the herd produced 10 calves within months. The bison population across Janos Biosphere […]

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026

New Zealand’s first jointly run marine reserves have opened under combined Indigenous and government control. Five no-take reserves covering 308 km² took effect on 1 July 2026, giving the Kāi Tahu hapū Kāti Huirapa shared decision-making and a joint ranger team with the Department of […]

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2026

How protecting one bird created a conservation network in Ecuador. Ornithologist Robert Ridgely’s 1997 discovery of the Jocotoco Antpitta, a species new to science, led him to found the Jocotoco Foundation a year later. It now manages 19 reserves protecting 500 km² and stewarding a further 820 […]

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026

26 years ago, a new species of predatory fish was found fossilized in New Zealand. Now it has finally been identified, thanks to donated notebooks. In 1999, paleontologist Richard Köhler found a mummified fossil fish embedded in a remote New Zealand cliff. He walked 3 kilometres to borrow a […]

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026

Boron arsenide guides heat in ‘rays,’ and could allow for better computer chips. Heat in most materials spreads out in every direction like ink in water — but UCLA engineers have shown that in boron arsenide it can be made to travel in focused rays instead, at room temperature, guided by the […]

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 20/09/2026

The world’s largest battery-electric aircraft flew for the first time on the 12th of August, a 27-minute test flight over upstate New York that cost about five dollars in electricity. Heart Aerospace’s 30-seat prototype is a big step toward a commercial version, which the company expects to […]

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2026

Beavers are now on the payroll in Colorado. 10 years ago, Brian Sullivan, head of Colorado Parks & Wildlife’s Wetlands for Wildlife grants program, saw one or two grant applications for beaver-related projects every year. Now, he says, about half the projects he processes involve them. The fact […]

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2026

Kākāpō numbers pass 300 for the first time in 75 years. New Zealand’s flightless, nocturnal parrot now totals 325 birds, after a record 90 chicks fledged this season, built on the Department of Conservation’s recovery programme, which started with just 51 birds in 1995. Three managed island […]

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Kay Elúvian @kayeluvian.the.voiceover.bar.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2026

Videogame idea "Batman: Alfred Origins" where you play through 5 years of butlering-school learning what fork is what and how to serve tea. Studios DM me pls.

Ada Palmer @adapalmer.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 17/09/2026

Switzerland’s government backs a nationwide conversion therapy ban. A federal report published on 4 September endorses outlawing the widely discredited practice countrywide, catching up with its own cantons: Neuchâtel banned it first in 2023, Valais and Vaud followed, and Bern and Geneva are […]

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 15/09/2026

Beforecast Episode 2 is up! Machiavelli deep dive www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYuKey2T1JM

Ada Palmer @adapalmer.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2026

Bhutan eliminates dog-transmitted rabies, a southeast Asian first. The WHO validated the milestone on 4 September after Bhutan recorded zero human deaths from dog-mediated rabies since June 2023, the result of over a decade of free post-exposure treatment in all 20 districts, mass dog […]

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 15/09/2026

Big news! I'm speaking at the TED2027 conference in San Diego, March 1-4! #TED conferences.ted.com/ted2027/speaker…

Ada Palmer @adapalmer.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 15/09/2026

Big news! I'm speaking at the TED2027 conference in San Diego, March 1-4! #TED conferences.ted.com/ted2027/speaker…

Ada Palmer @adapalmer.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 15/09/2026

Episode 2 is up! Beforecast, my new podcast about history and our present, starting with a deep dive into Machiavelli. Beforecast.fm has links to all the podcast sites, and the YouTube link is below.

Ada Palmer @adapalmer.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 15/09/2026

Big news! I'm speaking at the TED2027 conference in San Diego, March 1-4! #TED conferences.ted.com/ted2027/speaker…

Ada Palmer @adapalmer.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 15/09/2026

A Galápagos wildflower down to six plants in 2007 now has 28 growing in the wild, the product of 17 years of hand-propagation by the Charles Darwin Foundation. Researchers reintroduced 94 nursery-grown plants with a 100% survival rate and recorded the species’ first wild seedling in over a […]

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 15/09/2026

Beforecast Episode 2 is up! Machiavelli deep dive www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYuKey2T1JM

Ada Palmer @adapalmer.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2026

Scientists have mapped a 7,000-year-old landscape of rivers, lakes and beaches buried beneath the southern Great Barrier Reef. A University of Queensland-led team spent 24 days aboard the research vessel Investigator, pulling more than 20 sediment cores to reconstruct the coastal plain that […]

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 13/09/2026

Some of America’s biggest coal plants are becoming solar farms. Minnesota’s Sherburne County station, once the state’s largest coal burner, is now home to 1.7 million solar panels, reusing the old coal plant’s substation to cut a five-year grid-connection process to about one year; 1,500 sheep […]

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 12/09/2026

A 300-million-year-old tree species declared extinct in the wild in the 1990s now numbers around 10,000 mature trees. China’s cliff cypress survives almost entirely in and around Chongqing’s Xuebaoshan reserve, the product of two decades of seed-banking and propagation work that just won an […]

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soaproot @soaproot.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/09/2026

@adapalmer Interesting, I hadn't heard of those efforts. www.who.int/health-topics/hepatitis… says "scale-up of hepatitis B vaccination, improved access to prevention, testing and treatment for hepatitis B and C, and targeted public education campaigns to […]

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 11/09/2026

Today is the last day to partake in Barnes & Noble’s 25% off sale for the preorder of “And Loki in His Prison”. Order your copy in hardcover or e-book to devour on release! www.barnesandnoble.com/w/and-loki-i…

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 11/09/2026

At last, we have reproduced the high tech fight over the Bab al Mandeb Strait from Ada Palmer’s sci-fi epic “In 500 Years We Will Still Be Fighting Over the Bab al Mandeb Strait” 😔

Ada Palmer @adapalmer.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 11/09/2026

A handful of countries have shown the rest of the world that Hepatitis C elimination is achievable. A program in central Taiwan took screening straight to drug users, dialysis patients and prisoners, lifting coverage from 54% to 90% and curing 99% of those treated. Egypt eliminated the virus in […]

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 11/09/2026

Today is the last day to partake in Barnes & Noble’s 25% off sale for the preorder of “And Loki in His Prison”. Order your copy in hardcover or e-book to devour on release! www.barnesandnoble.com/w/and-loki-i…

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2026

“And Loki in His Prison” is currently 25% off through Barnes and Noble preorder from W 9/9-F 9/11. Order your copy in hardcover, e-book, or both! www.barnesandnoble.com/w/and-loki-i…

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Dena @shunra.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2026

RE: wandering.shop/@adapalmer/117236001… OK, everybody! Drop everything and go download the first episode of @adapalmer's Beforecast. The first series is about Machiavelli. We all need his advice. WHAT A DELIGHT!

Ada Palmer @adapalmer.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2026

Nearly two miles underground in South Africa, scientists have found oxygen that has never seen sunlight. In March 2026, researchers descended into the Moab Khotsong gold-and-uranium mine near Johannesburg, tapping brine that geochemical dating shows has been sealed off from the surface for at […]

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2026

“And Loki in His Prison” is currently 25% off through Barnes and Noble preorder from W 9/9-F 9/11. Order your copy in hardcover, e-book, or both! www.barnesandnoble.com/w/and-loki-i…

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soaproot @soaproot.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2026

@cdunnpasadena @adapalmer According to www.wildsteelheaders.org/fish-are-a… 'Most salmon and steelhead adults return to the same tributary where they were born, but some percentage of each year’s run “strays” from their natal […]

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 09/09/2026

Exciting news! “And Loki in His Prison” is up for pre-order!!! There is a 25% off sale through Barnes & Noble for both hardcover and e-book during W 9/9-F 9/11. Order your copy here. www.barnesandnoble.com/w/and-loki-i…

Ada Palmer @adapalmer.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 09/09/2026

Chinook salmon have recolonised 88% of their historic range on the Klamath River, with more than 13,000 fish passing the old Iron Gate Dam site in 2025, up from 7,700 the year before. Two years after the dams’ removal, it’s going better than anyone predicted. Scientific Reports […]

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