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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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Malaysia has cut its use of ozone-destroying HCFCs by nearly 80% and plans to end all HCFC use by 2030. It phased out CFCs and halons in 2010. A reminder of the wider regional context: as we reported in Edition 355, China finished phasing HCFCs out of its solvent industry last month. Malay Mail […]

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 20/10/2026

The world’s tallest wind turbine is up in eastern Germany. The turbine’s hub is 300 metres up, where winds are stronger and steadier than winds closer to ground level. The manufacturer says that roughly doubles the tall turbine’s output compared to a standard turbine using the same rotor, and […]

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 19/10/2026

A few tickets are still available for my online salon with Jon Evans on Interintellect Tuesday October 27th. We'll be talking technology, history, mythology, Renaissance, Vikings, the works! interintellect.com/salons/ada-palme…

Ada Palmer @adapalmer.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 19/10/2026

California has legalised balcony solar. Governor Gavin Newsom signed SB 868 on 30 September, letting renters and homeowners plug small solar panels into a wall socket (we covered the wider US wave in Edition 347). He also signed bills on utility profits and virtual power plants, and vetoed one […]

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 18/10/2026

London is closing a piece of Oxford Street to traffic. From 26 October, buses, taxis, bikes and scooters will be banned from the stretch between Orchard Street and Great Portland Street, nearly a kilometre of the country’s best-known high street, with only emergency and service vehicles let […]

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2026

America’s cancer death rate has fallen by 35% since 1991. That adds up to more than 4.8 million deaths avoided. Five-year survival across all cancers has climbed from 49% in the mid-1970s to 71%, and for cancers that have already spread it has more than doubled since the mid-1990s, from 17% to […]

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2026

“When I see something great, a great piece of art or a great book, I think: human brings made these, and I’m also a human being!” - Jo Walton

Ada Palmer @adapalmer.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026

In two years, the world protected an area of ocean larger than the EU. About 5 million km² of ocean came under protection in the two years to April 2026, lifting global coverage past 10% for the first time. That’s the target countries agreed for 2020, albeit six years late. However, over 100 […]

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026

New Patreon post: Tezuka Documentary plus thoughts on leaving Florence... www.patreon.com/adapalmer/posts/tez…

Ada Palmer @adapalmer.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026

The Kickstarter for the Tezuka Documentary is LIVE!!! Amazing project about an amazing author and thinker, one I love alongside Machiavelli, Voltaire, and Diderot! Check it out, and support to reserve your copy (digital, DVD, and Blu Ray planned) […]

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026

Australia’s High Court has ruled that the climate impact of coal burned overseas needs to be considered. In a landmark decision earlier this week the court ruled that the approval of a massive coalmine expansion in the Hunter Valley was invalid, because planners never considered the emissions […]

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026

Super excited to share the Osamu Tezuka Documentary kickstarter! This amazing doc almost got shut down when NEH grants were cancelled, but we persevered! Learn about the man who transformed manga & anime what they are today! www.kickstarter.com/projects/tezuka…

Ada Palmer @adapalmer.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026

South Korea went from burying almost all its food waste to recycling almost all of it. In 1997, 95.4% went to landfill. Today about 95% is recycled, after a 2005 landfill ban, separate collection and pay-by-weight bins that cut Seoul’s daily food waste by nearly a quarter. The Korean Zero Waste […]

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026

Mexico’s door-to-door health workers have reached 10.9 million people in the last year. The Health House by House programme logged 22.8 million home visits between July 2025 and June 2026. As well as providing care, they’re building the data backbone for the country’s planned 2027 rollout of a […]

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026

Siraya, an Indigenous language declared extinct in the 19th century, is now being taught in 26 schools in Taiwan. Siraya activist Uma Talavan and her husband Edgar Macapili spent over 20 years reconstructing the language from a Dutch missionary’s 17th-century translation of the Gospel of Matthew […]

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2026

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

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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

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

@kayeluvian I actually think a lot of people would enjoy that!

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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 · 16/09/2026

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Festival America : festival des littératures d'Amérique du Nord, Vincennes, Canada, Etats-Unis, Mexique, Cuba, Haïti, salon du livre, café littéraire, lectures, débats, rencontres, expositions, films, concerts

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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 · 16/09/2026

YouTube link to Beforecast episode 2 www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYuKey2T1JM

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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…