Sunday, December 2, 2018

Insect Apocalypse

Originally shared by Allen Knutson

This is the scariest article I've read in a really long, scary, time.

"(It’s easy to read that number as 60 percent less, but it’s sixtyfold less: Where once he caught 473 milligrams of bugs, Lister was now catching just eight milligrams.) “It was, you know, devastating,” Lister told me. But even scarier were the ways the losses were already moving through the ecosystem, with serious declines in the numbers of lizards, birds and frogs. The paper reported “a bottom-up trophic cascade and consequent collapse of the forest food web.” Lister’s inbox quickly filled with messages from other scientists, especially people who study soil invertebrates, telling him they were seeing similarly frightening declines. Even after his dire findings, Lister found the losses shocking: “I didn’t even know about the earthworm crisis!”
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/27/magazine/insect-apocalypse.html

Monday, November 5, 2018

Yep...


Originally shared by Darrin C

There’s currently an organized bot effort to discourage people from voting. Among their “arguments” is that voting machines are all “rigged”.

Hogwash.

I’m one of the computer scientists who discovered these voting system problems. And I vote, because it matters. So should you.