Items of Interest

Wooden Satellite

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Scientists at Kyoto University have deployed the world's first wooden satellite and launched it into space via SpaceX. The intention of the LignoSat is to measure how durable the wooden structure withstands operation in space.
Space

John Gibbons Puts The Valencia Floods In Context

#398
John Gibbons wrote an excellent but sobering piece in The Journal about the floods in Valencia, and how political will is what is needed for us to limit the coming damage. "The system that is churning out more and more flying, more SUVs, more throwaway consumerism and ever more meat-rich diets is the very system that is accelerating humanity and much of the natural world towards the climate abyss."
Environment
Life

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