I think that they are likely already considering these you mention. You can get clothing and gear that aren’t made of plastic, so maybe they are doing that - the methods described on their website specifically call out using leather gloves and taking wind direction into account.

https://missionspiritus.com/expeditions/antarctica/

I think it isn’t that these other things you mentioned aren’t war crimes, but rather that this particular instance involves a lot of evidence that could prove that this was a war crime unequivocally.

1. You heard other people say that, not me. Go respond to other people who are saying that instead of responding to someone who is NOT saying that (me).

2. What is your argument here? Honestly I’m confused about what your stance is. How far do you extend this moral equivalency? A strong case can be made that Russia’s oil industry is a vital part of its war machine, but I don’t think you could say the same about a Ukrainian coffee shop. Is it just as bad to kill a child by bombing a school as it is to kill an adult by bombing a weapons manufacturing facility?

From my perspective Ukrainian strikes are carried out in self defense against military related targets, while Russian strikes are often purposefully hitting targets not related to the military.

You can learn more about Russian strikes on Ukrainian civilians here: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attacks_on_civilians_in_the_Russian_invasion_of_Ukraine

I think your implication that a strike on Russian oil infrastructure that kills a civilian working there is equivalent to a strike on a Ukrainian apartment building is wack.

Very cool. I wonder how durable these electrodes are once coated in nanowires.

TIL about light echoes.

Apparently by observing the light echoes from the supernova that made Cassiopeia A researchers were able to detect supernova asymmetry for the first time!

Washington was a pretty bad president if you were Haudenosaunee (Six Nations Iroquois).

Clint’s Reptiles: He does great videos covering phylogeny as well as pet scores for individual species.

Professor Dave Explains: A huge variety of content explaining science, my favorites so far are on phylogeny.

Mothlight Media: Videos on evolution of modern and extinct species. One of my favorites!!

Others mentioned PBS Eons, you would most definitely like it.

Great article, but I’m surprised it didn’t end with them saying they planned to follow up with the indigenous people and use their knowledge to help fill in the gaps…

Yet another example of western science thinking we have to reinvent the wheel - the person they interviewed said that all these “new” species were already known to the locals. Obviously we just needed to ask.

From the article:

“The researchers trained 14 sighted and 12 blind people for between two and three hours twice a week over 10 weeks. They started by teaching participants to produce mouth clicks, then trained them on three tasks. The first two involved judging the size or orientation of objects. The third involved navigating virtual mazes, which participants moved through with the help of simulated click-plus-echo sounds tied to their positions.”

I wonder if the stars were brighter in the painting when it was new or if they come across more strongly in person or something… It would be an awful lot of effort to make such an accurate night sky and then not make it visible.

And if the comet is what the painting is celebrating, why not make that brighter too?

Reading about this is making me feel sick. It’s so sad how many people’s lives have been negatively affected because of this Masliah’s dishonesty. I think people who fake research like this belong in jail.

Sadly I think low key dishonesty is even more prevalent than what this guy did - the way we dole out money encourages researchers in every field to cherry pick data so that they can keep getting funding.