environmental impacts Chinese ships dump so much human waste into the ocean, you can see it from space Carla Sinclair

maps Submerged car containing man missing for 20+ years found on Google Earth David Pescovitz

Space New NASA image of unusual asteroid reveals it has its own moon Allan Rose Hill

science fiction "Big Germs" — short fiction by Rudy Rucker Boing Boing

Technology Here's the 400th issue of my weekly tips newsletter, Recomendo Mark Frauenfelder

Science The latest right-wing conspiracy theory is that the heatwave isn't real Rob Beschizza

ice The alien sounds produced by skating on black ice Popkin

fbi FBI and Airforce in full riot gear raid home of Area 51 YouTube Mark Frauenfelder

Space Astronaut photo of Earth shows two strange blue blobs in the atmosphere David Pescovitz

red tape Innocent people in Humboldt County are being fined millions for cannabis crimes Mark Frauenfelder

media What the Big Noise Tactical Media Collective was about Elías Villoro

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Space Burning Man's Black Rock City as seen from space Rusty Blazenhoff

climate crisis Doomsday glacier "hanging on by its fingernails" scientist says Gareth Branwyn

drought The Rio Grande river has dried up through Albuquerque for the first time in four decades Mark Frauenfelder

music Listen: NASA turned ocean satellite imagery into rather lovely ambient and New Age music David Pescovitz

sharks Volcano "full of sharks" erupts Thom Dunn

Space Gloriously crisp new images of a distant galaxy from NASA's new James Webb Space Telescope David Pescovitz

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china Satellite images show massive models of US warships built in China desert David Pescovitz