News and Links Digest (publ. 2024-11-04)

Wilting flowers and resource management

=> The reasons flowers wilt could explain how plants spend (and save) their energy

Some interesting research shows that (1) plants reuse resources from wilting flowers, and (2) the resources are stored away with a view toward a long-term resource strategy.

Ancient galaxy too orderly

=> Space oddity: Most distant rotating disc galaxy found

Yet another distant galaxy fails to fit into the standard model for the age of the universe. This one is too orderly. Early galaxies are supposed to be "small and messy looking".

The ongoing battle against election fraud

A few recent articles from JTN:

=> RNC poll watchers allowed into Georgia county buildings, lawsuit still pending

=> Judge backs America First Legal bid to secure list of 218K voters without citizenship proof

=> Prosecutors in key Pennsylvania county say they've busted a fraudulent voter registration scheme

=> Georgia cleared hundreds of noncitizens from voter rolls, it just found 20 more

=> GOP consultant files lawsuit alleging identity fraudulently used to make ActBlue donations to Dems

And one little local (Alaska) story:

=> Voter fraud: Mat-Su Democrat convicted of perjury, voter misconduct in 2022 election

(Humorous? Scary?) video of student accidentally admitting to being pro-life

=> College Student Realizes He's More Pro-Life Than He Thinks!

Let's hope he is not going into either politics or engineering.

Hidden Valley reveals more wonders

=> The Mountain of the Mists

Fraud and pressure in academic research

=> Luck and Dishonesty

An interesting gemini post about the pressures in academic research. Hopefully this will help dispel any commonly held myths about how scientists and researchers are unbiased divines who we can trust more than anyone or anything else.

Electric school bus fiasco

=> Kamala Harris’ electric school bus program is floundering, drawing comparison to ‘border czar’ work

Biden/Harris medicare fraud

=> Biden spent billions to delay Medicare premiums spike, protect Harris campaign before election

Proxy Information
Original URL
gemini://gem.librehacker.com/gemlog/starlog/20241104-0.gmi
Status Code
Success (20)
Meta
text/gemini
Capsule Response Time
835.529703 milliseconds
Gemini-to-HTML Time
0.720594 milliseconds

This content has been proxied by September (ba2dc).