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12/01/2025

There are a lot of nebulae in the universe, and they often get given catchy names like the Crab Nebula or Cat's Paw Nebula.

12/01/2025

Article: “torched veteran-owned business contracts, fired thousands of veteransfrom federal service, and dismantled Department of Veteran Affairs programs designed to protect both veterans and taxpayers. So it’s fitting, if tragic, that DOGE has itself been dissolved eight months before its chartered end.”

The so-called Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, no longer exists, but its legacy of screwing over veterans will live for decades.

Commentary: https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/political-commentary/doge-dead-impact-veterans-decades-1235473077/

11/30/2025

Millions of bio-beads — peppercorn-sized plastic pellets used in some wastewater plants to grow bacteria that help break down pollutants during the final step of the cleaning process — had washed into the English Channel after a mechanical failure days earlier at a water treatment plant more than 35 miles up the coast.

Andy Dinsdale began walking the southern English coast in search of a “sea heart,” a tough Mahogany seed carried by ocean currents from Central and South American rainforests.

11/30/2025

Nostalgia Meets Neuroscience The popular image of the 1960s and 70s childhood is one of free-range freedom: wood-paneled station wagons, bicycles without helmets, and a general …

11/29/2025

11/28/2025

The Trump administration moved on Wednesday to roll back Biden-era changes reviled by industry. The new rules will protect fewer species and make money a factor in decision making.

11/27/2025

“These birds have traveled all the way from the Arctic and are considered vulnerable due to their population decreasing. Help give the owls a warm welcome to Chicago by being respectful and giving them space,” the Park District said on social media.

Chicagoans have been going gaga over a pair of snowy owls that have settled in at Montrose beach. Maybe a little too gaga.

11/26/2025

❄️🦃 ABC7 meteorologists say the Chicago area could see multiple inches of snow this Thanksgiving weekend. https://bit.ly/44mflSu

11/26/2025

Cancer diagnoses are shifting from older to younger adults and from men to women, according to a report released Thursday by the American Cancer Society.

11/25/2025

Gramma, a Galapagos tortoise that was the oldest living animal at the San Diego Zoo, has died at an estimated 141 years of age.

11/25/2025