General History

How History Erased the Black Mariner Who ‘Opened’ the Pacific

https://www.yahoo.com/news/history-erased-black-mariner-opened-155752328.html

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NASA advisor quits after the agency keeps a $10 billion telescope named after James Webb, who was a senior State Department official during the persecution of gay and lesbian government employees

NASA advisor quits after the agency keeps a $10 billion telescope named after James Webb, who was a senior State Department official during the persecution of gay and lesbian government employees

More than 1,200 people, including NASA advisor Lucianne Walkowicz, signed an open petition calling for the James Webb space telescope to be renamed.

https://www.businessinsider.com/james-webb-teslescope-nasa-advisor-lucianne-walkowicz-quits-homophobic-2021-10

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The United States Must Reckon With Its Own Genocides

The United States Must Reckon With Its Own Genocides

Confronting abusers like China demands accountability for the treatment of Indigenous people at home.

https://foreignpolicy.com/2021/10/11/us-genocide-china-indigenous-peoples-day-columbus/

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Jet Stream Moving North

The jet stream is moving north. Here's what that means for you.

The jet stream determines lots of large-scale weather patterns in the northern hemisphere, and its migration north could be devastating.

https://www.popsci.com/environment/jet-stream-moving-north/

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Post from Jim Murray

See this guy? Big time General in the USA. Made a big decision toward the end of the Trump presidency to make sure that Trump would not idiotically (like he did everything else) start a war with China. But with the way things are in the US these days, this guy will probably get thrown under the bus when he really should be given a medal for valor. I don't believe he acted only like a general in this case. I believe he acted like a real American who was afraid that his country would start a war with a major power because of some lunatic. And can you really blame him? Four years of lunacy caused a lot of people in the US to doubt a lot of things. The country really needs to admit they pulled a boner when they elected Trump. And give this guy a medal for saving the country from even more insanity

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Why Isn't Puerto Rico a State?

As a U.S. territory, Puerto Rico is neither a state nor an independent country—and politics over its status remain complicated.

https://www.history.com/news/puerto-rico-statehood

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Solar ‘Superflares’ Rocked Earth Less Than 10,000 Years Ago—and Could Strike Again

Although our sun is considered a quiet star, it is now thought to have repeatedly pelted our planet with enormous eruptions in the not too distant past. Could another occur in the near future?

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/solar-superflares-rocked-earth-less-than-10-000-years-ago-and-could-strike-again/

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