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Mapping disappearing beaches in Hawaii

December 30, 2020

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Maps  /  beach, Hawaii, Honolulu Star-Advertiser, ProPublica, wall

Ash Ngu for ProPublica and Sophie Cocke for Honolulu Star-Advertiser show the harm of building seawalls on Hawaii’s beaches. The walls protect luxury beachfront properties, but they have been built through administrative loopholes and destroy

Xiaoqing Chenadded an article

Facile synthesis of B,N-doped CQDs as versatile fluorescence probes for sensitive detection of cobalt ions in environmental water and biological samples

• December 2020
• Microchemical Journal
• 4 Reads

adjective: facile

1. 1. (especially of a theory or argument) appearing neat and comprehensive only by ignoring the true complexities of an issue; superficial. “facile generalizations”

Ms. Groves is a victim of racist bigotry in this sense. She wasn’t taught the reality of racist bigotry. Racist bigotry, often I’d say, includes hiding its own existence. It gets you “asking” the wrong questions. It seems a shame that the nameless faces bureaucrats at the University are allowed anonymity. They, in their own way, I see as reprehensible as they are only concerned about face. I believe that had Ms. Groves not allowed herself to be pressured into “yielding the field” she could have prevailed. She violated no law and what she said weren’t really her words in the sense that she was a kid and you cut kids slack. What an awful and cowardly institution of higher learning she won’t be attending. That may be a good thing.

“Indeed, theirs was one of the few cultures of which, as Jacques Soustelle has expressed it, “mankind can be proud.” 2 There remain, however, two aspects of Nahuatl culture which have been neglected all too long—literature and philosophy.”

— Aztec Thought and Culture: A Study of the Ancient Nahuatl Mind by Miguel León-Portilla

There is little doubt that Trump will be adjudged the worst president ever and one hopes that it is a record he keeps for a long time. In a week or so it’ll be a daily 9-11 death count. And the fix was available from the beginning. Trump has firmly established the falsity of the assertion of white supremacy.

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/12/moderna-covid-19-vaccine-design.html