🎶🐦 You can learn the sounds of the birds near you! Start “birding by ear” with simple tricks: listen for patterns, use memory cues and practice focused listening. It’s as easy as recognizing your favorite song.
The Conversation
Birding by ear: How to learn the songs of nature’s symphony with some simple techniques
Listening to bird songs and calls can help identify species and connect with the sounds of nature. An ornithologist provides tips and tricks to bir...
Facing a shutdown, budget negotiations are much harder because Congress has given Trump power to cut spending through ‘rescission’ https://buff.ly/GZcUQz2
Memphis already had hazardous air. After Elon Musk’s xAI data center fired up gas turbines, researchers found pollution ticked up only slightly, but “slightly” on top of unsafe is still a serious risk for locals.
The Conversation
Air quality analysis reveals minimal changes after xAI data center opens in pollution-burdened Memphis neighborhood
Analysis of the air quality data available for southwest Memphis finds that pollution has long been quite bad, but the turbines powering an xAI dat...
Polarization isn't just changing how we think—it's changing how we act. For climate protesters, dislike of the other side mattered 2.5 times more than climate change concerns, according to an expert on political behavior who has studied what gets people out into the streets. https://buff.ly/cCrkcZ5
50 years after punk’s birth, a sociologist looks back at the heyday of the anarchist-inflected punk scene in Philly in the 1990s and 2000s, and how the political ideology and activism – encouraging opposition to capitalism, government, power and more – is still influential today. https://buff.ly/hVoWiDG
Black Americans have long advocated for better healthcare and played key roles in early vaccination efforts, despite the complex history of racism in public health. Experts say eliminating mandates, as Florida plans to do, could widen existing racial health disparities. https://buff.ly/qYSxUq2
Native American tribes are fighting to protect their lands and treaty rights from Line 5, an oil pipeline that runs through a reservation and threatens culturally significant waters. A water policy and politics analyst explains: https://buff.ly/WEzjSiN
Squishmallow collecting became more than a hobby for one grief-stricken collector. It turned into a doctoral dissertation on brand communities and the unexpected impact of resellers.
The Conversation
How Squishmallow collecting helped me cope with grief, make new enemies and find ‘villains’ worth studying
‘Brand communities’ are sites of surprising human drama. A marketing expert explains what she found by studying them.
The Earth is hurtling through space at 67,000 mph as it orbits the Sun. Why can't we feel this incredible speed? An astronomer explains the physics behind our planet's smooth ride.
The Conversation
Why can’t we feel the Earth moving?
Would you guess that the Earth is spinning at 1,000 mph around its axis and at the same time hurtling through space on its orbit around the Sun at ...
The suspension of Jimmy Kimmel’s show is a hint of what could happen if the proposed media merger of Paramount Skydance and Warner Bros. Discovery is approved by the Trump administration. https://buff.ly/VUy5KOi