March 6, 2022
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Oregon State University’s Reser Stadium may be home to the Beavers today, but thousands of years ago it was home to a mammoth.
The massive femur and several other bones from a mammoth were found on Monday in the stadium’s north end zone during an off-season renovation, the university said in a news release.
The mammoth is believed to have died roughly 10,000 years ago, when the site may have been a bog or marsh.
“Animals who were sick would often go to a body of water and die there, so it’s not unusual to find a group of bones like this,” Loren Davis, an associate professor of anthropology at OSU, said in the news release. “We had all of these types of animals in the Willamette Valley back then.”
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The bones of a mammoth were found at Oregon State University’s Reser Stadium. Getty Images/Stocktrek Images
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March 5, 2022
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The state of California filed a long-awaited lawsuit against electric automobile giant Tesla this week, alleging a pattern of racist discrimination and harassment at the company’s Bay Area plant.
The suit, filed Tuesday in Alameda County Court by the Department of Fair Employment and Housing claims, among other things, that Black employees at the company’s sprawling factory in Fremont, California, were subjected to “racial slurs by managers and supervisors, segregated to the lowest levels of the workforce, including the contracted workforce, and are severely under-represented in the ranks of executives, senior officials, and managers,” according to a press release from the state.
“As early as 2012, Black and/or African American Tesla workers have complained that Tesla production leads, supervisors and managers constantly use the n-word and other racial slurs to refer to Black workers,” the suit contends, noting that the Fremont plant’s 15,000-plus workforce constitutes the sole non-union major automobile factory in the country. “They have complained that swastikas, ‘KKK,’ the n-word, and other racist writing are etched onto walls of restrooms, restroom stalls, lunch tables, and even factory machinery. They have complained that Black and/or African American workers are assigned to more physically demanding posts and the lowest-level contract roles, paid less, and more often terminated from employment than other workers.”
In one of the more egregious instances cited in the suit, the DFEH claims a Tesla human resources official “concluded that ‘banana boy’ was simply a ‘nickname,’ not a racial slur” aimed at a Black employee. In another case, allegations of racist harassment were deemed “unsubstantiated” by the company, even though the accused supervisor in question had admitted to using a slur.
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March 5, 2022
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NASA has released an up-close image of what may be one of the strangest features on Pluto: a massive volcano that spewed ice instead of lava.
“This feature is enormous,” NASA said on its website. “If it is, in fact, a volcano, as suspected, it would be the largest such feature discovered in the outer solar system.”
The unusual feature is one of two possible ice volcanoes, also known as cryovolcanoes, spotted on Pluto by the New Horizons spacecraft.
Unlike volcanoes here on Earth, these would have erupted with an icy mix of frozen water, ammonia, methane, and/or nitrogen.
The suspected ice volcanoes on Pluto resemble shield volcanoes; rather than rising to a sharp peak, they are longer and lower, like a shield.
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A large feature on Pluto is believed to be a volcano — except this one spewed ice. Credit: NASA/JHUAPL/SwRI
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March 5, 2022
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March 4, 2022
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This summer, the Supreme Court is expected to issue a ruling on a case involving a Mississippi law banning abortions at 15 weeks. The court’s decision could potentially overturn or greatly weaken Roe v. Wade, which enshrines a person’s right to an abortion under the Constitution. Rather than waiting for that potential implosion, Vermont has taken matters into its own hands, moving one step closer this week to passing its own abortion rights legislation.
The Personal Reproductive Liberty Amendment, or Proposition 5, would make Vermont the first state to explicitly protect reproductive rights within its own constitution. Per local outlet NBC5, the legislation states:
An individual’s right to personal reproductive autonomy is central to the liberty and dignity to determine one’s own life course, and shall not be denied or infringed unless justified by a compelling state interest achieved by the least restrictive means.
The resolution was first passed by the state Senate in spring 2019. Then it made its way to the state House this year — where, on Tuesday, it passed with a 107-41 vote.
Democratic legislators have stressed the importance of Proposition 5 as federal abortion protections become increasingly tenuous. The Portland Press Herald reported that Democratic state Rep. Ann Pugh said, “While the right to reproductive autonomy, and abortion care, remains for the time being a fundamental right at the national level, it has been and continues to be under serious attack. In this turbulent time clarity is called for.”
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With the future of Roe in the hands of a conservative Supreme Court, Vermont legislators have moved to enshrine abortion access into the state constitution.
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March 4, 2022
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Witnesses of the first-ever unveiling of what just might be the world’s largest dinosaur have struggled to find an adjective to aptly capture the sheer enormity of the prehistoric creature.“From a distance, everything looks roughly proportional so it’s difficult to appreciate just how big everything is,” John Timmer at Arc Technica wrote on Thursday of the towering animal, which is now on display at New York’s American Museum of Natural History. “It’s only when you drop your gaze low enough to see how the legs compare to full-grown people that the size of it is really driven home.”
Dubbed the “biggest dinosaur ever” discovered, the daunting dino was excavated in 2014 in Argentina.
Scientists have identified it as a new species of titanosaur — a group of particularly massive, but herbivorous, dinosaurs known for their lizard-like appearance. The species is still so new, however, that scientists have yet to formally name it.
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8 Titanosaur Facts and Figures
Today the Museum welcomed its newest permanent resident, the #Titanosaur. This gigantic sauropod will be on view to the public tomorrow, January 15, at 10 am. To get you up to speed on this recently discovered dinosaur, we’ve put together 8 Titanosaur facts and figures to make you an expert: http://bit.ly/1RR2uvI — with KJ OC and Evangelia Niko.
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March 4, 2022
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March 3, 2022
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My senior dog, Stevie, is one of the best friends I’ve ever had. She’s 13 now and while she’s very spry for her age, I know she’s not going to live forever. If I could do anything to keep her in my life longer, I would. Unfortunately, we haven’t found the fountain of puppy youth, yet, but these pioneering scientists are trying to figure out how to make dogs live longer. And they might learn something about human aging in the process, too.
The Dog Aging Project (DAP) was launched in 2018 in order to examine how aging affects dogs. Today, the interdisciplinary DAP published a report in the science journal, Nature, outlining their plans for the next decade, which is significant because it will be the first long-term dog study of its magnitude. These scientists already have 32,000 dogs of all kinds around the country registered in the study, and they plan to enroll thousands more to sequence their genomes in order to try to figure out what variables make dogs live longer.
Right now, the DAP is still recruiting dogs and puppies from around the U.S. to participate in the study. When a dog enrolls in the study — which the researchers cutely refer to as “joining the pack” — their owners take measurements and cheek swabs for genetic material and agree to participate in yearly surveys for the length of the study (at least ten years), EurekAlert reported. The scientists are trying to decode the biomarkers of canine aging and to determine which lifestyle factors play a role in longevity.
Researchers are hoping to figure out how to help dogs live happy healthy lives, but they’re also planning to use that data to learn more about human aging. “Given that dogs share the human environment and have a sophisticated health care system but are much shorter-lived than people, they offer a unique opportunity to identify the genetic, environmental and lifestyle factors associated with healthy lifespan,” Daniel Promislow, a professor of biology at the University of Washington and an investigator for the National Institute on Aging grant that is funding the DAP, told EurekAlert.
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Through the new research, they might also learn more about human aging.
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March 3, 2022
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Small chameleons have a stronger and longer tongue to shoot out faster than those of larger chameleons.
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March 3, 2022
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