News and Links Digest (publ. 2024-11-04)
Wilting flowers and resource management
The reasons flowers wilt could explain how plants spend (and save) their energy
Some interesting research shows that (1) plants reuse resources from wilting flowers, and (2) the resources are stored away with a view toward a long-term resource strategy.
Ancient galaxy too orderly
Space oddity: Most distant rotating disc galaxy found
Yet another distant galaxy fails to fit into the standard model for the age of the universe. This one is too orderly. Early galaxies are supposed to be "small and messy looking".
The ongoing battle against election fraud
A few recent articles from JTN:
RNC poll watchers allowed into Georgia county buildings, lawsuit still pending
Judge backs America First Legal bid to secure list of 218K voters without citizenship proof
Prosecutors in key Pennsylvania county say they've busted a fraudulent voter registration scheme
Georgia cleared hundreds of noncitizens from voter rolls, it just found 20 more
GOP consultant files lawsuit alleging identity fraudulently used to make ActBlue donations to Dems
And one little local (Alaska) story:
Voter fraud: Mat-Su Democrat convicted of perjury, voter misconduct in 2022 election
(Humorous? Scary?) video of student accidentally admitting to being pro-life
College Student Realizes He's More Pro-Life Than He Thinks!
Let's hope he is not going into either politics or engineering.
Hidden Valley reveals more wonders
The Mountain of the Mists
Fraud and pressure in academic research
Luck and Dishonesty
An interesting gemini post about the pressures in academic research. Hopefully this will help dispel any commonly held myths about how scientists and researchers are unbiased divines who we can trust more than anyone or anything else.
Electric school bus fiasco
Kamala Harris’ electric school bus program is floundering, drawing comparison to ‘border czar’ work
Biden/Harris medicare fraud
Biden spent billions to delay Medicare premiums spike, protect Harris campaign before election