Salt powered refrigerator

A group of teens in India decided to try and create a refrigerator that didn't need electricity - so that vaccines could be transported to remote locations. 

After much trial and error, they found that using ammonium hydroxide as their salt component met their need and could keep a temperature just above freezing. 

And then they added some additional salts and were able to get below freezing and remain that way for some time. 

There's a cool (ha!) bit of physics involved her where ions are released when the salt is added to water and the net result is an endothermic reaction. 

https://www.businessinsider.com/teens-win-earth-prize-built-salt-powered-refrigerator-2025-4

US Born citizen detained…

This is where we're at. 

A judge ruled his birth certificate is legit.  And yet he remains in custody. 

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/us-born-citizen-detained-ice-immigration-florida-rcna201800

Da Foq?

the House of Representatives passed legislation to sweep away even that check on his power by stripping federal judges of the ability to halt his most flagrantly illegal actions with nationwide injunctions.

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/republican-led-us-house-votes-limit-judges-power-block-trumps-agenda-2025-04-10/

At least someone gets it.

Another mass shooting at another school. This time a short distance from the Capitol. 

… while they work on rolling back legislation and putting guns in more hands. 

Desantis is involved in underhanded dealings?

Say it isn't so!

Essentially the HOPE foundation, which is run by his wife, became a political tool. It used donation money to give to a PAC that he controlled in order to achieve some objectives. 

And several of his cronies were in on it too. 

He's outlived his usefulness, and now the Republican Party has decided to no longer support him. 

https://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics-government/article304020886.html

The myth of neutral reporting

This is a short summary of why neutral reporting doesn't actually exist. 

journalism is built on judgment calls. Reporters constantly make choices that reflect their personal and institutional values. Pretending otherwise only feeds distrust.

https://blog.medium.com/the-myth-of-neutral-reporting-39f16871c99b

What manner of silliness is this?

Blue Origin has been running a space tourism program for several years now. While it's not, precisely, necessary, Jeff Bezos saw an opportunity to sort of crowd fund his test launches, bring attention to himself, and offer some celebrities a chance to have a few minutes of weightlessness. 

In almost every sense, it's the same as SpaceX offering space tourism to people as a lark (and one of these tourists is now the head of nasa, go figure!) 

For the most part, these "missions" have attracted some attention, but mostly flown under the radar. Sure, there are people who call it wasteful and stupid, but generally no one cared. 

And then Bezos decided to make history and create an all female crew. 

And that's when the outrage started. It came from everywhere. Everyone had a take. Every angle was covered. 

And I just have to ask… why?

Previous missions had similarly unqualified people who said similar things upon returning. 

Why did this one garner so much negative attention?

And by the way, one of these astronauts was 

Amanda Nguyen, who was in the nasa space flight program, and was going to be an astronaut at some point. But she gave up the dream to instead focus on her story and be an advocate for rape victims and work on civil rights. A short synopsis can be found here:

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DIRI5BrxJY_/?igsh=MWl5c3lqNGFxeGxjeA==

But that doesn't even register among all the noise we're hearing. 

IMHO that should be the lead. It shouldn't be about how dumb this flight was - they are all dumb. Some attention should go to her finally fulfilling on her dream. 

Man are we just idiots.