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WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court justices sounded closely split Wednesday on San Francisco’s dispute with the Environmental Protection Agency over how to stop polluted water from flowing into the Pacific Ocean during heavy storms.At issue was a technical dispute over the language used in permits issued by EPA. The case poses the question: Can regulators punish a city if it broadly “contributes” to water pollution or instead must they focus narrowly on the city’s actual discharges of pollutants?A ruling on the issue could sharply limit the EPA’s power to enforce clean-water standards. Lawyers for San Francisco told the court it was…
If you’re tired of aching wrists after a long day of typing, NUIO’s new ergonomic keyboard might be your dream come true. A new company could shake up how we interact with our devices. NUIO, co-founded by brothers Tom and Greg Wilson, is launching a line of ergonomic accessories designed to prioritize comfort and the human body. Tom, a former Apple product designer, and Greg, a former digital marketing expert, felt the peripheral market hadn’t really evolved, so they set out to change that. Revealed in a press release sent to Lifewire, their main product, the Flow Keyboard, is available…
BMW CEO Oliver Zipse called for an end to the 2035 EU combustion engine ban. He cites “pessimism” in the region and reliance on China for batteries as the main reasons. EV sales have largely dropped for most automakers through 2024 amid cooling demand. In early 2023, the European Union voted on strict emission regulations that effectively banned the sale of new vehicles with combustion engines. At the time, electric vehicle development was in overdrive and trends pointed to increasing demand, but alas, times have changed. BMW is now among a growing coalition calling for an end to the ban.…
Most of Earth’s meteorites can be linked to just a few collisions within the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, two new studies report, including a particularly cataclysmic impact event around 470 million years ago. The upside to this discovery, published October 16 in Nature, is that it provides researchers with vital context: By knowing the return address of meteorites, scientists can more easily work out how and where the building blocks of planets came together to create the solar system we see today. The downside is that it may mean researchers have an extremely biased meteorite collection that can…
Insects have plenty to beware when it comes to carnivorous plants. Add an acid-loving fungus to that list of dangers. Sundew plants have tentacle-like leaves that curl around and entrap flies and other insects in a sticky secretion called mucilage (SN: 5/16/18). As stuck prey suffocate in mucilage or die from exhaustion, the plant produces enzymes that dissolve the bodies into nutrients later absorbed by the leaves. But plant enzymes alone aren’t the whole story. A fungus called Acrodontium crateriforme has a helping hand in the digestive process, researchers report in the October Nature Microbiology. A. crateriforme produces additional digestive…
Citations P.F. Velasco and H.J. Spiers. Wayfinding across ocean and tundra: what traditional cultures teach us about navigation. Trends in Cognitive Science. Vol. 28, January 2024, p. 56. doi: 10.1016/j.tics.2023.09.004. P.F. Velasco and A. Gleizer. Mental maps, practical mastery and environmental experience: an analysis of the wayfinding culture of Evenki reindeer herders and hunters. The Journal of Navigtion. Vol. 76, July 2023, p. 590. doi: 10.1017/S0373463324000018. G. Vigliocco et al. Ecological brain: reframing the study of human behaviour and cognition. PsyArXiv Preprints. Posted online April 3, 2023. doi: 10.31234/osf.io/zr4nm. H.E. Davis, M. Gurven and E. Cashdan. Navigational experience and the…
Wind ownership is up for grabs. As an unpaid intern at an energy company in England, Emilia Groupp spent two years creating wind maps for renewable energy development. Colleagues told Groupp to ignore wind blowing across British borders, saying things like, “Oh we don’t want French wind,” recalls Groupp, an anthropologist of energy at Stanford University. Groupp refers to this politicizing of wind for energy development as “ventography” in a study published September 18 in Environment and Planning D: Society and Space. People tend to think of wind as an “elusive force that cannot be bound or owned,” Groupp writes.…
Kamala Harris agrees Trump’s vision is about ‘fascism’Sign up for the daily Inside Washington email for exclusive US coverage and analysis sent to your inboxGet our free Inside Washington emailKamala Harris sparred with anchor Bret Baier in her first Fox News appearance on Wednesday evening.Harris and Baier kicked off the interview with a back-and-forth over immigration. “How many illegal immigrants would you estimate your administration has released into the country over the last three and a half years? “ Baier asked.“Well, I’m glad you raised the issue of immigration, because I agree with you,” Harris responded. “It is a topic…
The Council of Europe in Strasbourg hosted a parade showcasing traditional Ukrainian embroidered attire. The event also featured an exhibition of early 20th-century artifacts curated by collector and ethnographer Yurii Melnychuk from the All-Ukrainian Center of Embroidery and Carpet Weaving in Reshetylivka, Poltava region. The cultural presentation took place during a session of the Congress of Local and Regional Authorities, where a resolution was adopted emphasizing the need to protect and restore Ukraine’s cultural heritage, as reported by Ukrinform. “Vyshyvanka (embroidered shirt – ed) is not just clothing; it is a form of spiritual armor. Every intricate pattern, every stitch,…