In case you've wondered where your recycling goes.
Watch as roughly 800 tons of recyclables (the amount processed in a single day) meander through a tangle of machines, scanners, and conveyor belts before being bundled into bails.
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If only in their dreams.
Congress passed a two-week spending measure to keep the government open. The next shutdown deadline is the Friday before Christmas, when lawmakers will be leave for home, placing additional pressure on solving the partisan budget impasse. 1/19 In a rare outcome, a white police officer who killed a
History will be erased by shrinking Bears Ears.
Archaeologist Lyle Balenquah offers a brief tour of the ancient Hopi rock wall drawings on the eastern side of the Comb Ridge at Bears Ears.
Squame (noun): a scale or flake (as of skin)
Fragile sugar casts of human skin crack and break apart.
We can hear you shrugging.
The world condemns Trump’s Jerusalem announcement. Protests break out in Gaza and the West Bank. 1/19 Thanks to Trump, people are spending more on newspapers, social advocacy groups, and civil and social organizations. 2/19 What the Republicans have learned from Trump: You can say anything you want;
NASA simulates the year in aerosols.
Watch how far air particles can move in this NASA simulation of the year's aerosol travel (sea salt, smoke, and dust). More info here, but pay attention to dust moving off the Sahara, or smoke from wildfires in the US.
Ready, set – wait, really?
Rohingya refugees, hurricane debris, the President getting the finger: here are the top 25 news photos of 2017. 1/16 Wind-driven wildfires burn out of control around Los Angeles; officials predict a tough battle for the rest of the week. 2/16 “The President stole your land.” Fleece-maker
First late-stage trial announced for prescription video games.
STAT's description for a game that treats ADHD tastes like buzzword broth: "Akili sees the video game as the delivery system for targeted algorithms that act as a medical device to activate certain neural networks."
A day in the life of digging watertables.
In case today's one of those days where you feel like chucking it in, here's a short film, sort of filmed in the way of mid-career Wes Anderson, where you meet Tanya, caretaker of a hut on New Zealand's Greenstone-Caples trail.
The 2017 Good Gift Games
Our resident board-game expert picks the best new games released this year.