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The Panama Canal Authority says that due to ongoing drought conditions, it will again reduce the daily number of ships that can travel the waterway. / AP
"The past month in Tefé has seemed like a science-fiction climate-change scenario." More than 100 Amazonian river dolphins have died over the past few weeks. / The Guardian
Water levels are so low in Texas that remnants of towns from more than a century ago are reappearing. / CNN
Lego's goal of switching to non-plastic bricks hasn't gone well—the new manufacturing process actually has a larger carbon footprint than plastic. / WIRED
"Jolts of electricity can convert discarded plastic into hydrogen gas and graphene, potentially offering a way to manage a growing waste problem." / C&EN
Gov. Newsom appoints EMILY's List President Laphonza Butler to fill the late Sen. Feinstein's seat. / POLITICO
"Strange and beautiful is a good way to put it." Inside the Gen Z Discord that's recreating the World Trade Center elevator music on Sept. 11. / WBUR
Your weekly white paper: "Why every observatory needs a disco ball." / arXiv
Photos of the final supermoon of 2023. / Space
See also: Hand-embroidered satellite imagery by Danielle Currie. / Kottke
"Viewing our own image activates an area of the brain called the fusiform face area, which processes facial recognition." We were never supposed to see our faces this much. / Dazed
Using AI voice cloning to answer the question, "What if every Weird Al song was the original, and every other artist was covering his songs instead?" / Waxy
Very serious restorations of very un-serious objects. / TikTok
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