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25,000 barrels of DDT found off California Coast… Posted on A known DDT dump site off the coast of Southern California is considerably larger than suspected. Finding 2,500 barrels would’ve been a lot. Same for 250 barrels. Heck, even the discovery of 25 barrels at a former DDT dumpsite would’ve been upsetting. But 25,000 barrels? That’s astonishingly large. But such is the result of a recently concluded survey led by the University of California, San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography. From March 10 to 24, a team of researchers mapped 36,000 acres across a stretch of sea...

Tim Tebow attempting NFL comeback in stunning twist Posted on When Tim Tebow retired from baseball in February after a run as a Mets minor-leaguer, it appeared to spell the end of his athletic career. But in a stunning twist, the former Jets and Broncos quarterback is attempting an NFL comeback as a tight end, according to multiple reports. The 33-year-old reached out to the Jacksonville Jaguars requesting an opportunity to try out as a tight end, ESPN reported. Tebow went through a workout with the team’s tight ends coach, according to NFL Network, and the Jaguars have had “at least s...

The Trump-rejecting Florida Republican who has a plan to fix the GOP Posted on MIAMI — The future of the Republican Party runs through Florida. And the future of the Florida Republican Party runs through Miami. The state long considered the nation’s biggest battleground reported solid red in November. Florida is now home to former President Donald Trump and his children. Out-of-state Republicans are flocking here for fundraisers, retreats and to make appearances at Mar-a-Lago. The state is led by conservative rising star Gov. Ron DeSantis, an early 2024 favorite on the right. ut Florid...

1772: Johann Friedrich Struensee, the doctor who ran Denmark Posted on The 1700s were a time of radical reform, and as the Enlightenment reached the shores of Denmark, it suddenly became possible to be a professed atheist and not lose your head. That is, of course, as long as you didn’t also try to usurp the crown, undermine the aristocracy, and agitate the commoners while you were at it. Struensee on this date in 1772. His friend and sometime cohort Enevold Brandt (Danish Wikipedia entry) was put on the block on the same day. Struensee was born in 1738 in present day Germany and educate...

Epicurious to stop posting beef recipes, citing climate change Posted on Food website Epicurious will no longer publish beef recipes, citing the impact of raising and consuming cattle on climate change. Cutting out beef from one's diet is "a worthwhile first step" in cooking more sustainably, wrote Maggie Hoffman, senior editor at Epicurious and David Tamarkin, former digital director of Epicurious in a blog post Monday. Livestock accounts for nearly 15% of worldwide greenhouse gas emissions — 41% of those emissions comes from beef, according to the Food and Agriculture Organization of t...