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C. S. Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien: How Myth Exposed the Allure of Power | National Review Added: Nov 8, 2025
C. S. Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien: How Myth Exposed the Allure of Power | National Review

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Site: X (formerly Twitter)
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Site: X (formerly Twitter)
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xAI Boosts Grok with Photorealistic Image Generation and 94% Reasoning Leap / X Added: Nov 8, 2025
Site: X (formerly Twitter)
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Site: X (formerly Twitter)
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'Who gives?' Ben Shapiro explodes on Megyn Kelly as she struggles to defend Tucker Carlson Added: Nov 8, 2025
'Who gives a sh*t!?' Ben Shapiro explodes on Megyn Kelly
Site: Mail Online
Shapiro is one of Carlson's most vocal critics following the controversy, accusing the former Fox News host of being an 'intellectual coward' as well as a 'super-spreader of vile ideas in America.'

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'DEI for owls': Nearly half a million birds to be killed in the West Added: Nov 8, 2025
'DEI for owls': Nearly half a million birds to be killed across the West
Site: SFGATE
About half a million owls are expected to be shot under the wildlife protection plan.
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is preparing to kill nearly half a million barred owls throughout Washington, Oregon and California after a short-lived effort to halt the cull was thwarted in the Senate last week. The management plan, finalized in August 2024, authorizes killing up to 450,000 barred owls across the West to protect another owl species: the northern spotted owl, which is listed as “threatened” under both the California Endangered Species Act and its federal counterpart. The Fish and Wildlife Service has been managing spotted owl populations since the late ’70s, when population declines were attributed to habitat loss across federal lands due to timber harvesting. The agency’s management plan said an accelerated decline since 2008 “corresponds with the continued invasion and population expansion of barred owls.” Barred owls are larger and more aggressive and produce more chicks than spotted owls, disrupting their nesting and outcompeting them for food. Barred owls are even known to attack hikers to protect their young. Under the 30-year management plan, qualified personnel must confirm the presence of barred owls before certified “removal specialists” shoot the birds. Roughly 15,000 barred owls would be euthanized annually. There are no official cost estimates included in the plan or the agency’s record of decision, but opponents of the plan have said it could cost $1.35 billion. That’s based on a $4.5 million contract awarded in 2024 to kill about 1,500 barred owls over four years, bringing the euthanization cost to about $3,000 per owl killed. The Department of the Interior declined an interview request from SFGATE about the management plan, likely due to the ongoing federal government shutdown. Top officials in the region have spoken in support of the management plan in the past, though. Drew Magary | I have terrible, terrible news for red AmericaTravel | Why everyone in this idyllic Calif. mountain town eats Nepalese foodCulture | Tragedy cut Sublime's fame short. Now the singer's son has the mic.Travel | They lived inside Disneyland. Their house is still at the park today. Get SFGATE's top stories sent to your inbox by signing up for The Daily newsletter here. “Northern spotted owls are at a tipping point, and both barred owls and habitat have to be managed to save them,” Barry Bushue, the Bureau of Land Management’s state director for Oregon and Washington, said in a news release earlier this year. “If we act now, future generations will still be able to see and hear northern spotted owls in our Pacific Northwest forests.” Louisiana Sen. John Kennedy, a Republican, led the failed attempt to block the agency from moving forward with its plan, calling it an example of the “federal government’s proclivity … to do the dumbest thing possible that won’t work,” during his remarks on the Senate floor, according to Senate records. In his reasoning for halting the plan, Kennedy explained that one owl species shouldn’t be valued over another and pointed at habitat loss as the main issue the government should be addressing. “God just made the barred owl a better hunter, and the Department of the Interior is all up in arms. They say this is threatening the spotted owl. Now, the spotted owl isn’t on the Endangered Species List, but they say: This isn’t fair,” he said. “So the Department of the Interior, in its infinite wisdom, has come up with DEI for owls. They have come up with quotas for owls.” He also said the Interior Secretary Doug Burgum accused him of “slandering the Trump administration” with his objection to the plan, even though it was originally developed under the Biden administration. Kennedy’s resolution was shot down in a 25-72 vote. Animal Wellness Action and the Center for a Humane Economy, two animal welfare nonprofits based in Washington, D.C., released a joint statement addressing the failed resolution. They said the Interior Department is moving forward with the barred owl cull in order to allow timber companies to “cut down the old growth forests where these rare owls live.” “It is unconscionable that this plan turns the Endangered Species Act from a shield into a sword, using it to kill half a million barred owls and orphan countless owlets,” Wayne Pacelle, the president of Animal Wellness Action and the Center for a Humane Economy, said in a news release. “It’s now going to be weaponized to enable killing of threatened Northern spotted owls, too. This plan amounts to a war on both species of owls and the weapons are guns, chain saws, and bulldozers.” The groups are concerned that the Fish and Wildlife Service could use the barred owl cull plan as a “mitigation” measure to justify incidental killings of spotted owls, bypassing protections under the Endangered Species Act and paving the way for increased timber harvesting. There is no timeline for when the barred owl management plan will resume, especially as the the Interior Department has slashed resources from all of its agencies this year and intends to cut even more jobs as soon as it is able to. — 'DEI for owls': Nearly a million birds to be killed across the West— 'Zone of Death': Yellowstone's 50-square-mile legal loophole— America's smallest 'national park' includes a 12-second hike— Salmon seen in for first time in a century after California dam removal We love national parks just as much as you do, so we have a newsletter that covers them from top to bottom. Sign up here.

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Longevity expert Dr Peter Attia reveals how to prevent decline in 70s | Fox News Added: Nov 8, 2025
Longevity expert Dr Peter Attia reveals how to prevent decline in 70s | Fox News

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Dima Zeniuk on X: "xAI just rolled out a big update for Grok Imagine, bringing significant improvements Created this with Grok Imagine 🤯 https://t.co/OtyfygvYm8" / X Added: Nov 8, 2025
Site: X (formerly Twitter)
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Site: X (formerly Twitter)
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Gemini 3.0 Pro Preview & GPT-5.1 Leak : Next AI Jump is Here - Geeky Gadgets Added: Nov 8, 2025
Gemini 3.0 Pro Preview & GPT-5.1 Leak : The Next AI Jump is Here
Site: Geeky Gadgets
Gemini 3.0 nears release in Vertex AI as code hints reveal GPT-5.1 testing. Explore upgrades in reasoning, planning, and real workflows today.

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This narwhal has two tusks - YouTube Added: Nov 8, 2025
This narwhal has two tusks
Site: YouTube
Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.

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3I/ATLAS After Perihelion: Phenomenal Images Tell a Different Story | by Liena Dreams | Nov, 2025 | Medium Added: Nov 9, 2025
3I/ATLAS After Perihelion: Phenomenal Images Tell a Different Story
Site: Medium
Real data. Real telescope. Amateur astronomer tests Harvard hypotheses.

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Heritage Foundation Revolting After President Defends Tucker Carlson Nick Fuentes Interview - YouTube Added: Nov 9, 2025
Heritage Foundation Revolting After President Defends Tucker Carlson Nick Fuentes Interview
Site: YouTube
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Demons Can Use Social Media To Manipulate People's Thinking & Control Their Emotions - YouTube Added: Nov 9, 2025
Demons Can Use Social Media To Manipulate People's Thinking & Control Their Emotions
Site: YouTube
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Dinesh D'Souza on X: "An American missionary who runs a ministry in Nigeria has a message for Tucker Carlson." / X Added: Nov 9, 2025
Site: X (formerly Twitter)
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Site: X (formerly Twitter)
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Newsom: 'Democratic Party of old' is no more - POLITICO Added: Nov 9, 2025
**Newsom: 'Democratic Party of old' is no more **
Site: POLITICO
California's governor said Democrats proved they would just not accept President Donald Trump's actions lying down.

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Elon Musk on X: "https://t.co/nNerezXh1I" / X Added: Nov 9, 2025
Site: X (formerly Twitter)
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Site: X (formerly Twitter)
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Transgenderism Is in Rapid Decline Among Young Americans
Added: Nov 9, 2025Transgenderism Is in Rapid Decline Among Young Americans
Site: Skeptic
Transgenderism is in rapid decline among young Americans, indicating it was a social contagion.
A few weeks ago, I
published results
from six waves of the massive Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE) annual survey of undergraduate students. The data were unequivocal: the share of students identifying as a

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Free speech under threat: How we can defend it – together - YouTube Added: Nov 9, 2025
Free speech under threat: How we can defend it – together
Site: YouTube
Free speech in Canada is facing unprecedented pressure from expanding government controls and cultural shifts. Once the bedrock of democratic life, open deba...

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xAI Boosts Grok with 2M Token Context and Rival Image Generation / X Added: Nov 9, 2025
Site: X (formerly Twitter)
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Douglas Murray Warns Conservatives of Leftist and Right-Wing Extremes at PragerU Gala / X Added: Nov 9, 2025
Site: X (formerly Twitter)
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Winston Marshall on X: "At his absolute best. A phenomenal speech by @DouglasKMurray A must listen https://t.co/WFFZQMiyGK" / X Added: Nov 9, 2025
Site: X (formerly Twitter)
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Gen Z Women Are Embracing Witchcraft, Father Chad Explains The 3 Types of Witches - YouTube Added: Nov 9, 2025
Gen Z Women Are Embracing Witchcraft, Father Chad Explains The 3 Types of Witches
Site: YouTube
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Whopping wealth of Nancy Pelosi under scrutiny as it's revealed she has earned $130MILLION in stock profits while in Congress Added: Nov 9, 2025
Nancy Pelosi's $130M in stock profits during Congress career revealed
Site: Mail Online
Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's stock portfolio has grown around 17,000 percent over the course of her nearly four-decade career in Congress.

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President Trump claims Democrats cracking under shutdown pressure Added: Nov 9, 2025
Trump accuses Democrats of ‘cracking like dogs’ on shutdown over filibuster fears
Site: The Hill
President Trump on Saturday claimed Democrats were cracking under the pressure of the government shutdown, days after saying the federal closure is at least partly to blame for Republican losses du…
President Trump on Saturday claimed Democrats were cracking under the pressure of the government shutdown, days after saying the federal closure is at least partly to blame for Republican losses during 2025's off-year elections. "The Democrats are cracking like dogs on the Shutdown because they are deathly afraid that I am making progress with the Republicans on TERMINATING THE FILIBUSTER!" Trump wrote in a Truth Social post. "Whether we make a Deal or not, THE REPUBLICANS MUST 'BLOW UP' THE FILIBUSTER, AND APPROVE HUNDREDS OF LONG SOUGHT, BUT NEVER GOTTEN, POLICY WINS LIKE, AS JUST A SMALL EXAMPLE, VOTER ID (IDENTIFICATION)," Trump continued. "Only a LOSER would not agree to doing this!" Senators will remain in session until they pass a deal to reopen the government, Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) told reporters on Saturday, the 39th day of the shutdown. The GOP leader previously poured cold water on the president's consistent push for Republicans use the "nuclear option" and bypass the upper chamber's filibuster rule, which requires 60 votes to pass legislation. On Friday, Republicans swiftly shot down a Democratic proposal to extend enhanced health care subsidies for one year alongside a clean continuing resolution (CR). Thune said on Friday that senators need to get the text of a three-bill package of full-year spending bills, known as a “minibus," nailed down, with the hope of voting on it over the weekend. Senate Democrats rejected a proposal Thursday to reopen the government that would have included a stopgap funding bill and three full-year appropriations bills funding military construction, veterans’ affairs, the Department of Agriculture and the legislative branch. The proposal was crafted by Sens. Gary Peters (D-Mich.), Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.) and Angus King (I-Maine), giving Thune three of the eight Democratic votes needed to approve the House-passed CR and reopen the government. Democrats have remained firm in arguing that Congress must extend Affordable Health Care (ACA) tax credits that will expire at the end of the year. Republicans, including Thune and Speaker Mike Johnson (La.), have said they will negotiate the credits when the government is open, leading to the prolonged stalemate. Earlier on Saturday, Trump told Republicans to divert funds from insurance companies and directly pay consumers. “I am recommending to Senate Republicans that the Hundreds of Billions of Dollars currently being sent to money sucking Insurance Companies in order to save the bad Healthcare provided by ObamaCare, BE SENT DIRECTLY TO THE PEOPLE SO THAT THEY CAN PURCHASE THEIR OWN, MUCH BETTER, HEALTHCARE, and have money left over,” Trump wrote on Truth Social. “In other words, take from the BIG, BAD Insurance Companies, give it to the people, and terminate, per Dollar spent, the worst Healthcare anywhere in the World, ObamaCare,” he continued. "Unrelated, we must still terminate the Filibuster!"

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Trump compares Democrats to kamikaze pilots amid government shutdown | Fox News Added: Nov 9, 2025
Trump compares Democrats to kamikaze pilots amid government shutdown | Fox News

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Republicans Have a Young Voter Problem | National Review Added: Nov 9, 2025
Republicans Have a Young Voter Problem | National Review

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NASA quietly sends two spacecraft to Mars — and they're going a new way | Mashable
Added: Nov 9, 2025NASA quietly sends two spacecraft to Mars — and they're going a new way
Site: Mashable
A NASA mission will send twin spacecraft to Mars to learn what happened to the Red Planet's ancient, thick atmosphere.
The U.S. space agency has fallen silent amid the federal government shutdown, but it's about to slingshot a pair of robotic spacecraft to Mars.NASA's Escapade mission will test a new way of traveling to Mars. Instead of the traditional fuel-efficient route used by past missions — a narrow launch window every two years that leverages an alignment of the planets — the spacecraft will take a path that first carries them around a stable point between Earth and the sun. After a year of loitering, they will swing back toward Earth and then head for Mars. The trajectory, which became necessary after two previous launch postponements, could prove useful when future human missions require many spacecraft to depart over several months instead of just a few weeks. Escapade, a nickname for Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers, is expected to blast off on Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket from Cape Canaveral, Florida, as early as Sunday, Nov. 9. The mission will get to the bottom of how solar radiation strips away the tattered Martian atmosphere. Scientists know Mars once had a thicker atmosphere, perhaps capable of supporting life. But the planet's climate has changed dramatically over billions of years, from a world with lakes and rivers to an arid desert. The air is mostly gone, yet no one knows exactly where it went. SEE ALSO:
Video captures meteor explosively striking the moon. See it now.
The project is NASA’s first planetary mission led by UC Berkeley. The university designed the science instruments and will operate the spacecraft from its control center. Rocket Lab built the spacecraft, named Blue and Gold after Berkeley's school colors, each about the size of a stacked washer and dryer.Escapade could set a precedent for how NASA and the commercial space industry approach interplanetary missions in the future. From soup to nuts, Escapade had a budget of $80 million, under NASA's Small Innovative Missions for Planetary Exploration program. Rocket Lab built the twin probes in just 3.5 years for $57 million, a relatively cheap price compared to the billions the agency would normally spend. Those costly missions are a product of legacy aerospace contracts based on the cost-plus-fixed-fee model, which allowed the builders to run over budget without picking up the tab.
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"Rocket Lab undertook a task that, to be honest, I'm not going to name names, but at least one of those prime contractors said, 'We're not interested in this because if you need to fit everything into a $57 million cost cap, we can't build you two spacecraft for the price you'd be willing to pay us,'" Rob Lillis, the mission's principal investigator, told Mashable last year. "Actually, two said that."Don’t miss out on our latest stories: Add Mashable as a trusted news source in Google.Together the spacecraft will map Mars’ magnetic fields, upper atmosphere, and ionosphere, the layer of charged particles surrounding the planet, giving scientists a stereo view of its space environment. Mapping the magnetic field is critical because Mars lacks the global magnetic shield that protects Earth from harmful effects of solar radiation. Without that protection, solar storms can deliver bursts of energetic particles that could endanger anyone living or working on the Martian surface. The mission’s data will help researchers learn how to forecast those storms and how to shield future astronauts from them.Previous orbiters have studied how this "solar wind" interacts with the Martian atmosphere but have been hamstrung: One spacecraft alone can't measure the real-time consequences of solar storms. "It only takes one or two minutes for one of these space weather disturbances to propagate through the system and, for example, tear out a whole bunch of atmosphere," Lillis previously said. "Single spacecraft missions cannot separately measure the cause and the effect."
Rocket Lab engineers and technicians prepare Escapade's twin spacecraft, Blue and Gold, at the Astrotech launch processing facility in Titusville, Florida. Credit: Rocket Lab
Once in orbit, Blue and Gold will follow nearly identical paths around Mars, separated by minutes. That formation flying will let scientists watch how the planet’s upper atmosphere changes over time. Instruments aboard the spacecraft will track how particles escape from Mars into space.Accurate models of Mars' ionosphere will also help engineers develop better navigation and communication systems, whose radio signals would pass through it, for human missions.The Escapade spacecraft will travel for 22 months to Mars. The pair will then adjust their orbits over nine more months before beginning their primary science mission in June 2028.

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Outrage After Zohran Mamdani Does “Nazi Salute”, Leftist Hypocrisy Exposed - YouTube Added: Nov 9, 2025
Outrage After Zohran Mamdani Does “Nazi Salute”, Leftist Hypocrisy Exposed
Site: YouTube
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Deal to end government shutdown in reach Added: Nov 9, 2025
Deal to end government shutdown in reach
Site: Axios
At least 10 Senate Democrats are expected to support a key procedural motion.

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Moon race: SpaceX pushes back at criticism over Starship delays | MyRGV.com
Added: Nov 9, 2025Moon race: SpaceX pushes back at criticism over Starship delays
Site: MyRGV.com
One reason SpaceX is pouring so much money into Starship development at the company’s Boca Chica/Starbase production/testing complex is to satisfy a $4.4 billion contract with NASA to put U.S. astronauts back on the moon for the first time since 1972.

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Punch-drunk partisans reveal their plans to pack the Supreme Court Added: Nov 9, 2025
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Victor Davis Hanson: Comey Knew Clinton Had Cooked Up the Collusion Hoax - YouTube Added: Nov 9, 2025
Victor Davis Hanson: Comey Knew Clinton Had Cooked Up the Collusion Hoax
Site: YouTube
On today’s episode of “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words,” Victor and Sami Winc react to the release of damning new evidence against former FBI director ...

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Victor Davis Hanson: The Obamas Have Nothing to Complain About - YouTube Added: Nov 9, 2025
Victor Davis Hanson: The Obamas Have Nothing to Complain About
Site: YouTube
On today’s episode of “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words,” Victor Davis Hanson and Sami Winc react to Michelle Obama’s book tour for her new book “The Lo...

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The Local AI Revolution: Expanding Generative AI with GPT-OSS-20B and the NVIDIA RTX AI PC - MarkTechPost
Added: Nov 9, 2025The Local AI Revolution: Expanding Generative AI with GPT-OSS-20B and the NVIDIA RTX AI PC
Site: MarkTechPost
Explore expanding Generative AI with GPT-OSS-20B and the NVIDIA RTX AI PC for local, private AI solutions.

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Palantir CEO Alex Karp: Dems know "nothing Mamdani is saying can ever work" Added: Nov 9, 2025
Palantir CEO Alex Karp: Dems know "nothing Mamdani is saying can ever work"
Site: Axios
"If you talk to them private, they'll be like, yeah, that can never work."

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Elon Musk on X: "Accurate" / X Added: Nov 9, 2025
Site: X (formerly Twitter)
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Auren Hoffman on X: "AI is going to lead to a baby boom like we have never seen before. expect US exceed to hit 2.5 TFR by 2040" / X Added: Nov 9, 2025
Site: X (formerly Twitter)
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Auren Hoffman on X: "Love trumps hate. In life. In business. In politics. Always has. Always will." / X Added: Nov 9, 2025
Site: X (formerly Twitter)
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BBC bosses resign amid fury over Trump documentary edit – DW – 11/09/2025
Added: Nov 9, 2025BBC bosses resign amid fury over Trump documentary edit – DW – 11/09/2025
Site: dw.com
The director general and the UK broadcaster's top news executive quit in a row over the editing of a speech Donald Trump made before protesters attacked the US Capitol in Washington.

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The Education of the Heritage Foundation’s Kevin Roberts - WSJ Added: Nov 9, 2025
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The “Sailor’s Eyeball” Blob Is One Of The Largest Single-Celled Organisms Ever Discovered | IFLScience
Added: Nov 9, 2025The “Sailor’s Eyeball” Blob Is One Of The Largest Single-Celled Organisms Ever Discovered
Site: IFLScience
Aka the forbidden sea gummy.
There are sailors’ eyeballs to be found at sea, that is, if you know where to look. Fortunately not the result of any gouging injuries, these curious blobs are a type of algae called Valonia ventricosa, and they’re one of the largest single-celled organisms on Earth. The size of sailors' eyeballs can vary from a speck the size of a pinhead to, well, an eyeball. Just how big the blob gets all comes down to the contents of its vacuole – the space inside its cell wall. V. ventricosa is unicellular, but it can contain the nuclei of many cells. This is because they’re coenocytic organisms, meaning they’re made up of a mass of cytoplasm containing many cell nuclei that aren’t separated by a cell wall. They're also loaded with chloroplasts, the organelle that conducts photosynthesis, providing the organism with energy from the sun. The unusual arrangement comes with a fun party trick. If you pop a sailor’s eyeball – the algal version– it can actually result in more V. ventricosa springing up as they only need one cell nucleus to grow into new organisms. And hoo boy, are they poppable. The cytoplasm vacuole contains nuclei organized in lobes that radiate from its center, creating an internal anatomy the New Heaven Reef Conservation Program describes as “something like a Tesla plasma ball”. Sailors’ eyeballs are also known as dead man's eyeballs, bubble algae, sea grapes, and sea pearls. They are often spotted by divers drifting through coral reefs in tropical and subtropical regions of the world’s oceans. They can vary in color from bright green to black, and sometimes very silvery because of the unique structure of their cell walls’ cellulose crystals. The shimmering coloration is reminiscent of the NOAA Ocean Exploration’s “golden egg” mystery when they found an alien-like shiny orb on the seabed of Alaska. The shiny blob was spotted at a depth of 3.1 kilometers (2 miles), anchored to a rocky surface. Most curious of all, the mysterious object had a hole in it, inspiring one researcher to say during the live feed, “Something tried to get in… or to get out." Sailors' eyeballs, on the other hand, are just trying to get on with their day, so don't you go popping those weird jelly blobs now, will you? An earlier version of this article was published in December 2023.

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Helium-3 Could Be the Most Valuable Resource in Space and Nations Are Now Racing to Mine It on the Moon Added: Nov 9, 2025
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Atmospheric river closes in on Bay Area with rain and 'rough' wind Added: Nov 9, 2025
Atmospheric river closes in on Bay Area, delivering rain and 'rough' wind gusts
Site: SFGATE
"Everybody's going to get something."
Now is the time to clear out your gutters and tie down any outdoor patio furniture: an atmospheric river is making its way to the Bay Area, leading to intense gusts of wind, chances of thunderstorms and nuisance flooding across the region. A low pressure system producing a cold front, and a stationary cutoff low in the Pacific — a system in the upper atmosphere that’s been detached from the jet stream — have joined forces to pull the storm into the Bay Area, with “a bit of a subtropical moisture tap giving it that ‘atmospheric river’ status,” Brayden Murdock, a meteorologist for the National Weather Service’s Bay Area office, told SFGATE. It’s not particularly uncommon to see these rivers in the sky show up this time of year, but the “rarer setup that makes it a bit more unique,” he said. Pre-frontal drizzle is slated to arrive starting Wednesday afternoon, with the storm expected to drench all of the region’s coastal mountains at once later in the evening. Rather than the typical north-to-south trajectory that causes most storm systems to taper off by the time they hit San Jose and the Central Coast, this one is forecast to evenly impact the coast as it builds through, Murdock said. Most of the Bay Area’s coastal mountain ranges could see over two inches of rain, with interior portions of the region also likely to get soaked. When all is said and done, San Jose is expected to get an inch of rain, while the North Bay valleys could get an inch and a half of rain and San Francisco could get an inch and a quarter of rain. “Everybody’s going to get something, and it’s going to be a good amount of rain,” Murdock said. Notably, temperatures are also expected to plummet as the cold front comes through, with some parts of the North Bay reaching as low as 40 degrees. 20 to 30% chances of thunder are also possible, but may end up further north of the region, Murdock said. The biggest impact just might be the wind: some mountain peaks could see speeds of up to 70 mph, and gusts are likely to be particularly concerning for mariners on the water. “It’s gonna be rough out there,” Murdock said. Nuisance flooding is also expected, leading to ponding on roadways. But because the storm is coming on the heels of the dry season, the region’s soil and waterways are more well equipped to handle it, Murdock said. That said, he warned people to have external batteries charged and make a plan to evacuate in the event that conditions worsen. “We’re still going to be staffing up and make sure we have plenty of eyes on this when it comes through,” he said. “It’s going to be just as much of a wind event as it is a flood event.” The rain is expected to taper off after Friday afternoon, leading to scattered showers throughout the weekend before chances diminish on Sunday morning. “We’re not expecting a lot of clear skies,” Murdock said. “There’s going to be a cold, gray weekend behind this.” Check with the weather service for the latest updates on the forecast. — New reopening date set for San Francisco's Cliff House— Bay Area town enacts total and complete tobacco ban— 'Like somebody turned a faucet on': Union Square buzz is building in SF— 'Its fate may be sealed': San Francisco votes to remove hotly contested landmark Get SFGATE's top stories sent to your inbox by signing up for The Daily newsletter here.

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Elon Musk uses Grok to imagine the possibility of love | TechCrunch
Added: Nov 9, 2025Elon Musk uses Grok to imagine the possibility of love | TechCrunch
Site: TechCrunch
After Tesla shareholders approved a new compensation package that could be worth $1 trillion, CEO Elon Musk appears to be celebrating with a normal weekend on his social media platform X.
