#Wildfire #smoke may be worse for brain #health than other types of air pollution, according to new research linking it to an increased risk of #dementia. https://www.courthousenews.com/wildfire-smoke-may-be-worse-for-your-brain-than-other-air-pollution-study-says/

#Innewsoftheabsurd #Florida leads nation in hospital visits for heat-related illnesses. Given the number of retirees and #FloridaMan...it is no wonder that this statistic makes front page...and #ClimateChange https://www.cbsnews.com/miami/news/report-florida-leads-nation-in-hospital-visits-for-heat-related-illnesses/

Gabriel Medina competing at olympics. This will be a photo to remember. Watch YouTube video photo: [📸 Jerome Brouillet #Photography #olympics https://youtu.be/H6uUxnAODNM

#InNewsoftheAbsurd One industry that is growing due to aging population: funeral directors. https://www.digitaljournal.com/business/the-unexpected-boom-uk-funeral-industry-sees-28-surge-in-funeral-directors/article

With the risks from climate change intensifying, RAND researchers identified more than 250 strategies to strengthen some of the most vulnerable critical functions in the U.S. https://www.rand.org/pubs/articles/2024/climate-change-risk-to-national-critical-functions.html

First fatal case of Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever in Spain. #ticks #disease #health #virus #Spain https://www.estrelladigital.es/espana/20240728/muere-javier-primer-caso-mortal-de-fiebre-hemorragica-de-crimea-congo-en-espana/

Man's narcissism leads to seeing himself above Nature in intelligence yet that arrogance has huge impacts that eventually affect him. Case in point, seeing carrion eaters like vultures as nothing more than disgusting and vile creatures. Well, accidentally removing them from nature came back to haunt Indians as the vulture population was almost wiped out. With their absence came consequences and about 500,000 human deaths. #Nature #science https://archive.ph/4peVW

#InNewsoftheAbsurd Guy riding his bicycle, shoves a stick through rims, falls over, and blames everyone for their stupidity. In other news...

Great Basin groundwater report: Despite annual replenishment of #groundwater by #snow, the downward trend persists even in notable snow years. Likely causes include declining snow mass, upstream water diversions and increased #evaporation, #sublimation due to increasing temperatures. Dire consequences for humans and wildlife are associated with this large loss of groundwater. #water #aridification #drought #conservation https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2023GL107913

#Innewsoftheabsurd When someone does not know about #history and decapitation of Marie Antoinette. #religion #misinformation

#Learnedsomethingnewtoday Rugby has been around far longer than American football going back to Roman times. Back then, it was called "Harpastum" or "to seize". #history #sports #rugby #football https://www.therugbypaper.co.uk/guest-blogs/36933/how-american-football-grew-out-of-british-rugby/

#Innewsoftheabsurd One of the world's biggest drug lords, Ismael "El Mayo" Zambada, leader of Mexico's Sinaloa cartel was tricked into getting on an airplane thinking he was going to inspect clandestine airfields in Mexico. Airplane landed in El Paso and happily arrested by U.S. Federal agents. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4ng4g31x1wo

Pollution knows no borders: A long-awaited agreement will address Canadian mine waste flowing downriver into Montana and Idaho. #pollution #mining #Transborder #water #fish #selenium #Canada #US https://www.hcn.org/issues/56-7/pollution-knows-no-borders/

#Catlady expressing her true feelings #politics #Hillbilly #CatsofCoSo #CoSocats

#Innewsoftheabsurd Germany challenges Turkey’s protected status claim for the doner kebab. Turkey wants doner registered as its ‘guaranteed traditional speciality’ across Europe, akin to serrano ham and Neapolitan pizza. #CoSofood #foodpron #FoodPorn

#Innewsoftheabsurd How a North Korean applied for an IT job at security company KnowB4, got the job, and was only caught as he installed malware on company supplied computer. #computers #malware #AI #AIgeneratedimage #https://blog.knowbe4.com/how-a-north-korean-fake-it-worker-tried-to-infiltrate-us

"Hunga induced circulation changes that reduce stratospheric ozone and lower temperatures also play a role in the net forcing. The change in the radiative flux would result in a very slight 2022/3 cooling in Southern Hemisphere. The Hunga climate forcing has decreased to near zero by the end of 2023." #geology #volcano #climate https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2024JD041296