The Rebel Weekly

21/12/2024

“She noted the city of Seattle spends nearly $6 million a year on graffiti removal and the state Department of Transportation has spent $1.4 million to remove graffiti from freeway walls, overpasses and signs in the past two years.”

$6 MILLION a year?? The citizens of Seattle deserve the itemized receipts on that because nearly $500,000 a month is absolutely absurd, all things considered.

King County prosecutors have filed more than 30 criminal cases against 16 graffiti taggers who together have allegedly caused upward of $100,000 in property damage.

25/11/2024

“Greater voter enfranchisement was met with fresh resistance and in 2013, the Supreme Court gutted the Voting Rights Act in its ruling on Shelby County v. Holder, paving the way for states and jurisdictions with a history of voter suppression to enact restrictive voter identification laws. A whopping 23 states created new obstacles to voting in the decade leading up to the 2018 elections, according to the nonpartisan coalition Election Protection.”

The struggle for equal voting rights dates to the earliest days of U.S. history. Now, after a period of bipartisan efforts to expand enfranchisement, Americans once again face new obstacles to voting

23/11/2024

“For several of the stem cell types tested, the scientists observed general improvements in the way the cells were expanding, and in the stability of their replication, even after their return to Earth.”

Stem cells are special in the way they can keep on replicating, and turn themselves into many other types of cell.

17/11/2024

"We should rely on vaccines for those exposures because we can never predict who is going to be susceptible to severe illness, even in early childhood. If we look back before vaccines, children under 4 often succumbed to infections. I don’t think we want to return to that time in history."

The hygiene hypothesis says exposure to germs helps kids develop healthy immune systems. But many viruses didn’t circulate as widely during the pandemic. Are there downsides to missed infections?

14/11/2024

The Max Grover ( ) show “Icons” is officially open!

Come by tomorrow to get a quiet look and Saturday to get some refreshments and to meet the artist during our reception from 4-6pm!

Image, left: City with Cars, 31 x 32, oil on board, 2024
Image, right: Robot on the Street, 33 x 16, oil on board, 2024

17/10/2024

“What was unexpected was finding hydrogen stripped of its electrons far beyond the cosmic threads of gas mixed with another, far heavier element – oxygen.”

Like blazing campfires on cold winter nights, galaxies are surrounded by a smoke of gas and dust that blows into the shadows.

09/09/2024

“Located along the eastern coast of the U.S., with a few introduced populations scattered along the western U.S. coast and the southeast coast of Britain, this sea anemone is a member of the sea-dwelling phylum Cnidaria, which is well-known for its full-body regenerative abilities—so much so that some animals in this phylum, such as the jellyfish Turritopsis dohrnii, are functionally immortal.”

This lifeform’s extraordinary biology could hold the key to anti-aging breakthroughs.

07/09/2024

31/08/2024

“Woolly mammoths, which thrived during the Pleistocene epoch, maintained Arctic grasslands by trampling the snow, suppressing tree and shrub growth, and dispersing nutrients across huge distances via their dung. Without mammoths and other now-extinct megaherbivores, the so-called "mammoth steppe" has given way to a waterlogged landscape of mossy tundra, shrubs and forest. Research suggests this new landscape stores less carbon than grasslands did and is more susceptible to permafrost thaw. Some scientists have proposed that reintroducing megaherbivores to the Arctic could help restore the ecosystem, boost carbon storage and mitigate climate change.”

Scientists are getting very close to bringing a few iconic species, like woolly mammoths and dodos, back from extinction. That may not be a good thing.

12/08/2024

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Charles R. Cross, a journalist who covered the rise of grunge at The Rocket and who penned biographies for two of Seattle's rock icons, died over the weekend. He was 67.

10/06/2024

Given its graphically simple animation style, this manages an extraordinary degree of conceptually nuanced and engagingly executed world-building as well as character personas and dramatic narrative all in wildly minimal amounts of screen time.

09/06/2024

"Most contemporary philosophical accounts of the relationship between objects and their properties embrace entanglement solely from the perspective of spatial nonlocality. But there’s still significant work to be done on incorporating temporal nonlocality – not only in object-property discussions, but also in debates over material composition (such as the relation between a lump of clay and the statue it forms), and part-whole relations (such as how a hand relates to a limb, or a limb to a person). For example, the ‘puzzle’ of how parts fit with an overall whole presumes clear-cut spatial boundaries among underlying components, yet spatial nonlocality cautions against this view. Temporal nonlocality further complicates this picture: how does one describe an entity whose constituent parts are not even coexistent?"

We think we know how quantum particles get ‘entangled’ across space – but what about entanglement through time?

05/05/2024

Mother's Day is Sunday, May 12. We're ready. Are you?

30/04/2024

"The Oetz River – home to the Oetz Trophy - is in danger. Down to the Last Drop explores the planned expansion of the Kaunertal hydropower plant and begs the question: Are we going about the energy transition in the right way?"

29/04/2024

“But it is not just time that could be measured much more precisely in this way than before. For example, the Earth's gravitational field could be analyzed so precisely that it could provide indications of mineral resources or earthquakes.”

Amazing. But will we now have micro accurate GPS, air traffic control capabilities, CCTV, the internet itself?

Physicists have been hoping for this moment for a long time: For many years, scientists all around the world have been searching for a very specific state of thorium atomic nuclei that promises revolutionary technological applications. It could be used, for example, to build a nuclear clock that cou...

21/04/2024

“He (Singletary) says of the show, “I have long wondered when Raven’s next story might be entered into the annals of Tlingit history. Did Raven just stop doing things, or is he perhaps some kind of spirit around us who is trying to affect changes, knowingly or unknowingly? I have partnered with my friend Garth Stein, a novelist with Tlingit ancestry. I asked him to create a narrative around this concept.”

This May, we are thrilled to debut a new collection of work by renowned artist Preston Singletary. With this exhibition, I Dream, Therefore I am Raven, Singletary depicts new takes on traditional Tlingit Raven stories, a project that Singletary has been collaborating on with international best-selli...