Göbekli Tepe Neolithic archeological site (Kurdish: Girê Mirazan) and surrounding countryside ⬇️
The site is located in Şanlıurfa province, Turkey, at the interface between the Taurus Mountains and the northern Mesopotamian plain. It was inhabited from approximately 9500 to at least 8000 BCE.
The early Holocene climate in the region was somewhat wetter and more wooded than today.
(Philrock and Radosław Botev / WC)
A coral tipped over in a Stanford tank and accidentally showed scientists how to bring dying reefs back.
A healthy fragment had fallen against a bleached one. Then the white started turning brown again.
So they tested it properly. Bleached cauliflower corals paired with healthy clones from the same colony started receiving beneficial algae within three days. Five days of contact was enough. Pull them apart after that and the bleached piece kept healing by itself.
Every touching fragment recovered within seven weeks.
On a wild reef, that comeback can take years. Plenty never make it.
Lead author Danny Collins: “While bleached corals may be dying, they are not dead yet.”
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‼️ The New York Times calls Brave a burglar and an AI "fence", accusing it in a lawsuit of selling scraped journalism to AI labs including Anthropic, xAI and Perplexity.
The complaint says Brave copied 30 billion+ webpages with a crawler it never named, so sites could not block it, then sold that index to AI companies.
Brave's own blog said in 2023 that Anthropic used its search API to train Claude 2.
The Times says Brave's browser even has a "Paywall blocker", promoted as a way to "Bypass Paywalls".
It says Brave made $100M+ reselling publishers' work while publishers got nothing.
Fun Fact: Basically none of the initial railroad companies made money. They overbuilt, took on way too much debt, and ended up in brutal pricing competition with each other, and nearly all went bankrupt.