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How a shocking environmental disaster was uncovered after 70 years

I saw this on several sites and it both infuriates me and makes me really sad. A half million barrels of DDT dumped right off the california coast in the 1940s, about 3k meters below on seafloor. Metal barrels corrode fast in salt water so you can assume its been poisoning the plankton and fish all this time.


The lasting effects of DDT contamination are killing an alarming number of California sea lions.

The Gas Engine Is Dead. Welcome to the Electric Revolution

The rise of the EV.

“More companies now tell me they’re not spending money on engines because the incremental improvements aren’t worth it. There’s very little we can do to engines now to make them significantly more powerful or more efficient. The engine has been engineered to its end.”

Maurizio Bisogni.

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With new all-electric pledges sparking around the globe, the combustion motor looks about to, well, combust.

Reproductive Life Span of U.S. Women Increasing

Men’s sperm counts are dropping, but women are stretching the clock.

“The reproductive life span of women in the United States has increased over the past 6 decades, as menarche has been starting earlier and coming later, according to an observational study.”


Changes in age at both menarche and, study of women followed over 6 decades shows.

Clubhouse data leak: 1.3 million scraped user records leaked online for free

So far, it seems like it’s been the worst week of the year for social media platforms in terms of data leaks, with Clubhouse seemingly joining the fray.

Days after scraped data from more than a billion Facebook and LinkedIn profiles, collectively speaking, was put for sale online, it looks like now it’s Clubhouse’s turn. The upstart platform seems to have experienced the same fate, with an SQL database containing 1.3 million scraped Clubhouse user records leaked for free on a popular hacker forum.

We reached out to Clubhouse in order to confirm whether the leaked database was genuine and whether Clubhouse was aware of any breach to their systems. As of the time of writing this report, we did not receive a reply from the company.