Diffcult things that make me ponder

shallow waters, where snapping shrimp crackle like underwater firecrackers, are beginning to sound different. A study published in 2022 found that shrimp, one of the ocean’s most active noisemakers, snapped more frequently and with more force as water temperatures increased.

As prey became scarce, blue whale vocalizations dropped by nearly 40 percent alongside a collapse in krill and anchovy populations

Humpbacks have a more diverse diet and were able to adapt to harsh conditions; their songs didn’t change. But blue and fin whales feed almost exclusively on krill, and their songs were detected less often than years prior.

Studies from California to New Zealand have shown that certain whale species, such as blue whales, stop singing when heat waves disrupt their food sources.

Jack Dorsey spent the weekend building Bitchat, a new decentralized, peer-to-peer messaging app that works entirely over Bluetooth mesh networks, with no internet, central servers, phone numbers or emails required.

At that moment, the prime minister was forced to choose between the chance of a truce and his political survival — and Netanyahu opted for survival.

It was April 2024, long before Netanyahu mounted his political comeback. The proposal on the table would have paused the Gaza war for at least six weeks. It would have created a window for negotiations with Hamas over a permanent truce. More than 30 hostages captured by Hamas at the start of the war would have been released within weeks. Still more... See more

When Wellington Lytle checked into a Milwaukee hotel after the 1929 stock market crash, he was down to his last four cents and emptied of hope.

But before he put a revolver to his head, he took out a pen and left the following note:

“My body should go to science, my soul to [Secretary of Treasury] Andrew W. Mellon, and sympathy to my creditors.”