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Arsenic and Lace: The trial of the Yorkshire Witch. The true tale of Mary Bateman, the villainous Yorkshire Witch, who sold spells and enchantments to the desperate in the late 18th Century. Tim Hartford is joined on the Cautionary Tales podcast by Maddy Pelling, co-host of the After Dark podcast and author of “Hoax: Truth and Lies in the Age of Enlightenment.”

...which could well be a rabbit hole going down which I may never fully emerge ::chuckle:: or... a portal to another dimension in which memory itself is a substrate of the cosmos. [ in progress, as usual ] The front page of the locally hosted site (which I'll test sometime soon over at my lloydnebres.net domain): And this is the page linked from the front page in the section THE RECORD:

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott said he's willing to "micromanage" Corpus Christi's water crisis.

But he's gone quiet on the financial troubles of an agency that could help expand the region's water supply — despite Abbott having appointed its entire board.
https://www.propublica.org/article/greg-abbott-nueces-river-authority?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #Texas #Water #TX #Politics #River #GregAbbott #CorpusChristi

Tesla’s sales inside China fell 19% in the first half of 2026 compared to its peak in 2023, dropping to the lowest level in years, according to new data from the China Passenger Car Association (CPCA).

At the same time, exports out of Giga Shanghai surged 127%. Tesla’s China plant is increasingly building cars to ship somewhere else.

President Trump defended Rep. Max Miller (R-OH) in the face of abuse allegations against the GOP lawmaker, NewsNation reports. Said Trump: “He’s a good person. I always thought he’s a very good person. I’m going to let the families figure that out… but it’s accusations, and I’m going to let them figure that out.”

Trump's Acting AG Todd Blanche is preparing to roll back abortion access in every state and halt the shipment of abortion pills.

Scientists have successfully generated electricity with a hydrogen turbine that produces its own pressure through detonation waves instead of relying on a mechanical compressor. The breakthrough could unlock dramatically more efficient power systems for clean energy and future aviation.

A specially engineered chewing gum reduced HPV by up to 93% and nearly eliminated two bacteria linked to head and neck cancer. The treatment preserved beneficial mouth bacteria, raising hopes for a safer and more affordable therapy.

A tiny 518-million-year-old sea creature has revealed the earliest known evidence of the structures that eventually became spiders’ fangs. Hidden inside the fossil were pincerlike limbs and preserved soft tissues that help explain how the ancestors of spiders and scorpions evolved into formidable hunters.

Photons traveling through a cloud of atoms can emerge so early that they appear to have spent a negative amount of time inside. Researchers tested whether this was merely a misleading feature of the light pulse by making extremely weak measurements of the atoms. Surprisingly, the atoms confirmed the same negative dwell time. The finding does not break standard physics, but it reveals that one of quantum mechanics’ strangest effects is physically measurable.