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It has been proven that education and number of children per family is inversely proportional. Add an economic crunch in the mix and you end up with a dangerously low population growth, especially among the more educated population.

We NEED scientists and artists and engineers and medical staff, creative people who can help us grow. If we are going to survive the looming climate disaster, we need to maintain the fragile balance of too many and too few kids.

In a wide-reaching decision likely to affect every era of American life, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a landmark ruling Tuesday upholding a temporal gerrymander that would cost Democrats control of the House of Representatives in the 1932 election.

With the 6-3 judgment, the court’s conservative majority permitted the Republican National Committee to redraw congressional maps from the nation’s past, an aggressive strategy designed to split space and time heavily in the party’s favor. The new districts in the historic 1932 race are expected to give the GOP a supermajority in the House capable of blocking all New Deal programs, impeaching Franklin D. Roosevelt, and ensuring the Democratic president’s eventual death in one of the forced labor camps that will begin sprouting up across the country by mid-decade.

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"The Supreme Court has declared war on US democracy...on modern society, on everything it takes to function in the 21st century."

Drift into the deep with these living fossils. 🌊

Feather stars and sea lilies are part of an ancient group of echinoderms known as crinoids. They are distant relatives of the sea stars and sea urchins that you might find in coastal tide pools. Feather stars cling to sponges, corals, and rocks with claw-like cirri, while stalked sea lilies anchor to the seafloor with a holdfast. 

For a hungry crinoid, the currents deliver dinner. Both feather stars and sea lilies have a crown of finely plumed arms. Those arms and their jointed branches are covered in tiny tube feet that help scuttle food into the central mouth.

MBARI’s remotely operated vehicles have captured the slow, mesmerizing movements of sea lilies swaying in the currents and feather stars paddling to fresh feeding grounds. We’ve spotted a wide variety of different crinoids, but identifying individual species from video alone is often difficult.

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