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  1. “You can have a healthy fossil-fuel balance sheet, or a relatively healthy planet”*…

    The first two installments of what will be an on-going series from ProPublica and Drilled, covering fossil fuel companies in the 1990s who, even as they denied the reality of climate change, were quietly funding research that favored climate fixes that would protect their businesses…

    An investigation by ProPublica and Drilled has found that fossil fuel companies have been funding climate research at prestigious U.S. universities for more than 30 years. Their support has helped amplify the work of scientists who promote the idea that we can stop the climate crisis without breaking our dependence on oil, gas, and coal.

    The research produced by those schools in turn shaped global climate models, as well as the policy and technology solutions adopted by governments around the world.

    Ultimately, it fostered a misperception that climate change could be solved without dramatically curtailing fossil fuels — a notion that has delayed emissions cuts by decades.

    Corporate funders sponsored entire centers, paid the salaries of researchers, kept offices on campus and in some cases had veto power over projects.

    Companies maintain they are supporting innovation and needed science. Universities say that with safeguards, sponsorship enhances research programs while preserving academic independence.

    Still, the impact of funding constitutes a pattern that Benjamin Franta, an associate professor of climate litigation at University of Oxford, called the “colonization of academia.”…

    Why Carbon Capture Can’t Conceivably Solve Climate Change“- For decades, oil companies have funded universities’ research into climate change “solutions” that would not require the public to stop using oil and gas. Carbon capture is one of their favored ideas. One snag: It won’t fix the climate crisis. From Katie Worth and Lucas Waldron.

    How Oil Execs Shaped A Landmark Climate Study“- BP created an elite Princeton research center to address the climate problem without getting off fossil fuels. Its key work, a paper known as “Wedges,” shaped climate discourse for a generation. From Maddie Stone.

    As the first piece concludes…

    Climate experts know about the costs, technical troubles, and failures of CCS [Carbon Capture and Sequestration] test projects.

    Yet many of them have continued to boost the technology, even as they have downplayed solutions showing greater progress.

    For example, the same modelers who overestimated the potential of geological carbon storage repeatedly underestimated solar power — one of the energy technologies that would allow more oil to remain in the ground.

    A distressing– but critically important– read. How the fossil fuel industry turned the plan to solve climate change into a plan to save itself: “Carbon Captured,” from @propublica.org and @drilledmedia.bsky.social.

    And as a reminder that, while climate change is certainly reason enough, it’s by no means the only reason to care: “Five Americans die every hour from toxic vehicle emissions, study finds.”

    * Bill McKibben

    ###

    As we face facts, we might give ourselves a short break on this, the anniversary of “Raspberry Beret,” by Prince & The Revolution, hitting #1 on the charts in 1985.

    Here is the official video (now in 4K). Directed by his Purple Majesty himself, it features graphics and animation from Drew Takahashi, George Evelyn, and the crew at Colossal Pictures.

    https://youtu.be/l7vRSu_wsNc?si=lEGZZM2x16Ulk2fx

    #BP #carbon #carbonCapture #carbonEmissions #climateChange #culture #fossilFuels #globalWarming #history #music #musicVideo #Prince #Princeton #RaspberryBeret
  2. “You can have a healthy fossil-fuel balance sheet, or a relatively healthy planet”*…

    The first two installments of what will be an on-going series from ProPublica and Drilled, covering fossil fuel companies in the 1990s who, even as they denied the reality of climate change, were quietly funding research that favored climate fixes that would protect their businesses…

    An investigation by ProPublica and Drilled has found that fossil fuel companies have been funding climate research at prestigious U.S. universities for more than 30 years. Their support has helped amplify the work of scientists who promote the idea that we can stop the climate crisis without breaking our dependence on oil, gas, and coal.

    The research produced by those schools in turn shaped global climate models, as well as the policy and technology solutions adopted by governments around the world.

    Ultimately, it fostered a misperception that climate change could be solved without dramatically curtailing fossil fuels — a notion that has delayed emissions cuts by decades.

    Corporate funders sponsored entire centers, paid the salaries of researchers, kept offices on campus and in some cases had veto power over projects.

    Companies maintain they are supporting innovation and needed science. Universities say that with safeguards, sponsorship enhances research programs while preserving academic independence.

    Still, the impact of funding constitutes a pattern that Benjamin Franta, an associate professor of climate litigation at University of Oxford, called the “colonization of academia.”…

    Why Carbon Capture Can’t Conceivably Solve Climate Change“- For decades, oil companies have funded universities’ research into climate change “solutions” that would not require the public to stop using oil and gas. Carbon capture is one of their favored ideas. One snag: It won’t fix the climate crisis. From Katie Worth and Lucas Waldron.

    How Oil Execs Shaped A Landmark Climate Study“- BP created an elite Princeton research center to address the climate problem without getting off fossil fuels. Its key work, a paper known as “Wedges,” shaped climate discourse for a generation. From Maddie Stone.

    As the first piece concludes…

    Climate experts know about the costs, technical troubles, and failures of CCS [Carbon Capture and Sequestration] test projects.

    Yet many of them have continued to boost the technology, even as they have downplayed solutions showing greater progress.

    For example, the same modelers who overestimated the potential of geological carbon storage repeatedly underestimated solar power — one of the energy technologies that would allow more oil to remain in the ground.

    A distressing– but critically important– read. How the fossil fuel industry turned the plan to solve climate change into a plan to save itself: “Carbon Captured,” from @propublica.org and @drilledmedia.bsky.social.

    And as a reminder that, while climate change is certainly reason enough, it’s by no means the only reason to care: “Five Americans die every hour from toxic vehicle emissions, study finds.”

    * Bill McKibben

    ###

    As we face facts, we might give ourselves a short break on this, the anniversary of “Raspberry Beret,” by Prince & The Revolution, hitting #1 on the charts in 1985.

    Here is the official video (now in 4K). Directed by his Purple Majesty himself, it features graphics and animation from Drew Takahashi, George Evelyn, and the crew at Colossal Pictures.

    https://youtu.be/l7vRSu_wsNc?si=lEGZZM2x16Ulk2fx

    #BP #carbon #carbonCapture #carbonEmissions #climateChange #culture #fossilFuels #globalWarming #history #music #musicVideo #Prince #Princeton #RaspberryBeret
  3. This is an interesting take on why LLMs won't take away all our jobs:

    "Large language models are not reasoning machines. They’re plausibility engines."

    Interestingly, the author excludes programming jobs, stating that coding "relies on a structured, formal language that can be tested in real time." I agree to some extent, but at the level of specifications and requirements (even if they are formal) this doesn't work anymore either.

    nytimes.com/2026/06/30/opinion

    #nytimes #princeton #llm

  4. This is an interesting take on why LLMs won't take away all our jobs:

    "Large language models are not reasoning machines. They’re plausibility engines."

    Interestingly, the author excludes programming jobs, stating that coding "relies on a structured, formal language that can be tested in real time." I agree to some extent, but at the level of specifications and requirements (even if they are formal) this doesn't work anymore either.

    nytimes.com/2026/06/30/opinion

    #nytimes #princeton #llm

  5. 💁🏻‍♀️ TIL: 📝📊 The #SAT was first administered to 8,000 students in June 1926, born from #WorldWarI #military I.Q. tests designed by #Princeton psychologist and eugenicist Carl Brigham.

    Now taken by two million #students annually, fewer than 10% of U.S. #colleges require it for fall 2026 admissions, a shift accelerated by the #Covid #pandemic and long standing debates about what the test actually measures. The article traces the test’s #evolution from a tool that helped break into the old boys’ network of elite colleges to an #exam whose scores strongly correlate with family #income.

    👉 smithsonianmag.com/innovation/

    #history #education #equity #meritocracy #publicschool #highschool #academics #policy #learning #criticalthinking #teaching

  6. 💁🏻‍♀️ TIL: 📝📊 The #SAT was first administered to 8,000 students in June 1926, born from #WorldWarI #military I.Q. tests designed by #Princeton psychologist and eugenicist Carl Brigham.

    Now taken by two million #students annually, fewer than 10% of U.S. #colleges require it for fall 2026 admissions, a shift accelerated by the #Covid #pandemic and long standing debates about what the test actually measures. The article traces the test’s #evolution from a tool that helped break into the old boys’ network of elite colleges to an #exam whose scores strongly correlate with family #income.

    👉 smithsonianmag.com/innovation/

    #history #education #equity #meritocracy #publicschool #highschool #academics #policy #learning #criticalthinking #teaching

  7. 💁🏻‍♀️ TIL: 📝📊 The #SAT was first administered to 8,000 students in June 1926, born from #WorldWarI #military I.Q. tests designed by #Princeton psychologist and eugenicist Carl Brigham.

    Now taken by two million #students annually, fewer than 10% of U.S. #colleges require it for fall 2026 admissions, a shift accelerated by the #Covid #pandemic and long standing debates about what the test actually measures. The article traces the test’s #evolution from a tool that helped break into the old boys’ network of elite colleges to an #exam whose scores strongly correlate with family #income.

    👉 smithsonianmag.com/innovation/

    #history #education #equity #meritocracy #publicschool #highschool #academics #policy #learning #criticalthinking #teaching

  8. 💁🏻‍♀️ TIL: 📝📊 The #SAT was first administered to 8,000 students in June 1926, born from #WorldWarI #military I.Q. tests designed by #Princeton psychologist and eugenicist Carl Brigham.

    Now taken by two million #students annually, fewer than 10% of U.S. #colleges require it for fall 2026 admissions, a shift accelerated by the #Covid #pandemic and long standing debates about what the test actually measures. The article traces the test’s #evolution from a tool that helped break into the old boys’ network of elite colleges to an #exam whose scores strongly correlate with family #income.

    👉 smithsonianmag.com/innovation/

    #history #education #equity #meritocracy #publicschool #highschool #academics #policy #learning #criticalthinking #teaching

  9. 💁🏻‍♀️ TIL: 📝📊 The #SAT was first administered to 8,000 students in June 1926, born from #WorldWarI #military I.Q. tests designed by #Princeton psychologist and eugenicist Carl Brigham.

    Now taken by two million #students annually, fewer than 10% of U.S. #colleges require it for fall 2026 admissions, a shift accelerated by the #Covid #pandemic and long standing debates about what the test actually measures. The article traces the test’s #evolution from a tool that helped break into the old boys’ network of elite colleges to an #exam whose scores strongly correlate with family #income.

    👉 smithsonianmag.com/innovation/

    #history #education #equity #meritocracy #publicschool #highschool #academics #policy #learning #criticalthinking #teaching

  10. Robert Socolow was a founder of the Carbon Mitigation Initiative of #Princeton University. He has articulated pathways to reduction of carbon dioxide emissions for minimizing climate change, especially the concept of climate stabilization wedge.

    In his 2007 Senate testimony, Robert Socolow cited the proposed 500-MW H2 and #CCS project at BP's Carson refinery in California as evidence of the technology's commercial maturity. The project was highlighted as an example of a near-commercial, full-scale deployment effort.
    But it never happened.
    finance.senate.gov/imo/media/d

    #university #science #influence #conflictsOfInterest #fossilFuels #globalWarming #carbon #agnotology #institutionsDeceive #EstelleSays

  11. Robert Socolow was a founder of the Carbon Mitigation Initiative of University. He has articulated pathways to reduction of carbon dioxide emissions for minimizing climate change, especially the concept of climate stabilization wedge.

    In his 2007 Senate testimony, Robert Socolow cited the proposed 500-MW H2 and project at BP's Carson refinery in California as evidence of the technology's commercial maturity. The project was highlighted as an example of a near-commercial, full-scale deployment effort.
    But it never happened.
    finance.senate.gov/imo/media/d

  12. NEW: This is the story of how one of the most influential climate papers in history came to exist thanks to one of the companies most responsible for causing the climate crisis — and one with a financial stake in the technologies described in the paper.

    propublica.org/article/wedges-

    #News #Climate #ClimateChange #Oil #Gas #FossilFuels #Environment #Research #Science #Academia #Princeton

  13. NEW: This is the story of how one of the most influential climate papers in history came to exist thanks to one of the companies most responsible for causing the climate crisis — and one with a financial stake in the technologies described in the paper.

    propublica.org/article/wedges-

    #News #Climate #ClimateChange #Oil #Gas #FossilFuels #Environment #Research #Science #Academia #Princeton

  14. Great day at the Princeton Zinefest, hawking old issues of various WPRB zines alongside my pal Matt Warwick from WFMU, who was handing out the latest issue of LCD. Met a bunch of cool listeners, donors, and random creative weirdos. Support your local copy shop! #WPRB #WFMU #zines #princeton

  15. Great day at the Princeton Zinefest, hawking old issues of various WPRB zines alongside my pal Matt Warwick from WFMU, who was handing out the latest issue of LCD. Met a bunch of cool listeners, donors, and random creative weirdos. Support your local copy shop! #WPRB #WFMU #zines #princeton

  16. New #openaccess publication #SciPost #Physics

    Long-time limits of local operator entanglement in interacting integrable models

    J. Alexander Jacoby, Sarang Gopalakrishnan
    SciPost Phys. 20, 162 (2026)
    scipost.org/SciPostPhys.20.6.1

    #Princeton

  17. New #openaccess publication #SciPost #Physics

    Long-time limits of local operator entanglement in interacting integrable models

    J. Alexander Jacoby, Sarang Gopalakrishnan
    SciPost Phys. 20, 162 (2026)
    scipost.org/SciPostPhys.20.6.1

    #Princeton

  18. Hype for the Future 219G: Gibson County, Indiana

    Overview Gibson County is a notable community located within the southwestern portion of the State of Indiana and containing notable cities and towns such as Princeton (the county seat), Patoka, Hazleton, Fort Branch, Haubstadt, Owensville, Somerville, and Francisco. Notable community features located within Gibson County include the Toyota Indiana Experience Center, Severn’s Iron Bridge, and the Lyles Station Historic School and Museum. Notable highways located within the county include […]

    novatopflex.wordpress.com/2026

  19. Hype for the Future 219G: Gibson County, Indiana

    Overview Gibson County is a notable community located within the southwestern portion of the State of Indiana and containing notable cities and towns such as Princeton (the county seat), Patoka, Hazleton, Fort Branch, Haubstadt, Owensville, Somerville, and Francisco. Notable community features located within Gibson County include the Toyota Indiana Experience Center, Severn’s Iron Bridge, and the Lyles Station Historic School and Museum. Notable highways located within the county include […]

    novatopflex.wordpress.com/2026

  20. Hype for the Future 219G: Gibson County, Indiana

    Overview Gibson County is a notable community located within the southwestern portion of the State of Indiana and containing notable cities and towns such as Princeton (the county seat), Patoka, Hazleton, Fort Branch, Haubstadt, Owensville, Somerville, and Francisco. Notable community features located within Gibson County include the Toyota Indiana Experience Center, Severn’s Iron Bridge, and the Lyles Station Historic School and Museum. Notable highways located within the county include […]

    novatopflex.wordpress.com/2026

  21. Hype for the Future 219G: Gibson County, Indiana

    Overview Gibson County is a notable community located within the southwestern portion of the State of Indiana and containing notable cities and towns such as Princeton (the county seat), Patoka, Hazleton, Fort Branch, Haubstadt, Owensville, Somerville, and Francisco. Notable community features located within Gibson County include the Toyota Indiana Experience Center, Severn’s Iron Bridge, and the Lyles Station Historic School and Museum. Notable highways located within the county include […]

    novatopflex.wordpress.com/2026

  22. Hype for the Future 219G: Gibson County, Indiana

    Overview Gibson County is a notable community located within the southwestern portion of the State of Indiana and containing notable cities and towns such as Princeton (the county seat), Patoka, Hazleton, Fort Branch, Haubstadt, Owensville, Somerville, and Francisco. Notable community features located within Gibson County include the Toyota Indiana Experience Center, Severn’s Iron Bridge, and the Lyles Station Historic School and Museum. Notable highways located within the county include […]

    novatopflex.wordpress.com/2026

  23. "Research Funding Slows Again for Universities Targeted by White House."
    nytimes.com/2026/05/29/us/poli

    The Trump admin has put holds on many approved research grants to #Harvard, #Duke, #Princeton, and #Yale. For example, as of May 1, #NSF had only awarded about 10% of its research funds, half as much as in past years. But when media like #NYTimes asked about these holds, the admin lifted about a dozen of them, without explaining why it had blocked them or why it changed its mind.

    #DefendResearch #Funding #Trump #TrumpVResearch #USPol #USPolitics

  24. "Research Funding Slows Again for Universities Targeted by White House."
    nytimes.com/2026/05/29/us/poli

    The Trump admin has put holds on many approved research grants to #Harvard, #Duke, #Princeton, and #Yale. For example, as of May 1, #NSF had only awarded about 10% of its research funds, half as much as in past years. But when media like #NYTimes asked about these holds, the admin lifted about a dozen of them, without explaining why it had blocked them or why it changed its mind.

    #DefendResearch #Funding #Trump #TrumpVResearch #USPol #USPolitics

  25. Hype for the Future 207N: City of Princeton, Wisconsin

    Overview The City of Princeton is a small city in western Green Lake County, Wisconsin, and is associated with an Amish community of the region along both sides of the Fox River. Today, the community is home to the Princeton Amish Country Store, the Princeton Historical Society Folklore Museum and Stone House, Renards European Bakeshop, the Parlor Hotel, the Horseradish Kitchen and Market, and Molly’s Buckhorn Bar and Grill.

    novatopflex.wordpress.com/2026

  26. Hype for the Future 207N: City of Princeton, Wisconsin

    Overview The City of Princeton is a small city in western Green Lake County, Wisconsin, and is associated with an Amish community of the region along both sides of the Fox River. Today, the community is home to the Princeton Amish Country Store, the Princeton Historical Society Folklore Museum and Stone House, Renards European Bakeshop, the Parlor Hotel, the Horseradish Kitchen and Market, and Molly’s Buckhorn Bar and Grill.

    novatopflex.wordpress.com/2026

  27. Hype for the Future 206PRI: City of Princeton, Illinois

    Overview The City of Princeton is a small city in and the county seat of Bureau County, Illinois, associated with the Owen Lovejoy House, the Historic Knox House, and the Bureau County Historical Society Museum and Library.

    novatopflex.wordpress.com/2026

  28. Hype for the Future 206PRI: City of Princeton, Illinois

    Overview The City of Princeton is a small city in and the county seat of Bureau County, Illinois, associated with the Owen Lovejoy House, the Historic Knox House, and the Bureau County Historical Society Museum and Library.

    novatopflex.wordpress.com/2026

  29. Mobile pantry to distribute food Saturday at Bureau County Fairgrounds – Shaw Local

    The River Bend Food Bank Mobile Food Pantry will distribute food on Saturday, May 30, at the Bureau County Fairgrounds, 811 W. Peru St., Princeton. Registration is from 9:15 to 10 a.m. Distri…
    #dining #cooking #diet #food #Food #bcr #bureau-county #illinois-valley-front-headlines #princeton
    diningandcooking.com/2656956/m

  30. Mobile pantry to distribute food Saturday at Bureau County Fairgrounds – Shaw Local

    The River Bend Food Bank Mobile Food Pantry will distribute food on Saturday, May 30, at the Bureau County Fairgrounds, 811 W. Peru St., Princeton. Registration is from 9:15 to 10 a.m. Distri…
    #dining #cooking #diet #food #Food #bcr #bureau-county #illinois-valley-front-headlines #princeton
    diningandcooking.com/2656956/m

  31. Hype for the Future 200D: City of Princeton, Minnesota

    Overview The City of Princeton is a small city in Mille Lacs County, Minnesota, though the largest city in the county, located at the very southern end of the county and into Sherburne County to the south. Within the general region, the community is attached to the corridors of Routes 169 and 95.

    novatopflex.wordpress.com/2026

  32. Hype for the Future 200D: City of Princeton, Minnesota

    Overview The City of Princeton is a small city in Mille Lacs County, Minnesota, though the largest city in the county, located at the very southern end of the county and into Sherburne County to the south. Within the general region, the community is attached to the corridors of Routes 169 and 95.

    novatopflex.wordpress.com/2026