It’s not just the uptake, it’s whether it stays at the surface, ultimately releasing the carbon back into the atmosphere via decomposition gases, or sinks to the ocean floor, thus locking up the carbon in oceanic rock.

We have a good handle on understanding the uptake. It’s the float vs sink part that has the critical uncertainty.

To work as a carbon capture mechanic, iron fertilization-driven algae blooms would have to die and sink to the bottom of the ocean, thus locking up their carbon in oceanic rock.

The concern is they would die and float, releasing all that carbon back into the atmosphere via decomposition gases. Then we would have all the effort of the fertilization, all the ecosystem disruption of the algae bloom, and maybe negative benefit as far as carbon since the ecosystem disruption could mess up carbon sinks that were actually working.

People who were documented immigrants at one time, and served in the US military during that period, can become undocumented later. Military service can lead to citizenship, but the process has a lot of barriers and many people slip through the cracks. It is embarrassing as a country that we deport war veterans because they missed some obtuse paperwork deadline.

YouGov does polls like this with email invitations. You fill out your demographics, and they send out invites as polls become available. It is mostly polling on brands, but a significant minority of the polls are on political topics.

The two thousand year old thrown in at the end as a /s is a nice touch.

He might have timed it that way (do it when he knew the assistant would be coming into the room shortly) on purpose to try to soften the blow to Aubrey.

My sympathies for that rough experience. I hope you have a wider family and friend group that supports you taking care of yourself, and have or will find a better match of romantic partner.

Not the person you replied to, but just listening and allowing the person to express themselves and feel heard goes a long way. Getting it all out to someone and not being bottled up inside your own head can be a huge relief, even if the problem itself remains the same.

The instinctual reaction is to want to offer fixes. However, whatever the hearer thought of in five seconds, the sufferer probably also already thought of, and spent days/months/years attempting to make it work and it just didn’t, and now the listening session gets diverted into kind of an argument where the suffered has to justify they have already put in sufficient effort to the fix the listener is pushing that it’s not worth continuing on that road.

I am biased because I own (small) parrots who genuinely love crackers, and any reference to that cute behavior is positive for me. But I believe this would be a great metaphor even if I weren’t biased in favor of parrots.

Also cultivate plants caterpillars feed on! We won’t have any butterflies if the only food available is only edible by adults.

I sometimes come across a dead baby pigeon inside my work building, a large manufacturing structure many pigeons find their way into. Presumably the death is from falling out of the kind of nest in OP’s image.

It’s quite low in bacteria when fresh, so in situations clean water is unavailable fresh urine can substitute in a pinch. But it’s not fully sterile, and given even a couple of hours outside the body it grows significant colonies.

He was shot in the head prior to the explosion going off. Seems unlikely that sequence of events was accidental.

Parts of the feet are obscured by the grass and under the stomach, and the lens distortion affects perspective. I think platypus is the most plausible subject.

Only males, and primarily during the breeding season. Interesting biology.

That she was four when she became Elon’s stepsister is the worst part for me. If she had been an adult, even a young adult, when she and Errol met after he married her mother, it would have been sketchy (breaking the divide by two plus fourteen rule) but not in pedo territory. To have multiple children (Elon’s half-siblings and also his step-nieces) with someone you raised as your own child since they were four… it’s beyond.

I think the foothold thought was that pasteurization destroys more than just bacteria, and milk might be healthier and/or tastier without having been changed by that process. Of course taste is largely culturally acquired - example A being Germans and UHT milk - but lots of people fancy themselves taste-o-philes.

Then the mistrust of “them” kicked in, and if “they” said the risk of pathogenic bacteria far outweighed any marginal health benefit, the “truth” must be the opposite.

I enjoyed your analysis, and appreciate the time you spent on it!

Grafted apple trees are often a flavorful top connected to a weak root. Weak root = smaller trees that can be planted closer together and are easier to pick. If you plant apple seeds, you will probably get a ginormous tree with fruit only useful for cider making (a la Johnny Appleseed’s business model) because they don’t taste good either fresh or in baked goods.

Could depend on what’s in the local tap water (mineral content as well as pH), in addition to lighting as weeeeum mentioned. I have some scallions on my planted aquarium (no fish, but I lightly fertilize for the plants) with a grow light, and I can harvest one of the four plants once a week. So even with active grow light and fertilizer, the once a month per plant statement seems right. Also note I started with seven plants, all from the same store-bought bunch, but three of them died over the first couple of months.