All posts tagged: Native

Goblin shark filmed in its native habitat for the first time

Goblin shark filmed in its native habitat for the first time

Published by Jenni Sidey

Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. By signing up, you confirm you are 16+, will receive newsletters and promotional content and agree to our Terms of Use and acknowledge the data practices in our Privacy Policy. You may unsubscribe at any time. The goblin shark (Mitsukurina owstoni) is one of Earth’s rarest and most elusive sharks. It’s also one of the weirdest. With its distinctive, hornlike snout and protrudable jaws, the pink-skinned living fossil is the only surviving representative of a family lineage that dates back nearly 125 million years.  The goblin shark was first identified in 1898, but sightings remain few and far between. The fish typically remain at a depth of around 3,000 feet, and any encounters with humans have been the result of accidental fishing line snags. The 13-foot-long predators also die quickly after reaching the surface. However, marine biologists at the University of Hawaii at Mānoa recently captured videos revealing not one, but two goblin sharks swimming in their native habitats. …

Telegram Gets Native Apple Watch App

Telegram Gets Native Apple Watch App

Published by skeptic

Messaging app Telegram now has a native Apple Watch app. The app supports viewing and responding to Telegram messages from the wrist. Features like stickers, voice messages, and location information can be shared from the Apple Watch app. Telegram had an Apple Watch app back in 2015, but it was discontinued and removed from the App Store a few years back. There have been third-party Telegram apps for the Apple Watch, but now Telegram users can once again use a first-party solution. Popular Stories Next Apple Watch Models Unlikely to Add Touch ID, Focus on Battery Life Apple is prioritizing larger batteries and more advanced health sensors over fingerprint authentication for the Apple Watch, according to a new claim from a prominent Chinese leaker. In a new Weibo post, Instant Digital pushed back on recent speculation about biometric recognition coming to Apple’s wearable lineup, claiming instead that the company remains content to let users unlock their… The MacRumors Show: Gemini Announcements and Apple Watch Series 12 Rumors On this week’s episode of The MacRumors Show, we …

California native plants can provide summer blooms

California native plants can provide summer blooms

Published by Sam Flores

It’s June. It’s almost time for the official start of summer. Do you know where your flowers are? If your garden is anything like mine, your poppies have petered out and your sages are subsiding. Ideally, other plants are starting to show off in their stead. If not, read on for some tips about how to prepare your garden for summer blooms in the years to come. I took a little list of native summer bloomers to Tim Becker, Theodore Payne Foundation’s director of horticulture. He quickly rattled off a bunch more. Becker has long been passionate about this subject, sensitive to the common critique that California native plants look less than spectacular come summertime. If a garden looks dead in the summer, he said, it’s because its planning did not incorporate enough evergreens and summer bloomers. “It’s all about always having something going on,” Becker said. In his home garden, six or seven native grasses help fulfill that desire. They add texture and color and break up so-called shrub monotony. But grasses don’t need …

These 12,000-year-old Native American dice are the oldest in the world

These 12,000-year-old Native American dice are the oldest in the world

Published by skeptic

artifact: Some human-made object (such as a pot or brick) that can be used as one gauge of a community’s culture or history. colonial: (in geography) An area under full or partial control of another country, typically far away. culture: (n. in social science) The sum total of typical behaviors and social practices of a related group of people (such as a tribe or nation). Their culture includes their beliefs, values and the symbols that they accept and/or use. Culture is passed on from generation to generation through learning. Scientists once thought culture to be exclusive to humans. Now they recognize some other animals show signs of culture as well, including dolphins and primates. diversity: A broad spectrum of similar items, ideas or people. In a social context, it may refer to a diversity of experiences and cultural backgrounds. intellectual: (n.) Someone who spends a good deal of time reasoning and understanding ideas with their mind, especially abstract ideas and processes. Native Americans: Tribal peoples that settled North America. In the United States, they are also known as …

Farage pastor charity: Muslims ‘eradicating the native population’

Farage pastor charity: Muslims ‘eradicating the native population’

Published by Sam Flores

The charity of a street preacher backed by Nigel Farage has been reported to the regulator by the National Secular Society for promoting anti-Muslim bigotry, misogyny and homophobia. Stephen Clayden (pictured) is a trustee of the charity Bread of Life Community Church. It is registered under the charitable purpose ‘the advancement of religion’ and other charitable purposes. Charities are legally required to act for the public benefit. In March, the Church was issued with a Community Protection Notice (CPN) after its street preachers allegedly told passersby they were going to hell. The CPN was issued by Safer Colchester Partnership, which is run by Colchester Council, and requires the Church to “stop intimidating behaviour” and to not use loudspeakers. Earlier this month, leader of Reform UK Nigel Farage MP told Clayden he was “fully on your side”. The Church’s appeal against the CPN is due to be heard in October. As a registered charity, Bread of Life Community Church is exempt from most forms of tax. It is also recognised by HMRC for gift aid. Muslim …

A New Residency Aims to Give Native Artists the Tools to Make Art in Neon

A New Residency Aims to Give Native Artists the Tools to Make Art in Neon

Published by José Betancourt

Making art in a new medium can pose a challenge for any artist, especially one as technically complex as neon. Now a new residency aims to alleviate those growing pains. The Walker Youngbird Foundation, a Native-led nonprofit focused on supporting Indigenous artists, has launched a new residency program in collaboration with Lite Brite Neon Studio in Kingston, New York. For the program, a Native artist who has never created work in neon will work with Lite Brite to fabricate a new piece in the medium. Related Articles “We specifically asked for applicants who had never worked in neon before because we wanted to open the door for artists who had never worked in the medium, but had a desire to and never have the access to it,” Reid Walker (MHA Nation), the foundation of the Walker Youngbird Foundation, told ARTnews in an interview. The inaugural Native Neon resident is Sarah Rowe (Ponca Tribe of Nebraska), who primarily works in painting and installation. “She explores identity, ecology, and the reinterpretation of Native visual histories,” Walker said …

Cohere cracks lossless quantization and native citations with first full Apache 2.0 licensed open model Command A+

Cohere cracks lossless quantization and native citations with first full Apache 2.0 licensed open model Command A+

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Canadian AI lab Cohere made waves recently by announcing a merger with German AI startup Aleph Alpha, but now it has even more in store for enterprise builders around the globe: today, the firm co-founded by former Googler and “Attention Is All You Need” co-author Aidan Gomez unveiled Command A+, a highly optimized, 218-billion-parameter language model engineered specifically for complex reasoning, multimodal document processing, and agentic workflows. The most significant aspect of the release is not just the model’s capabilities; it is its accessibility. By releasing the model weights free on the popular AI code sharing repository Hugging Face under a highly permissive Apache 2.0 open-source license — a first for the company, according to a post by Gomez, now Cohere’s CEO, on X — Cohere is making a calculated bet on “sovereign AI”—the thesis that enterprises, governments, and developers should have the ability to run, control, and adapt frontier-grade AI entirely within their own secure environments, without sacrificing performance. Sparse architecture with extreme quantization At the architectural level, Command A+ represents a major evolution …

Native American Philosophy Challenges Everything We Know About Community

Native American Philosophy Challenges Everything We Know About Community

Published by Sam Flores

Summary In Native American thought, identity is fundamentally relational, shaped by deep connections to land, people, and community. Knowledge grows from embodied participation and lived experience, viewing epistemology and ethics as inseparably linked. Indigenous ethics begins with the community “We” over the individual “I,” emphasizing shared responsibility and collective well-being. Many Indigenous worldviews reject rigid Western binaries, instead favoring complementarity, fluidity, and dynamic connections. Show more   Philosophy is traditionally associated with the ideas that emerged from Ancient Greece, culminating in contemporary European thought. For centuries, Native American thought was dismissed as myth or religion rather than philosophy. To contest the claim, scholars such as Anne Waters argue that certain Indigenous intellectual traditions carry their own distinctive interpretations of metaphysics, ethics, and epistemology. Unlike the Western canon, Native American philosophy emphasizes relationships between land, people, and community.   Land, Place, and Community Taos Pueblo Entrance, Ansel Adams, c. 1929–1941. Source: Ansel Adams Gallery   Indigenous thought does not see individuals as isolated agents. Native American traditions understand identity as fundamentally relational. Relational identity is shaped by relationships with land, community, and …

How a SoCal native became one of NASA’s most valuable assets

How a SoCal native became one of NASA’s most valuable assets

Published by Sam Flores

One of NASA’s most valuable assets is a Southern Californian. Following the space agency’s successful Artemis II mission around the moon last month, Victor Glover — who grew up primarily in the Inland Empire and has spent much of his career at Southern California’s many military and aerospace hubs — is now the only pilot to have flown NASA’s Orion capsule. As the crew finishes its international victory lap before the media, Glover is preparing to put his head down and get to work training the Artemis generation of moon-faring astronauts. Share via Close extra sharing options “I think Artemis is going to demand us to change the paradigm,” he told The Times. The International Space Station, which has been continuously inhabited by a revolving crew of astronauts in low Earth orbit for over 25 years, has a “very well-worn” training program, he said. But developing a new instructional regimen for complex high-stakes moon missions as the agency tries to aggressively ramp up Artemis launches from once every 3 1/2 years to every six months …

Mark Zuckerberg Used Shell Companies to Bully Native Hawaiians

Mark Zuckerberg Used Shell Companies to Bully Native Hawaiians

Published by José Betancourt

Sign up to see the future, today Can’t-miss innovations from the bleeding edge of science and tech Currently ranked as the sixth richest person on Earth, it should come as no surprise that Mark Zuckerberg is hoovering up valuable real estate like a feudal lord after a plague. What is surprising is how he’s gone about securing his acreage, and who he’s snatching it from. Starting in 2014, the Facebook co-founder set about acquiring land on the Hawaiian island of Kaua’i one parcel at a time. According to the latest reporting on his land acquisitions, reported by Wired in 2025, Zuckerberg now owns $311 million worth of land on Kaua’i, weighing in at over 2,300 acres — roughly three times the size of New York City’s iconic Central Park, for scale. He’s accomplishing that with a careful amalgamation of Hawaiian-sounding shell companies, through which he’s sued hundreds of descendants of Native Hawaiian land owners, per HR News. These lawsuits first made waves in 2017, when it was reported that Zuckerberg was suing over 100 families …