If you';re tired of censorship and dystopian threats against civil liberties‚ subscribe to Reclaim The Net.A documentary film titled Killing America‚ which delves into contentious issues in the Bay Area including ethnic studies‚ honors classes‚ and anti-Semitism‚ particularly in the Sequoia Union High School District and Menlo-Atherton High (M-A)‚ has been removed from YouTube and Vimeo. This action followed a legal challenge from the M-A Chronicle‚ the student newspaper at Menlo-Atherton High School.The M-A Chronicle‚ asserting its rights over its own multimedia content filed a claim. In a statement‚ the M-A Chronicle Editorial Board claimed that Steeles documentary Killing America incorporated some of their video footage and photographs of school board meetings‚ as well as their short-form videos. This statement‚ posted on the newspapers social media‚ led to the removal of Steeles roughly 40-minute documentary from the major video-sharing platforms‚ as confirmed by Steeles own social media posts.The Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) is a United States law that provides a framework for copyright protection in the digital age. However‚ it has been increasingly used as a tool for censorship‚ raising significant concerns. The primary issue is that the DMCA allows copyright holders to issue takedown notices to platforms hosting content they claim infringes their copyrights.Related:How the DMCA has become one of the biggest threats to online speechWhile this mechanism is essential for protecting intellectual property‚ it can be‚ and often is‚ misused to suppress legitimate free speech or to target content that is merely inconvenient or unflattering‚ rather than actually infringing. This misuse can happen due to the broad and sometimes subjective interpretation of what constitutes copyright infringement.Responding to the removal‚ Steele expressed his dismay and labeled the incident as weaponized censorship. He revealed his intent to pursue legal action in response.Steele argued that the inclusion of a two-second clip from an M-A Chronicle video was justified under the Fair Use doctrine.The Fair Use doctrine is a legal principle in US copyright law that permits limited use of copyrighted material without requiring permission from the rights holders‚ particularly for purposes such as criticism‚ commentary‚ news reporting‚ teaching‚ scholarship‚ and research.Lets be clear‚ TheMAChronicle claims that this is a copyright issue‚ but it is not. Our work is fully protected by the Fair Use doctrine‚ which allows us to use even copyrighted footage under certain guidelines‚ Steele wrote.The post Killing America Documentary Pulled from Platforms Amid Allegedly Censorship-Driven Copyright Claims appeared first on Reclaim The Net.

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A huge reservoir of helium has been found in Babbitt‚ northern Minnesota. After exploratory drilling found the store of gas hundreds of meters below the earth‚ further tests have found it to be in ";mind-bogglingly"; high concentrations.Helium has uses that go far beyond balloons‚ being used in everything from MRI machines to separating hot gases and cold liquid fuel during rocket launches‚ making finding such reserves so important. We rely on it a lot‚ and estimates vary as to how much of the gas we have left stored within the Earth‚ some say between 100-200 years‚ while David Cole-Hamilton‚ emeritus professor of chemistry at the University of St Andrews estimated to the Independent in 2019 that we only have 10 years left of party balloons and being able to use MRI machines.The problem is that once helium escapes‚ it encounters the buoyant force. Buoyancy is an upward force in a fluid (any flowing substance‚ including air) exerted on all bodies within it. The force comes from the pressure within the fluid being greater the further down in the fluid you go. The pressure on the bottom of an object within the fluid is higher than at its top‚ causing the upward force.If the buoyant force of a fluid is greater than the weight of an object placed within it‚ the object will float. Helium‚ being lighter than the other elements in our atmosphere‚ rises. It';s the same when air is heated inside a hot air balloon‚ making it less dense per volume inside the balloon than it is outside‚ causing it to rise.This takes it to the edge of our atmosphere‚ where it gradually escapes‚ for example being blown away by solar winds. Though it can be recaptured and recycled by turning it into a liquid state‚ this is why it';s sometimes called the only truly unrecoverable element. Recycling is of huge importance‚ but finding new reserves such as that found in Minnesota is too if we are to continue our use of helium.After initial drilling at the site showed concentrations of 12.4 percent‚ further tests found that it was at 13.8 percent.";That';s just a mind-bogglingly large number‚"; Thomas Abraham-James‚ the president and CEO of Pulsar Helium who ran the drill‚ told Live Science‚ ";because really anything that';s 0.3 percent or 0.5 percent helium or greater is of interest.";Comparing this to our extensive database for helium occurrences around the world‚ we are pleased to say the results from the Jetstream #1 appraisal well are the highest helium concentrations that we have ever seen‚"; the company added in a statement.As the gas rises naturally‚ there would be no need for fracking at the site‚ according to Abraham-James‚ with a facility at the surface able to process the helium as and when it is needed.The team is continuing to assess the reservoir to attain information about its size‚ shape‚ and pressure before it is deemed safe and suitable for commercial production.[H/T: Live Science]

A coyote hunt in Michigans Calhoun County had a major mishap recently after a hunter accidentally shot the first gray wolf seen in this part of the state in over a century.During a legal coyote hunt in January‚ a Michigan hunter and their guide encountered what was initially believed to be a large coyote. Upon being killed‚ they realized this individual was way too big to be a coyote. Eastern coyotes typically weigh less than 18 kilograms (40 pounds)‚ but this animal weighed a whopping 38 kilograms (84 pounds).A series of genetic tests by the Michigan Department of Natural Resources has now confirmed their suspicion: the harvested animal was an endangered gray wolf.Wolves were once common throughout Michigan‚ but the population was decimated in the 19th century due to culls and intensive logging. Small populations managed to claw on in the Upper Peninsula‚ but wolves have not been spotted in the Lower Peninsula since the start of the 20th century. These two parts of the state are separated by the Straits of Mackinac‚ which connects Lake Michigan and Lake Huron.Experts are still trying to understand why the individual was in the Lower Peninsula. Between 2004 and 2015‚ several strands of evidence suggested that wolves may be creeping into the northern part of the Lower Peninsula. However‚ the Michigan Department of Natural Resources doubts this hunted animal is evidence of a newly established wolf population in the area.Wolves can roam for thousands of kilometers‚ so it';s possible this individual had simply strayed far away from home‚ perhaps in search of a mate or food.";This is an unusual case‚ and the [Department of Natural Resources] is actively delving into the matter to learn more about this particular animal';s origin‚"; Brian Roell‚ large carnivore specialist for the DNR‚ said in a statement.";While rare‚ instances of wolves traversing vast distances have been documented‚ including signs of wolves in recent decades in Michigans Lower Peninsula‚ added Roell.Coyotes and wolves belong to the biological family of canids and the two species are very closely related. Most eastern coyotes are the product of hybridization with wolves‚ as well as domestic dogs. Likewise‚ all gray wolf populations in North America feature some degree of admixture with coyotes.Along with their size differences‚ there are key visible distinctions between the two canid cousins. Wolves have larger and blockier muzzles‚ while coyotes have longer snouts and more elongated features. The ears of wolves tend to be shorter and rounder than those of a coyote‚ which are often tall and pointy.That said‚ it';s not hard to see how the two species are sometimes confused from afar.

An extremely rare sighting of a gazelle has caused a stir since the animal has more than the expected number of limbs.It was first spotted by Nir Liechter during a stop at Nahal HaBashor nature reserve in the western Negev in Israel. Liechter then sent a photograph to the Society for the Protection of Nature in Israel (SPNI) for further investigation.The animal is a male mountain gazelle (Gazella gazella)‚ a species listed as Endangered by the IUCN Red List with the population estimated to be just 2‚500 adults in the wild. This population‚ which is largely based in Israel‚ is found on plains or hill landscapes and has been known to live in steep areas‚ hence their name.Despite the two extra limbs on the back of the male‚ the animal is doing well and has even managed to breed with females. The genetic condition is known as polymelia‚ whereby extra limbs are found on the animal‚ known as supernumerary limbs. In some cases‚ these limbs can pose a threat to survival and have been known to occur in many other species including humans.As well as the challenges of the condition‚ these animals face the threats of habitat fragmentation‚ poaching‚ and being hit by cars‚ according to a 2020 study. In some areas‚ predation by feral dogs is also a problem. Despite these severe challenges and its extra limbs‚ this gazelle seems to be thriving.Contrary to expectation‚ Amir Balaban‚ SPNI';s Director of Urban Nature‚ told The Jerusalem Post‚ the gazelle is healthy‚ strong‚ and has three female gazelles and a fawn from the previous fall. He has been seen hosting the females in the fields and the extra legs on his back pose no challenge to him.

Nobel Prize-winner Professor Peter Higgs has died. While Higgs made many contributions to physics‚ his name will always be inextricably linked to the particle he predicted. His theoretical demonstration that such a particle could resolve many problems in physics sparked a search lasting almost 50 years. This became one of the major reasons for the construction of the Large Hadron Collider‚ one of the largest and most expensive pieces of scientific equipment in history. What then is the Higgs boson‚ and why did the world go to such lengths to find it?By the mid-20th century‚ it was becoming clear models of the universe‚ thought to be nearly complete 50 years earlier‚ couldnt even explain why particles have mass a fairly basic question‚ given how essential it is to everything.Around the same time several scientists argued there must be a particle we had yet to find which was responsible for giving many other particles mass. This was particularly important for the W and Z bosons‚ which had recently been proposed to mediate the weak force‚ and were confirmed a decade later. Such a particle would be the last missing element in what became the Standard Model of Particle Physics.Although Higgs was just one of those who reached this conclusion‚ his contribution was deemed to be sufficient that it was his name that was given to the missing particle‚ long before it had been found.Mass seems such an intrinsic feature that non-physicists struggle to imagine why we need a particle to provide it. The Higgs boson has proven so hard to find because it collapses in less than a billion billionths of a second; the question extends to how such a short-lived particle could serve this purpose.However‚ models of the universe require particles such as quarks to have originally been massless‚ and for this to have changed within the first second after the Big Bang. Higgs proposed these particles must have gained their mass from interaction with a field‚ which later was also named after him. Just as other fields being discovered at the time required particles to carry them‚ the Higgs field needed a particle that would represent the fields excited state. Higgs and others sketched out its properties‚ such as its lack of spin or electric charge‚ but its own mass could only be found experimentally.This set off the great search. At first‚ scientists wanted to confirm the Higgs bosons existence‚ and therefore the field it carries. By the end‚ few doubted the field and particle were real. Instead‚ finding the Higgs boson was the only way to measure its properties precisely. The Higgs particles mass ripples through the universe‚ and determining it made possible the pinning down of a great many other aspects of the Standard Model‚ which until then had been hazy.In 2012‚ it was found to be 125 billion electron volts/c2‚ very much in line with predictions (mass being equivalent to energy divided by the speed of light squared under Einsteins famous equations‚ particle masses are reported in units of energy).The staggeringly short life of the Higgs boson means we never actually observe it directly. Instead‚ it decays into a bewildering variety of longer-lived particles‚ including two W and two Z bosons‚ which teams at the Large Hadron Collider did manage to observe‚ along with photons‚ a tau and bottom quark‚ and their respective antiparticles. Adding these together enabled a reconstruction of the Higgs mass.By giving the W and Z bosons mass‚ the Higgs field limits their capacity to travel far‚ a vital step to making the Standard Model align with observations. The Higgs broadly does this‚ although there are hints of yet more particles lurking.The Higgs boson‚ and therefore Higgs himself‚ achieved fame far beyond the physics community in part because of the nickname the God particle‚ leading to the impression of some sort of ruling status. However‚ while the Higgs is crucial for our understanding of the workings of the universe‚ many other elementary particles are equally essential. These‚ however‚ proved much easier to find. The Higgs elusiveness inspired the nickname the goddamn particle‚ which publishers opted to shorten. The new version was unpopular with physicists‚ but it did help spur public interest in the search for something whose significance was so hard to explain.The fact that the Higgs field permeates the universe contributed to the public impression of an association with religion. The Standard Model relies on a great many other fields‚ but all the others have average values of zero‚ only obtaining a non-zero value at particular points‚ for example around a charged particle. The Higgs field‚ on the other hand‚ has an expectation of a non-zero value‚ with some strength at every point in space.The Higgs bosons fame has led to the impression among non-scientists that it is responsible for all the mass in the universe. This isnt true. Even aside from the unsolved question of the nature of dark matter‚ most of the mass in a proton or neutron comes from the binding energy holding it together‚ rather than the quarks that get their mass from the Higgs.

Legends of werewolves have haunted the wilderness of Europe since the Middle Ages and the origins of such stories go even farther back in our shared mythos across the world. But no story comes as close to the terrifying reality of an animal (or animals) that became known as the Beast of Gvaudan. The Beast of Gvaudan (la Bstia de Gavaudan in Occitan) is an animal that caused a series of attacks against humans between June 30‚ 1764 and June 19‚ 1767. These attacks‚ most often fatal‚ between 88 and 124 reported according to sources‚ took place mainly in the This premium content is for PLUS+ members only. Visit the site and log in/register to read.The post Was the Beast of Gvaudan‚ which killed more than 100 people‚ real? appeared first on Anomalien.com.

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