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CivicRadius Search: Find Gov Web Sites On a Map And Search Them Via Google

CivicRadius Search is a different way to find and search American government web sites. Instead of searching with keywords, search using city/state and radius and get results on a map.

https://www.calishat.com/2025/07/13/civicradius-search-find-gov-web-sites-on-a-map-and-search-them-via-google/

#gov #maps #WebSearch

As Heather Cox Richardson reports today, we now know that the day after the lethal floods occurred in Texas, Kristi Noem did not renew the contracts for four call center companies answering emergency calls for FEMA help — so that on July 6, FEMA answered only 35.8% of the calls it received and the following day, only 15.9%:

#Trump #Republicans #KristiNoem #Texas #FEMA
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https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/july-12-2025

Today I learned about 'rabbit starvation' and how Neanderthals avoided it.

When you're a hunter-gatherer and it's winter, you may try to survive by eating only meat - like rabbits, but also deer and other game. But this gives you too much protein and not enough carbohydrates and fat: most of this meat is very lean. If you eat enough lean meat to get all the calories you need, you can die from an overdose of protein! It's called 'protein toxicity'.

Hunter-gatherers in this situation sometimes throw away the 'steaks' and 'roasts' - the thighs and shoulders of the animals they kill - or feed them to their dogs. They need FAT to survive! So they focus on eating the fatty parts, including bone marrow.

So, in some cultures, while the men are out hunting, the women spend time making bone grease. This takes a lot of work. They take bones and break them into small pieces with a stone hammer. They boil them for several hours. The fat floats to the top. Then they let the water cool and skim off the fat.

There's been evidence for people doing this as far back as 28,000 BC. But now some scientists have found a Neanderthal 'bone grease factory' that's 125,000 years old!

This was during the last interglacial, in Germany. In a site near a lake, called Neumark-Nord, Neanderthals killed a lot of bison, horses and deer and crushed their bones, leaving behind tens of thousands of small bone fragments.

• Lutz Kindler et al, Large-scale processing of within-bone nutrients by Neanderthals, 125,000 years ago, https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adv1257

Thanks to @sarahtaber for spotting this!

I've got so many tools now that I'm making a thread of them here and pinning it to my profile.

All these tools are free to use and free of ads.

I made them because I think the current state of web search is boring and nonfunctional and I want to make it better.

I give them to you because I think you deserve comprehensive, well designed paths to useful online information in the same way that you deserve clean food and water. My resources are limited but I will do my best.

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