sovereignty, crabs, and carbon

Wednesday, June 17, 2026

Shiva burned me to ash for shooting an arrow at him.

1. India and UAE route around Amazon, Microsoft, and Google
2. Crab neurons reveal why two brains solving the same problem look completely different
3. Heliconius butterflies live 25x longer than relatives — pollen eating may explain it
4. The 1946 Gibbon edition that turned book spines into art
5. ETH Zurich makes carbon-capture beads out of food waste proteins
6. New World screwworm, absent from the US for 60 years, is back — and it’s reaching pets