machines. they think it could be the world s most important superconductor. so if you made power lines out of this new metal, theoretically you could convey electricity from one side of the country to the other without losing any of it in transit. but whether or not any of those applications work out, it s also just exciting there s a new thing under the sun. there s a new metal. there s a brand new thing that never existed in the universe until ranga dias and professor isaac silvera figured out how to squeeze hard enough to make it happen. so behold, new patron saints of pressure. the sample is shining. and pressure turns out to be one of the most important things that we have all learned as a country, that we have all learned in the news in this first week since we swore in a new president, since we started sliding in american politics into a tire-screeching out-of-control full-speed
mechanically ripping the weeds out, used to be enough of a tactic to manage this problem. but it s just not anymore. the problem is getting worse and worse. it s too environmentally ruinous to dump her by side in the water to kill the weeds. now stockton has come up with a genius new plan, hippos. i made jackie laugh. hippos was not their first idea. in november, stockton s mayor had suggested bringing in manatees from florida. to eat the water hyacinths in the river. apparently it s like their favorite food. they can eat 100 pounds of those weeds a day or something. manatees are impractical to be moved from florida to stockton. even though the stockton mayor suggested that idea. without the manatees, they have come up with the next best thing. so behold, stockton got hippos instead.
weeds a day or something. alas manatees are super endangered, so obviously it s impractical to move manatees from florida to stockton. even though the stockton mayor suggested that idea. without the manatees, they have come up with the next best thing. so behold, stockton got hippos instead. this is a photo today from the california water blog, which is an excellent blog. and the california water blog, as you can see in this picture, it shows this pod of hippos that the city of stockton brought in to graze on the weeds around the big industrial port. they brought this herd of hippos from botswana. they have radio tagged them so they don t lose the hippos. they have the coast guard watch over them, and keep people far away. because the hippos don t much like people. other than that, it is apparently working like it is supposed to. hippos love delicious water hyacinths. they re having lovely meals. they re helping stockton with their problem.
don t politicize this. what happened today was an honest to goodness outbreak of super fun, super chilly polite civil disobedience. look at that, it s awesome. and i m sure the capitol police are right. lots of people get injuries every year. part of the reason why it s fun is because it s very slightly dangerous. the only people falling down today on the west lawn of the capitol, the only people seen falling and complaining were the reporters that turned up to cover the sled in. so behold, fun was have today. illegal fun today was had in washington dc. this snowstorm today affected a giant swath of the country. about 400 million people were affected by this storm it has very slowly crawled up the eastern seaboard. this morning, the storm led to this unnerving site.
point about how right he is and how bad the other guys are. don t politicize this. what happened today was an honest to goodness outbreak of super fun, chilly, polite, civil disobedience. and i m sure the capitol police are right. lots of people get injuries every year. part of the reason why it s fun is it is very dangerous. the only people falling down today on the west lawn of the capitol, the only people seen falling and complaining were the reporters that turned up to cover the sled in. so behold, fun was have today. illegal fun today was had in washington dc. this snowstorm today affected a giant swath of the country. about 400 million people were affected by this storm it has