This 450 million-year-old wonder has survived mass extinctions and the latest Ice Age. It’s longevity earned it the nickname “living fossil,” and its tail is just that, a tail (not a stinger). Today, enjoy a few facts about a family of arthropods more closely related to spiders and scorpions than they are to crabs: horseshoe crabs (Limulidae).

(Image Credit: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service / Source: WNPR: Mating Season in Long Island Sound Is Prime Time for Horseshoe Crab Researchers, Wikimedia Commons, Sacred Heart University, Project Limulus)

Check out this story by @jeffbradynpr‘s for more information and photos of these “living fossils” -Emily

WWF Australia Showing the View of the Reef from a Turtle’s Point of View.

A GoPro was secured to the back of the Sea Turtle as part of a campaign to raise awareness for the declining health of the Great Barrier Reef.

The reef is UNESCO listed and although passed without the “in danger” title, pollution and human development are steering the reef toward this direction in the next couple of years.

The GoPro was eventually shaken off by the Turtle and was collected by divers.

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When you’re wrapped in a warm blanket and it’s hard to get out.

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Jindal’s order came in May 2015 after having been rejected by the state legislature that very same day.

Yay Louisiana! One southern state to proud of...at least this once!

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Have you ever heard of “time poverty?” – here’s why it’s the biggest issue preventing gender equality

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“Across the globe, women spend about 4.5 hours a day on unpaid labor, such as child care and household chores. For men, that figure drops in half. That’s according to data cited by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, which identified the issue of time poverty as a central focus in an annual letter released by its wealthy benefactors. In poor countries, the unpaid labor gap grows. Women in India, for example, spend an estimated six hours a day on unpaid labor. Men there spend just an hour on such chores. The expectations affect a woman’s ability to work outside the home. “She doesn’t even get out of the house in that situation. She is trapped in that home,” Melinda Gates told Refinery29 during a round table interview earlier this year. “So she doesn’t even get to go to the market, or participate in a job.“ 

Read the full piece here

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Even the stone cold crazy run up on a hard truth now and then.

Bravo, Ringo.

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Solar System: Things to Know This Week

Our solar system is huge, so let us break it down for you. Here are five things you need to know this week:

1. The Lure of the Rings

Scientists and stargazers alike can’t resist the call of Saturn’s rings, or of its moon Titan. Both have been under close scrutiny by the Cassini spacecraft lately, and there are striking new pictures to prove it. Check out the latest images HERE.

2. A New Moon Rises

The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter has captured dramatic landscapes on the moon for more than six years. “A New Moon Rises,” now on display at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum in Washington, DC, showcases those images ranging from Apollo landing sites to mountains that rise out of the darkness of the lunar poles. See an online version of the exhibit HERE.  

3. Around the (Giant) World in (Just Under) 88 Days

The Juno mission is closing in on Jupiter. On July 4, the spacecraft enters orbit around the king of planets. Learn more about Juno HERE.

4. Spiders and Volcanoes and Glaciers, Oh My

The more data that New Horizons spacecraft sends down about Pluto and its moons, the more there is to fascinate explorers, from spider-shaped canyons to signs of glacial flow. Take a peek at the new finds on Pluto HERE.

5. World of Wonders

Hexagonal craters, mysterious mountains, eye-catching bright patches — the dwarf planet Ceres is proving to be an intriguing place. The Dawn mission is looking for clues to how it works. See the latest from Ceres HERE.

Want to learn more? Read our full list of the 10 things to know this week about the solar system HERE.

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Message to the 1%… What’s good? #DemocracySpring

”Some of the farmworkers who make it possible for U.S. consumers to have berries for breakfast are paid about $6 a day. Those farmworkers include children toiling for 12 hours a day at 85 percent the amount of money that adults get paid. Many farmworkers do not get lunch and rest breaks and are subjected to terrible housing conditions.

Hoping to rectify these issues, farmworkers in the United States and in Mexico have been on a three-year-long fight to get Driscolls — the world’s largest berry distributor — to recognize their unions so that they could have better working and living conditions.

Ramon Torres, a 31-year-old Mexican immigrant, is one of the people leading the fight to unionize. As the president of the independent farmworker union Families United for Justice (FUJ), he has been picking berries since he was 18 years old. His most recent employer was the Washington state-based Sakuma Bros. Farms, which supplies its products through the Driscoll’s label. Through the years, Torres has seen and experienced many hardships, like wage theft, lack of rest breaks, and cramped housing conditions. By law, his employer has to provide housing for migrant farmworkers like Torres. But the cabins often hold three times as many people as they should.

About 1,500 miles away at another Driscolls-operated farm in San Quintin, Mexico that’s packaged through the BerryMex label, Gloria Gracida Martinez, a former farmworker and the spokesperson for their farmworker-led union La Alianza, has seen similar instances of poor working conditions crop up.

Driscoll’s partnership with BerryMex and MoraMex yielded 25 million flats of strawberries to the U.S. in 2014, The Nation reported. But for all that the companies have monetized in Mexico’s $550 million annual berry harvest revenue, Mexican farmworkers aren’t seeing a comparable increase in their working and living conditions.

Instead, Gracida Martinez recounted the stories of farmworkers who have had to deal with wage theft, children as young as 12 being put to work, and people who were shot and beaten for trying to form a union.” http://thinkprogress.org/immigration/2016/04/01/3764433/driscolls-boycott/ #BoycottDriscolls

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Saint Louis Cemetery, New Orleans