"The Panspermia Hypothesis: Could life have 'self-generated' on Earth?"
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The Panspermia Hypothesis: Could life have "self-generated" on Earth?
In this video, we delve deep into the captivating concept of panspermia - the remarkable theory that proposes life is scattered throughout the vast expanse o...YouTube
Something about this shot appeals to me. From my trip to Cumbria last autumn.
Canon AE-1 Program
Kodak Portra 400
Helios 44M 58mm/2
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"Caldwell 68 Corona Australis Dark Molecular Cloud."
Dylan O'Donnell, deography.com, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons.
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"Death From Space - The Black Cloud."
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Death From Space - The Black Cloud
Death From Space - The Black CloudThe Black Cloud by Fred HoyleBuy the book here - https://geni.us/fiXCSUPPORT THE CHANNELBUY ME A COFFEE - https://www.buyme...YouTube
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"Ohai!"
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"Wolf's Cave Nebula lbn 528."
Gianni.lacroce, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
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Over here we say "I'll just nip out to the store for some more gruyere"
"In this blizzard?"
"Did I mention, it's for gruyere?"
At Sur la Table, Kerrygold was one of our sponsors - so we'd get monthly shipments of Kerrygold Butter and several bricks of their Dubliner white cheddar. Yum.
One time, they sent us a wheel of their beer cheese. Sooooo delicious.
(Thing is, all of it was for classes and/or hospitality plates offered to classes.)
"Life in Space, Sir Fred Hoyle, and Panspermia | Chandra Wickramasinghe Cosmic Summit 2023."
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Life in Space, Sir Fred Hoyle, & Panspermia | Chandra Wickramsinghe Cosmic Summit 2023
Embark on a voyage into the cosmos and the profound theories of life beyond our planet with Chandra Wickramsinghe at Cosmic Summit 2023. In this captivating ...YouTube
"Reflection Nebula Bernes 149 in Dark Cloud Lupus 3."
CTIO/NOIRLab/DOE/NSF/AURA/ T.A. Rector (University of Alaska Anchorage/NSF’s NOIRLab) Image Processing: D. de Martin & M. Zamani (NSF’s NOIRLab), CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
My wife @sabcatsilver, a psychology student, created a card game that helps therapists (and people) talk about grief, end of life care, and perspectives on life.
I am soooooo proud of her!! Currently it’s a prototype for class, but she may publish it in the future. Thanks to folks who helped on Mastodon! We got it printed on GameCrafter
The Borderlands (both sides) looked resplendent today. What a fine part of the world.
#scotland #england #scottishborders #northumberland #dailywalk #lawyer #law #scotslaw #scotslawyer #rural #ruralbusiness #healthcare #nhs #renewables #propertydevelopment #photography #andydrane
Green Dragontail Lamproptera meges
Green Dragontails could arguably be called the most exquisite and beautiful butterflies alive. They flutter through sunlit patches of leaves near to streams and rivers in Indonesia, Malaysia, Thail…Palm Oil Detectives
This Other Ubuntu Linux ISO Is Going Away
Did you know that Ubuntu Linux offered source ISO images, well that may not be the case for much longer as these are very likely going away soon==========Sup...YouTube
While there are Mirror services that cover the cdimage site, such as the School of Computing at Kent University: mirrorservice.org/sites/
It's a decent mirror for a range of projects.
I notice that even they don't appear to replicate the source directories.
As for the apparent duplication in the directory structure, yes it's confusing and I've always assumed they're symlinks rather than copies, perhaps for tracking point releases (inc. beta) while retaining the initial release.
I’m starting to think that what I had predicted for Ubuntu is happening now.
I predicted that with all of the enterprise stuff they have been doing and pushing along with the Ubuntu Pro subscriptions is that they would do what Red Hat did and stop providing desktop releases, go enterprise only and stop openly providing source code making it proprietary without paying a load of money to use it.
This is starting to worry me if Canonical do what I predicted.
This phrase generator is good fun! I'm particularly enjoying the Shakespeare phrases!
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Random Shakespeare Dialogue Generator - Phrase Generator
Generates random Shakespearean dialogue.phrasegenerator.com
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I kinda like the originals, like when Touchtone, in As You Like It says:
A poor virgin, sir, an ill-favored thing, sir, but mine own. A poor humor of mine, sir, to take that that no man else will.
❝ SoundCloud boasts more than 320 million songs, many of them the work of weekend noodlers. These people may never realize that their work has been grabbed and renamed and is siphoning money from the royalty pool. ❞ → nytimes.com/2024/01/13/busines… (gift link)
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Agrenon (ἀγρηνόν) = "Net-like woollen robe worn by Bacchanals and soothsayers." This is the name of what's on top of the Omphalos (also, γάγγαμον). https://lsj.gr/wiki/ἀγρηνόν
Black Fury painter's Orestes crater. Karl Bötticher (1806–89), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
Two eagles on the omphalos. ArchaiOptix, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
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Archaeological museum of Delphi. ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ar…
So-called Apollo and Omphalos
An online library of photographs, manuscripts, audio recordings, and other materials of historical interest from libraries, museums, archives, and historical societies across Massachusetts.ark.digitalcommonwealth.org
MS--Open AI's ~parent company--already has massive US military contracts. This is the biz model.
This news is also one more alarm re. the current AI paradigm, its reliance on concentrated corp power, & the undemocratic decision making power this gives these (primarily) US-based corps.
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OpenAI Quietly Deletes Ban on Using ChatGPT for “Military and Warfare”
The Pentagon has its eye on the leading AI company, which this week softened its ban on military use.Sam Biddle (The Intercept)
In 1894, a Boston man bet another $20K that no woman could travel around the world by bicycle.
So Annie Cohen Kopchovsky, then penniless, learned to bike & set out to prove him wrong & earn prize money.
From 1894-95, she did just that (sailing between continents). Kopchovsky kept her husband & family a secret, using the alias Londonderry. She won $10K for her accomplishment & returned to raise her family.
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First woman to cycle the globe begins journey | Jewish Women's Archive
Annie Cohen Kopchovsky, known as Annie Londonderry, began a round-the-world bicycle trip. She became the first woman to travel around the globe by bicycle.Jewish Women's Archive
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Another raindrop. Nikon F3HP, Arista Premium 400 (rebadged Kodak Tri-X), Rodinal 1:50.
![The purpose of a system is what it does Article Talk
LR A 4 The purpose of a system is what it does (POSIWID) is a systems thinking heuristic coined by Stafford Beer,'l who observed that there is "no point in claiming that the purpose of a system is to do what it constantly fails to do."[2] The term is widely used by systems theorists, and is generally invoked to counter the notion that the purpose of a system can be read from the intentions of those who design, operate, or promote it. When a system's side effects or unintended consequences reveal that its behavior is poorly understood, then the POSIWID perspective can balance political understandings of system behavior with a more straightforwardly descriptive view.](https://keybored.me/photo/preview/640/1203808 "The purpose of a system is what it does Article Talk
LR A 4 The purpose of a system is what it does (POSIWID) is a systems thinking heuristic coined by Stafford Beer,'l who observed that there is \"no point in claiming that the purpose of a system is to do what it constantly fails to do.\"[2] The term is widely used by systems theorists, and is generally invoked to counter the notion that the purpose of a system can be read from the intentions of those who design, operate, or promote it. When a system's side effects or unintended consequences reveal that its behavior is poorly understood, then the POSIWID perspective can balance political understandings of system behavior with a more straightforwardly descriptive view.")
Use of habitat for agricultural purposes puts primate infants at risk
Frequent visits to oil palm plantations are leading to a sharp increase in mortality rates among infant southern pig-tailed macaques (Macaca nemestrina) in the wild, according to a new study.ScienceDaily
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HAHAH! How Dr Who special effects are done!
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David Tennant Geeking out over the Making of Tom Bakers Regeneration
David Tennant is granted access to the raw camera footage of the regeneration from Tom Baker to Peter Davison.#DoctorWho #TalkingDoctorWhoYouTube
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Moms for Liberty Out of NYC!
If Bohemian National Hall doesn't cancel its contract with the far-right hate group Moms for Liberty, we will show up in numbers.
January 18 @ 5:30pm
321 E 73rd St (Upper East Side)
Bring signs, noisemakers & donations!
Donations will be for our newest neighbors. Please bring, new socks and underwear, bags, suitcases, boots, coats, and other warm clothing.
Wear a mask!
Another of the more colorful examples in XPL, Northwest Africa (NWA) 4801 Meteorite Thin Section - Angrite.
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NWA 4801 Meteorite Thin Section - Gigapixel
Angrite Full-screen panorama: cdn.solaranamnesis.com/ThinSections/krpano/nwa4801/Meteor... Post: blog.solaranamnesis.com/2016/12/24/nwa-4801-meteorite-thi... Tumblr: solaranamnesis.tumblr.com/post/155821898295/nwa-4801-mete...Flickr
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Norway to allow mining waste to be dumped in fjords
Environmental campaigners say move will threaten marine life and put biodiversity at riskTone Sutterud (The Guardian)
I'm proud to announce that today the staff of High Country News magazine have launched a union!
We are calling on HCN leadership for voluntary recognition. You can help support us by sharing on socials, following @hcnunion, and signing our letter of support here: hcnunion.org/support/
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In just 2 days, over 200 people have signed our union's letter of support --- WOW! 🤩 Plus all the lovely supportive social media comments --- our CWA organizer says this is the biggest outpouring of support she's ever seen for a campaign. I am feeling the love, y'all. 🥰
We're a small newsroom (mighty, but small) so we need all the support we can get! We have until tomorrow to pressure HCN leadership to voluntarily recognize our union. Please sign if you haven't! 💖 ✊
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