Rain forests are usually self-irrigating. That’s why they are called ‘rain forests’. If you destroy the rain forests to grow soya, palm or whatever, you stop the irrigation. Scientists have been saying this for years. It’s happening. #BoycottPalmOil. Stop #deforestation.
Amazon drought: 'We've never seen anything like this' bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-ame…
Amazon drought: 'We've never seen anything like this'
This year's heat and drought in the Amazon intensify worries that it is approaching a tipping point.By Stephanie Hegarty (BBC News)
Research: Palm oil deforestation makes conditions better for disease-carrying Aedes albopictus mosquitoes
A 2023 study published in Nature has found that cutting down rainforest to grow palm oil makes it easier for certain disease-carrying bugs like Aedes albopictus mosquitoes to thrive. The study look…Palm Oil Detectives
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
🇪🇺 The EU's AI Act has now reached a provisional agreement and will likely reshape cloud services and online safety.
But implications will be nuanced and complex. What are your thoughts on the impact?
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EU AI Act: first regulation on artificial intelligence | News | European Parliament
The use of artificial intelligence in the EU will be regulated by the AI Act, the world’s first comprehensive AI law. Find out how it will protect you.www.europarl.europa.eu
"Taurus Molecular Cloud."
Kees Scherer from Tomar, Portugal, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons.
PLOMP!
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staging: Add xdg-toplevel-icon to allow windows to set dedicated icons (!269) · Merge requests · wayland / wayland-protocols · GitLab
Hi everyone! Here is yet another controversial protocol, but I think it is a lot easier to discuss pros and cons if there is a concrete...GitLab
Astrophotography 2023 - Daniel McCauley in 4K
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Astrophotography 2023 - Daniel McCauley in 4K
#astrophotography #milkywaychasers #timelapsevideo #milkywayphotography #lrtimelapse Astrophotography 2023 - Daniel McCauley in 4K ResolutionA short video ...YouTube
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"Perseus Giant Molecular Cloud with Star Nurseries IC348 and NGC1333."
Jimdelillo, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
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"The Ghost Nebula."
Nico Carver (NebulaPhotos.com), CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons or Flickr: flic.kr/p/2ox88uU.
The Ghost Nebula (vdB 141)
Around 15 hours (8 hours Luminance, 7 hours RGB). Data captured in October 2022. Processed May 1 2023 with PixInsight and Siril. Telescope: Askar 130PHQ (1000mm f.l. at f/7.Flickr
"Panspermia, Aliens, Evolution & Origin of Life - Milton Wainwright."
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Panspermia, Aliens, Evolution & Origin of Life - Milton Wainwright
Milton Wainwright is a British microbiologist who is known for his research into what he claims could be extraterrestrial life found in the stratosphere. Pan...YouTube
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New #ArtistBook: ANTHROPOCENE, BOOK I
This portable manuscript recounts the six days of Creation as written in the Book of Genesis. But holes soon begin to appear in the pages and then multiply, making the text increasingly difficult to read...
These lacunae are in fact the silhouettes of extinct animal species, wiped out by human activity within my own lifetime. Their absence undermines the meaning and integrity of the text:
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"Van den Bergh 105 and 106 (alternatively catalogued as IC 4603 and IC 4604)."
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"Antares and Rho Ophiuchi."
Adam Block/Steward Observatory/University of Arizona, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
xwayland: add an `-output` command line option for placing Xwayland rootful fullscreen (!1212) · Merge requests · xorg / xserver · GitLab
This adds a new command line option "-output" to specify on which output Xwayland should be starting fullscreen when rootful. That allows to run multiple instances...GitLab
Basically the same design by comité that also plagued the x consortium. Luckily many Wayland implementations are under gpl and other copyleft licences so we don't get the proprietary extensions problem x had during the Unix wars.
And maybe the collaboration is better than, the realistic alternative where every de en wm would go there separate ways. Some would go with Arcan, other with mir, others with completely incompatible Wayland implementations.
Three different images of the same meteorite fragment (NWA 2224): the surface of the fragment (XPL) and thin sections of it (two different slices and degress of XPL).
Surface: flic.kr/p/RCmLng (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)
TS XPL Full: flic.kr/p/24ejDF2 (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)
TS Low XPL: flic.kr/p/2fcQRVz (CC0)
NWA 2224 Meteorite Thin Section - Gigapixel
CV3 Low degree polarized light filter, Nikon D810. krpano Gigapixel Panorama: cdn.solaranamnesis.com/ThinSections/krpano/nwa2224-2/Mete... Post: blog.solaranamnesis.com/2019/03/16/nwa-2224-meteorite-thi... Tumblr: solaranamnesis.tumblr.Flickr
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you think maybe Gay could have been fine if she just realized that calling for the genocide of Jews is a form of bullying? Or maybe if she did her own work instead of plagiarizing *that much of it*?
Musk is a fucking nut, nobody takes him seriously. Ackman had a point. He didn't buy a social network, he didn't astroturf anything, he just said something people agreed with. Don't like it? Maybe try arguing the point instead of whining that he's too rich to be allowed to speak.
Palm Oil Plantations are Killing Baby Monkeys - One Green Planet
The detrimental effects of palm oil plantations on wildlife have been brought to light by a decade-long study conducted by researchers.Trinity Sparke (One Green Planet)
Weird UNIX World Of Whacky Wheel Wars
Nowadays most of us operate on single user systems but this is a fairly recent phenomenon, in the past it was common to have multiple users remote into the s...YouTube
Excited for #KDE Plasma 6.0 next month? If you're artist, you might be even more excited for 6.1 🖊
UI not final of course, but here's a sneak peek of what I've been working on in January! More details in my usual end of the month post.
(If you don't know what's changed, see the alt text 😉)
Two #TenureTrackJob openings at the #Leibniz Institute for #Baltic Sea #Research #Warnemünde (#IOW), North Germany 🇩🇪
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Postdoc position (tenure track) in the department of physical #oceanography and instrumentation (PHY 01/2024)
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Junior Research Group Leader Optical Remote Sensing (DIR 01/2024)
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"Getting something into a Gram-negative bacterium isn’t easy. Though the sum total of its boundary layers is thinner than for a Gram-positive, the outer and inner membranes are separated by a no-man’s land known as the periplasmic space (which contains the thinner peptidoglycan wall). The arrangement makes the cell much less permeable, apart from small water channels. Antibiotics that can get into and kill Gram-negative bacteria are therefore often small molecules, around a hundredth the size of a typical protein."
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Liam Shaw | Like Scotch Eggs
In the 1880s, the Danish bacteriologist Hans Gram was working in the morgue of the Berlin city hospital, trying to...Liam Shaw (London Review of Books)
"This review provides an overview of how coronaviruses control viral and host translation during different stages of infection and compares these strategies to those of other RNA viruses. We focus on how Nsp1 from β-CoV hijacks the translation machinery and describe viral RNA features that promote viral evasion and programmed ribosomal frameshifting (PRF) in infected cells. Furthermore, we discuss other unique features of viral RNA and various stress response mechanisms triggered by coronaviral infection."
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Humble RPG Bundle: Call of Cthulhu by Chaosium, Inc.
Descend into madness with this Call of Cthulhu RPG bundle! Get everything you need for thrilling nights full of eldritch terror and help the World Wildlife Fund!Humble Bundle
With the humble bundle, do you get the latest PDF as they release or just the current? I know some update their main texts at times while others just release an errata.
I have wanted to try Call of Cthulhu for some time.
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Took the kids to Melbourne Museum today to see 'Relics', a temporary exhibition depicting a post-apocalyptic world where LEGO minifigs have risen from the debris to craft new civilisations in discarded human artefacts.
I have to say that this repurposed old Space Invaders cab certainly caught my eye.
#lego #retrogaming #videogames #arcadegames #museum #melbourne
@Gargron this was taken early December (I think). The whole of the South Lakes had got really heavy snowfall. People were abandoning cars and staying overnight in pubs, church halls etc.
We went out to the Lakes not realising how bad it'd been. Couldn't get to Elterwater so had a walk around Ambleside so the day wasn't wasted
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Earthquakes routinely expose the differences between places with and without building codes.