#NASA
NASA: Virtual Guest
Since 2020, NASA has invited the public to be virtual guests at launches and milestone events.NASA
I like this idea for a Mastodon client a lot. Chrono streams are OK but not really optimal.
"What if your Timeline looked like iMessage. A normal timeline confuses me to no end because everything is out of context."
"My experiment, Ebou, is a Mastodon client that looks like iMessage. Conversations are grouped by friends and sorted by recent postings."
mastodon.social/@terhechte/109…
terhechte (@terhechte@mastodon.social)
Attached: 1 image I've had the idea for a weird kind of Twitter client for years. With Mastodon being all open, I've decided to do the experiment: What if your Timeline looked like iMessage.Mastodon
The next @DecentSocial is on 2023-02-11, but we hope it won't be the last.
You can use the hashtag #20230211 alongside #DecentSocial or #DecentSocialTopics to help others find info specific to a certain day's events.
Add #0200 #1000 #1800 (the UTC times of the starts) if you need to distinguish between the three #20230211 opening times and find others at #DecentSocial near your time zone.
DecentSocial - A homegrown conference for the builders of the decentralized social web.
DecentSocial is a free digital unconference on Feb 11th for the builders of the decentralized social web. Whether you're an engineer working on protocols, or an organizer building community, this conference is for you.decentsocial.net
Guinea Worm Disease Reaches All-Time Low: Only 13* Human Cases Reported in 2022
Only 13 human cases of Guinea worm disease were reported worldwide in 2022, pushing the disease closer to eradication, The Carter Center announced Wednesday.The Carter Center
#ISS
Muscle Scans, Bone Study Cleanup as Next Spacewalk Nears
The Expedition 68 crew members turned their attention toward understanding how muscles adapt to microgravity on Friday after intensive bone studies earlier in the week.blogs.nasa.gov
The science (and business) behind COVID-19 disinformation. And what to do about it.
Rumors around COVID-19 vaccines and death, like the Died Suddenly video we highlighted earlier this week, aren’t random.Katelyn Jetelina (Your Local Epidemiologist)
‘The Last of Us' Renewed for Season 2 at HBO
HBO has renewed “The Last of Us” for Season 2 faster than a deadly fungus can spread. The premium cabler has ordered a second season of the series version of the PlayStation video game …Joe Otterson (Variety)
The IMDB ratings are slightly cray? imdb.com/title/tt3581920/
A lot of gamers gaming?
The Last of Us (TV Series 2023– ) - IMDb
The Last of Us: With Pedro Pascal, Bella Ramsey, Gabriel Luna, Jeffrey Pierce. After a global pandemic destroys civilization, a hardened survivor takes charge of a 14-year-old girl who may be humanity's last hope.IMDb
@Matt_Leray
@foaylward
biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/20…
Contrasting drivers of abundant phage and prokaryotic communities in tropical, coastal ecosystems across the Isthmus of Panama
Phages, or viruses that infect bacteria and archaea, are ubiquitous and abundant members of Earth′s ecosystems that impact the flow of nutrients, evolution of microbes, and food web dynamics by selectively infecting and killing their prokaryotic host…bioRxiv
Geometric Primes
Nicholas Rougeux designed a series of posters to visualize all 143 prime numbers with three digits based on simple rules. Eackottke.org
if you haven’t run across it already, Rob Weychert’s “Plus Equals” is another lovely series combining math and art
#ISS
Oklahoma Students to Hear from NASA Astronaut Aboard Space Station
Students from Choctaw Nation Head Start, Jones Academy Elementary, and seven area public schools in Durant, Oklahoma, will have an opportunity this week to hear from a NASA astronaut aboard the International Space Station.Roxana Bardan (NASA)
Chronophoto - The Photographical History Game
Play the online game that tests your knowledge of pop culture and history. Simple and fun. Try to guess the year a picture was taken.www.chronophoto.app
#NASAExoplanets
We’re testing software developed by @NASAAero to help cut your tarmac wait times and make U.S. aviation carbon neutral by 2050.
In just one year, @DFWAirport saved 24,000 pounds of jet fuel and stopped 77,000 pounds of carbon dioxide emissions using it: go.nasa.gov/3J6b8Zq
#NASA
📌 «Comunalidad Digital: Una aproximación desde la ética permacultural»
🌿Una investigación de Sursiendo sobre procesos sociotécnicos y límites naturales realizada junto a personas y colectivos que trabajan en lo local en #Chiapas
Disponible aquí ➡️ sursiendo.org/2022/04/comunali…
Comunalidad Digital: una aproximación desde la ética permacultural
Una investigación de Sursiendo sobre procesos sociotécnicos y límites naturales, sobre inercias, narrativas, preguntas y posibilidades, realizada con personas y colectivos que trabajan en lo local.Sursiendo
I've been so excited about the explosion of new Mastodon apps that I decided to write about it in my column, with a focus on @ivory and @icecubesapp. A thousand flowers blooming!
houstonchronicle.com/business/…
As Twitter kills third-party apps, new life blooms on Mastodon
Developers who crafted now-defunct apps for Twitter can devote their attention to the network that’s become the primary bird site refuge.Dwight Silverman (Houston Chronicle)
Nextcloud has a great community where you can learn and grow!
And you get to make a difference to your favorite product! ⬇️
#NASA
Experience the Launch of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-6 Mission
Experience the Launch of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-6 Mission.Linda Herridge (NASA)
Sunburn Photographic Printing
For his project Illustrated People, Thomas Mailaender imprinted photographic images onto people's skin by shining a UV lightkottke.org
⏪ #FlashbackFriday to Hubble’s observations of Comet ISON in April 2013!
Even without a space-based observatory to help, this comet became visible with the naked eye too!
Read more: go.nasa.gov/3Y201oB
#Hubble
Another comet viewing opportunity is here: C/2022 E3 (ZTF) can be seen with binoculars or a small telescope in the predawn sky as the comet travels across the northern sky.
Check your favorite skywatching app for the comet's position and more info! go.nasa.gov/3Y27Dax
#Hubble
What’s Up: Skywatching Tips from NASA
Watch the latest video in NASA’s “What’s Up” series to discover the skywatching highlights for this month.NASA Solar System Exploration
We're honored to receive the 2023 Swigert Award for Space Exploration, a top award from the Space Foundation.
The Webb team "represents the best of our humanity and an enduring pursuit to better understand the cosmos.” -NASA Administrator @SenBillNelson go.nasa.gov/3jflvPV
#JamesWebb
NASA’s Webb Telescope Receives Top Space Foundation Award
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope team has been selected to receive the 2023 John L. “Jack” Swigert, Jr., Award for Space Exploration, a top award from the Space Foundation.Alise Fisher (NASA)
It would have been better to acknowledge the widespread call to pick a more suitable name pre-flight. The scientific value of the poorly named mission is nonetheless enormous. I do enjoy reading about the vast quantity of information being collected.
Oran Catts expressed some surprise at #Biosummit that in a past Biofrabricate event he saw that his Victimless Leather project was cited as seminal to the field of #CellularAgriculture. The project was an agitation to discuss how #technology should be used, yet in some circles had been seen as a proof of concept.
I'm reminded of old news from New Harvest when they shifted their mission to make explicit that #values are embedded in tech
new-harvest.org/why-new-harves…
We Changed Our Mission, Here's Why 🚀
In late 2020, New Harvest decided to update our mission statement to ensure cellular agriculture delivers on making the world a better placeNew Harvest
Description: Head of Athena with Corinthian helmet. Reverse: Thunderbolt of Zeus. Inscription (Greek): ΑΓΑΘΟΚΛΕ ΒΑΣΙΛΕΟ. Obverse and Reverse Gold coin. - The Trustees of the British Museum CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
Compare this symbol with the ones on coins of Figures 5, 6, and 7:
Pottery (clay) showing symbol of the fireball, aka Thunderbolt of Zeus. Late archaic/early classical, ca. 470 BCE. Veii, Portonaccio sanctuary (votive offering) - Roma, Museo nazionale etrusco di Villa Giulia.
ArchaiOptix, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Compare with Figure 5:
Creating the Soundtrack for a Pinball Machine
This is a delightfully early-80s clip about how electronic music legend Suzanne Ciani created the soundtrack and sound effects fkottke.org
#ISS
Have a stellar #HubbleFriday!
This week's image shows the bright star V 372 Orionis, along with a smaller companion star in the upper left.
Both stars call the Orion Nebula home – which is a massive region of starbirth about 1,450 light-years away: go.nasa.gov/3DkX6zq
#Hubble
Hubble Views a Stellar Duo in Orion Nebula
The bright variable star V 372 Orionis takes center stage in this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope.Andrea Gianopoulos (NASA)
Planting cover crops – those planted between growing seasons – decreases the total harvest of corn and soybeans in the U.S. Midwest, a new #NASAHarvest study found.
Full story: go.nasa.gov/3XLwUGj 🌽
#NASAEarth
Midwest Farmers Using Cover Crops Take Small Yield Hit
Although cover crops have significant environmental benefits, researchers found that they hinder yields on corn and soybean fields.go.nasa.gov
#NASAEarth
a bit more context would help wit this post.
news.stanford.edu/2022/11/08/c…
"More research can help guide that implementation by showing, among other things, how alternatives to rye – the most commonly used cover crop in the U.S. Corn Belt – might result in higher primary crop yields in some regions"
Cover crops can lower yields | Stanford News
Federal subsidies promote planting cover crops to store carbon in agricultural soils, among other benefits, but the approach as currently practiced can reduce yields in the U.S. Corn Belt, researchers find.Stanford News
#NASAEarth
Midwest Farmers Using Cover Crops Take Small Yield Hit
Although cover crops have significant environmental benefits, researchers found that they hinder yields on corn and soybean fields.go.nasa.gov
A spark, a pure oxygen environment, design flaws in the hatch door…
Roger Chaffee, Ed White, and Gus Grissom were tragically killed on Jan. 27, 1967, when a fire erupted inside the Apollo command module during a preflight rehearsal test. #NASARemembers
go.nasa.gov/3D75hPN
#NASAhistory
Remembering Apollo 1
NASA.gov brings you the latest images, videos and news from America's space agency. Get the latest updates on NASA missions, watch NASA TV live, and learn about our quest to reveal the unknown and benefit all humankind.NASA
Join the IRemember Wall
Commemorate the name of a Holocaust victim from Yad Vashem's Shoah Names Databaseiremember.yadvashem.org
Watch Dogs: Legion on Steam Deck (now on Steam!)
Video: youtu.be/PzaXtuKyDX4
#SteamDeck #Gaming #Linux #PCGaming
Watch Dogs: Legion on Steam Deck (now on Steam!)
Watch Dogs: Legion is another Ubisoft title that has arrived on Steam, so like previous Ubisoft releases I’ve been giving it a run on #SteamDeck.Buy from Hum...YouTube
Ready for a puzzler?
This satellite image shows a place on our planet.
Tell us where this is, what we’re looking at, and why it’s interesting. (And, no, it’s not a close up of powdered donuts.)
🧩: go.nasa.gov/4077EvS
#NASAEarth
My skin, after January in Boston, MA.
Or, sand dunes in Algeria. I like the Atacama Desert suggestion as well.
This is interesting and might be relevant for bloom-ending processes in #phytoplankton. Roseobacter can coexist with Emiliania huxleyi (and important bloom forming coccolithophore important to carbon cycling), providing vitamins for ready supplies of sugar and amino acids. However when an algal cell is dying they bacteria can collect additional compounds and leave in search other other hosts. #algae #oceanography
phys.org/news/2023-01-friend-f…
'Friend or foe' bacteria kill their algal hosts when coexisting is no longer beneficial
Scientists have detailed a lifestyle switch that occurs in marine bacteria, in which they change from coexisting with algae hosts in a mutually beneficial interaction to suddenly killing them. The results are published today in eLife.Science X (Phys.org)
Laimis
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