Supermassive Black Holes: A Possible Source of Dark Energy
A group of astronomers say they have evidence that links supermassive black holes at galactic centers with dark energy, the mysterkottke.org
The Boston University School of Public Health is withdrawing from Twitter.
The dean’s thoughtful, nuanced explanation raises the question: Why are other institutions still there?
bu.edu/sph/news/articles/2022/…
Reconsidering our School's Engagement with Twitter
Our commitment to a healthier world will continue to inform all of our communications, no matter where they take placewww.bu.edu
> High drug prices are not justified by industry’s spending on research and development
bmj.com/content/380/bmj-2022-0…
Wake me up when there's the political will to force them to do something, not just another paper telling us this again
High drug prices are not justified by industry’s spending on research and development
Aris Angelis and colleagues argue that by refocusing their spending drug companies could provide more innovative drugs at affordable prices Concerns over the prices of new medicines have been growing over the past decade.The BMJ
Yeah, we might also want to make a special cropped version that doesn't use unseen pixels.
We'd probably need two different ones fro desktop and mobile though or just based on the viewing screen aspect ratio.
It does seem to load and play fine on my OnePlus 5T, but I expect it could be a problem.
The video is also 98 MB so actually not much smaller than the game itself 😁
We definitely should optimize a bit.
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RT @ibartomeus
Hoy me hace mucha ilusión contaros que he escrito un libro de divulgación sobre ecología! ->
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Cómo Se Meten Ocho Millones De Especies En Un Planeta de Bartomeus, Ignasi 978-84-1352-622-5
El ser humano siempre se ha interesado por la naturaleza. Las primeras pinturas humanas en cuevas ya representaban manadas de animales y cazadores. Y cuandwww.todostuslibros.com
The Swedish government advises against using Zoom in a recent report.
Read more about why they’re pushing instead for more open-source solutions like Nextcloud Hub! 👏
#Nextcloud #NextcloudHub #privacy
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Swedish government advises against Zoom: "Sensitive information is at risk" - Nextcloud
From relentless Zoom bombers to $86 million dollar lawsuits, the world has repeatedly been exposed to the implications of Zoom’s security vulnerabilities and privacy issues.Mikaela Schneider (Nextcloud)
The Swedish government advises against using Zoom in a recent report.
Sensitive information is at risk, and more secure solutions are available, like Nextcloud Talk.
Read about this development in our blog.
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Swedish government advises against Zoom: "Sensitive information is at risk" - Nextcloud
From relentless Zoom bombers to $86 million dollar lawsuits, the world has repeatedly been exposed to the implications of Zoom’s security vulnerabilities and privacy issues.Mikaela Schneider (Nextcloud)
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Born in 1750, Caroline Herschel worked as assistant to her astronomer brother William. But she also made her own discoveries of nebulae, stars & 8(!) comets.
In 1787, King George III employed Caroline as her brother's assistant, including a small salary that made her one of the first women paid for their contributions to #science.
Caroline submitted over 550 stars to the existing star catalog & received honorary membership in the Royal Society. space.com/17439-caroline-hersc… #history #HistoryRemix
Caroline Herschel Biography
Caroline Herschel was the first woman to discover a comet. She made several contributions to the field of astronomyNola Taylor Tillman (Space)
like this
The Hydra Cluster of Galaxies
Image Credit & Copyright: Marco Lorenzi, Angus Lau, Tommy Tse Text: ChatGPT (apologies to Edgar Allen Poe)
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APOD: 2023 February 16 - The Hydra Cluster of Galaxies
A different astronomy and space science related image is featured each day, along with a brief explanation.apod.nasa.gov
Hadrian 128 CE. Artemis of Perge in Temple. Pamphylia, Southern Anatolia.
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Classical Numismatics Discussion Members' Coin Collection Photo Gallery
Hadrian Pamphylia - 2706 PAMPHYLIA, Perge Hadrian 128 AD Artemis of Perge in temple - Classical Numismatics Discussion - Members' Coin GalleryForum Ancient Coins
Temple of Aphrodite at Paphos showing the conical stone of the Goddess (Fig. 328).
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Trajan and the sacred stone of Zeus Kasios. (98-117 CE) Seleucia, Pieria, Northern Syria.
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Trajan Baetyl
What I Like About Ancient Coins - A bronze AE24 of Trajan from Seleukia Pieria, showing the sacred stone of Zeus Kasios.www.forumancientcoins.com
Eagle perched atop the conical baetyl of Emesa. Head of Antoninus Pius. (142-143 CE) Emesa, Syria. About 70 years before it was transported to Rome.
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Antoninus Pius Emesa Stone
What I Like About Ancient Coins - A bronze provincial coin of the emperor Antoninus Pius from Emesa with a reverse showing the sacred stone of Elagabal.www.forumancientcoins.com
APOD: 2023 February 16 - The Hydra Cluster of Galaxies
A different astronomy and space science related image is featured each day, along with a brief explanation.apod.nasa.gov
🚨IMPORTANT 🚨
Shutdown of mastodon.au instance is imminent (a.k.a., three months)!
And mastodon.au admin @mb cites “lack of assistance from @Gargron” as the deciding factor.
I’m investigating further.
Please migrate to another instance as soon as you can!
mastodon.au/@mb@mastodon.au@ma…
Mastodon Australia
The social network of the future: No ads, no corporate surveillance, ethical design, and decentralization! Own your data with Mastodon!Mastodon hosted on mastodon.au
Between #Mastodonau & #Mastodonlol, it's a good thing #Mastodon gGmbH has put an end to using Mastodon in new domain names without explicit licensing.
The tech media will be having a field day with this soon
I wonder how many other significant instances are ran by people with personality trait issues &their users &their content is at the whims of unreasonable people, not suited for the responsibilities and sensibilities required.
#MastoAdmin
Excited for #StarTrekPicard but need a refresher on where we left our favorite characters? I wrote "Where Are They Now: Star Trek: Picard Edition" for Star Trek dot com
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Where Are They Now? Star Trek: Picard Edition
Get caught up before the final voyage begins on February 16!Star Trek
Gelatin silver prints of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, St. Louis, Missouri, 1904 showing casts of the Bacubirito and Peary (Cape York) meteorites.
Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 95, Box 65A, Folder 09, Image No. SIA_000095_B65A_F09_001.
Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 95, Box 65, Folder 02, Image No. SIA_000095_B65_F02_005.
Figures from the "Catalogue of the Ward-Coonley Collection of Meteorites": archive.org/details/wardcoonle…
Paphian Venus (Fig. 1)
Diana Pergäa (Fig. 2)
Zeus Kasios (Fig. 3)
Emisa (Fig. 4)
Solar Anamnesis reshared this.
The Boy in the Bubble
Retro Report looks back on the story of the boy in the plastic bubble. The epitaph on David Phillip Vetter's gravestone observekottke.org
#ISS
Roscosmos Reviews Soyuz, Progress Vehicle; Science and Cargo Ops Keep Crew Busy
The seven residents that make up the Expedition 68 crew were busy midweek aboard the International Space Station.blogs.nasa.gov
Our VIPER lunar rover will land at a newly named mountain honoring @nasa mathematician Melba Mouton, who helped land the first humans on the Moon.
About the size of Delaware, Mons Mouton is located in one of the 13 candidate #Artemis III landing regions. go.nasa.gov/411iBiM
#NASAArtemis #Artemis
Moon Mountain Name Honors NASA Mathematician Melba Mouton
Scientists recently named a mesa-like lunar mountain that towers above the landscape carved by craters near the Moon’s South Pole.Rachel Hoover (NASA)
#NASAExoplanets
Super-Earth | Planet Types – Exoplanet Exploration: Planets Beyond our Solar System
Super-Earths – a class of planets unlike any in our solar system – are more massive than Earth yet lighter than ice giants like Neptune and Uranus, and can be made of gas, rock or a combination.Exoplanet Exploration: Planets Beyond our Solar System
TechCrunch's @Sarahp reports on the continued growth of Mastodon.
As she notes, Mastodon had 180,000 new app installs in January compared to 11,000 new app installs in September 2022.
That's a big jump.
What she might also want to look into is how many app installs occurred during this past week: ~121,000, which looks to be outpacing January.
Part of the reason for this growth? Perhaps changes to joinmastodon.org.
techcrunch.com/2023/02/15/is-t…
Is the 'exodus' over? Here's how Twitter alternatives have fared since Elon Musk's acquisition • TechCrunch
New data takes a look at how a range of "Twitter alternatives" have fared in the months following Musk's acquisition of the popular microblogging network.Sarah Perez (TechCrunch)
War and subsidies have turbocharged the green transition
They may have knocked as much as ten years off its timelineThe Economist
【Hogwarts Legacy】The Game That Shall Not Be Named
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Learn to Make Survival Games with Unity
We’ve teamed up with Zenva Academy for our newest bundle of courses. Learn to make survival games like Rust, Valheim, and ARK 2 with Unity. Pay what you want & support charity!Humble Bundle
@NASAWebb's latest image reveals never-before-seen details in Pandora’s Cluster. The combined mass of the galaxies creates a powerful gravitational lens, allowing much more distant galaxies in the early universe to be seen. go.nasa.gov/3YuWShE
#NASAExoplanets
NASA’s Webb Uncovers New Details in Pandora’s Cluster
Astronomers have revealed the latest deep field image from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, featuring never-before-seen details in a region of space known as Pandora’s Cluster (Abell 2744).Jamie Adkins (NASA)
The Winners of the 2023 Underwater Photographer of the Year Competition
The winners of the 2023 Underwater Photographer of the Year competition have been announced -- you can check out all of thekottke.org
Returnal is just rough on Steam Deck but great on Desktop Linux
Returnal is now on Steam so naturally I gave this previously PlayStation exclusive a run on Steam Deck. It's quite sad though.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Have humans ever visited Mars?
Not yet, but we’ve sent rovers, landers, and orbiters to gather the information we'll need to keep future astronauts safe, and with @NASAArtemis, we’re working on new tech that could one day get humans to Mars. mars.nasa.gov/
#NASA
NASA Mars Exploration
NASA’s real-time portal for Mars exploration, featuring the latest news, images, and discoveries from the Red Planet.NASA Mars Exploration
Drawing of an etched sliced of the "Bewitched Burgrave" or Elbogen (Loket) Iron Meteorite from von Schreibers' book, "Beiträge zur Geschichte und Kenntnis meteorischer Stein- und Metall-Massen, und der Erscheinungen, welche deren Niederfallen zu begleiten pflegen" (1820).
It fell around the year 1400 near Loket in the Kingdom of Bohemia, modern day Czech Republic.
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