Once upon a time, ~36,000 years ago, unicorns were real.
The “Siberian unicorn” (scientific name: Elasmotherium sibericum) weighed >4 tons, had a long horn ~3 feet on its nose & roamed Eurasia’s grasslands at the same time as modern humans.
More at theconversation.com/amp/how-a-… #history #science #SharedPlanet
How a change in climate wiped out the 'Siberian unicorn'
The loss of the Siberian unicorn shows just how vulnerable some animals can be to environmental change that can impact on their food supply.Kieren Mitchell (The Conversation)
Camille Flammarion looking through his Equatorial at the Observatory of Juvisy.
Bibliothèque de l'Observatoire de Paris Inv.I.1683, CC BY-NC 4.0 via cosmos.obspm.fr/index.php/Deta…
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NASA’s Webb Spots Swirling, Gritty Clouds on Remote Planet
Researchers observing with NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have pinpointed silicate cloud features in a distant planet’s atmosphere.Isabelle Yan (NASA)
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Arctic update: On March 6, 2023, Arctic sea ice appeared to reach its annual maximum extent (or coverage) at 14.62 million square kilometers (5.64 million square miles) – the fifth lowest in the satellite record maintained by the @NSIDC.
Learn more: go.nasa.gov/3neiPnx
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Arctic Sea Ice Below Average in Winter 2023
The end-of-winter sea ice extent in March 2023 was the fifth lowest in the satellite record.go.nasa.gov
Since the start of the satellite record in 1979, the ten lowest maximums have all occurred within the past two decades.
NASA’s fieldwork and satellites monitor the changing ice pack, helping to predict how the ice will change in the future.
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Linux Hasn't Become Complicated & Limiting | Distrotube Reply
Recently Distrotube put out a video on how Linux had become too complicated and limiting but this video seemed off, it wasn't at all about the Linux desktop ...YouTube
How is it that you're still one of the most sane people when it comes to opensource, while so many others seems to drift into some form of opensource conspiracy theory or go full on crazy?
I mean I thought this is because it sells on youtube, but I'm not sure if it's just show or what they actually believe in.
Thank you for being that way 
A Flower a Day
Every day for three years, Iancu Barbarasa drew a flower for his partner and recently he compiled all the drawings into this lovkottke.org
Comet Neowise (C/2020 F3) on July 14, 2020 by Frank Lammel, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 via Flickr: flic.kr/p/2jm7e3G
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Vibration Testing of NASA's James Webb Space Telescope
Inside NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, the James Webb Space Telescope team completed the environmental portion of vibration testin...YouTube
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.com/blog/swedish-gov… #NextcloudHub #privacy
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 Fall of Phaeton" by Philips Brueghel (~1650-1662).
Philips Brueghel, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Color edits.
(Wearable Computing Project at MIT, mid 90s)
Aerial Photographs by Kevin Krautgartner Capture the Magnificent Power of Crashing Waves Above Hawaii's Banzai Pipeline — Colossal
Photographer Kevin Krautgartner's aerial photographs highlight the formidable force of surf crashing and whorling along the shore.Kate Mothes (Colossal)
Carbon plays a role in all of Earth's systems, including the ocean.
@nasa's upcoming PACE mission will give us a whole new way to see the seas. PACE is designed to measure carbon from the sky and land to the ocean.
#WorldWaterDay 🌊
Dive in: go.nasa.gov/3lvVLjD
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The Impossible Job of Refereeing
From William Ralston in The Guardian, a long read on "the impossible job" of being a Premier League referee. No one diskottke.org
Counter-Strike 2 from Valve releasing Summer 2023, Limited Test starts today
Valve has today announced Counter-Strike 2, which will be arriving in Summer 2023 and they've released some details on what's changed.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
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NEW BOOK, NOW UP
"Sacred Stacks: The Art of Cyborg Community"
What began as an errant search for practical tools became an exploration of ritual, relationship, and poetics.
Collect the NFT: medlab.metalabel.app/sacredsta…
Download and order: colorado.edu/lab/medlab/2023/0…
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MEDLab experiments with democratic ownership and governance in the online economyMEDLab
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Reproduction of a design of the interior of the Paris Observatory at Meudon - The Grand Equatorial.
Rijksmuseum, Public Domain via hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.CO…
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"What I've learned is that you have to have confidence in yourself. You have to believe in yourself. Stand your ground and just keep moving forward."
Meet Daria Outlaw, who provides IT support that helps the Hubble team keep making history.
GNOME 44 is out now finally adding thumbnails to the file picker
One thing I genuinely hated about GNOME has finally been solved with the GNOME 44 release. It includes some big improvements and new features.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
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NASA’s Webb Spots Swirling, Gritty Clouds on Remote Planet
Researchers observing with NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have pinpointed silicate cloud features in a distant planet’s atmosphere.Isabelle Yan (NASA)
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NASA’s Webb Spots Swirling, Gritty Clouds on Remote Planet
Researchers observing with NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have pinpointed silicate cloud features in a distant planet’s atmosphere.Isabelle Yan (NASA)
Decades ago I worked in customer service for a major national hotel chain. You'd be surprised how often we'd get calls from angry customers who showed up in one Same Name city only discover that their hotel is in the other Same Name city.
Same thing with Similar Name cities. I can't tell you how many people wanted a room in Yreka, California and ended up booked in Eureka, California.
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NASA Image and Video Library
NASA Image and Video Library, serving up consolidated imagery and videos in one searchable location. Users can download content in multiple sizes and resolutions and see the metadata associated with images, including EXIF/camera data on many images.NASA Image and Video Library
Amazon Luna cloud gaming launches in Canada, Germany and the UK
Amazon Luna, the cloud gaming service has finally expanded into more territories. They're also no longer blocking Linux.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Mattias Adolfsson’s Whimsical Illustrations
I've featured the work of Mattias Adolfsson before, but I ran across some of his marvelously dense & vaguely steampunk illustrkottke.org
When The Pandemic Came, The Zoos Shut, And The Animals Began to Act Differently : ScienceAlert
We all had to make adjustments as the coronavirus pandemic unfolded – even zoo animals who were suddenly not seeing crowds of visitors pass by every single day.David Nield (ScienceAlert)
DEI Dungeon Explorers
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