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Urania in Vienna, 1910. West side main entrance.
OENB, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
What’s for dinner?
The #Landsat mission observes crops from space, helping farmers make decisions about how to better grow food. In this data sonification, see and hear how crops in the U.S. have changed over 20 years.
How #Landsat data is used: go.nasa.gov/3T5z6GZ
#NASAEarth
From Space to Farm
Farmers rely on the accuracy of a crucial NASA and USGS mission, Landsat, to make decisions about crops. Those decisions have far-reaching implications that can impact what you see on your dinner plate!Sarah Loff (NASA)
"Artist's concept of Galileo passing near Jupiter's small inner moon Amalthea." (2002)
NASA/JPL/Michael Carroll, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
Been reading the physical edition of "Mastodon for Dummies" and it's really good! The authors have got into the spirit of Mastodon and the Fediverse, and it comes through in the text's gentle humour.
Well done to @workingwriter and @chrisminnick for their hard work! 👏
It should be out now in most countries, you can order it from any bookshop with the following info:
"Mastodon for Dummies"
by Chris Minnick & Michael McCallister
ISBN: 978-1-394-19336-3
p.p.s. You don't have to order books from giant online retailers. Small independent physical bookshops can get pretty much any book you want, and will let you know when it arrives.
All you have to do is tell the bookshop the name of the book and the author(s), they'll get it from their wholesaler and the profits will be supporting a small indie business instead of a big near-monopoly. Wholesalers can get a book to a shop surprisingly quickly, sometimes quicker than ordering online!
p.p.p.s As @jan points out, there are also online ordering services which help to support indie shops at bookshop.org and hive.co.uk
The indie shops will get more if you order direct from them, but these online options at least give indie shops some support.
Hive.co.uk - Books, eBooks, DVDs, Blu-ray, Stationery, Music CDs
Buy Books, eBooks, DVDs, Blu-ray, Stationery, Music CDs & more with Free UK Delivery on all orders. Support your local bookshop by shopping with Hive.co.uk.hive.co.uk
"Galileo with his telescope in the Piazza San Marc."
Wellcome Collection, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Cropping and color edits.
GNOME Shell & Mutter Finally Drop GTK3!!
GNOME has been in the process of migrating away from GTK3 for a while now and while it's been a long process it's finally happened and 2 more core parts no l...YouTube
A piece of the Valle Meteorite that fell in Setesdalen, Norway on February 3, 2012.
Terje Fjeldheim, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
$ curl --socks5 127.0.0.1:9150 --socks5-hostname 127.0.0.1:9150 kutt.esmail5pdn24shtvieloeedh7…
Moved Permanently. Redirecting to esmail.xyz/
Full release notes: github.com/ProjectPhysX/FluidX…
Release FluidX3D v2.4 (UI improvements) · ProjectPhysX/FluidX3D
UI improvements added a help menu with key H that shows keyboard/mouse controls, visualization settings and simulation stats zoom control with keyboard is now keys +/- instead of ./, print camera ...GitHub
This visualization shows simulated corn (yellow) and soybean (green) yields in Iowa from 2001-2020.
NASA builds crop models to understand how conditions like weather, soil type, and farm management affect the production of crops like corn and soybean.
#NASAEarth
More views of Crew-5 departing the space station in the Dragon Endurance spacecraft last night! @nasa TV coverage resumes at 8pm ET, and before then, you can follow along with live mission audio coverage here:
📻youtube.com/live/3slokO2g1v0
[Video embedded in original tweet]
#ISS
NASA Mission Audio Live Feed
Continuous live feed of NASA’s human spaceflight programs. Mission Audio includes live discussions between astronauts in space and flight controllers and sup...YouTube
"Comet C/2021 A1 (Leonard), most probably on December 28, 2021."
cafuego, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
Boop the snoot👇
Today marks the 15th anniversary of the Space Shuttle Endeavour's STS-123 launch in 2008. Before docking with the ISS, commander Dominic Gorie did a roll pitch maneuver (a backflip) to allow the space station crew to photograph the heat shield.
#NASAhistory
This is Miss Tina. She lets me stay at her house when I'm in Detmold to perform with the Landestheater! She is a grrrrreat hostess, she always makes sure that I have enough fresh hair on my clothes and enough cat bellies to pet.
#caturday #catsOfMastodon #Detmold
There's a tiny, but very significant change to the ActivityPub plugin for WordPress. Exciting times for blogging. 😀
wordpress.org/plugins/activity…
ActivityPub
The ActivityPub protocol is a decentralized social networking protocol based upon the ActivityStreams 2.0 data format.WordPress.org
What day is it? It's #Caturday! It's a purrfect day outside or a day to cuddle up to someone you love 💜
Ripley: why have you stopped petting me?
APOD: 2023 March 11 - 3D Bennu
A different astronomy and space science related image is featured each day, along with a brief explanation.apod.nasa.gov
The Skeletons of the Red Line
Meanwhile... Beneath Harvard Square....
#History #HarvardSquare #MBTA #Cambridge #MA #SubwaySecrets #TransportationHistory #Technology #HArvardCrimson
The Skeletons of the Red Line | Opinion | The Harvard Crimson
The six-minute subway ride between Harvard and Central Square isn’t the most entertaining journey. But if passengers were to squint out the window as the Red Line rounded the curve out of Harvard Station, they could see the abandoned shell of another…www.thecrimson.com
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#iamhpc #WHM2023
SC Conference Series on LinkedIn: #iamhpc #whm2023
I started working for the Coalition for Academic Scientific Computation (CASC) in 2001. It was definitely not my original career path, but when I graduated…SC Conference Series (buff.ly)
🚨BREAKING NEWS!🚨
Automattic, the company behind WordPress, is now co-authoring the ActivityPub plugin for WordPress.
The intent is to make WordPress a "first party Fediverse member" on par with Mastodon, Pleroma, and Pixelfed.
WordPress already powers 43% of all websites—and every one is a potential Fediverse server.
Automattic employee @kraft just confirmed this.
religious.social/@kraft/110003…
Bacterial aerobic methane cycling by the marine sponge-associated microbiome
microbiomejournal.biomedcentra…
Bacterial aerobic methane cycling by the marine sponge-associated microbiome - Microbiome
Background Methanotrophy by the sponge-hosted microbiome has been mainly reported in the ecological context of deep-sea hydrocarbon seep niches where methane is either produced geothermically or via anaerobic methanogenic archaea inhabiting the sulfa…BioMed Central
Mileva Marić Einstein was a physicist born in Serbia in 1875.
We remember her husband, Albert Einstein, as one of the most celebrated physicists of the 20th century, but I suspect most folks haven’t heard of her.
However, Albert & Mileva’s letters & other accounts suggest they worked together on his groundbreaking scientific contributions. They collaborated from the time they met in 1896 until their separation in 1914.
This is her story: blogs.scientificamerican.com/g… #science #history #HistoryRemix
The Forgotten Life of Einstein's First Wife
She was a physicist, too—and there is evidence that she contributed significantly to his groundbreaking scienceScientific American Blog Network
LIVE: Our #Crew5 travelers are getting ready to head home after more than five months on the @Space_Station!
Undocking for @SpaceX's Dragon Endurance spacecraft is currently scheduled for 2:05am ET (0705 UTC). twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1DXxy…
#NASA
LIVE: Our #Crew5 travelers are getting ready to head home after more than five months on the @Space_Station!
Undocking for @SpaceX's Dragon Endurance spacecraft is currently scheduled for 2:05am ET (0705 UTC). twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1DXxy…
#NASA
"The Awakening of the Arts" by Frans Floris 1st (~1560).
Frans Floris 1st, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
#ISS
Dragon Endurance Undocks from the Space Station
The SpaceX Dragon spacecraft with NASA astronauts Nicole Mann and Josh Cassada, JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) astronaut Koichi Wakata, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Anna Kikina inside undocked from the forward-facing port of the International S…go.nasa.gov
"Imaginative painting showing Galileo Galilei displaying his telescope to Leonardo Donato," by Henry-Julien Detouche (~1900).
Henry-Julien Detouche, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Color edits.
3D Bennu
Image Credit: NASA, GSFC, U. Arizona - Stereo Image Copyright: Patrick Vantuyne
apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap230311.ht… #APOD
APOD: 2023 March 11 - 3D Bennu
A different astronomy and space science related image is featured each day, along with a brief explanation.apod.nasa.gov
Celestial Globe by Jost Bürgi (~1585).
Jost Bürgi, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
"Urania, Diadochi and Episteme in Palais Garnier at Paris. Their names are in Greek, Urania = ΟΥΡΑΝΙΑ, Diadochi = Η ΔΙΑΔΟΧΗ and Episteme = Η ΕΠΙΣΤΗΜΗ."
Gre regiment, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
USDC loses peg to the dollar
March 10, 2023
web3isgoinggreat.com/?id=usdc-…
USDC loses peg to the dollar
The major stablecoin USDC lost its peg to the US dollar on March 10. Earlier that day, the collapse of the Silicon Valley Bank sent shockwaves through the financial system, and some in crypto were concerned about possible contagion to crypto companie…Web3 is Going Just Great
A fragment of the New Concord Meteorite that fell on May 1, 1860 in Ohio, USA.
Courtesy of the Peabody Museum of Natural History; Open Access, publicdomain/zero/1.0; Mineralogy and Meteoritics, Yale University; collections.peabody.yale.edu/s…
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Designing Your Governance with CommunityRule FOSS Backstage 2023
Too many of our communities adopt default governance practices that rely on the unchecked authority of founders, admins, or moderators, lacking even basic features of small-scale democracy.program.foss-backstage.de
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