Get in Irwin, we're going Moon driving!
Apollo 15, the 4th mission to put humans on the Moon, launched #OTD in 1971. Folded up in the lunar module (LM) was the first Lunar Roving Vehicle, allowing Dave Scott and Jim Irwin to venture farther from the LM. go.nasa.gov/43FoEKi
#NASAhistory
A beautiful comic on the continuing relevance of the Luddite movement by @tomhumberstone thenib.com/im-a-luddite/
(bring back the Levellers while we're at it)
Thank goodness for The Nib and Matt, Eleri and the others' work over the past decade. They made an outsized contribution and while I'm sad they're shutting down, at least they're (sort of) doing it on their own terms.
I’m a Luddite (and So Can You!) | The Nib
What the Luddites can teach us about resisting an automated future.The Nib
Learn to make no-code games with GDevelop and Fanatical
Want to make games but don't know how to code? The free and open source GDevelop is a great cross-platform tool with an events-driven system.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
NASA’s Earth Applied Sciences Disasters program has been activated in support of the fires in Greece. go.nasa.gov/3Q8xwF2
As new information becomes available, the team will be posting maps and data products on its open-access mapping portal.
#NASAEarth
Fires Ignite on Greek Islands
Wildfires broke out on Rhodes and other islands amid record heat, forcing thousands to evacuate.go.nasa.gov
Wildfires broke out on the Greek island of Rhodes after a prolonged stretch of extreme heat.
Actively burning fires are marked by a red infrared signature in this image captured by #Landsat 8 on July 19. go.nasa.gov/3Q8xwF2
#NASAEarth
Fires Ignite on Greek Islands
Wildfires broke out on Rhodes and other islands amid record heat, forcing thousands to evacuate.go.nasa.gov
Team Fortress 2 gets another update with lots of fixes
With the Summer Event live until September 15th, 2023 it seems Valve still aren't quite done updating Team Fortress 2 with the renewed popularity.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
I think TF2 is an excellent game (one of the best multiplayer FPSs in history), but it's gotten just too unwieldy and bloated.
I still prefer the TF2 experience before they went all-in on the cosmetics and weapon variants.
Armored Core VI will be 'fully supported' on Steam Deck
Okay now THIS is exciting as heck. Armored Core VI Fires Of Rubicon will be "fully supported" on Steam Deck according to FromSoftware.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
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Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart is Steam Deck Verified and out today
This is great to see. Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart from Insomniac Games, Nixxes Software and PlayStation is out on Steam today and it's Steam Deck Verified!Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
I am of course being facetious, but this is why you shouldn't listen to marketing.
NASA, DARPA Experts to Discuss Nuclear Rocket Program Developments
Experts from NASA and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) will hold a media teleconference at 1 p.m.Abbey Donaldson (NASA)
A combined microscopy and single-cell sequencing approach reveals the ecology, morphology, and phylogeny of uncultured lineages of zoosporic fungi
journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/m…
#compBio
GitHub - vsbuffalo/remote_jupyter: Management of remote Jupyter sessions
Management of remote Jupyter sessions. Contribute to vsbuffalo/remote_jupyter development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
Join the #OpenMP Users Monthly Telecon Friday at noon EDT/6 pm Central European time for a presentation by John Tramm of Argonne National Laboratory.
The topic is:
"OpenMP in OpenMC: Experiences with Monte Carlo Particle Transport on Intel Corporation, NVIDIA, and AMD GPUs".
OpenMC is an open source Monte Carlo neutral particle transport application that has recently been ported to #gpus using the OpenMP target offloading model.
Register at:
openmp.org/events/ecp-sollve-o…
ECP SOLLVE: ECP SOLLVE - OpenMP Users Monthly Teleconferences
The ECP SOLLVE project, which is working to evolve OpenMP for exascale computing, invites you to participate in a new series of monthly telecons.Dossay Oryspayev (OpenMP)
palmoildetectives.com/2023/07/…
Palm oil deforestation in Guatemala: Certifying products as ‘sustainable’ is no panacea: University of Michigan
Newly published research from the University of Michigan reveals that despite the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) certification system being influential, its effectiveness in reducing def…Palm Oil Detectives
And now protocols.io goes the way of Mendely:
protocols.io/workspaces/protoc…
If you don't want your personal data being sold or otherwise misused, stop using protocols.io!
Bit by bit, every useful tool in science is getting killed by the surveillance publishers.
Dear Collaborator,
Please follow recommendation #10:
"Do Not Use Font Color or Highlighting as Data"
from
Karl W. Broman & Kara H. Woo (2018) Data Organization in Spreadsheets, The American Statistician, 72:1, 2-10, DOI: 10.1080/00031305.2017.1375989
Meanwhile I'll try to remember how to read the colors of the highlighted cells in R...
APOD: 2023 July 26 – IC 4628: The Prawn Nebula
A different astronomy and space science related image is featured each day, along with a brief explanation.apod.nasa.gov
Michael DeHaan (original author of Ansible) thinks the time is ripe for the world to see a Rust-based Ansible alternative—with potentially 90-95% compatibility with exsiting playbooks—that can scale to 50-100k systems through a new message bus option.
laserllama.substack.com/p/a-ne…
A New IT Automation Project? Moving Beyond Ansible And Keeping The Spirit - An Invitation
Hi everyone! So you know Ansible, right? I started the project in 2012. It's now possibly a $600M/year business for IBM and runs computing fleets in most of the Fortune 500. I would not have imagined that growth when I started.laserllama (laserllama's blog)
Following Twitter's lockdown of tweets, a lot of sites have seen their embedded timelines break.
If you're looking for a way to embed mastodon posts, I've just created a new project that lets you embed your timeline of toots.
🪶 It's lightweight (<2kb).
🙈 No tracking of any kind.
💅 Fully style-able with CSS
📦 One simple web component
Feature requests & contributions are welcome!
github.com/andy-blum/fed-embed
GitHub - andy-blum/fed-embed: A highly customizable, lightweight mastodon feed embed component
A highly customizable, lightweight mastodon feed embed component - GitHub - andy-blum/fed-embed: A highly customizable, lightweight mastodon feed embed componentGitHub
An #openscience question for earth scientists:
I'd like to know what standards earth scientists would use to store institution and coordinates of an experiment in an XML file?
Searching for metadata standards for geospatial data, I found, e.g.:
fgdc.gov/metadata/iso-standard…
Which is waaaaay too detailed for me. Anybody able and willing to help me out?
ISO Geospatial Metadata Standards — Federal Geographic Data Committee
Learn about the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) Geospatial Metadata Standardswww.fgdc.gov
Star spectra from "Le Soleil" by Angelo Secchi (1870).
Science History Institute, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Cropping and color edits.
"The Star-Spectroscope of the Lick Observatory."
Julius Scheiner, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
"Spectra of the fixed stars and nebulae compared with the sun-spectrum and other spectra." (1902)
Dodd, Mead and Company, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Color edits.
"The Spectroscope: How Helium was discovered."
youtube.com/watch?v=QTC1aKBgyU…
The spectroscope: how helium was discovered
The astronomer Sir Norman Lockyer is believed to have used this seven-prism spectroscope to detect the element helium for the first time. Ordered from the L...YouTube
The Ordinaries is absolutely BRILLIANT! I saw it yesterday at the cinema. It reminds me a little of Pleasantville. Fascinating presentation of social messages, and a nice balance of pathos and comedy.
@Carsten Raddatz @Christoph S
THE ORDINARIES (Germany, 2022): Trailer
The OrdinariesDirector: Sophie LinnenbaumLanguage: German with English subtitlesPart of KINO! Germany Now! 2023www.kinogermanynow.comLinnenbaum’s playful fic...YouTube
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem | Teaser Trailer (2023 Movie) - Seth Rogen
From permanent teenager Seth Rogen, a new generation of heroes will rise...from the sewers. Watch the new teaser trailer for Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: #M...YouTube
It's Day 25 and today we are submitting photos and videos to the co-op!
We want to highlight your story! Submit your photos or videos (even selfies / b-roll / outtakes!) to the co-op featuring your artisan business. Link to the submission form: forms.gle/hqx476PEeaWNVU9A9
Google Forms: Sign-in
Access Google Forms with a personal Google account or Google Workspace account (for business use).forms.gle
PragerU is propaganda. It isn't, in any way, an academic organization. It's a YouTube channel that makes lecture-style videos that explicitly promote evangelical Christianity, political disinformation, anti-LGBTQ talking points, Islamophobia, and Anti-Semitism.
Its namesake is conservative talk radio host Dennis Prager. In no way, shape, or form should these videos be in America's classrooms.
bridge.georgetown.edu/research…
Factsheet: PragerU - Bridge Initiative
PragerU, short for Prager University, is an American conservative organization that produces content to promote“Judeo-Christian values” to their millions of followers through short, lecture-style videos.The Bridge Initiative
#NASASolarSystem
"An image Comet PanStarrs C2011 taken from the Norman Lockyer Observatory on 26th May 2013 showing the large anti-tail."
Mallorcasaint at English Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
After three quiet years, the Shishaldin volcano in Alaska’s Aleutian Islands erupted this month. 🌋
Ash fallout from the eruptions can be seen on the southern flanks of the volcano in this image captured by #Landsat 8 on July 17, 2023. go.nasa.gov/3DwFIaF
#NASAEarth
Shishaldin Erupts
Ash from recent eruptions blackened the snow-covered flanks of the Alaskan volcano.go.nasa.gov
These bold explorers (or, not so bold, no judgment) will go where humans can't to explore real exoplanets. Check them out and take our quiz to see which Exoplaneteer YOU are: exoplanets.nasa.gov/exoplanete…
#NASAExoplanets
The Exoplaneteers | Explore – Exoplanet Exploration: Planets Beyond our Solar System
Four brave explorers, the Captain, the Brain, the Scout, and the Friend, find themselves flung onto different exoplanets. Separated by space, the Exoplaneteers search for signs of life, or friends, while facing the dangers of these strange worlds.Exoplanet Exploration: Planets Beyond our Solar System
Red Hat Freeloaders Tried Submitting To RHEL
We've had too much serious Red Hat and RHEL stuff recently so let's talk about a situation that didn't even remotely need to happen if people from Red Hat ju...YouTube
youtu.be/Oyz4Aodr8T4
Claud - A Good Thing (Official Video)
“A Good Thing” by Claud from the album ‘Supermodels’, out now on Saddest Factory Records. Stream/Buy: https://claud.saddestrec.co/supermodelsPresented by Sad...YouTube
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#NASAExoplanets
Webb Detects Water Vapor in Rocky Planet-Forming Zone
New measurements by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope’s MIRI (Mid-Infrared Instrument) have detected water vapor in the system’s inner disk, at distances of less than 100 million miles (160 million kilometers) from the star – the region where rocky, …Jamie Adkins (NASA)
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