Vegan diet massively cuts environmental damage, study shows
Detailed analysis finds plant diets lead to 75% less climate-heating emissions, water pollution and land use than meat-rich onesDamian Carrington (The Guardian)
Building a Submersible PC #diy
youtube.com/watch?v=yFswDJPvtP…
Building a Submersible PC
Sending PC hardware underwater in style! Thanks to ASUS for sponsoring this build! Visit https://asus.click/DIYPerks to check out the Zenbook Pro 14 Duo OLED...YouTube
"Comet 12P/Pons–Brooks on July 27, 2023; J87 Observatory."
Juan lacruz, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Color edits.
ZIP Domains Are A Disaster & A Scammers Dream
ZIP domains should have never been created and are unquestionably a disaster and whilst I love being right on this occasion I really wish I wasn't turns out ...YouTube
The extreme heat has devastated corals. As a former marine scientist, this is a truly heartbreaking read:
“The coral didn’t even have a chance to bleach, it just died. It just felt like, ‘Oh my God, we’re in the apocalypse.’ What’s happening?”
nytimes.com/2023/07/31/climate…
“Demand #climate action right now. Not in a year, not tomorrow, right now. Actually yesterday.”
Houston, we have a @NASASocial!
Apply for a chance to join in our NASA Social for the OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample reveal at @NASA_Johnson, Oct. 10-11. Get a first look at rocks from deep space, tour our laboratories, & meet other creators. #ToBennuAndBack go.nasa.gov/3OBz3C9
#NASA
Experience the Reveal of the First U.S. Asteroid Sample
Content creators are invited to register for a chance to take part in our NASA Social event for the OSIRIS-REx sample reveal–the first pristine asteroid sampleGary Daines (NASA)
I have recently finished Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr. EXCELLENT! Definitely solarpunk, but not sold that way in order to garner a larger audience. People have been lauding it as a book in praise of books. I would say that it is a book about human memory and the need to be humane. Personally, I would sell it as a Dr Who plot for grown-ups! XD
I am now reading The Dawn of Everything by David Graeber and David Wengrow. I am grateful to see someone re-examine history in this way. We have had many recent archeological and anthropological findings about our pasts that just don't make it into classroom history books. These classroom books perpetuate received knowledge from the likes of Hobbes and Rousseau. I regularly rail against the same thing happening in English departments where much of what we learn about literature is about grand suppositions made 100-1000 years ago without any research to ground them in reality. "If Aristotle said it, it must be true!"
like this
2023-2024 SMBE Virtual Lab Meeting Training Program
SMBE Virtual Lab Training Programsmbevirtual.github.io
Human microbiome myths and misconceptions
Two myths to highlight:
"We need standardized methodologies"
"Most of the human microbiota is 'unculturable'"
True, unculturable taxa are a minority in the human microbiome now (in westernized guts it's mostly just the Melainabacteria left, I think)
nature.com/articles/s41564-023…
Human microbiome myths and misconceptions - Nature Microbiology
Walker and Hoyles highlight selected myths and misconceptions in the human microbiota literature.Nature
Nine-Year-Old Ski Jumper Screws Up Courage
This video shows a fourth grader trying a bigger ski jump for the first time. If you’re a parent, I defy you to not tear ukottke.org
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ar5iv – Articles from arXiv.org as responsive HTML5 web documents
ar5iv offers a modern web view for arXiv's preprints. An open community resource, on a quest to a full collection of high-quality documents.ar5iv
#NASA
NASA, Boeing to Provide Progress Update on Starliner Crew Flight Test
NASA and Boeing will host a media teleconference at 2 p.m. EDT Monday, Aug. 7, to provide an update on the first astronaut flight of the company’s CST-100 Starliner to and from the International Space Station.Claire O’Shea (NASA)
Spectacular Sounds & Marvellous Music Collection
Add some aural polish to your game, video, or app with this massive bundle of pro-level audio, valued at over $900! Pay what you want and support SpecialEffect!Humble Bundle
In August we are launching a series of artist-hosted social events every Thursday evening. These will be part of the project waking.land/ exploring loss and 'grievability' through the nearby site of Benbo Mountain.
Each week a different artist or group will hold space, creating a social environment to consider different research topics related to the project.
The project is a partnership with the Glens Centre supported by the Irish Hospice Foundation.
Lecturers Without Borders (LeWIBo) is a small NGO that aims to bring scientists to schools by organising outreach lectures during scientists' trips (and sometimes also online!)
We are a network of over 400 scientists from 54 countries, our work is voluntary and the lectures are free of charge for the schools.
Learn more at lewibo.org
open-raman.org
#chemistry #DIYbio #lab #instruments #Raman #optics #imaging #spectroscopy
From the onexplayer indiegogo…
RGAY?! 🤣 Why are they starring out names lmao
#NASAExoplanets
Euclid test images tease of riches to come
Euclid’s two instruments have captured their first test images. The mesmerising results indicate that the space telescope will achieve the scientific goals that it has been designed for – and possibly much more.www.esa.int
NASA, Boeing to Provide Progress Update on Starliner Crew Flight Test
NASA and Boeing will host a media teleconference at 2 p.m. EDT Monday, Aug. 7, to provide an update on the first astronaut flight of the company’s CST-100 Starliner to and from the International Space Station.Claire O’Shea (NASA)
#MondayMotivation: Small acts can have a big effect.
#NASAExoplanets
5 Ways to Find a Planet | Explore – Exoplanet Exploration: Planets Beyond our Solar System
NASA’s Exoplanet Exploration Program, the search for planets and life beyond our solar system.Exoplanet Exploration: Planets Beyond our Solar System
#Tecnoafecciones El Programa para el Medio Ambiente de @ONU_es
anunció este año que se generan cerca de 50 millones de toneladas de desechos electrónicos al año‼️
La cifra es equivalente al peso de 1400 torres Eiffel y se calcula que se duplicará en las próximas 3 décadas.
Pero el reciclaje no es una solución en sí misma 👉 Es un proceso complejo, muy caro y, además, siempre hay materiales valiosos imposibles de rescatar.
No aborda la raíz del problema, porque sigue basándose en los mismos procesos de producción extractivos y explotadores.
La producción y el consumo masivos, las estrategias de diseño y normativas adoptadas por las empresas y apoyadas por los gobiernos, están llevando a la degradación ambiental y a injusticias sociales sin precedentes.
Acciones para (re)conectar y transformar las tecnologías 🌿🤳
Before 1964, we had no close-up photos of the Moon, and it wasn't known if astronauts could feasibly land on its surface. That changed when Ranger 7 sent back 4,316 images of the lunar surface before impacting the Moon #OTD in 1964.
More about Ranger 7: go.nasa.gov/3QhaGv4
#NASAhistory
Baldur's Gate 3 on Steam Deck is 'absolutely wild' and aims for 30FPS on Medium
Well this is certainly exciting! Ahead of the release of Baldur's Gate 3 which is going to easily big one of the biggest releases this year the Director of Publishing at Larian Studios teased playing it on Steam Deck on Twitter (uh, sorry on "X").Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
#JamesWebb
Space isn’t always metal.
NGC 6822, a galactic neighbor captured by Webb, has unusually low metallicity, meaning it doesn’t have much in the way of elements heavier than hydrogen and helium. This image combines Webb’s views in near and mid-infrared light: esawebb.org/images/potm2307a/
#JamesWebb
#ISS
Preparations Underway for Upcoming Cargo Delivery
The Expedition 69 crew is gearing up for a cargo delivery to the International Space Station this week. Health investigations and spacesuit surveys were also conducted today.blogs.nasa.gov
#ISS
NASA Astronaut Andrew Jay (Drew) Feustel to Leave NASA
NASA astronaut and geophysicist Drew Feustel, a veteran of three space missions and nine spacewalks, who also held key leadership positions within the Astronaut Office at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, is retiring from the agency after 23 ye…Wendy Avedisian (NASA)
The galaxy LEDA 62867 is safe... for now.
LEDA 62867 is the smaller, leftmost galaxy seen in this #HubbleClassic image. It's almost certainly going to eventually be swallowed by the larger galaxy seen on the right, NGC 6786, and its powerful gravity: go.nasa.gov/3QBJDuH
#Hubble
How is @ISS_Research helping us learn how to live in space—while making life better back on Earth? We'll be at #ISSRDC this week to talk about science on the @Space_Station.
Watch live on NASA TV, and follow @NASAExhibit for updates from the event: go.nasa.gov/3qbDpXr
#NASA
NASA Airs Coverage of Space Station Research, Development Conference
NASA will highlight groundbreaking discoveries, benefits for humanity, and how the agency and its commercial and international partners are maximizing research and development aboard the International Space Station at the 12th annual International Sp…Claire O’Shea (NASA)
Some parts of the BBC have decided to join the Fediverse on their own instance social.bbc/about
"This is an experiment - we will run it for 6 months, and then look at how much value it has provided, how much work it requires to maintain and then decide whether and how to continue."
Accounts being created include:
And a few others.
Edit: confirmed bbc.co.uk/rd/blog/2023-07-mast…
BBC Mastodon
This is an experimental Mastodon instance run by BBC Research and Development.Mastodon hosted on social.bbc
The BBC on Mastodon: experimenting with distributed and decentralised social media
Trialling ActivityPub and the federated model for social media and it's possibilities for the BBC.BBC R&D
NASA Airs Coverage of Space Station Research, Development Conference
NASA will highlight groundbreaking discoveries, benefits for humanity, and how the agency and its commercial and international partners are maximizing research and development aboard the International Space Station at the 12th annual International Sp…Claire O’Shea (NASA)
Rightfully, Beary Arms is an incredibly bizarre bullet-hell shooter
Rightfully, Beary Arms is a weird and wonderfully whack twin-stick shooter rogue-lite that's now in Early Access with Native Linux support and it works on the Steam Deck too.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
For Honor from Ubisoft gets an anti-cheat update - now Playable on Steam Deck
Nice to see more bigger publisher jumping in to get their games working on Steam Deck and desktop Linux. Ubisoft has now upgraded For Honor to support Easy Anti-Cheat on Deck.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Last Wednesday I ran @joelnitta's excellent "Introduction to Targets" workshop and taught around 15 people how to write workflows in R. I also tested out some bonus content about running targets on Slurm/HPC which I hope to get included in the workshop eventually.
All the feedback was positive, so I recommend giving it a shot if you're interested in teaching Targets at your organization!
github.com/carpentries-incubat…
GitHub - carpentries-incubator/targets-workshop: Pre-alpha {targets} workshop
Pre-alpha {targets} workshop. Contribute to carpentries-incubator/targets-workshop development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
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Did you know a mainstream News outlet gave credit for Mastodon to Elon Musk?!?
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