The boat of Sokar flanked by jackals (3rd century CE).
Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 52.128a-e. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, 52.128a_52.128e_PS2.jpg). brooklynmuseum.org/opencollect…
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APOD: 2023 August 13 – The Sombrero Galaxy in Infrared
A different astronomy and space science related image is featured each day, along with a brief explanation.apod.nasa.gov
Block Statue of Ipwer; the right side shows the sacred boat of Sokaris. 25th or 26th Dynasty.
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The Origin Of PopOS Linux
PopOS has been around for quite a while now but have you ever wondered about the origin of the project, well Jeremy was involved in it so here's here to let ...YouTube
Why we place too much trust in machines
While many people might claim to be sceptical of autonomous technology, we may have a deep ingrained trust of machines that traces back to our evolutionary past.Chris Baraniuk (BBC)
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Study for Plate 122 of Baron Dominique Vivant Denon's "Voyage dans la Basse et la Haute Egypte" (1802).
© The Trustees of the British Museum, CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 via britishmuseum.org/collection/i…
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"Henu Barque Amulet" (~525-30 BCE).
Met Museum, Public domain via metmuseum.org/art/collection/s…
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Virginia School Board attorneys argued that Abigail Zwerner - the 1st grade teacher shot in her classroom by a 6yo - is not entitled to more than worker’s compensation bc the shooting was “a workplace injury” & “hazard of the job.”
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Educators ‘outraged’ after attorneys argue 1st-grade teacher shot in school is ‘workplace injury’
The Newport News Education Association President condemned the premise of the school division’s motion to dismiss Abigail Zwerner’s pending $40 million lawsuit.Jeff Bailey (The Denver Post)
Somebody recreated some of the special effects in #Oppenheimer at home. Very impressive!
youtube.com/watch?v=o2FqU2f6DR…
We RECREATED the Nuclear Explosion from Oppenheimer with ZERO CGI
We recreated Christopher Nolan's nuclear explosion from Oppenheimer with zero CGI, along with a few other effects from Oppenheimer. With Oppenheimer's budget...YouTube
“What really matters is helping others win, too, even if it means slowing down and changing our course now and then.”
- Fred Rogers
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NVIDIAs New Open Source Vulkan Driver Is Here
Nvidia open source drivers have been a mess for quite a while but with the recent addition of NVK into mesa we're finally making progress towards things actu...YouTube
"...Ptah was also a master builder. He created the arts of stoneworking and architecture that allowed the Egyptians to build the tombs of the Valley of the Kings and, later, the pyramids."
godsandgoddesses.org/egyptian/…
Is there a link between the Greek Petros with Ptah or "Pitah"?
Peter for instance was derived at the time from Latin: Petrus and the Greek: Petros.
Was Ptah the inventor of cast stones?
petrous | Etymology, origin and meaning of petrous by etymonline
PETROUS Meaning: very hard, dense, from Old French petros (Modern French petreux) and directly from Latin petrosus… See origin and meaning of petrous.Online Etymology Dictionary
"Building the Pyramids of Egypt with Artificial Stones."
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Building the Pyramids of Egypt with Artificial Stones
** Subtitles available (english, french and polish) **Prof. Joseph DAVIDOVITS presents, in this 1h20 conference, his famous theory on how the Egyptians pyram...YouTube
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"The Sacred Bee: Ancient Egypt."
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The Sacred Bee: Ancient Egypt
Click to view bee-related hieroglyphs! Hives were moved up and down the Nile depending on the time of year, allowing the bees to pollinate flowers which were in season.Planet Bee Foundation
I'm wanting to incorporate some #Rstats in my university #Evolution class so that students learn/reinforce some R skills while increasing their understanding of evolution. I did an internet search and found next to nothing:
Too advanced:
mimuw.edu.pl/~lukaskoz/teachin…
Interesting, but pretty limited in what it does:
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10…
Any recommendations?
"'House of Bee' designation of the temples of the goddess Neit in Sais; 26th Dynasty."
Also, note the term nswt-bjtj is a title that means "of the Sedge and Bee" and also means "Ruler of Upper (Sedge) and Lower (Bee) Egypt."
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prenomen…
Sedge = en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyperace…
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Silver tetradrachm of Ephesus (ΕΦ) with Bee (Μέλισσα) (4th century BCE).
Mark Landon / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY 4.0.
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@NASAHubble imaged the galaxy NGC 6684, 44 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Pavo. Pavo – Latin for peacock – is a southern sky constellation and one of four constellations known as the Southern Birds. go.nasa.gov/3OqgnUO
#NASAExoplanets
Hubble Sees Galaxy in a Ghostly Haze
The lenticular galaxy NGC 6684 bathes this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope in a pale light.Andrea Gianopoulos (NASA)
#USFCMS #microbiology #micro #virology #phage #virus
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Matters Microbial #2: Shock and awe microbiology and a chat with Mya Breitbart
Mark discusses some “shock and awe” concepts about the microbial world that he introduces to his microbiology students, and asks three important questions ab...YouTube
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The life cycle of an ant (Camponotus festinatus) laid out in a single photograph: eggs, larvae of various ages, a silk-covered pupa, and an adult worker. At #UTAustin's Brackenridge Field Laboratory, in Texas.
#Ants #Metamorphosis #Insects #Camponotus #LifeCycles
Smoking hot on your birthday 🔥 🙌
5 years ago today, @nasa's Parker Solar Probe launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida, on its way become the first spacecraft to touch the @NASASun!
More about its mission to unlock the mysteries of the Sun's corona: go.nasa.gov/3rPCJY5
#NASAhistory
A Soaring Success!
#OTD in 1977, NASA's first space shuttle orbiter Enterprise completed its first free flight, with Fred Haise and Gordon Fullerton piloting it down to the runway at @NASAArmstrong.
Watch video from the flight: go.nasa.gov/4557hE3
#NASAhistory
Approach and Landing Tests Film Documentary
Documentary of shuttle Enterprise on the Shuttle Carrier Aircraft (SCA), separating from the SCA in flight, and in free-flight. Footage shows SCA pilots Fitz...YouTube
In 2022, severe lightning ignited fires in Alaska. 🔥
A year later, @VUamsterdam scientists with @nasa’s ABoVE project are studying the burned tundra to understand how Arctic fires impact plants, soil, permafrost and more. go.nasa.gov/3DQ2fiF
#NASAEarth
Notes from the Field - Expedition to Alaska’s Burned Tundra
climate change, global climate change, global warming, natural hazards, Earth, environment, remote sensing, atmosphere, land processes, oceans, volcanoes, land cover, Earth science data, NASA, environmental processes, Blue Marble, global mapsgo.nasa.gov
A new high resolution microbial time #tree calibrated using the Great Oxidation Event (GOE) ~2.33 billion years ago highlights the evolution of aerobic lifestyles in #bacteria. Most bacteria were ancestrally anaerobic (Bacillota/Firmicutes are the oldest) and the transition to an aerobic lifestyle was initiated by Cyanobacteria, which seeded #oxygen production and consumption capabilities to the broader bacterial tree over hundreds of millions of years.
biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/20…
An evolutionary timescale for Bacteria calibrated using the Great Oxidation Event
Most of life's diversity and history is microbial but it has left a meagre fossil record, greatly hindering understanding of evolution in deep time.bioRxiv
we actually published a calibrated tree of life using similar approaches recently
elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre…
We received some pushback for using the GOE for calibration (all reviews and responses are public). It will be interesting to see how that plays out here.
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Please don’t come.
Cancel your trip and donate the money to the Hawaii Community Foundation Maui Strong Fund instead.
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The most important thing you can do to fight climate change: talk about it
How do you talk to someone who doesn't believe in climate change? Not by rehashing the same data and facts we've been discussing for years, says climate scientist Katharine Hayhoe.www.ted.com
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Japan Earthquake Alert App (1.9 million followers) Says Sayonara to X
"[..]We have decided that if we were to spend over ¥700,000 per month that it would be better if this money could go to developing our NERV app and strengthening our ActivityPub servers instead of X’s API. Therefore, we are beginning to cut down on our posts on X."
unseen-japan.com/nerv-app-x-tw…
#X #Twitter #mastodon #activitypub #nerv #gehirn
Japan Earthquake Alert App Says Sayonara to X - Unseen Japan
Many people in Japan depend on the NERV service for earthquake alerts. Unfortunately, they'll no longer be able to receive them on X.Himari Semans (Unseen Japan)
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