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Building a Retro Linux Gaming Computer Part 42: Upset the Applecart
While the studio's destiny would later see it become consumed by Microsoft, in its earliest days Bungie instead stayed a Mac focused development house.Hamish (GamingOnLinux)
Station Science Top News: August 2, 2024 - NASA
Analyses suggest that microgravity does not significantly alter fundamental biochemical pathways in kidney cells, including metabolism of vitamin D. ThisSumer Loggins (NASA)
NASA, EPA Tackle NO2 Air Pollution in Overburdened Communities - NASA Science
NASA data about nitrogen dioxide, a harmful air pollutant, is available in EJScreen, EPA’s widely used environmental justice screening and mapping tool.science.nasa.gov
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When Teachers Become the Students: Educators Spend Summer Studying STEM Engagement at Johnson - NASA
Johnson’s Office of STEM Engagement (OSTEM) welcomed Jerry “Denise” Dunn and Shawnda Folsom as full-time interns for the summer. Both women came to JohnsonLinda E. Grimm (NASA)
‘Current’ Events: NASA and USGS Find a New Way to Measure River Flows - NASA
A team of scientists and engineers at NASA and the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) collaborated to see if a small piloted drone, equipped with a specializedRachel Hoover (NASA)
Sols 4263-4265: A Royal Birthday Celebration at Kings Canyon - NASA Science
Earth planning date: Friday, Aug. 2, 2024 Prepare your party poppers, horns, and confetti! On Aug. 6 (EDT), after 4,265 Martian sols since Curiosity first landed in Gale Crater, the rover will be turning 12 years old.science.nasa.gov
APOD: 2024 August 5 – Milky Way Over Tunisia
A different astronomy and space science related image is featured each day, along with a brief explanation.apod.nasa.gov
Just found "Opeth Music Cartridge for Sega Genesis/Mega Drive" on bandcamp. Instant purchase. Too bad the actual cartridges are sold out. The arrangements are really good and use the FM sounds of the Genesis' sound chip to great effect.
How Do I Navigate NASA Learning Resources and Opportunities? - NASA
NASA offers a variety of platforms and learning resources to support kindergarten through college educators in bringing the excitement of exploration and discovery to students in the classroom and beyond.Justin Locke (NASA)
NASA Engagement Platform Brings Experts to Classrooms, Communities - NASA
With a new school year on the horizon, NASA is introducing a platform to connect communities with agency experts to share their experiences working on agencyNASA
Europa Clipper Solar Array Alignment and Install - NASA
Technicians move NASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraft inside the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility to accommodate installation of its five-panel solar array atNASA
NASA’s Stennis Space Center Announces New Deputy Director - NASA
NASA’s Stennis Space Center Director John Bailey announced Aug. 2 that longtime propulsion engineer/manager Christine Powell has been selected as deputy director of the south Mississippi propulsion site, effective Aug. 12.NASA
NASA Trains Machine Learning Algorithm for Mars Sample Analysis - NASA
When a robotic rover lands on another world, scientists have a limited amount of time to collect data from the troves of explorable material, because of shortRob Garner (NASA)
NASA Inspires Employee to Reach Full Potential - NASA
NASA employee Kim Johnson’s desire for growth has taken her many places and continues unabated at NASA’s Stennis Space Center near Bay St. Louis, Mississippi.NASA
Low Leakage Cryogenic Disconnects for Fuel Transfer and Long-Term Storage - NASA
To enable deep space missions, the capability to transfer and store cryogenic fuels (typically liquid hydrogen, methane, and oxygen) without significantSarah Douglas (NASA)
NASA Stennis Flashback: Shuttle Team Achieves Unprecedented Milestone - NASA
In this NASA Stennis Flashback, Maury Vander, chief of test operations at NASA’s Stennis Space Center, still struggles to describe a pair of 34-minute space shuttle main engine tests conducted onsite in August 1988.LaToya Dean (NASA)
NASA Sends More Science to Space, More Strides for Future Exploration - NASA Science
Biological and physical investigations aboard the Northrop Grumman Commercial Resupply mission NG-21 included experiments studying the impacts of zero gravity on grass, how packed bed reactors could improve water purification both in space and on Ear…science.nasa.gov
Lagniappe for August 2024 - NASA
Explore the Lagniappe for August 2024 issue, highlighting the announcement of the new NASA Stennis Deputy Director, the successful SLS (Space Launch System) core stage rollout for Artemis II, NASA’s participation at Essence, and more!LaToya Dean (NASA)
Once again, evidence that #Ecosystems are complex, and perhaps we need to be acknowledge that - and be a bit more humble about implementing "solutions"
theguardian.com/environment/ar…
All-night streetlights make leaves inedible to insects, study finds
Scientists believe artificial light may be affecting natural ecology of plant life by creating extended photosynthesisHelena Horton (The Guardian)
In the Langdale valley.
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NASA Science, Cargo Launch on 21st Northrop Grumman Mission to Station - NASA
Following a successful launch of NASA’s Northrop Grumman 21st commercial resupply mission, new scientific experiments and cargo for the agency are bound forNASA
Low Leakage Cryogenic Disconnects for Fuel Transfer and Long-Term Storage - NASA
To enable deep space missions, the capability to transfer and store cryogenic fuels (typically liquid hydrogen, methane, and oxygen) without significantSarah Douglas (NASA)
@radiofreefedi just played a song by @jefftheworld that I really liked. I wouldn't have guessed that "chiptune music" was something I'd like, but I'm digging it. You can find his music at jefftheworld.com
jefftheworld
Official website of Toronto-based micromusic and chiptune musician jefftheworld.jefftheworld.com
Glad you enjoyed! You can also find more music, videos, etc, on my peertube channel (which you can follow right here on the fediverse):
NASA Furthers Aeronautical Innovation Using Model-Based Systems - NASA
NASA is using Model-Based Systems Analysis and Engineering to digitally simulate how multiple technologies could best work together as a single, complex system.John Gould (NASA)
A new report from European Commission's Open Source Observatory gives an in-depth analysis of #OpenSource policy across 15 EU and non-EU countries.
It shows that governments are adopting open source to enhance
🔴 digital sovereignty
🟡 data privacy
🟢 control over digital infrastructures
Read the report 👉 europa.eu/!DDyPBb
Progress and trends in the national open source policies and legal frameworks
The report describes shifts in open source policy trends that has taken place in the last 5 years.Monika SOWINSKA
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Milky Way Over Tunisia
Image Credit & Copyright: Makrem Larnaout
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APOD: 2024 August 5 – Milky Way Over Tunisia
A different astronomy and space science related image is featured each day, along with a brief explanation.apod.nasa.gov
Ooh! These look cool!
Skip’s Mo/Go Robotic Pants Help Power You Up Mountains
"Is it possible to make a hike uphill easier on your body? Skip thinks so, and they have a solution. In a collaboration with clothing company Arc’teryx, Skip, a startup born out of Google’s innovation lab, has a pair of specialized pants that act like a powered exoskeleton. They’re called Mo/Go.
"With a motor at the knee, the Mo/Go (short for mountain goat) has an adjustable carbon-fiber cuffs keep them in place, and they augment the user’s quadricep and hamstring muscles to propel them forward and upward.
"The idea is not to have a robot walk for you, but to help power your joints and muscles, letting you go farther, for longer."
Skip’s Mo/Go Robotic Pants Help Power You Up Mountains
These powered pants by Skip help hikers go farther, more easily.Moss and Fog
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You may be right. After all, walkers are pretty inexpensive; they have reached economies of scale.
Still, they're made of relatively inexpensive aluminum, not carbon fiber.
Anyway, for me building my DIY idea, I've modified it from a couple flexible springs to something with four rigid sticks. Basically, the bottom sticks are walking sticks, while the top sticks go from the bottom sticks to points near the top of backpack straps or suspenders. As before, "pulling" pushes down with a good mechanical advantage.
Originally, I was thinking of attaching the bottom of the sticks to the toes of your shoes, but trying out the cadence ... it feels weird to move your left arm slightly before your left leg. By making the bottom sticks independent walking sticks, you can use your natural cadence. Also, it's more flexible because you don't need to wear anything specific on your feet.
The nature of the last universal common ancestor and its impact on the early Earth system - Nature Ecology & Evolution
Integration of phylogenetics, comparative genomics and palaeobiological approaches suggests that the last universal common ancestor lived about 4.2 billion years ago and was a complex prokaryote-grade anaerobic acetogen that was part of an ecosystem.Nature
i still don't understand the assumption of a single ancestor. my sense of prokaryotes is that we descend from several populations with different specialties all eveolving in an anastomising net of symbisis.
eventually things shake out to bacteria and archaea
@foaylward if by community we might mean half a dozen different kinds of creatures.
i'll have to review the methods again to see what they say about my idea.
Sooooo QUTE!!
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Baby wolverine! Daaaaaaw!
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NASA Science, Cargo Launch on 21st Northrop Grumman Mission to Station - NASA
Following a successful launch of NASA’s Northrop Grumman 21st commercial resupply mission, new scientific experiments and cargo for the agency are bound forNASA
Federated chatting - now in Nextcloud Talk! 🌍 ↔️ 🌎
Add users from independent Nextcloud Hub instances in group conversations and communicate easily without leaving your own Nextcloud. Federated features are ideal for projects between teams using different Nextcloud Hubs, enabling flexible, secure collaboration without third-party messengers.
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How federated chat works in Nextcloud Talk - Nextcloud
Nextcloud Hub 8 enables the federated chat feature that let you connect users from different instances via group chats.Mikhail Korotaev (Nextcloud)
"The federated chat feature is ased on the Open Cloud Mesh (OCM) open standard developed at CERN with the help of Nextcloud and other open source projects."
May i offer you a "b"? 😉
Genomic analyses of Symbiomonas scintillans show no evidence for endosymbiotic bacteria but does reveal the presence of giant viruses
Author summary Endosymbiotic bacteria are found in a wide variety of hosts across the tree of eukaryotes and have been proposed to be evolutionarily and ecologically significant, but in most cases, we know little to nothing about them.journals.plos.org
Unfortunately, the drug that prevents HIV infection, lenacapavir, is currently unaffordable at $42,250 for the first year. If it were sold by Gilead for $40 per year, it would still yield them a 30% profit. But I guess that’s not how capitalism works.
nature.com/articles/d41586-024…
Stunning trial shows twice-yearly shots can prevent HIV infection
Injections of the drug lenacapavir protected sexually active women and girls in Africa from the virus.www.nature.com
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