How 12,000 Tonnes of Dumped Orange Peel Grew Into a Landscape Nobody Expected to Find
‘"This is one of the only instances I've ever heard of where you can have cost-negative carbon sequestration," says ecologist Timothy Treuer from Princeton University.’
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How 12,000 Tonnes of Dumped Orange Peel Grew Into a Landscape Nobody Expected to Find : ScienceAlert
An experimental conservation project that was abandoned and almost forgotten about, has ended up producing an amazing ecological win nearly two decades after it was dreamt up.Peter Dockrill (ScienceAlert)
Compound Interest: Dahlia colour chemistry: Why don’t we see blue dahlias?
Click to enlarge Dahlias: the jewels of the late summer garden. Shades of red, yellow, orange, pink, with their petals forming intricate geometric structures. But, like roses and many other flowers…Compound Interest
Ideas for Celebrating National Aviation Day - NASA
Ten years ago, for National Aviation Day in 2014, we asked some fellow NASA workers for stories about their first flights. We received some great ones, andJim Banke (NASA)
Orville Wright and National Aviation Day - NASA
Orville Wright wasn’t sure exactly how long his first flight lasted.Jim Banke (NASA)
I'm a fan of Molleindustria's cynical and tongue-in-cheek art games, but missed this gem from a few years ago:
'TweeVee is an engine for interactive videos built in javascript. You can create a branching movie in the style of Black Mirror: Bandersnatch starting from Twee files exported from the popular hypertext editor Twine.'
Orville Wright and National Aviation Day - NASA
Orville Wright wasn’t sure exactly how long his first flight lasted.Jim Banke (NASA)
Those folks in the Middle Ages may have been onto something 😆
(Source unknown, will update if found 🦕)
Another Republican plan to “save money” that blew up in their faces. Most of these plans are designed to help the already well off.
Imagine if they had spent just a fifth of that on public schools instead of vouchers. Smaller debt and better schools.
Arizonans have elections coming up. They’re always better off when they vote for Democrats.
Arizona School Voucher Program Causes Budget Meltdown — ProPublica
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Arizona School Voucher Program Causes Budget Meltdown
Arizona, the model for voucher programs across the country, has spent so much money paying private schoolers’ tuition that it’s now facing hundreds of millions in budget cuts to critical state programs and projects.ProPublica
@palmoildetectives #PalmOil #Boycottpalmoil #Boycott4Wildlife #PalmOilKILLS #Conflictpalmoil
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@palmoildetectives #PalmOil #Boycottpalmoil #Boycott4Wildlife #PalmOilKILLS #Conflictpalmoil
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ICYMI: Save a town from paranormal infestation in the point and click adventure The founders of [redacted] gamingonlinux.com/2024/08/save…
Save a town from paranormal infestation in the point and click adventure The founders of [redacted]
Love your point and click adventures? Here's a fresh one for you! The founders of [redacted] from Relatively Painless Games looks like a great addition to your gaming library.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
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A Solar Prominence Eruption from SDO
Image Credit: NASA/Goddard/SDO AIA Team
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"Comet 12/P Pons-Brooks 2024-06-09."
Ma Ma Creek Astro, CC BY 2.0 via Flickr: flic.kr/p/2q2xegS
Comet 12/P Pons-Brooks 2024-06-09
Comet 12P/Pons-Brooks 2024-06-09 LRGB 3 x 120" per channel FSQ106N + STXL-16200 Heaven's Mirror Observatory Yass, Australia.Flickr
"IC405 IC410 - Tadpoles and Flaming Star."
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IC405 IC410 - Tadpoles and Flaming Star
First light with my new Starizona 0.65x reducer on my trusted Esprit 100 15 * 180s per filter (SHO)Flickr
"The Devil's Tower (RCW 85)."
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The Devil's Tower (RCW 85)
The Devil's Tower (RCW 85): an emission nebula in Centaurus. RCW 85 sits roughly halfway between the pointers of the Southern Cross: Alpha and Beta Centauri. Imaged from Heaven's Mirror Observatory, Yass, NSW Australia.Flickr
"Stairway to the Stars."
Jim Vajda from Oxford, Ohio, USA, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
"Unexplored Seamounts of the Salas y Gómez Ridge | 4K ROV Highlights."
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"'Galaxy' of Radiolarians."
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"Perseid Meteor Shower at Mojave National Preserve."
Jim Vajda from Oxford, Ohio, USA, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
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Lesser known: Before NASA and the Apollo program, Margaret Hamilton worked with mathematician and meteorologist Edward Lorenz.
From 1959-1961 she programmed weather simulations on his LGP-30 computer. Those projects were the precursors to his famous 1963 paper that marked the birth of chaos theory.
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The Hidden Heroines of Chaos
Two women programmers played a pivotal role in the birth of chaos theory. Their previously untold story illustrates the changing status of computation in science.Quanta Magazine
U.S. friends, today is a great day to check if you are registered to vote.
I just did it, and it took less than two minutes. Super easy!
Everything You Need to Vote - Vote.org
Register to vote. Check your registration status. Get your absentee ballot. Fast, free, easy, secure, nonpartisan.www.vote.org
#Copepod #zooplankton are the most numerous metazoans on the planet, and some have evolved into fantastical forms. Take Calocalanus pavo, the beautiful "peacock copepod", which has amazingly plumed antenna and caudal rami. It is small, ~1mm long, and uses the plumes to slow its sinking for feeding in the upper #ocean. It is famous for being very prominent in Ernst Haeckel's Kunstformen der Natur (1904) plate 54 #watercolour paintings of copepoda.
#science #art
Happy Caturday 🤫
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Last spring, Washington State passed a bill banning commercial octopus farming.
Today, we (myself and 99 others, led by Jennifer Jacquet, Becca Franks, Peter Godfrey-Smith, and Walter Sanchez-Suarez) have a letter in Science supporting the US OCTOPUS Act, which would do the same nationwide.
Octopuses cannot be farmed humanely.
They are highly intelligent, extremely curious creatures that fare poorly in monotonous environment without natural stimulation. They are naturally solitary and experience intense stress in crowded environments.
Farming conditions are horrible for them.
(It's also highly inefficient, ecologically, to farm carnivores.)
Here's the full PDF: carlbergstrom.com/publications…
Matt Hall
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in reply to Sheril Kirshenbaum • • •did someone dig a big hole, find some old bones and then take credit for the kill of a dragon?
Spurring a bunch of knights to do equal deeds and going on quests, achieving nothing, and then having to lie about also slaying a dragon
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in reply to Sheril Kirshenbaum • • •🏴 Palaeontological reconstruction could advance simply by checking out a Welsh flag?
(Y Ddraig Goch would like to say he is not Middle Ages bullshit, but early medieval. )
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