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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.’

sciencealert.com/how-12-000-to…



Dahlias start blooming this month (here, at least). Ever wonder what causes their colours and why you never see a blue one? This graphic explains: compoundchem.com/2021/09/12/da…


Ideas for Celebrating National Aviation Day nasa.gov/aeronautics/spread-yo… #NASA #Aeronautics #AeronauticsResearchMissionDirectorate



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.'

molleindustria.org/blog/tweeve…



Orville Wright and National Aviation Day nasa.gov/aeronautics/orville-w… #NASA #Aeronautics


Journaling doesn't have to be about beautiful things. Sometimes it's about the stressful stuff too: socialwork.buffalo.edu/content…



Those folks in the Middle Ages may have been onto something 😆

(Source unknown, will update if found 🦕)

in reply to Sheril Kirshenbaum

Maybe those bigass snails were just the artist’s way of referencing gigantism during the time when oxygen was far more abundant in the atmosphere…




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
propublica.org/article/arizona…






ICYMI: Save a town from paranormal infestation in the point and click adventure The founders of [redacted] gamingonlinux.com/2024/08/save…

#IndieGame #Linux



youtube.com/watch?v=PBL1RBj-P1…

A Solar Prominence Eruption from SDO

Image Credit: NASA/Goddard/SDO AIA Team

apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap240818.ht… #APOD

#APOD


"Comet 12/P Pons-Brooks 2024-06-09."

Ma Ma Creek Astro, CC BY 2.0 via Flickr: flic.kr/p/2q2xegS

#comet



"Persiads twofer at Alabama Hills."

John D., CC BY 2.0 via Flickr: flic.kr/p/2qa4vpn



"IC405 IC410 - Tadpoles and Flaming Star."

Sebastian Goralik, Public domain via Flickr: flic.kr/p/2pAnqpP

#astrophotography



"The Devil's Tower (RCW 85)."

Ma Ma Creek Astro, CC BY 2.0 via Flickr: flic.kr/p/2p51AXh



"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."

youtube.com/watch?v=eLafklQvEF…



"'Galaxy' of Radiolarians."

youtube.com/shorts/Fcbe-HkQQvA



"Perseid Meteor Shower at Mojave National Preserve."

Jim Vajda from Oxford, Ohio, USA, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

#meteor







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.

quantamagazine.org/the-hidden-…
mastodon.social/@mcnees/110907…



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!

vote.org/


in reply to Frank Aylward

do the strands start shifting and orienting to the light? that's what my oscillatoria did. within a few hours/days? (back in college) they would build sheets facing the light.


Weekend #Plankton #Factoid 🦠🦐

#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





On collective action: @pluralistic: "The MIT story shows how to break a collective action problem – through collective action! Individual scholarly boycotts did little to hurt Elsevier. Large-scale organized boycotts raised awareness, but Elsevier trundled on." pluralistic.net/2024/08/16/the…


A day for books and cats. This is Marie, resting from her aspirations to do part-time work at a bookstore. #Caturday #catsofmastodon #books




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.

science.org/doi/10.1126/scienc…

in reply to Carl T. Bergstrom

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…

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