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The invention of the screw was over 2300 years ago. Yet this simple object remains the fastener in nearly every modern-day invention. This week, Big Picture Science unwinds the history and importance of ingenious and deceptively simple devices in “Nuts and Bolts”. Listen: https://bigpicturescience.org/episodes/nuts-and-bolts #podcast #science

A close-up picture of nuts and bolts, centered on a nut.

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#PPOD: This video, made from images taken by Parker Solar Probe’s WISPR instrument during its record-breaking flyby of the Sun on Dec. 25, 2024, shows the solar wind racing out from the Sun’s outer atmosphere, the corona. Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins APL/Naval Research Lab

https://youtu.be/k1dTwEyuD44?si=mq6dZIVEMP93eKFR

#space #science

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Next #SETILive: A Vaporizing Planet
TODAY, Jul 17, 2025 | 3:30 PM PDT / 6:30 PM EDT

Join communications specialist Beth Johnson for a live interview with astrophysicist Marc Hon (MIT), lead author of a new study revealing one of the most extreme exoplanets ever discovered — a small, rocky world that's literally disintegrating as it orbits its star.

WATCH LIVE: https://www.youtube.com/live/kcMRyGUYR_g?si=NAl-ASSBYvkBlXOZ

#science #space

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#PPOD: HOPS-315 is a baby star where astronomers have observed early planet formation. The image from the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) and JWST data shows hot minerals starting to solidify.

In orange, we see the distribution of carbon monoxide, blowing away from the star in a butterfly-shaped wind. In blue, we see a narrow jet of silicon monoxide, also beaming away from the star.

Credit: ALMA(ESO/NAOJ/NRAO)/M. McClure et al.

#space #science

Infrared observations of a baby star and its burgeoning planetary system. In orange, we see the distribution of carbon monoxide, blowing away from the star (center) in a butterfly-shaped wind. In blue, we see a narrow jet of silicon monoxide, also beaming away from the star.

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My latest cartoon for @newscientist.com 🧪 #science

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Pure idiocy

#EPA Says It Will Eliminate Its #Scientific #Research Arm

The decision comes after a #SCOTUS ruling allowing the #Trump admin to slash the federal work force & dismantle agencies.

#science #Climate #ClimateCrisis #idiocracy #law #UnitedStates #BrainDrain
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/18/climate/epa-firings-scientific-research.html?unlocked_article_code=1.Xk8.l81V.O4DgmQBqHXzk&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

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No new #SETILive #podcast this week, so let's go back to April 1 and an interesting exoplanet called HD 20794 d with an eccentric orbit. The temperature differences make it a great place to study a planet's potential habitability! Listen to the whole show: https://sites.libsyn.com/462636/super-earth-laboratory-using-hd-20794-d-to-understand-habitability

#science #scicomm

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Exclusive: US #CDC #vaccine presentation cites study that does not exist, author says

A review on the use of the preservative thimerosal in vaccines slated to be presented on Thursday to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's outside vaccine committee cites a study that does not exist, the scientist listed as the study's author said.

#Trump #RFKJr #AI #HHS #science #medicine #idiocracy #kakistocracy
https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/us-cdc-report-shows-no-evidence-linking-thimerosal-containing-vaccines-autism-2025-06-24/

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Let Molly Ivins walk you through some of the oddest news from our beautiful home ... in Strangest State.

Browse more from the May/June 2025 issue of our magazine: https://www.texasobserver.org/issues/may-june-2025/

#news #comics #weird #Texas #culture #animals #drugs #science #ElonMusk #SpaceX

In Strangest State, Molly Ivins appears to narrate weird or odd events that took place in our state, such as: Game wardens in Milam county found a man with a collection of methamphetamine and poisonous snakes, including a monocled cobra, a green bush viper and 25 rattlers in hjis apartment (the snakes are shown wearing sunglasses, partying and doing drugs).A man hunting deer on a West Texas ranch found something completely different: an extinct mammoth. Concerned 911 callers in Hutto were told not to worry about a guy dangling from a helicopter near electrical lines: he works for the power company. A passenger captured video from her airline flight of a SpaceX rocket exploding into a fireball after its launch from the Gulf Coast near Brownsville. Elon Musk called it a "minor setback." (Musk gives a thumbs up while debris lands near a crowd behind him). Molly Ivins: Well Folks, that's some strange news isn't it? If you see something happening around town, give us a shout: strangest@texasobserver.org

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🚨 Astronomers have witnessed the dawn of a new solar system!

Using ALMA and JWST they observed the first specks of planet-forming material — hot minerals beginning to solidify around HOPS-315, a baby star 1300 light-years away.

This marks the first time a planetary system has been identified at such an early stage in its formation – a window to the past of our own Solar System.

https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso2512a/

#astrodon #astronomy #astrophysics #space #science

📷 ALMA(ESO/NAOJ/NRAO)/M. McClure et al

A telescopic image showing an orange butterfly-shaped nebula with a bright core and fainter wings. A narrow blue jet emerges from the central core and extends into the wings of the bigger nebula.

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This is personal: "Appointing the 4 Horseman of the Scientific Apocalypse — RFK Jr. as Sec of #HHS, Dr. Oz to run Medicare & Medicaid services, Dr. Makary as head of the #FDA & Dr. Bhattacharya to run# NIH — has signaled the end of any serious approach to biomedical #science & public health by the federal govt. Together & separately, they have taken a wrecking ball to our august scientific institutions that were previously considered to be the best in the world."

https://www.salon.com/2025/07/16/donald-trump-goes-nuclear-in-the-gops-war-on-science/

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Recent comic: It's time to update the old binaries.

#cartoon #comic #uspol #science #humanrights

TERMS for our TIMES

LET'S FACE IT: THESE OLD BINARIES HAVE BECOME TIRED AND VAGUE.

EVIDENCE-BASED vs. PSEUDO-SCIENTIFIC

CONSTITUTIONAL VS. UNCONSTITUTIONAL

CORRUPT VS. FAIR

IMAGINE IF THESE TERMS WERE INSERTED INTO TYPICAL HORSE RACE NEWS COVERAGE.

Anchorman: THE CONSTITUTION IS DOWN IN THE POLLS. CAN IT APPEAL TO SWING VOTERS?

TV reporter with Ice agent hauling away older woman in background: AND ANOTHER SETBACK FOR HUMAN RIGHTS TODAY.

Pundit: PSEUDOSCIENCE IS VERY POPULAR AND WILL BE KEY TO WINNING THE MIDTERMS.

Reporter: SOME SAY BARBARISM HAS BEEN WRONGLY EXCLUDED FROM OUR INSTITUTIONS.CONSERVATIVES VS. LIBERALS RIGHT VS. LEFT

DEMOCRATS VS. REPUBLICANS

MAYBE WE SHOULD TRY THESE INSTEAD:

AUTHORITARIANISM VS. DEMOCRACY

HUMAN RIGHTS VS. BARBARISM

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National #Science Foundation to Be Requisitioned as Mansion for HUD Secretary (And Also HUD Office)

“There appears to be no plan for where the NSF staff will go.” https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/national-science-foundation-to-be-requisitioned-as-mansion-for-hud-secretary-and-also-hud-office #uspol

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The rapid rise in rocket launches may be slowing the recovery of the ozone layer, a scientist warns. Read more from phys.org:

https://flip.it/nFbbW-

#Science #Space #Rockets #Ozone

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#RFKJr #CDC #vaccine advisory committee recommends against #flu #vaccines

The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (#ACIP), made up of members recently hand-selected by #HHS Secy Robert F. Kennedy Jr., voted 5-1 on Thurs to recommend against #FluBaccines containing the preservative #thimerosal.

One committee member, Vicky Pebsworth, abstained on each vote.

#Trump #USpol #law #health #PublicHealth #policy #science #medicine #AntiVax #ConspiracyTheories #eugenics
https://abcnews.go.com/Health/cdc-vaccine-advisory-committee-recommends-flu-vaccines-thimerosal/story?id=123224218

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Antarctica’s 'Gravity Hole' Has Been Quietly Growing Stronger

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Hi 👋 I was the host of Serving Up Science, a PBS show created by WKAR with some of the kindest people in public media.

We focused on the #science of #food. Not politics, not controversy.

Now, half the team has been laid off.
It’s a quiet unraveling of something deeply valuable. #uspol

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The Intersection of Dance and Science

Lynn Matluck Brooks dives into the ever-evolving relationship between movement and technology.

By Chava Pearl Lansky

https://daily.jstor.org/the-intersection-of-dance-and-science/?utm_source=mcae&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=jstordaily-07312025

Dance at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subject/7959

#dance #science

Varvara Nikitina as the Sugar Plum Fairy and Pavel Gerdt as the Cavalier, in a later performance in the original run of The Nutcracker, 1892.

Both dancers are posed in formal ballet stance, reflective of late 19th-century Imperial Russian ballet tradition.

Nikitina is dressed in a delicate, richly adorned tutu, typical of the Sugar Plum Fairy’s costume: light-toned and shimmering, likely embroidered with sequins or metallic thread to catch the stage lights. Her arms are gently curved, and her expression serene, exuding both regal grace and fairy-tale charm.

Gerdt, a veteran principal of the Imperial Ballet, stands beside her with formal bearing. His costume includes a decorated jacket, tights, and soft boots—stately and refined, suggesting a noble presence rather than a dramatic hero.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dance#/media/File:Nutcracker1892.jpg

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#Travel #Photography #Cruise #SciFi #BadMovies #RugbyLeague #NFL #Patriots #MST3K #Architecture #Brutalism #ArtDeco #Science #Astronomy #Archaeology #History #Portsmouth

Ignore this post. I need to pin my bio hashtags in a post because the bio links frustratingly break out of the advanced web view in this Mastodon build and they're my shortcut way of browsing posts. Hoping they fix this in a later build.

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‘Little Beasts’ Is a First-of-Its-Kind Museum Collaboration Reveling in Art and the Natural World

During the 16th and 17th centuries, major developments in colonial expansion, trade, and scientific technology spurred a fervor for studying the natural world.

By Kate Mothes

https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2025/03/little-beasts-art-natural-history/

Natural History at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subject/270

#Art #History #Nature #Science

Sprig of redcurrants with an elephant hawk moth, a ladybird, a millipede and other insects by Jan van Kessel.

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jan_van_Kessel_(I)_-_A_sprig_of_redcurrants_with_an_elephant_hawk_moth,_a_ladybird,_a_millipede_and_other_insects.jpg

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The SETI Institute is contributing to a new kind of space exploration — a cultural and scientific experiment. Crew-11 is carrying the world’s first cultural crop payload to the ISS. The initiative is part of Jaguar Space’s Space for Agriculture and Agriculture for Space program, in collaboration with The Karman Project, whose mission is to enable international cooperation and peace in space through unconventional global coalitions.

Learn more: https://www.seti.org/news/Small-Seeds-Big-Mission-SETI-Institute-Contributes-to-the-First-Cultural-Payload-to-ISS/

#space #science

A vial of seeds. The top label reads "Karman" for The Karman Project. From top to bottom: Egyptian cotton, Pakistani wheat, Armenian pomegranate, and Nigerian Melon. Vial D-29, Jaguar Space.

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More than 5,000 residents of Tuvalu, a nation consisting of nine low-lying atolls in the South Pacific Ocean, have applied for a first-of-its-kind visa giving them an escape from the worst effects of climate change. Read more from @LiveScience:

https://flip.it/T3kzTB

#Science #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #Tuvalu #PacificOcean

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In the time before widespread #vaccination, #death often came early.

Devastating infectious diseases ran rampant in America, killing millions of #children & leaving others w/lifelong #health problems. These illnesses were the main reason why nearly 1 in 5 children in 1900 never made it to their 5th birthday.

#Trump #RFKJr #PublicHealth #USpol #policy #science #medicine #vaccines #ConspiracyTheories #AntiVax #eugenics
https://apnews.com/article/vaccines-measles-polio-whooping-cough-rubella-af4cd1aef8f408a960601df6372f9c32?utm_source=onesignal&utm_medium=push&utm_campaign=2025-06-28-Lessons+unlearned

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The SETI Institute is now accepting submissions for the 2025 Cosmic Chronicles Literary Prize

Submission deadline: September 1, 2025.

The Cosmic Chronicles Literary Prize is a new initiative from the SETI Institute’s Artist in Residence (AIR) program. Cosmic Chronicles is a contest for emerging writers of all ages whose work explores questions of life, intelligence and consciousness in the universe.

For the full contest rules: https://www.seti.org/news/the-seti-institute-is-now-accepting-submissions-for-the-2025-cosmic-chronicles-literary-prize/

#science #art #sciart

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Our upcoming #SETILive interviews look at a new #LaserSETI exhibit and observatory location, the stunning artwork created in honor of this year's #DrakeAward recipients, and new science that reveals how #Ceres froze. Subscribe to our YouTube channel for notifications: https://www.youtube.com/SETIInstitute

#science #sciart #scicomm

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