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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
Dance at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subject/7959
#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.
‘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
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.
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:
#Science #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #Tuvalu #PacificOcean
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
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/
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
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#space #science #seti #astrobiology
In a recent episode of SETI Live, Communications Specialist Beth Johnson spoke with Ian Pamerleau, lead author of a new study diving into the mysteries of Ceres published in Nature Astronomy. Pamerleau, a graduate student and researcher at Purdue University, used advanced computer simulations to investigate the physical structure of Ceres’ crust. His findings suggest a significant reevaluation of how we perceive this small yet complex world.
The Drying Planet
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A new study finds that freshwater resources are rapidly disappearing, creating arid “mega” regions and causing sea levels to rise.
https://www.propublica.org/article/water-aquifers-groundwater-rising-ocean-levels?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Science #Climate #Environment #ClimateChange #Water #Earth
Could play have evolutionary benefits? From sledding crows to roughhousing wolves to bees rolling balls, we examine how play shapes the animal kingdom. Plus, why children need risky play. It’s “The Play’s the Thing” this week on Big Picture Science.
Listen here: https://bigpicturescience.org/episodes/the-plays-the-thing
Me: my superpower is I always get free food when I least expect it
Orcas:
#PPOD: Naturally erupting dust streaks on Mars create structures that look surprisingly like trees near the planet's north pole. These streaks are dark basaltic sand pushed to the surface of sand dunes by sun-heated solid carbon dioxide ice, or dry ice, sublimating directly into vapor. The sand dunes form a nearly complete ring around Mars' north pole and are covered by a thin layer of reddish Martian dust and patches of dry ice. Credit: NASA, HiRISE, MRO, LPL (U. Arizona)
Open letter from #EPA employees says their boss has
has been "adopting the messaging of political propaganda, rather than the #science that the EPA’s work relies on. This includes spreading misinformation about science through official EPA channels, claiming science is a 'religion,' praising 'clean coal'(which does not exist), and attacking members of Congress (which may have violated the Hatch Act, which disallows political campaigning by federal employees)."
https://electrek.co/2025/07/01/hundreds-of-epa-employees-have-asked-their-boss-lee-zeldin-to-stop-lying/
If Austrian economics is the only true economics, why isn't it taught in universities?
The answer is that the #bureaucracy, the state cannot profit from it. Because people who know the real economics will not allow the bureaucrats, the state to do what they can do now.
#economics #austrianeconomics #science #statism #education
My cartoon for this week's @newscientist.com #science #mattdamon
Scientists and engineers ask questions that lead to discoveries we can’t yet imagine, sometimes even trillion-dollar breakthroughs. And yet today, we're systematically undercutting their work.
https://open.substack.com/pub/sheril/p/the-end-of-american-dominance?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web #uspol #science
Breaking: Astronomers have found a likely new interstellar object passing through our solar system.
A11pl3Z seems to have the most extreme hyperbolic orbit yet measured. More observations coming soon.
https://earthsky.org/space/new-interstellar-object-candidate-heading-toward-the-sun-a11pl3z/ #science #nature #space
Call for papers:
(Un)natural Stevenson: Wild transgressions across literature, ecology, science & gender
Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, 11–12 May 2026
This conference aims to explore the concept of nature/natural in Robert Louis Stevenson’s work, & to investigate Stevenson both as a writer of dichotomies/dualisms & of their wild transgressions
@litstudies
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1EoselkYayxzSXzW36aDZTbZv_SQt8cCG/
#Scottish #literature #19thcentury #Victorian #RobertLouisStevenson #LiteraryStudies #ecology #science #gender
The #FDA’s top #vaccine & #GeneTherapy official resigned on Tues after a public campaign against him led by the #FarRight influencer [& unofficial #Trump adviser] #LauraLoomer…
Over the past week, Loomer had taken to #socialmedia to attack the Dr. Vinay Prasad for a series of decisions denying approval of new drugs for rare #diseases. She highlighted past statements of support he had made for figures on the left, including #BernieSanders…
#science
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/29/health/vinay-prasad-fda-resigns-loomer.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
8 Things to Know About New Research on Earth’s Rapid Drying and the Loss of Its Groundwater
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Decades of NASA satellite data reveal how quickly the planet’s underground stores of fresh water have been depleted and how their use is contributing to rising sea levels. Here are the key takeaways.
https://www.propublica.org/article/groundwater-fresh-water-depletion-research-science-advances-takeaways?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Science #Climate #Environment #ClimateChange #Water #NASA #Data