Gray’s Music: Over the Telegraph
Inventor of the telephone Elisha Gray also pioneered the world’s first purpose-built electric musical instrument.
By: Matthew Wills
science
“I listened to NSF staff say DOGE had the authority to give thumbs up or down to grant applications which had been systematically vetted by layers of subject matter experts.
Our closed-to-the-public deliberations were observed by Zachary Terrell from the DOGE team. Through his Zoom screen, he showed more interest in his water bottle & his cuticles than the discussion. Terrell..accessed the NSF awards system to block the dispersal of approved grants.“
https://time.com/7285045/resigning-national-science-foundation-library-congress/ #science #uspol
Medieval Manuscript Featuring Legends Of Merlin And King Arthur Found Languishing In Pieces In A British Library
https://allthatsinteresting.com/cambridge-suite-vulgate-du-merlin
King Arthur at PG
Scientists find the best crops to grow during the apocalypse
You may have to change your dietary habits....
By Jesse Steinmetz
The Four Horsemen, from The Apocalypse
by Albrecht Dürer (German, 1471–1528)
Edited 61d ago
I am struck again by the unwillingness of people who believe in "entanglement" and "non-locality" to actually PERFORM A TEST that I suggest. They merely want to debate. They simply WILL NOT run an experiment, nor will they go through Bell's logic with some other problem that proves Bell had no idea what he was doing.
THEY ARE NOT SCIENTISTS.
Scientists are people eager to perform tests! These people not only do not show eagerness, they resist, resist, resist.
Electric Fish and the First Battery
Alessandro Volta invented the voltaic pile, the earliest electric battery, in part because of his investigations into the torpedo, an electric ray fish.
By: Danny Robb
Alessandro Volta at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=alessandro+volta
Edited 42d ago
The French government issued a report on transgender people in sports and here's some of their conclusions:
-Trans women who transitioned before puberty don't have a physical advantage over cis-women athletes;
-Before puberty there's no difference between boys and girls so let them play;
-If it's just for fun, not competition, who cares?
-A "Transgender" category's a smokescreen for discrimination.
https://www.sports.gouv.fr/rapport-sur-la-transidentite-dans-le-sport-de-haut-niveau-9803
#trans #transgender #sports #news #science #health #uspol #pride #lgbtq
As we head into a hurricane season twenty years after Hurricane Katrina, we ask what we have learned since about how climate change is reshaping hurricanes and how NOAA funding cuts could affect our preparedness. On this week’s Big Picture Science: https://bigpicturescience.org/episodes/hurricane-season
#ICYMI: The Kaçar Lab, led by Dr. Betül Kaçar at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, is challenging the assumptions about life as we know it, its origins, and its future. Beth chatted with Dr. Kaçar in this week's #SETILive, and wow, we all learned a lot! Watch the full interview: https://youtube.com/live/hLw4olNyBng
#PPOD: Jupiter’s south pole, as seen by NASA’s Juno spacecraft from an altitude of 52,000 kilometers. The oval features are cyclones, up to 1,000 kilometers in diameter. Multiple images taken with the JunoCam instrument on three separate orbits were combined to show all areas in daylight, enhanced color, and stereographic projection. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS/Betsy Asher Hall/Gervasio Robles
In a new study using #JWST, scientists have discovered a hidden population of tiny asteroids in our solar system. These objects might be a more significant threat than we ever realized.
In a recent #SETILive episode, Senior Planetary Astronomer Dr. Franck Marchis and the study's lead authors, Dr. Artem Y. Burdanov and Dr. Julien de Wit, discussed the role of minor asteroids and what they can reveal about potential threats to Earth.
Learn more: https://www.seti.org/tiny-asteroids-big-threats-how-jwst-uncovering-hidden-worlds-our-solar-system
"There’s no opting out of being tracked: if you drive, you should simply assume that these cameras are logging your movements.
A Texas police officer used Flock to perform a nationwide search of more than 83,000 ALPR cameras while looking for a woman who had had an abortion."
But who cares?
The only danger to women are trans women in bathroom and sports! /s
#feminism #texas #abortion #civilright #womensrights #health #science #tech #privacy #news #media #women
How the Occult Gave Birth to Science
For scientists of yore anything—from mermaids to alchemy—was on the table
BY DALE MARKOWITZ
Edited 53d ago
Just a reminder that Nobel-prize winning PCR (1983), used in basically any genetic tech today, was only possible because of an extremophile bacterium discovered in 1964 in Yellowstone funded by a small ~$80k NSF grant with no obvious application at the time. The value of basic #science cannot be predicted and often is realized decades after it's done.
How a discovery in Yellowstone National Park led to the development of PCR - Richmond Scientific
https://www.richmondscientific.com/how-a-discovery-in-yellowstone-national-park-led-to-the-renowned-technique-of-dna-amplification-pcr
South Florida meteorologist John Morales told his viewers live on air that he can no longer accurately predict hurricane season, due to federal government cuts.
I recently visited the ALMA observatory in Chile. While I was poking around the telescopes, ALMA researchers released amazing new views of planet-forming disks around young stars.
These are the most detailed images yet of new solar systems being born.
https://public.nrao.edu/news/exoalma/ #space #science #tech #nature
There were two approaches to dealing with the outbreak of measles that spread through the rural community of Gaines County, Texas earlier this year. Dr. Ben Edwards — himself sick with the virus — handed out cod liver oil and prescribed inhalers, neither of which can prevent or cure measles. Meanwhile the waiting room at the only hospital in Seminole, the county's largest town, was virtually empty. On one recent weekday, just four people had come by Gaines County's free vaccine clinic. NBC's Brandy Zadrozny reports on the spread of misinformation, a child's death that brought anti-vaccine activists to town, Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s involvement, and the situation now that the outbreak has run its course.
#Science #Health #News #Texas #USPolitics #RFK #RobertFKennedy #Measles #Misinformation #AntiVax #Vaccines
Ham-fisted construction is my favourite 😂
@bookstodon @fantasybookstodon @speculativefictioncomedy @bookbubble @humour
#FantasyMemes #Fantasy #Memes #Humor #Humour
#Low #High #Epic #Science #Comedic #Whatever #GiveMeAllYouveGot
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Tabletop particle blaster: How tiny nozzles and lasers could replace giant accelerators
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Judge deems #Trump's #NIH grant cuts illegal
A federal judge in Boston on Monday said the termination of National Institutes of #Health #grants for #research on #diversity-related topics by Trump's admin's was "void & illegal," & accused the government of discriminating against minorities & #LGBT people.
#law #science #medicine
https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/federal-judge-says-trump-cuts-nih-grants-are-illegal-politico-reports-2025-06-16/
Do photons wear out? An astrophysicist explains light’s ability to travel vast cosmic distances without losing energy.
Some serendipitous space beauty to start your weekend.
NASA's new PUNCH mission, designed to study the solar wind, just took this ethereal image of the Moon passing the (blocked out) Sun. The Moon's night side is facing us, but it's beautifully lit by Earthshine.
https://science.nasa.gov/blogs/punch/2025/05/12/nasas-punch-catches-first-rainbow-and-other-new-images/ #science #art #nature
You only die twice:
Recent theoretical models suggested that some stars could destroy themselves in two, successive supernova explosions. Now we have direct visual evidence that such doubled stellar deaths really happen.
https://www.eso.org/public/news/eso2511/ #space #astronomy #science #nature
Bury it, don’t burn it: turning biomass waste into a carbon solution – Physics World
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Dr. Wael Farah is a radio astronomer interested in studying the universe on short timescales. Interestingly, the cosmos exhibits activity across various timescales ranging from milliseconds to seconds, hours, and days. Wael is the project scientist for the Allen Telescope Array and is actively involved in upgrading the instrument and maximizing its scientific throughput.
