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
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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/
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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#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
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
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/
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
Christiaan Huygens and the Scientific Secrets of Saturn
Seventeenth-century science was so competitive that Christiaan Huygens used a cipher to conceal his Saturn observations when sharing them with interlocutors.
By: Danny Robb
https://daily.jstor.org/christiaan-huygens-and-the-scientific-secrets-of-saturn/
Christiaan Huygens at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/5648
Our bodies are marvels of evolution, yet evolution is not a perfect engineer. It works with what it’s got, which explains our sore feet and aching backs. We look at our complicated evolutionary past and What Moves Us on this week’s Big Picture Science.
Listen here: https://bigpicturescience.org/episodes/what-moves-us
