Way ahead of you, Baron-Cohen
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=phqIVUoy70k My take here
https://nikolaskozloff.substack.com/p/reflections-on-autism-evolution-and #autism #autistic #ASD #evolution #politics #science #psychology #trump #fascism #neurodiversity
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Despite discovering more than 6000 exoplanets, actually taking a picture of one remains a challenge.
That challenge was the focus of a recent SETI Live conversation, where host Dr. Franck Marchis spoke with SETI Institute senior scientist Dr. Margaret Turnbull about NASA's upcoming Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope and the revolutionary coronagraph instrument she helps lead.
Learn more: https://www.seti.org/news/hide-the-star/
#theBeeAt3
Basic bee facts every day at 3pm.
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It is often thought that hummingbirds have the highest metabolic rate (energy used per unit of time) of all animals however the metabolic rate of #bumblebees is 75% higher.
‘I love not man less, but Nature more’
- Byron
#bees
#nature #Friday
#environment #wildlife
#education #science
#biodiversity #pollinators
Special Relativity Boot Camp https://lobste.rs/s/uo3yff #math #science
https://www.acsu.buffalo.edu/~whkinney/SpecialRelativityBootCamp/
The SETI Institute's Wow! Literary Award invites writers and poets working in literature, speculative fiction/sci-fi, experimental poetry, and philosophy to submit original, unpublished creative work that reflects and expands on the SETI Institute’s “Intelligence and Consciousness” research area, exploring the questions:
What may interspecies communication entail?
What is the nature of consciousness?
What is the nature and evolution of intelligence?
APPARENTLY, AGEING HAS SETTINGS? 💎
I went looking for some genuinely good news this morning. Not politics. Not war. Not another billionaire doing something ghastly.
And I found something rather wonderful.
Scientists are increasingly interested not merely in lifespan, but in healthspan. In other words, not just keeping us alive longer while bits fall off, but keeping us healthier for more of the years we're alive.
A large study published this year followed more than 500 mice throughout their lives and found that restricting their daily eating window improved measures of healthy aging in both males and females.
The strongest results came from an eight-hour eating window. Male mice in that group also lived significantly longer, although they were eating somewhat fewer calories as well, so the story is not as simple as “fast and live forever.”
And, importantly, they were mice. Nobody has discovered the Fountain of Youth, and we do not yet know whether the same effects will translate into longer human lives.
But I still find the direction rather exhilarating.
I have practiced time-restricted eating for years, and I know what it has done for my own experience of being 70. I feel lighter in my body. Quieter. Less noise. More clarity.
That is personal experience, not scientific proof.
Perhaps the great achievement of aging research won't be making human beings live to 150. Perhaps it will be much simpler.
Being 80 and still walking. Being 90 and still thinking clearly. Remaining independent longer. Having fewer years at the end, dominated by disease and frailty.
As someone who has somehow arrived at 70 without being consulted about it, I find that rather wonderful.
I have every intention of being a nuisance at 100. Science has made no such promise.
I don't particularly need more life.
But I'll happily take more life in the years I've got.
@meditation
@DigitalCoup
@economics_that_works
#Ageing #Healthspan #Science #life #Longevity #HealthyAgeing #Fast #eating #human #Scientists
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A Teenage Orphan Who Died In Battle During The Revolutionary War Once Had No Name — But Forensic Scientists Just Identified Him
By Ella Spitz
Researchers discovered that the previously-unknown teenager was John Pumphrey, a boy from Maryland who enlisted in the Continental Army when he was about 14 years old — but sadly died three years later in the Battle of Camden.
https://allthatsinteresting.com/revolutionary-war-soldier-john-pumphrey
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Shameful
#RFKJr targets #Fauci & pushes #medical #misinformation in fiery CNN interview
In attempting to rewrite the history of the #US #Covid-19 response, “Health” Secy Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Sunday pinned the blame for pandemic lockdowns on Dr. Anthony Fauci, while simultaneously reviving a string of debunked assertions about #vaccines, #RSV & #measles.
#Trump #PublicHealth #science #medicine #PublicDisservice #eugenics #ConspiracyTheories #disinformation #USpol
https://www.cnn.com/2026/08/02/politics/rfk-jr-fauci-medical-misinformation
Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Mystery, Romance, #kindle
A collection of 171 #books for you to read free on #KU. My book is DRM-free.
#spaceship #magic #aliens #legendary #fedibookfair #boost #amreading #writing #dwarfs #readers #rogue #heroes #bookwyrm #reading #goodbooks #space #time #dwarves #dystopia #sorcery #monsters #futurism #planets #sciencefiction #science #scifi #writing #young #newadults #teen #teens #ya #books #booktoot #booksky #bookfunnel #bookstagram @bookstodon
No wonder NASA earth and ocean science is being cut (#uspol). Good science puts at risk masking the true nature of bad weather: acts of God that frees government and corporations from paying to fix things broken.
#boostingIsSharing
#climate #science #nasa #climatechange
https://weather-fox.com/nasa-confirms-atmospheric-shift-over-north-america-8-345225
At some point, people who've never used #AI will be like that guy running the clandestine Bradbury Building lab in the original 'Blade Runner'
sought after, then...
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Lets get real.
For starters, anything 'disposable' should be illegal.
And the marketing of disposability as a 'feature' should be a crime punishable by death.
Because that's what the flesh dripping ghouls profiting on deliberately-designed waste are doing to humanity.
Burn them.
Hang them.
Tar and feather them.
An example has to be made.
Before they make one of us, the first species to knowingly hasten its own extinction.
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In this episode of The Star River Podcast, host Eric Loyd sits down with Dr. Tremblay to explore the cutting edge of astrochemistry and the modern search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI). From her unconventional journey starting out in laboratory chemistry testing dirt samples to hunting for complex molecules and technosignatures with world-class radio telescopes, Chenoa shares a mind-bending look at how we listen to the universe.
Listen here: https://www.astropotamus.com/star-river/episodes/chenoa-tremblay
PRESS RELEASE
Although the path of totality for the August 12 #solareclipse is thousands of miles away from California, Bay Area audiences can experience the event in a truly unique manner: set to a live musical performance by the International Space Orchestra (ISO), the world's first orchestra composed of astronauts, scientists, engineers, and researchers.
Learn more details: https://www.seti.org/news/celebrate-the-total-solar-eclipse-at-the-california-academy-of-sciences-with-science-music-and-the-international-space-orchestra/
stiripesurse.ro spoke with Dr. Vishal Gajjar, Associate Director of International SETI Programs at the SETI Institute in California, one of the world's leading organizations dedicated to the search for intelligence beyond Earth. The conversation explored what scientists are actually looking for, whether humanity should actively transmit messages into space, and how we might respond if a signal were ever received.
Have you ever used the Wikipedia random article link?
Well now I made one that's just for Science, over at http://sciencefind.org
It also works on individual science caregories!
Earlier today, the discarded upper stage of a Falcon 9 rocket impacted on the Moon. As part of a coordinated observing campaign, our Very Large Telescope detected spectral lines of sodium and lithium gas in the impact plume lasting for 5-10 minutes after impact.
📷 ESO/C. Schmidt et al.
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What stops a solar eruption from escaping the Sun? ☀️
On the next #SETILive, Dr. Becca Robinson talks with Dr. Kathy Reeves about new research on a solar eruption that rose—then collapsed—and the magnetic forces that stopped it.
📅 Aug. 20 | 2:30 pm PDT
🔴 https://youtube.com/live/N214VE49Lf0
French astronomer Pierre Janssen discovered helium OTD in 1868 https://cromwell-intl.com/travel/france/paris-megaliths/?s=mb #travel #France #science
The coeds of 1894
In the 1890s, MIT alumnae weren’t expected to have meaningful careers. The women of the Class of 1894 proved that assumption wrong.
By Mackenzie White
https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/06/23/1138330/the-coeds-of-1894/
Books in Women in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/bookshelf/706
📚 On the Equality of All Things by: Carlo Rovelli
A radical new vision of reality from one of the great minds of our time, mapping a watershed moment in both physics and philosophy.
“Carlo Rovelli is the best thinker out there articulating physics, philosophy, and literature. There simply are no scientist...
https://bookblabla.com/book/on-the-equality-of-all-things
#books #reading #libraries #science #physics #relativityscience #spacescience #cosmology
🌊 Neptune's tiny inner moons may be fragments of much larger worlds.
JWST found hydrated minerals on their surfaces — materials that require liquid water interacting with rock. But these small, frozen moons couldn't have produced them themselves.
The evidence points to an ancient system of larger moons, potentially shattered after Triton arrived.
🔗 https://www.seti.org/news/what-happened-to-neptunes-moons/
The search for intelligent aliens is utter nonsense—or is it?
At the SETI Institute, researchers have been searching for extraterrestrial civilizations since the 1980s. Now they are collaborating with ETH Zurich.
Read more (German, paywall): https://www.nzz.ch/wissenschaft/seti-forschung-die-geschichte-der-suche-nach-aliens-ld.10022672
A bubbling Betelgeuse ⭐️ 🫧
Taken with ALMA, this is one of the most detailed views yet of the surface of the iconic star Betelgeuse.
The star's surface is uneven and lumpy, with peaks and troughs originating from giant bubbles of hot gas rising from deep within the star to its surface.
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📷 ALMA(ESO/NAOJ/NRAO)/W. Dent et al.
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