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Tower in Motion: Resonance Mode Analysis of Devils Tower; new from us, now published in GSA Today: www.geosociety.org/GSA/Publicat...

The artist and printmaker Gwen Raverat helped Naval Intelligence during WW2, making these stunning 3-d maps to prepare for the Allies to liberate occupied Europe. Many women were involved in creating these invasion guides at a time when women weren't considered very good at surveying or cartography

OJ 287 has the most supermassive pair of black holes ever Supermassive black holes exist at the hearts of most galaxies, but only rarely are there two of them. In OJ 287, a 150 million solar mass one is the *small* one! What, you thought they'd match? bigthink.com/starts-with-... #space #astro

One of my favorites.

Pencil on paper....drawing by yours truly... ( got deleted earlier one by mistake😅) Enjoy your weekend my Bluesky friends !! ❤️

Grant Sanderson #3Blue1Brown is the best expositor of math I have ever seen. 🧮⚛️🧪 youtu.be/fsLh-NYhOoU

I now know Rust 🥹

Ah, Christians, so reliably compassionate newrepublic.com/post/207415/...

Oh dear. How sad. Never mind. arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

Borowitz

Strike on Girls’ School Kills at Least 175, Iranian State Media Says www.nytimes.com/2025/03/01/w...

My novella, THE APOLOGISTS, is a finalist for the BSFA awards. You can read and/or listen to at. @clarkesworldmagazine.com Link below. On the one hand, yay! On the other hand, I've been nominated for the BSFA many times. I never win. So, boo! But you can still enjoy the story.

How dumb is America? This dumb: (and just when the US murders 175 Iranian schoolgirls) www.bbc.com/news/article...

This statement by Marco Rubio is a thing of beauty. No notes. It can be taken exactly as is and dropped into Orwell's 1984. I believe the correct Homeric adjective for military reasoning like this is "Hell-kissed." Get thee to the Smithsonian, war crime-speak.

Yikes

Georg Cantor was a bit of an asshole www.quantamagazine.org/the-man-who-...

David Bowie’s 2003 cover of the Modern Lovers tune "Pablo Picasso" Song from the studio album Reality. #DavidBowie #JonathanRichman m.youtube.com/watch?v=Hk2h...

Your daily reminder that Sam Altman doesn’t have an ethical bone in his body

How dumb are Floridians? This dumb: amp-miamiherald-com.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/amp.miam...

Topology, Taiwan style:

I made it *halfway* through a #Rust tutorial today! (the “Rustlings” exercises) Please clap 😔

How dumb are Americans? This dumb: www.nj.com/politics/202...

He goes by *what* name again? 😳 retractionwatch.com/2026/02/24/c...

Oh boy! Felt that one. These earthquake warnings appeared right when the main shock arrived (in Taipei, Taiwan): 🧪⚒️⚛️

newatlas.com/energy/plasm... 🧪

Under the volcano

Another beautiful day at the beach in southern Kyūshū, Japan

Here we go. It's Friday, and this dropped.

This evening at the beach

If anyone’s opinion on AI can be trusted to have merit, it’s Terence Tao. 🧪⚛️🧮 This interview between two mathematicians is as awkward as you might expect it to be, but what they are discussing is a promising new direction.

I follow some who do this, and it is annoying. You are duly warned.

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Gift article from WaPo: how Earth's warming is accelerating. Meanwhile we are repealing the EPA Endangerment Finding today ... and the editorials for WaPo applaud this move. Do they read their own paper?. (No I'm not gifting this dreck www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...) wapo.st/3MqvwbC

Anyone else see irony here, besides me?

FWIW I was born on a Friday 13th and I turned out fine…

For good or ill, a Mars visit is not coming soon, but this article is worth a read anyway 🧪🪐🛰️🔭 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Good morning Tokyo I just saw this awesome chart about dinosaurs and suddenly felt inspired. Feel free to tell me what I missed. 😇

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Definition of irony: a subscription-only paper on open source software

WHERE can I buy this hat

He’s not wrong. GitHub Actions is relentlessly painful. And I say that as someone who just had major surgery. news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4690...

I'd say the odds were pretty damn good.

Yikes 😳 🧪🧮 retractionwatch.com/2026/01/30/g...

American news channels are obsessing about a pretty white woman yet again, at the expense of all manner of more pressing news. This time it’s not even about her, it’s about her mom. For the Nth time, Google News, I do not care about Savannah Guthrie.

This is one of my favorite optical illusions, because even when you know specifically HOW IT WORKS, it's still hard to make your brain believe it. The image below is real-world video, but you're being tricked into believing it's an elaborate miniature by the DIORAMA EFFECT. Let's talk about it.