When looking at this map, try to remember that the distance from the East of Africa to the West (Somalia to Senegal) is slightly longer than the Soviet Union is from the Bering Strait (outside of the map) to the Polish Border.

We can't cede every space, topic, and platform to the Nazis just cause there are Nazis there. Sometimes we have to stay seated to maintain a beachhead of normal, cool, and good

What an ugly and stupidly wasteful car. The designer should really go back to the century he came from.

Ukraine and Sweden have signed an agreement for the purchase of 100–150 new JAS 39 Gripen E fighter jets for Ukraine. kyivindependent.com/zelensky-arr...

Just make it a proper hat or helmet with the battery in the back as a counterweight and stop pretending it's "almost like big glasses". Which would make it a lot more comfortable to wear, as the strap wouldn't have to squeeze the glasses into your face to keep them on your nose - a common complaint.

Replace Trump with Putin and you know how this goes.

This paper was the worst case of nerd-sniping I've been the victim of in a long time. This sort of thing should be illegal.

Since Germany started cleaning up air pollution in the 1980s, the average energy of solar radiation coming from above and being absorbed by the ground (and heating it up) has risen by more than 10%! This is all visible light and has nothing to do with CO2 or greenhouse effects.

Every picture of the 1970s project of the Hubble Space Telescope still being gawked at with awe in 2025 is a symbol of the near total neglect of space based astronomy ever since the 1990s.

Time for 2025 updates to my annual “opinions about solar” thread. If you like these, you might like the second edition of my book, Solar Power Finance Without The Jargon. A 30% discount code WSQ0437 is valid on publisher website until end of November 2025. www.worldscientific.com/worldscibook...

Boston. Wow.

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What 11.2 mg/w of silver at $50/oz costs as part of various sized solar panels: Wattage MG/silver $/module 400 W - 4,480 $7.901 500 W - 5,600 $9.877 600 W - 6,720 $11.852 700 W - 7,840 $13.827 800 W - 8,960 $15.803 Roughly, $0.01975/W - 25% of a 8 cent solar panel's costs.

Over the last 3 years, Germany spent over 300 billion Euro on oil, gas and coal. At current prices, that could buy roughly 4000 GW (four thousand gigawatt) of solar panels from China. Maybe, just maybe, there is a lesson in that about what we should do next.

Thinking about it a little bit, the best case - if you can afford a bit more footprint - is probably a 70-80° inclined, south-facing panel, instead of 90° vertical. It's better in all seasons, including winter, and also smooths out the summer dip at 6am and 6pm when the sun is exactly east or west.

If you want to maximize the use of PV in a society (Germany in this case) and look at that graph without realizing that, actually, the blue bar is the best option, you really haven't thought about energy very much. The author did not. Consistency is key. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

The question of how much of an obligation "history games" have towards actual historicity is quite possibly the most central and recurring one in my work. From talking about maps and Vic 3 to GGS and EU5 to Civ and its -pedia, to Imperator and its time compression, that question is core.

SpaceX: Erfolgreicher letzter Flug von Starship Version 2

Starship has, so far, neither exploded nor did any major damage to itself by operating its engines. This is a first for Starship V2, though in its last flight.

If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.

Journalists should stop interviewing liars. Since liars lie all the time, what new information are we really learning by interviewing them? You’re only platforming their lies.

Statement of the year: "The good news is that, if this is fraud, it's maybe not systemic." youtu.be/l1QlstHwfLI?...

Meanwhile in Russia… “In Buryatia, the consumption of marmots has been banned due to an outbreak of bubonic plague.” ✅ The Bubonic Plague Points www.moscowtimes.ru/2025/10/10/v...

Every president from Reagan through Biden stuck to the same pattern: one exam, one memo, one reassurance that all is well. The exams are stagecraft, meant to show the president is steady, not to check if he is. They fend off questions about age or stamina. /2

Trump heading to Walter Reed for a “semiannual physical.” The White House calls it a “routine annual checkup.” His last one was in April. No modern president has had two physicals in a year. /1

These are the guys designing 2200+ kg vehicles, who insist that they couldn't build EVs without rare earths that are any good, because that would double the weight of the motor. The benefits of rare earths are almost a rounding error on the system level.

The sun shines when air conditioners are most needed. That should not be surprising, though it seems to be for some people.

Oh, the “vomiting ferret” model is absolutely a real thing - I’ve encountered it in my own drug discovery career. They’re one of the smallest animals that show this response- weirdly, rodents can’t do it at all.

Ist natürlich ein harter Schlag für eine Industrie, die den eigentlichen Geschmack und andere kulinarische Eigenschaften ihrer Lebensmittel niemals thematisiert hat - und ihre Produkte in der Pandemie selbst bei ansonsten leeren Regalen nicht verkaufen konnte.

When I go into detail moving through these things day-by-day week-by-week rather than just skipping from one Big Event to the next, I'm hoping the listeners take away that even a revolution is a slow moving process with lots of downtime and accumulation of small events

nvidia will auch eine runde bei xai finanzieren. man wird zunehmend sein eigener bester kunde. :D

You wouldn't know from the news, but we just had the longest gap in EF5 tornadoes in the USA since the invention of the weather radar. 12 years without any one of them. And that one was in sparsely populated North Dakota, killed three people. youtu.be/LlQ8jaR7lPk?...

Der Physik Nobelpreis folgt dem Quantencomputer Hype statt den eigentlichen Problemen der Physik. Selbst John Clarke, Leiter der Gruppe, hätte nicht damit gerechnet.

The accusations of cultural appropriation would have made songs like these impossible these days. White dudes singing about Aboriginal myths? Completely impossible. These songs were instrumental in giving Aboriginals much of their land and rights back. youtu.be/16bFBzx7I_0?...

If only there was a lesson to be learned here #silksong

Protesters in Tbilisi began storming the presidential palace with some breaching the Orbeliani Palace courtyard where special forces are present, Georgian media reported.

The delusional tech elite doing its work in destroying peoples trust in the real technological progress that is actually happening, by talking about non-existent progress that will never happen.

One of the things I always find telling is the idea that we have to judge past people by the standards of their time, as if the fact that they did bad things means that everyone thought it was okay. They didn't. Pretty much every obviously evil act had people saying that it was, in fact, bad.

Warum kaufen die Leute so wenig Tofu? Ich mag Tofu. Aber was will man mir da sagen? Veggie, Vegan, Vegetarisch, Bio, Öko. Alles völlig egal. Ich ernähre mich von Essen, nicht von Ideologie. Schmeckt das? Konsistenz, Beilagen, Gewürze, Rezepte? Fehlanzeige. "Neutraler Geschmack" ist keine Werbung.

Eine Batterie aus seltenen Erden (die Anode und das Elektrolyt bestehen aus Ceriumhydrid), mit 0,4 Volt Zellspannung - die LED im Bild brauchte 5 Zellen in Reihe um mit 1,9 V betrieben zu werden. Kaum Energiedichte. 60% weniger Kapazität nach 20 Ladezyklen. NiMH ist besser und umweltfreundlicher.

Golem Plus kostenlos: Wir sagen danke mit einer Aktion

I need "half a year/a full year/two years" to "polish/finalize/refactor“ is a common phrase to say that you want to start over without saying that you need to start over.

Exactly.

What does QS needing a new world-leading-ceramics-manufacturing-partner to develop yet another new kind of production capability by 2029 really mean, other than that their new "Cobra" process isn't properly working either?

The heart of the debate is that nobody wants to bring themselves to say that "freezing assets" simply means that: We promised to do something (to be specified later) for Russia. Then Russia misbehaved. Now we're telling them that we won't do that. That's what money is all about. It's not magic.

Since I just heard a(nother) professional geologist say that the Younger Dryas was a period of "sudden cooling". This is NGRIP data, time goes right to left(!). The younger dryas is the colder part of the ~2000 year cooling period after the last sudden warming peak. www.youtube.com/watch?v=-YGD...

Just when you thought it couldn't get any more stupid. It's a P120 as a first stage.

A picture demonstrating everything that is wrong with ESA.

Hey @flintdibble.bsky.social, you Big Archaeologists™️ can't hide the truth forever 😉

Exactly. This merely means that Trump thought Russia could be a bigger threat to Europe to use as his basis for power. Now he will have to look for something else, but that doesn't mean he'll abandon the threat that gave him so much already (despite not living up to his expectations).