Extremely cold takes: The sound of music is a great movie.

This is what the internet was made for.

On NSF’s postdoc page, the biology and earth science fields have been completely eliminated; the only remaining fellowships are in math, astronomy, engineering, and “entrepreneurship.” Weird choice not to support research on the life support system for 8 billion people. www.nsf.gov/funding/post...

Divorce, by occupations: flowingdata.com/2026/05/07/d... Actuaries, professional estimators of risk and very on brand, are the outlier with the lowest rate.

Great visual explainer by Agnes Chang and @pablorobles.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Using the rules of linear perspective to combat ai slop can I get a hell yeah

A limerick. Based on a true story.

It's pub day at last! Here's what I've been up to, and (of course) what an animal has to say about it: elizabethgpreston.substack.com/p/how-to-brood 🧪

4. Meanwhile, detainee deaths at ICE facilities are skyrocketing. From 2018 to 2024, the average number of people who died in ICE custody annually was 8.9. Since ICE stopped medical reimbursements on October 3, 2025, people have been dying in ICE custody at a rate of 51.7 people annually.

On ladders. From The Comfort Book by Matt Haig.

Fascinating piece about a piece of the early social web that endures www.anildash.com/2026/04/30/a...

Fascinating and very insightful piece by @tonyzador.bsky.social about how we lose understanding when AI does science for us. www.thetransmitter.org/machine-lear...

It's the end of poetry month so still time to share this brilliant poem from my now-13-y.o.. He wrote it at the early days COVID lockdown in April 2020 when he was a 1st grader, frustrated about writing poetry.

"On the internet, if you stop speaking: you disappear. And, by corollary: on the internet, you only notice the people who are speaking nonstop." notes.andymatuschak.org/Work_with_th...

A couple of people wanted the math for the relativity calculations for GPS, so a very brief version is below:

Post Office Momence, IL

Time for a new edition of my Feynman Diagram Bauhaus! minouette.etsy.com/listing/1143... #linocut #sciart #printmaking #quantumMechanics #physics

Glaciers had one of their worst years in 2025: 👉 408 billion tonnes of ice mass lost 👉 ≈1.1 mm added to global sea levels 👉 6 of the 7 worst years have happened in the past 7 yrs Since 1975: ~9,600 billion tonnes gone (≈26.4 mm SLR) This isn’t a gradual change... www.nature.com/articles/s43...

Earth. In the dark. From Artemis II.

Poetry "is about looking seriously at the world and seeing what’s right in front of you, but you’ve forgotten to notice." www.nature.com/articles/d41...

This video [ tinyurl.com/bs8ytpap ] is just 1min 32sec long. But behind it lies a great deal of work: mapping, coding, interviews, data processing, 3D printing, and even manual labor—painting the model. Take a look to the final piece in the link above. 🚀🌝 To the moon and beyond!

Kelsey Young, Artemis Science Officer hears that the crew saw impact flashes.

This is extremely worth watching right now as Artemis is an hour away from its closest approach to the Moon 🌖 m.youtube.com/watch?v=z-j1...

Watch 1 minute and 50 seconds of the Artemis II launch from the Orion capsule, including booster separation and adapter panel jettison... ...set to "No Time for Caution" from the Interstellar score.

Good morning everyone today is MOON DAY 🚀🌖🥰 #Artemis

It has been more than half a century since humans have been to the moon. The question is, why go back now? or even why go back at all? Here's our latest piece: tinyurl.com/3hnp9nvs 🎁 link #artemis-ii

The Artemis II crew is now getting a good look at the Moon—including parts we can't see from Earth! At the right of the Moon in this view is the Mare Orientale multiring basin, only a portion of which is visible to us normally. In this photo, the Moon's south pole is to the top.

I checked the live feed to see how Orion is doing today, and wow! At 210,00+ miles away from Earth, the Moon actually appears larger than the crescent Earth at this point.

Because writers shouldn't have to do all the work of #BookPromotion: I have three (3!) #Preorders dropping to my e-reader Tuesday, April 7!! #Booksky The Subtle Art of Folding Space, @johnchu.bsky.social What We Are Seeking, @lateonsetgirl.bsky.social The Edge of Space-Time, @chanda.blacksky.app

Oh my. It's taken from the right side of an aircraft flying past Cape Canaveral just as the Artemis II mission was taking off. Source: Reddit (posted by u/Spook_485; I don't know if that's the person who took the video)

Today I learned about zodiacal light! starwalk.space/en/news/zodi...

This is a neat visualization for tracking where Artemis is right now: www.nasa.gov/missions/art...

"The failures are the curriculum. The error messages are the syllabus. Every hour you spend confused is an hour you spend building the infrastructure inside your own head that will eventually let you do original work. There is no shortcut through that process that doesn't leave you diminished"

it is a damp, drizzly November in my soul

Apple turns 50 today 💻 The iconic Apple II became home to countless software breakthroughs. "The Print Shop" let anyone create posters, cards & more from home 🖨️ Celebrate software preservation⤵️ archive.org/details/The_... #Apple #Apple50 #AppleII #HomeComputing #VintageComputing

hello 👋 i have developed a new tool called blüuümpíi. blüuümpíi will convert every file on your hard drive to a .wav file without asking you, maximize your system volume, and play them on every bluetooth speaker you have ever connected to. if you offer feedback on blüuümpíi i will take legal action

This piece is an excellent argument for building back your attention. "We should consider taking as strong a stance against ultraprocessed content as we already do against ultraprocessed food. Which is to say: Most people should avoid these diversions most of the time."

I made some illustrations for a project about how the Iran War has affected the world in surprising ways, from deflated balloons to higher sugar prices. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

“The ballroom is literally an imposition between two branches of our government,” said David Scott Parker, an architect on the board of the National Trust for Historic Preservation, and one of more than 30,000 people who wrote to the planning commission objecting to the building.

Women with an advanced degree are paid the same as men with just a bachelor's. And at every education level, women's hourly wages are about 20% lower than men's

On persisting, and working at your pace: blog.cartoonconnie.com/p/a-snails-p...

I just resigned from NASA. It breaks my heart to leave, but I’ve become convinced the best path forward is to do the best science I can, and that can’t be here anymore. I’m still in love with the promise of those four magic letters. Ad astra per aspera, and remember: Earth is the only good planet.

Flowers belong at the center of our creation story. Writing this book transformed how I experience, think about, and feel the world. I hope it will do the same for you. Publishers Weekly: "deep research and lyrical prose…astonishing" www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/775876...

I like this framing of ai slop

Emmy Noether was born #OTD in 1882. She made groundbreaking advances in abstract algebra, but is probably best known for her eponymous theorems articulating the deep connection between symmetries and conserved quantities in physics. 🧪 ⚛️ 👩‍🔬 Image: Public domain, photographer unknown

The Upshot is hiring a data graphics/multimedia editor. Come work with us and make weird things that help people understand the world! job-boards.greenhouse.io/thenewyorkti...