something that wrinkles my brain every time I remember it is the fact that total eclipses are only possible on earth because the moon and sun appear to be the same size in our sky, due to the insanely, astronomically unlikely fluke that the moon is 400x smaller than the sun but 400x closer to us.

THEY SENT FOUR HUMAN BEINGS 252,756 MILES AWAY, WENT FULLY AROUND THE MOON AND BROUGHT THEM BACK TO LAND IN THE PRECISE LOCATION THEY WANTED EVERYONE WHO WORKED ON THIS IS THE COOLEST PERSON ON EARTH

Accurate information is getting harder and harder to find. This is SO helpful.

This is so exciting: a new Canadian site where you can buy from independent bookstores. 🔥 #Canada #AmReading www.booksellers.ca

You asked, we listened 🤭 Take Your Seats for our free YouTube premiere of The Importance of Being Earnest on 12 March at 7pm. Accessible worldwide, with British Sign Language, Audio Description and Closed Caption versions available. Find out more here 👇 www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/take-your-se...

Super excited that #GoodOmens3 #GO3 is coming out on May 13. Still feel like the Clues need solving. So, here's my reverse engineered theory. I'd love to see others!

Healthy indoor air is a proven prescription for public health that can help fortify our buildings and enhance people’s health, protecting against respiratory diseases and illnesses, cardiovascular disease and cognitive decline. resources.wellcertified.com/press-releas...

Well this couldn’t have come at a better time www.bbc.com/news/article...

Democracy at work.

TL;DR: The new U.S. tariff rate against our two largest trading partners is either 10%, 25% or 35%, and so far no one I've reached out to at the White House is able to tell me which.

Sometimes there's no return to "normal." Time to chart a new course. www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...

Really appreciate this clear 2024 YR4 asteroid analysis and its “don’t panic but pay attention” message.

Canada’s 30-day reprieve from U.S. tariffs gives us valuable time to diversify our trading relationships and work out how to protect our sovereignty from a belligerent, erratic, cruel neighbour. Still not buying American. #ViveLeCanada 🇨🇦

Fascinating - from the article: "Those first modern humans that had interbred with Neanderthals and lived alongside them died out completely in Europe 40,000 years ago ... It was the ancestors of these early international pioneers who eventually returned to Europe to populate it."

I was in my first year of university in Montreal when this happened. After that day, I mapped exits and shelters everywhere I went on campus. I still do it. Today and always, I remember every one of these women, killed simply because they were women.

Sunset at Sugar Beach in Toronto, Canada.

Adding this metro station in Thessaloniki to the very long list of places I'd love to visit. www.ctvnews.ca/world/ancien...

This study appears to suggest that people like AI-generated poetry better than human-authored poetry - and that, largely because they like it better, they think AI-generated poetry is actually human-authored poetry. We're primed to be fooled. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Earth from Mars | NASA

Always fascinated by Pompeii and this DNA research is interesting, challenging assumptions about family relationships (a "mother and child" was really an unrelated man and child) and Pompeii's population (more immigrants from eastern Mediterranean than expected). www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...

Joined BlueSky today, taking a break from politics to read about science, and here's the first thing I've learned: Pando's 47,000 stems spread across 42.6 hectares of Utah are technically all one quaking aspen tree that's between 16,000 and 80,000 years old. Cool! www.nature.com/articles/d41...