Solar power also continues to skyrocket in Texas, with solar generation up 45% compared to last year and setting a new record high!

Official data is in today, and America set a new record-high for solar power in July, with generation up 30% compared to last year!

Again, with the essential use of sibling controls, in a nationwide prospective study in Sweden of ~2.5 million children, no increased risk even with higher dose exposure jamanetwork.com/journals/jam... Let's talk about "gold standard science"

A new large study of alcohol intake using genetics (Mendelian randomization) finds a dose-response relationship for risk of dementia with no protective effect at low levels of intake ebm.bmj.com/content/earl...

The @washingtonpost.com story on Tylenol & autism leaves out a MAJOR 2.5M sibling-controlled study of children in Denmark, which "found no evidence that acetaminophen use during pregnancy was associated with children’s risk of autism, ADHD or intellectual disability." jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Happy September equinox 2025! Enjoy your week! 🌞 Understanding seasons - graphic shows the incoming solar radiation around the two equinoxes (sun passes over the equator)... Download this visualization at zacklabe.com/arctic-clima...

Big randomized trial of a GLP- pill (vs placebo) achieves significant weight loss www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....

Today in Texas solar provided more than one-third of the power for 8 straight hours, peaking over 29,000 megawatts at 1:25 for the 3rd highest total ever. Last night, batteries set an all time record @ 7.3 gigawatts. Despite an 80 GW peak, prices have been <2.5c/kWh all day.

It took 68 years to build the first 1 TW of solar, just 2 years to add the second. At the current pace, we’re on a 1.5-year doubling curve: 4 TW by 2026, 8 TW by 2028, and 10–14 TW by 2030. Panels aren’t the limit anymore—BESS & lithium are. ⚡☀️🔋 #EnergyTransition #Solar #BESS #Lithium #LFP

A nasal spray reduced the risk of Covid infections in a double blind, placebo controlled randomized trial jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

NEW DATA: ANOTHER year and EVEN HIGHER installations☀️ Solar's rise is absolutely mindblowing🤯

#PPOD: A gigantic jet was photographed from the International Space Station by astronaut Nichole Ayers on 3 July 2025. Gigantic jets are transient luminous events (TLEs) that appear to initiate as an intracloud flash between the middle negative and upper positive charge regions in a thundercloud. 🧪

How much protein should you consume? erictopol.substack.com/p/our-preocc...

More evidence for the efficacy of GLP1s in HFpEF #jama - jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

The #1 cause of death in women is heart disease. A new report makes the case for treating women with statins who have a high inflammation marker (hs-CRP) but no traditional risk factors academic.oup.com/eurheartj/ad...

Many countries in Africa are now importing solar panels at scale.

Gliding in for a landing

More on the protective effect of estrogen open.substack.com/pub/erictopo...

Found out today that by using millisecond pulsars as your reference points, you can determine your position in the galaxy down to 7km or less, which is frankly a ridiculous degree of accuracy on the cosmic scale #PSETI2025

Adorable baby horse figuring out his new legs… 😊🥰 He is so fast now you see him now you don’t… ❤️

Could a metal ion supplement that cost pennies per day protect from Alzheimer's disease? erictopol.substack.com/p/lithium-an...

Heat index in Houston is 111. Air conditioning demand is high. Gas & coal plant outages are up sharply. But prices in Texas are the lowest in the country ($20/MWh). Why? Texas' nation leading solar resources are generating >30% of the power needed on peak. #txlege #txenergy

Global ICE sales peaked in 2016 at 80.47 million autos and fell to 62.05 million in 2024! They may fall below 50 million by 2028. EV sales were 1.8 million in June or ~21.6 million/yr. EV sales may be 30 million in 2028, pushing ICE below 50 million. ourworldindata.org/electric-car... #energysky

FMT might have a first line role in c. diff infection, and might be better at preventing recurrence # www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/...

The most majestic thing you will see on #bluesky today. 😇

The astonishing power of the Rubin Observatory--a tale in 4 pictures. This early-release image of the Virgo cluster shows 10 million galaxies. By the time Rubin's survey is over, it will have mapped 20 *billion* galaxies into a decade-long movie. (1/4) 🔭🧪 rubinobservatory.org/news/first-i...

Totalling around 120 hours of observing time, this is the longest the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope has ever focused on a single target. The deep field aims to probe the Cosmic Dawn, when the Universe was only a few million years old. Read more 👉 www.esa.int/ESA_Multimed... 🔭 🧪 ☄️

The Perseverance rover also recently spotted an outbreak of dust devils on Mars. The Red Planet is cold, dry, harsh, inhospitable...but it sure is beautiful. 🧪🔭 photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA2...

Corgis have an extremely low center of gravity and the density of a dead star. PERFECT for skateboarding! 😇

NEW: #NASAWebb reveals a distant spiral galaxy perfectly aligned near the tip of Herbig-Haro 49/50—an outflow generated by a nearby still-forming star. This near- and mid-infrared image uncovers intricate details about how stars form: webbtelescope.pub/4iGQg9K 🔭 🧪

Today, I’d like to introduce you to a woman named La-tubashinni, who fought for her children in Babylon in October of 560 BCE.

Lights, camera, action! The world's largest digital camera has been installed at NSF–DOE Rubin Observatory! 🤩 The LSST Camera was the final major component of the observatory. With it in place, Rubin officially enters its final phase of testing!🔭 🔗: rubinobservatory.org/news/lsst-camera-installed

Blue Mars? 💙 A cool new near-infrared image of Mars and its smaller moon Deimos from @esa.int's Hera mission, taken as it flew past on its way to the asteroid moonlet Dimorphos. 🔭

This eagle has the BEST view omg

Good morning Blue Sky

More collaborative #Seestar S50 🔭 imaging by @astronomyedinburgh.bsky.social members me, Ramsay McIver and @neilem.bsky.social . This is 3.9 hours of 10s exposures on M51, stacked & post-processed in PixInsight. Hopefully more clear nights soon, so we can add to it! #astrophotography

James Webb Satellite took a fantastic shot of the Planet Saturn with it's Near Infrared Camera (NIRCam) and the Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI). This is just an Amazing shot that shows the planet and the rings in brilliant detail.

Chandra Sees the Peacock's Galaxy.🔭 Image Credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/SAO; Optical: NASA/ESA/STScI; Image Processing: NASA/CXC/SAO/J. Schmidt, L. Frattare, and J. Major,Chandra.

NASA has designated today as 'Remembrance Day' You can read my thoughts about it here: waynehale.wordpress.com/2016/01/27/r... waynehale.wordpress.com/2015/02/01/f... waynehale.wordpress.com/2019/06/19/b... waynehale.wordpress.com/2013/01/31/a...

Reversing Type 2 diabetes A randomized trial of an SGLT-2 drug and moderate caloric restriction (vs placebo drug) led to remission in 44% vs 28% in the control group

Orion´s Belt ⭐️⭐️⭐️ #stars

In a very large dataset of people with diabetes treated with GLP-1 drugs cf other medications, there were benefits seen for reduced clotting disorders, seizures, neurocognitive disorders (including Alzheimer's), by @zalaly.bsky.social and colleagues www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The Kuiper Belt contains the frozen leftovers of the formation of our Solar System. Using ALMA astronomers can observe similar belts around other stars, and they come in all shapes and sizes! What do they tell us about the formation of planetary systems? Find out: ➡️ www.eso.org/public/blog/... 🔭 🧪

If primordial black holes in the mass range of 10^17 to 10^23 g are the source of dark matter, then tracking shifts in Mars' orbit (...on the order of 1 meter!) might help discover them! #pbsspacetime #space www.youtube.com/watch?v=wh75...

Very important point for healthcare providers in @kkjetelina.bsky.social’s newsletter this morning. Bird flu shows up positive on our standard flu A tests. If someone is flu A+ but has conjunctivitis, is more sick than expected, or had exposure to birds/cows, consider bird flu.

Bonus effect. When a drug for diabetes significantly reduces kidney stones, results of a randomized trial of empagliflozin (Jardiance), a SGLT-2 inhibitor, in people without diabetes www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Love this infographic of the evidence of ETNO clustering! Looking forward to looking at the Vera C Rubin dataset static.scientificamerican.com/dam/m/5fd8f7... From: www.scientificamerican.com/article/if-p...

Spectacular save by Charlie Lindgren, little bit of Flower in this one (via NHL)

#Severance #SZA

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