Happy Halloween! 🎃 👻

Pope Dumpling VII

Octavia Spencer on that episode of 30 Rock is pure gold.

Saw this beauty on the way home. 🌈

sharing the poem my grandfather wrote for his mother for her birthday 81 years ago. he was in hiding and didn’t know she had been murdered at Sobibor. curt-bloch.com/en/magazin/2...

Theories on the origins of intelligence: www.quantamagazine.org/intelligence...

I love when the @marketplace.org podcast episode starts right away, without the commercials. So nice 😊

Rainy day seems fitting.

Horses are fricken awesome.

As NASA astronauts aim for landings in 2027, geologists find surprises in recently retrieved samples from the far side. knowablemagazine.org/content/arti...

“Elephants . . . have extra copies of a tumor suppressor gene, which makes their cells especially prone to triggering cell death at the first sign that something has gone awry.” nautil.us/why-elephant...

A brief rundown of the discovery of the electron: knowablemagazine.org/content/arti...

Invincible is such a great show. Highly recommend.

Venus and the Moon are gorgeous tonight 😍

Hope they succeed. www.marketplace.org/2025/01/31/h...

Mayor Bonnie is not the kind of politician to stay cooped in a mansion - she is always out and about with her people, often tailed by the sanctuary’s head of security, Tom.

“As the tundra continues to thaw and the flow of submarine groundwater ratchets up, … the outflow of carbon from shore to sea could … make ocean surface waters a carbon source to the atmosphere. The CO2 released via groundwater could also contribute to ocean acidification.” phys.org/news/2025-01...

The first two Mummy movies are gems. I’ll watch them any day.

“In samples taken from a distant asteroid, scientists have discovered a host of organic molecules, including key building blocks of life.” www.yahoo.com/news/nasa-as...

Copyright and Artificial Intelligence Part 2: Copyrightability January 2025 www.copyright.gov/ai/Copyright...

Queen Snooze doing the snoozing. 💤 👑

How indeed? www.quantamagazine.org/how-does-lif...

“[I]n late 2023, after a long and expensive mapping project, the State Department announced that the continental shelf had grown by 1 million square kilometers—more than two Californias.” www.yahoo.com/news/america...

Monday marks the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp. An estimated 1,100,000 people, mainly Jews, were murdered there during the Holocaust.

Great piece on the strategic petroleum reserve: www.marketplace.org/2025/01/24/h...

Today in history: apnews.com/today-in-his...

I love a good sandwich. 🙂

What an amazing union ❤️ nautil.us/back-to-the-...

🧊 🥶

As the snow melts, the many abandoned dog pooz are revealed.

Queen Snooze is on the case. (Case = Carpet 😁)

Fun and fascinating 🧵:

Writing is hard sometimes. ✍🏻

Fire-hardening homes, the economics: www.marketplace.org/2025/01/16/r...

Meet LUCA: www.quantamagazine.org/all-life-on-...

I’ve been thinking a lot about gutta percha and how humans discovered and use(d) it. Niche but fun and interesting.

Go ahead, think about zero. www.quantamagazine.org/how-the-huma...

Some days it’s great to do nothing. 😊

“The highest electrification of private transport in the world.” www.thebarentsobserver.com/news/nearly-...

At long last, fresh US icebreaking capacity might be inbound. www.highnorthnews.com/en/us-coast-...

Really cool ocean networks: www.quantamagazine.org/the-ocean-te...

CFP for the Annual Meeting of the American Society for Legal History in Detroit, Nov. 14-16, 2025. Proposals can be submitted until March 25. 🗃️ aslh.net/conference/2...

Fighting fires takes a lot of resources. And as climate change makes the fires more frequent and more intense, it takes more people, supplies and money to fight them.

Interesting interview on Spotify and the music industry. 🎶 www.marketplace.org/2025/01/07/m...

Kickin’ in. ☕️

Wild. www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...

No matter the gloves, my hands are always cold. 🧤 ❄️