Happy 10th anniversary of this essay about the dangers of Donald Trump, written by... JD Vance. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

Holes xkcd.com/3266/

Baryon Asymmetry xkcd.com/3263/

Graphic design is my passion.

🔭 Daytime Moon Meets Evening Star Image Credit & Copyright: Debra Ceravolo ap260620

Happy Father's Day 🖤

While moving, I found a jar of soy sauce probably there from when I moved in 15 years ago at the back of a kitchen cupboard. Tipped it out and in the jar were little rocks - salt crystals. They're beautiful - and they taste amazing.

AI Economics for Dummies www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/ai-...

We got an APOD’ apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap26061...

RIP Bobby Prince. His music legacy will live on, making inspired music for Commander Keen, Wolfenstein 3D, DOOM, countless others. A true legend. And such a nice man, great musician, wonderful, fun-loving man, nothing but happy memories of him. A loss to the world.

🔭 Triple Shockwave from Sun Crossing Rocket Image Credit & Copyright: John Winkopp (WAI Media) ap260615

Plague bacteria may have caused lethal epidemics 5500 years ago among hunter-gatherers--almost 5000 years before the Black Death. Gift link: nyti.ms/3SdK8hb

Illusory back-and-forth movement Actually, the rectangles are moving to the right at a constant speed.

Okay, folks: The big El Niño update is now out on Weather West! This sure looks like it's going to be a dramatic year from a global climate perspective, and there are major implications for extreme events (across California, the U.S. West, & well beyond).

Oxford, the longest running continuous weather station in UK history, with temperature observations stretching back to 1815, has preliminarily broken its maximum temperature record for May yesterday by OVER 3ºC with a temperature of 33.7ºC. Unprecedented in its 211-year history.

Turkey is probably on the same track.

Thanks, Vonnegut. 💜

Günün anlam ve önemine ilişkin en en sevdiğim sözlerden: "Çocuk bezleri ve politikacılar sık sık değiştirilmelidir.... Aynı nedenle!"

Go Developers: ozgurcd.github.io/gograph

Maybe just me but this is spectacular. www.youtube.com/watch?v=72ug...

🔭 Moon Setting Behind Teide Volcano Video Credit & Copyright: Daniel López (El Cielo de Canarias); Music: Piano della Moon (Dan Silva) ap260511

🔭 Comet R3 PanSTARRS Behind Satellite Trails Image Credit & Copyright: Uli Fehr ap260427

The cost of the war in Iran has hit nearly $1 billion a day as the U.S. has blown through weapons. Our national security correspondent Eric Schmitt explains what to know. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/23/u...

Üniversitemiz 2015'te 14. sırada olduğu bu sıralamada bu yıl 102.'liğe yükselmiş🏆

When you obviously have a sign error somewhere in the bowels of your lighting equation.

U.S. President Donald Trump has fired all 24 members of the National Science Board, the body that oversees the National Science Foundation. https://scim.ag/4cxQWhl

In a nutshell. 😊

The application has remained stable since approximately 9 PM PDT, April 16 despite ongoing Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attacks. We have not seen any evidence of unauthorized access to private user data. We will provide a further update by end of day.

Our team received a report of intermittent app outages at about 11:40pm PDT on April 15, 2026. They worked through the night to mitigate a sophisticated Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attack, which intensified throughout the day.

Countdown Standard xkcd.com/3232/

This evening we've had supernumerary rainbows in the Bay Area. Supernumerary rainbows are so cool because they are generated not only by dispersion (prism) like normal rainbows but also by interference (soap bubble) on top of that. If you look closely, you'll see more colors after violet.🌈

If you were wondering what those bright flames were seen in this infrared view - those are RCS puffs to bring the capsule in an optimal landing orientation to reduce impact loading during splashdown #Artemis

I hate when fantasy films I made a long time ago begin to come true in real life.

The voyage of the Katrin neutrino detector through the streets of Karlsruhe made for some amazing images.

posting this 'ol thing again for no reason

Don't you think we have a serious checks-and-balances gap here in the US? It shouldn't be possible for a single maniac to take control of this much power so casually. I mean, yeah, they are a bunch of maniacs, but all gathered around (and by) a single maniac.

This shot of the Artemis II launch goes hard Credit: Brian Balail (@balail.bsky.social)

Artemis ii

Crescent Earth as viewed by the Artemis II crew yesterday (April 4th). flic.kr/p/2s5Z9yc

Took me a while to track it down but for all the camera nerds asking the same question I did - high res version complete with EXIF data is here: images.nasa.gov/details/art0... It was taken with a Nikon D5 with 14-24mm f2.8 lens, 1/4 sec at f4, ISO 51200

More context on this #Artemis II image: * This is the night side, lit by moonlight. You can see city lights in Spain & Portugal, & a sliver of day at lower right * The Sun is entirely behind Earth, which makes it a kind of solar eclipse, but w/ Earth doing the eclipsing instead of the Moon: ☀️🌍🚀🌕

CREATION Happy April Fool's Day! xkcd.com/3227/

www.microsoft.com/en-us/micros... is it good to build an entire economy and software infrastructure on this

Wait. You can just say "we might infringe on your rights" in your Terms Of Service?

Another massive battery storage record in California (CAISO) yesterday, March 29 🔋 At 7pm, batteries reached 12.3 GW of output, meeting 42.8% of demand! And it's not just a short peak anymore. Batteries stayed above 20% of grid supply from 5.50pm to 9.35pm, almost four hours.

Hydrogen peroxide + UV light = restoring the color of old plastic parts that have yellowed over time.

The sky recently glowed bright red over Western Australia as Tropical Cyclone Narelle approached. Here is what to know about the phenomenon. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/29/w...