Lego announces Smart Brick, the ‘most significant evolution’ in 50 years

All stations cracked the top 10, a few records were broken. https://x.com/NWSBayArea/status/2007698905161707654

Update: very active weather week to come in CA! First, a persistent and very warm atmospheric river will remain draped over NorCal, continuing to generate rain--and snow levels in the Sierra will rise yet further, above 8k-9k feet. SoCal stays warm/dry through Tue. [Thread] #CAwx

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Sometimes, a simple "Pull" sign on a door is not enough! 🤣 (Seen on the door of www.amarathaicuisine.com in #Woodland #California )

"Why singing is surprisingly good for your health" via BBC Future 🌍😊🌏🤩🌎 www.bbc.co.uk/future/artic... -- #Singing

"Call Your Mother" exhorts this park bench in the hummingbird grove at UC Davis 😊 "Nurture Life, Trust Your Gut, Stay Fierce, Call Your Mother" -- "In loving memory, Carolee Gish Ferguson, 1937-2015" 🌹 #UCDavis #ParkBench

Oddball USB flash drives: one with a bottle-opener, another with a wrench -- because, why not?!? 🤣 #USBFlashDrives

"Crispr Kreme - DNA Edits" 😂🤣😂 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CRISPR_... --- #CRISPR #GeneEditing #DNAediting #GeneticEngineering

Airports are in chaos as the holiday travel season approaches—and the railroad is looking pretty good by comparison, @kait.bsky.social writes.

In future, flexibly operated heat pumps and electric cars could reduce both electricity imports and electricity prices. That is according to a new study by a Swiss research consortium led by ETH Zurich. ethz.ch/en/news-and-...

"A Woman's Instructional Guide for Men" 😂🤣😂 #MaryMcHugh

🤣😂🤣 --- www.speedbump.com --- #SpeedBump #DaveCoverly #LeafBlowers

"Living on earth may be expensive, but it includes an annual free trip around the Sun." - Ashleigh Brilliant, 🤓 www.AshleighBrilliant.com , #PotShots #BrilliantThoughts #AshleighBrilliant

Over the last months, we’ve entirely rebuilt search on Our World in Data — we just launched it: ourworldindata.org/introducing-... Let me know what you think. Does it work for you?

I dropped off my ballot today at the "Food 4 Less" in #Woodland #California -- "Food 4 Less, Vote 4 Free" 🤣 (& "Vote 4 Freedom"!) Let's hope that Wisdom, Compassion, & Justice will one day prevail in this complex (& often bewildering) nation & world of ours.... 🌎🌞🌍🌈🌏 #Vote

One nice thing about working at a National Laboratory is that you are in the midst of the most advanced, cutting-edge technology.... 🤣 #EarthquakeDetectionTechnology

Auspicious Día de los Muertos to all! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Day_of_... - #DíaDeMuertos #DayOfTheDead

Better living through chemistry! 🤣

"Our inability to understand the exponential function is our biggest weakness" So says Prof. Albert Bartlett in this thoughtful video. www.youtube.com/watch?v=1bvw... (I actually think we have bigger weaknesses than this, but we can give the good professor some room for hyperbole here...) 🌎🤓🌍😊🌏

Sitting thru another meeting... 😂🤣😂 (Image courtesy of Emily Steiner ( www.facebook.com/emily.steine... ), Medievalist Extraordinaire! 🤩 )

For good, ill, neutral, or mixed, "Big Tech Makes Cal State Its A.I. Training Ground: Spurred by titans like Amazon and OpenAI, California State wants to become the nation’s 'largest A.I.-empowered' university..." 🤓 NY Times unlocked article: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/26/t... #AIinEducation #CalState

"University of California sets world record for Nobel Prizes in a single year" www.universityofcalifornia.edu/press-room/u... 🌎🤩🌍🤓🌏 CC #UnveristyOfCalifornia #UCBerkeley #UCLA #UCSantaBarbara #UCSanDiego - @berkeleylab.lbl.gov - @molecularfoundry.lbl.gov - @als.lbl.gov - #NobelPrize #NobelPrize2025

🎶 She's a Smoothie Operator🎵Smoooothie Operatorrrr 🎶 😂🤣😂 (Seen in #Davis #California 😊 ) -- #Sade #SmoothOperator #Operators #Smoothies #DavisCA

I came across this photo of my Dad, from a news clipping in the 1970s (I believe). He was a tough ol' Marine, most at home in the wilderness. Though life with Dad was complicated, I've always be thankful he was my father. Semper Fi, Dad! I'll never be able to thank you enough....

I asked Google Gemini (AI) two questions: "In what year did more than 50% of americans have internet service?" & "In what year did more than 50% of americans own a personal computer?" (An AI-response is only as good as the resources on which it is based! Easy to forget ....) #InternetHistory

From 1954: "How to dial your phone by Bell System" www.youtube.com/watch?v=PuYP... 🤓 #TechNostalgia #BlastFromThePast #TelephoneHistory #Telephony #The50s

The advertising algorithm seems to think I'm interested in buying a shipping container 😂🤣😂 Good thing I'm not given to impulse buying, because I rather like the 3rd one to the right! 😛

These long-lived little rodents are resistant to cancer, arthritis, & other diseases: can we discover their health secrets & develop them for human beings? More - BBC: www.bbc.com/news/article... -- Science: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... -- #CancerPrevention #Cancer #Arthritis #NakedMoleRats

I was interested to learn that LBNL scientist (and former Director of Berkeley Lab's Molecular Foundry: foundry.lbl.gov ) Omar M. Yaghi has won the 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry [shared] : www.nobelprize.org/prizes/chemi... More about Professor Yaghi here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omar_M....

The "Paradox of Buridan's Donkey" strikes again! 🤣 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buridan... -- #BuridansAss #Aristotle #Spinoza #JeanBuridan #AlGhazali #Paradox #Dilemma #Ambiguity

A map projection necessarily distorts *something* -- it is a 2-dimensional representation of a 3-dimensional reality. 🌍🌏🌎 Different projections distort different things (& get other things right). Good to be acquainted with the different types of map projections! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...

Calder Gardens, a Light-Filled Museum and Prairie, Houses the Sculptor’s Work in Philadelphia www.thisiscolossal.com/2025/10/cald...

Wow!! 🤩 May all blessings be with the first female Archbishop of Canterbury!! 🌍🌹🌏🌹🌎 www.bbc.com/news/article... -- (Though not Anglican myself, I am happy to see the progress of fairness anywhere in our struggling human species 🥰 ) Pacem in Terris! #ArchbishopofCanterbury

We're here! Come friend, follow, etc. Looking forward to seeing you. Blue skies from now on ?

An experimental treatment slowed the devastating progression of Huntington’s disease, a rare hopeful advance against a genetic disease that robs people of control of their bodies and minds in the prime of life.

Big news: Internet Archive Europe ( @internetarchive.eu ) has opened its new HQ in Amsterdam! 🎉 A home for preservation, access & shared cultural heritage. Read coverage from @mariabustillos.com in Flaming Hydra: flaminghydra.com/freedom-and-...

🦌 🐍 🦃 Always a reminder that Berkeley Lab’s hilltop campus is shared with incredible neighbors. From coyotes and deer to rattlesnakes and turkeys, wildlife is part of our daily landscape, and a sign of our unique environment where world-class science meets the natural world. 💙#WildlifeWednesday

Earthquake near Berkeley, California, Magnitude 4.3, 2km ESE of Berkeley. Wishing safety & wellness to all our friends in Berkeley & the greater SF Bay Area! 🌎🙏🙏🙏🌎 For more, see the Berkeley Seismological Laboratory: earthquakes.berkeley.edu --- #BerkeleyEarthquake #SanFranciscoEarthquake

Wikipedia's "List of oldest continuously inhabited cities" lists West Asian cities Diyarbakir (Turkey), Aleppo (Syria), Byblos (Lebanon), Damascus, & Jerusalem. In the US, Tuscon (Arizona) & in Mexico, Mexico City make the list. Here's the link: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of... 🌍🌏🌎

"ABANDON ALL DESPAIR YE WHO ENTER HERE" 🌎🥰🌍🙂🌏-- historic photo from @citylightsbooks.bsky.social in San Francisco -- #CityLights #CityLightsBookstore #Dante #DanteAlighieri

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"I shall allow no man to belittle my soul by making me hate him." - Booker T. Washington ----- Amen. 🌍🌏🌎 #LoveYourNeighbor #BookerTWashington

When did the Anthropocene begin? Rivka Galchen says it was when we could finally recognize ourselves in our own reflections. But have mirrors taught us anything?

A beautiful, inspiring story, via the #BBC 🌎 "Why a Brazilian favela facing eviction decided to go green" - Bravo, LiaEsperança!! 🥰 Photo: "Maria de Lourdes Andrade Silva shows off a giant passionfruit grown in the community garden" - www.bbc.com/future/artic...

Flower-like origami patterns could inspire folding spacecraft www.newscientist.com/article/2493...

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Nice visualization of the #NormalDistribution using a virtual #GaltonBoard --- www.youtube.com/shorts/6qxA9... 🤩 --- #GaltonBox #Quincunx #PascalsTriangle #CentralLimitTheorem #BinomialDistribution #RegressionToTheMean