This is true abundance.

This headline kind of buries the lede that when he uses the passage, he has the planner of the Sandy 1 mission speaking as God. I wonder if there's anything in the Bible about whether God likes it when people put something else in the place of God. Nah, that's probably nbd.

Hey did you know today is Florence Price’s birthday and if she’s not already one of your favorite composers, she should be

Lol, literally just texted a friend I hadn't texted in a couple months because I saw a picture of a luna moth and they like luna moths.

I wish this article had more about Utah's case and how embarrassing it was for them to blatantly lie about it and move the goalposts multiple times but still have the people of the state say "we're keeping our power, thank you very much."

Realizing that some of my inexplicable sadness about the Artemis II stuff is that it feels like a trans-dimensional communication from an America that took a different path and chose joy instead of fear and hate.

Someone give this horse some cake!

Out take from Succession

articles that write about how "important" immigrant workers are to "the economy" without ever acknowledging that the reason they are important is that they can be treated worse for less pay

Inspired by this, I made a dodecathedral

Finally listened to this. It's deeply frustrating but fascinating how much Mehotra misses the point. Something that gets me is that he keeps coming back to more or less "you should work with an LLM so it can edit like you and then people will pay for that feature and you'll make money" but...

This is my first time living on the east coast during March Madness, and I can't believe it's 10:30 and there are 4 games still going gone! I guess it means I can go to bed happy about this.

I have a theory that religious schools underperform in March Madness, so I picked against BYU & St. Mary's but picked TCU anyway bc my mom went there. I also picked VCU bc of family. I've gotten ridiculously lucky so far today & I'm at 99.9% in the ESPN bracket challenge. Enjoying it while it lasts.

Paris watching Hector fight Achilles:

I know I’ve been boosting my new stuff, but if you haven’t read The Last Days of the Dinosaurs yet 🦕 it won the AAAS/Subaru prize for excellence in science books ☄️ hit the USA Today bestseller list 🌱 got mentioned on JEOPARDY! Check it out.

Over 20 years of the NSF budget. A generation of science funding! (OK, the federal part, and not NIH etc, but still, a big part of it.) Every year when I relearn that the entire NSF budget is only like $9 billion, I'm amazed at what creative, dedicated people do with a comparatively small amount.

**Please share widely!** Announcing CTNT 2026: the Connecticut Summer School in Number Theory, and Research Conference! June 1-7, at UConn. Applications (for the summer school and/or conference) are now open thru our website: ctnt-summer.math.uconn.edu

On top of everything else, watch Miller in the background laughing after Trump makes a racist potshot at Crockett. He has figured out how to combine being despicable with being pathetic in a way few have mastered.

Every morning, the queen asked her magic mirror to show her the most beautiful person in the world. The mirror replied "To whom?" "The miller who made the flour for my bread," the queen would say, or "Whoever spun the thread my shawl was made of". The mirror would show her, and she'd be amazed.

Attention Science Communicators! We are conducting a survey on the landscape of science communication & need your help gathering experiences. Please send this to #SciComm ppl you know. We want to get as thorough a sense of the state of the field as we can. umiami.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

Imagine being Mike Lee and abandoning whatever principles you had to be a cheerleader and rubber stamper for Trump's bigotry and lies and violations of the constitution and then find out you're not even his favorite Mormon.

what function is the biggest jumpscare to you. i'll go first, clear choice for me at least it's obviously the gamma function.

This is one of the highest taste to effort ratio recipes I've ever made. It feels illegal. Highly recommend it with mayocoba beans. (Rancho Gordo's mayocoba beans are sooo good!)

TFW you spend 19 years, starting at age 15, figuring out by hand whether 2^127-1 is prime, and then it's the largest known prime for 75 years! Dang, that's dedication! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89d...

wow the west webcam at the Kilauea crater has been having a very bad day direct by falling rock at 11:12:57 turns everything red for a second www.youtube.com/watch?v=tk0t...

I'm writing about something algebraic geometry related right now, and I'm going cross-eyed trying to keep straight whether by 2-dimensional they mean 2 real dimensions (like normal people) or 2 complex dimensions (like algebraic geometry sickos). They're subtracting 7 from 8 and getting 2,

How to make yogurt: milk a cow, homogenize + pasteurize the milk, heat up the milk again, let it get back down to 110 F, stir in some bacterial culture, let it sit for 8-12 hours, add fruit/sugar to taste. How to make ultra-processed yogurt: Do all that and then add a drop of food coloring.

arxiv.org/abs/2603.07154 /English translation of Sophie Kowalevski's "On the problem of the rotation of a rigid body about a fixed point"/ Sophie Kowalevski (translation by Graham Hesketh)

Rough Spelling Bee yesterday for music theory and math nerd Episcopalians

@magpie.tips You replied to me once about hawks, so now you're my designated on-call hawk person. Would two different species of hawks be hanging out a lot in the same tree for an hour or more at a time? At least one of them seems to have a nest in another nearby tree.

Wow, just got to watch a couple hawks right outside my front door for ~an hour! Probably Cooper’s but maybe sharp-shinned? (I welcome id help.) Pretty happy with the quality of pictures I got just holding my phone up to my binoculars. 😆 I got to watch them do a lot of stretching and grooming!

my beloved trans community: do you feel like you transitioned late? (whatever that means to you!) if so, I'd love to hear from you for an essay I'm working on 🙏 🐛 forms.gle/AMd8zWnWvEro...

I wish I could bottle the way my 3-year-old niece says the word dinosaur. I think it would heal a lot of people. It’s so cute, transcription doesn’t quite do it justice. It’s something like “dine-tore,” but she does a funny diphthong on syllables that end in r that I don’t know how to convey.

When I told my husband about this this morning I think he wasn't sure whether I was telling him about a dream or a real thing. "They were doing pushups in a sauna." "He was doing a cold plunge wearing jeans." "He was drinking milk in a hot tub with Kid Rock."

(I haven't read this article. Just responding to the question.) I'm excited about ebikes. I think they have the potential to replace a lot of 1-10 mile single-person car trips. I love riding a regular bike, but ebikes make it quicker & less sweaty & more accessible & let you carry more stuff.

By the always excellent Erin Davis, a chart of the first names that have seen the greatest (estimated) drop in living Americans with that name. Much more here, including an interactive to look the trends for any first name: erdavis.com/2026/02/16/i...

Even though this makes Buffett look generous, a fun fact is that if you have 100 billion dollars, you can give away 99% of your money and still have enough to spend $27,000 a day for 100 years. Giving away that much of your wealth has no impact on the comfort of your life.

Happy birthday to one of my favourite haters, Charles Darwin

Ominous bird valentines.

Onnis on inimene by Cyrillus Kreek, from what is probably my favorite album of all time. www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2iy...

Welcome to #DuboisChallenge2026 where the #dataviz community is encouraged to re-create visuals from the Paris Expo of 1900. This years theme is "Maps". This thread will introduce each image (see: github.com/ajstarks/dub...)

One of these days, people will look back on these sports betting ads like we do on the ads for patent medicines featuring cocaine.

No Kings includes Draft Kings

GM: Charisma check. Mamdani: [rolls natural 20] GM: that’s a d6 how did you Mamdani: [direct to camera] Did you know you can check out board games at your local public library? 😊

NSF GRFP applicants (and mentors): Was your application Returned Without Review and deemed ineligible despite fitting in the allowed topics? 1) Write NSF 2) Write your Congressperson 3) CC us at [email protected] so we can compile + follow up Details and template at grant-witness.us/grfp-letter

Now that some bird people have liked/reskeeted, I'm in central NJ & it had an orange and white spotted body, darker brown head, and black and white bands on the tail. It was sitting in a tree, and I didn't get a good look at it when it flew off. Maybe red-shouldered?

Sorry I'm not prepared for our meeting. I was trying to identify the hawk I just saw.

Almost 4000 people have done this quiz so far, although younger groups still under-represented in case you know anyone who'd like to give it a go and see how they compare to others! probability.kucharski.io

Haymarket Books has made three of their eBooks free for download during this time of turmoil. You can get copies of: "Unbuild Walls" by Silky Shah, "Border & Rule" by Harsha Walia, and "The Case for Open Borders" By John Washington.