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Quote from #SciAm article on this topic back in the 1990s/early 2000s...
"Digital information lasts forever--or five years, whichever comes first." - Jeff Rothenberg
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Quote from #SciAm article on this topic back in the 1990s/early 2000s...
"Digital information lasts forever--or five years, whichever comes first." - Jeff Rothenberg
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Almost inconceivable! Never in my life would I have imagined glaciers melting, giant chunks of Artic and North Pole glaciers calving at so many places, nor frozen tundra thawing out and dangerous release of methane gas. SciAm article from today.
“The Arctic is cooking. Across northern Russia—a region that is famously bitterly cold—temperatures this week have routinely surpassed 90 degrees Fahrenheit (32.2 degrees Celsius), adding to the mountain of broken heat records this summer has racked up so far.
In recent days, the Selagoncy meteorological station, near the border of the Arctic Circle, recorded 93.0 degrees F (33.9 degrees C); another station, Olenyok, logged 90.9 degrees F (32.7 degrees C), according to data collected by weather information service Ogimet and reported by climatologist Maximiliano Herrera. To put that in perspective, these temperatures are on par for Orlando, Fla., at this time of year.”
This area is warming up in general up to four times faster than the average place anywhere else in the world.
#GlobalWarming #ClimateChange #Glaciers #HeatWave #SciAm #ScientificAmericanhttps://www.scientificamerican.com/article/its-90-degrees-in-the-arctic-right-now/
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Almost inconceivable! Never in my life would I have imagined glaciers melting, giant chunks of Artic and North Pole glaciers calving at so many places, nor frozen tundra thawing out and dangerous release of methane gas. SciAm article from today.
“The Arctic is cooking. Across northern Russia—a region that is famously bitterly cold—temperatures this week have routinely surpassed 90 degrees Fahrenheit (32.2 degrees Celsius), adding to the mountain of broken heat records this summer has racked up so far.
In recent days, the Selagoncy meteorological station, near the border of the Arctic Circle, recorded 93.0 degrees F (33.9 degrees C); another station, Olenyok, logged 90.9 degrees F (32.7 degrees C), according to data collected by weather information service Ogimet and reported by climatologist Maximiliano Herrera. To put that in perspective, these temperatures are on par for Orlando, Fla., at this time of year.”
This area is warming up in general up to four times faster than the average place anywhere else in the world.
#GlobalWarming #ClimateChange #Glaciers #HeatWave #SciAm #ScientificAmericanhttps://www.scientificamerican.com/article/its-90-degrees-in-the-arctic-right-now/
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So, just got an email from Springer saying that they sold Scientific American to a to me obscure LabX Media Group.
1) I hope they won’t enshittify it.
2) does anyone know LabX Media Group and has any kind of insight or opinion on them? -
So, just got an email from Springer saying that they sold Scientific American to a to me obscure LabX Media Group.
1) I hope they won’t enshittify it.
2) does anyone know LabX Media Group and has any kind of insight or opinion on them? -
What just happened to my favorite magazine and my last remaining print media subscription? Am I gonna have to unsubscribe?
#SciAm #ScientificAmerican #SpringerNature #LabX #WritersGuildOfAmerica #AFLCIO
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What just happened to my favorite magazine and my last remaining print media subscription? Am I gonna have to unsubscribe?
#SciAm #ScientificAmerican #SpringerNature #LabX #WritersGuildOfAmerica #AFLCIO
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Scientific American is being sold to LabX Media, publisher of Discover:
https://group.springernature.com/gp/group/media/press-releases/divestment-consumer-media/52799204
They've fired me and other union staff, ahead of June 26 vote ratification.
My rates are suddenly more reasonable, if you need editing or reporting - [email protected]
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Scientific American is being sold to LabX Media, publisher of Discover:
https://group.springernature.com/gp/group/media/press-releases/divestment-consumer-media/52799204
They've fired me and other union staff, ahead of June 26 vote ratification.
My rates are suddenly more reasonable, if you need editing or reporting - [email protected]
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Of all the things: "Why is the paint peeling off the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool? We investigate...".
Scientific American.
The termites have eaten her out. The next puff of breeze and she'll be gone.
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Of all the things: "Why is the paint peeling off the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool? We investigate...".
Scientific American.
The termites have eaten her out. The next puff of breeze and she'll be gone.
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#SciAM:
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Salty clouds discovered on pink puffball planetA cold, cherry-blossom-hued exoplanet supports bizarre clouds chock-full of salts
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".. GJ504b might not actually be a planet at all; it’s about 25 times the mass of Jupiter,.. .. used the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to capture the dim light emanating from the object. .."https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/salty-clouds-discovered-on-pink-puffball-planet/
18.6.2026
#Astronomie #astronomy #BraunerZwerg #BrownDwarf #Exoplanet #Gasriese #GJ504b #JWST #PinkPlanet #salt #Salz #Weltraumteleskop
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#SciAM:
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Salty clouds discovered on pink puffball planetA cold, cherry-blossom-hued exoplanet supports bizarre clouds chock-full of salts
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".. GJ504b might not actually be a planet at all; it’s about 25 times the mass of Jupiter,.. .. used the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to capture the dim light emanating from the object. .."https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/salty-clouds-discovered-on-pink-puffball-planet/
18.6.2026
#Astronomie #astronomy #BraunerZwerg #BrownDwarf #Exoplanet #Gasriese #GJ504b #JWST #PinkPlanet #salt #Salz #Weltraumteleskop
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JWST catches cosmic imposters spoofing faraway galaxies
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"The James Webb Space Telescope has found nearby brown dwarfs masquerading as far-distant galaxies. The discovery reinforces how, in astronomy, what you see isn’t always what you get"https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/jwst-catches-cosmic-imposters-spoofing-faraway-galaxies/
19.6.2026
#Astronomie #astronomy #BraunerZwerg #BrownDwarf #BulletBD1 #BulletBD2 #JWST #RedDot #Stern #Weltraumteleskop
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#SciAM:
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JWST catches cosmic imposters spoofing faraway galaxies
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"The James Webb Space Telescope has found nearby brown dwarfs masquerading as far-distant galaxies. The discovery reinforces how, in astronomy, what you see isn’t always what you get"https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/jwst-catches-cosmic-imposters-spoofing-faraway-galaxies/
19.6.2026
#Astronomie #astronomy #BraunerZwerg #BrownDwarf #BulletBD1 #BulletBD2 #JWST #RedDot #Stern #Weltraumteleskop
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China’s Tianwen-2 spacecraft just arrived at a mysterious ‘quasi-moon’ of Earth
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"The Tianwen-2 spacecraft is slowly closing in on the near-Earth asteroid Kamo‘oalewa, on a mission that would bring China’s first asteroid samples back to Earth in 2027"11.6.2026
#2016HO3 #Asteroid #China #Kamooalewa #Raumfahrt #Raumsonde #SpaceFlight #Tianwen2
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#SciAM:
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China’s Tianwen-2 spacecraft just arrived at a mysterious ‘quasi-moon’ of Earth
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"The Tianwen-2 spacecraft is slowly closing in on the near-Earth asteroid Kamo‘oalewa, on a mission that would bring China’s first asteroid samples back to Earth in 2027"11.6.2026
#2016HO3 #Asteroid #China #Kamooalewa #Raumfahrt #Raumsonde #SpaceFlight #Tianwen2
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Trump administration takes aim at crucial ocean monitoring network.. OOI has been collecting data on physical, chemical, geological and biological conditions in the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans for the past decade
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".. ships will be dispatched .. to remove the more than 900 deep-sea instruments .."2.6.2026
#AMOC #ClimateResearch #Klimaforschung #Klimawandel #NSF #Ocean #oceanography #OOI #Ozean #science #Sea #USA #Wissenschaft #Wissenschaftsfeindlichkeit
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#SciAM:
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Trump administration takes aim at crucial ocean monitoring network.. OOI has been collecting data on physical, chemical, geological and biological conditions in the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans for the past decade
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".. ships will be dispatched .. to remove the more than 900 deep-sea instruments .."2.6.2026
#AMOC #ClimateResearch #Klimaforschung #Klimawandel #NSF #Ocean #oceanography #OOI #Ozean #science #Sea #USA #Wissenschaft #Wissenschaftsfeindlichkeit
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“A database maintained by Damien Charlotin, a senior research fellow at the Paris School of Advanced Business Studies (HEC Paris), lists more than 1,400 cases where courts have addressed AI errors in the past three years, including filings by attorneys and self-represented litigants. “ #SciAM #AI
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“A database maintained by Damien Charlotin, a senior research fellow at the Paris School of Advanced Business Studies (HEC Paris), lists more than 1,400 cases where courts have addressed AI errors in the past three years, including filings by attorneys and self-represented litigants. “ #SciAM #AI
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"It's a special thing to be a human and a special thing to be on planet Earth."
Artemis II commander Reid Wiseman and his crewmates, Victor Glover, Christina Koch and Jeremy Hansen, have been sharing their insights and experiences of their trip around the Moon now that their feet are solidly back on terra firma. Scientific American has pulled some of their best quotes into a series of very short videos.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/A0Z-xO2igBc
#Artemis #NASA #Moon #Lunar #Astronaut #SCIAM #Science #Humanity #Earth
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"It's a special thing to be a human and a special thing to be on planet Earth."
Artemis II commander Reid Wiseman and his crewmates, Victor Glover, Christina Koch and Jeremy Hansen, have been sharing their insights and experiences of their trip around the Moon now that their feet are solidly back on terra firma. Scientific American has pulled some of their best quotes into a series of very short videos.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/A0Z-xO2igBc
#Artemis #NASA #Moon #Lunar #Astronaut #SCIAM #Science #Humanity #Earth
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‘Science under attack’: Top climate scientist Kate Marvel explains why she resigned from NASA
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https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/top-climate-scientist-kate-marvel-just-resigned-from-nasa-heres-why/25.3.2026
#climate #ClimateChange #GISS #Klima #Klimawandel #Klimakrise #NASA #science #USA #Wissenschaft #Wissenschaftsfeindlichkeit
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#SciAM:
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‘Science under attack’: Top climate scientist Kate Marvel explains why she resigned from NASA
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https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/top-climate-scientist-kate-marvel-just-resigned-from-nasa-heres-why/25.3.2026
#climate #ClimateChange #GISS #Klima #Klimawandel #Klimakrise #NASA #science #USA #Wissenschaft #Wissenschaftsfeindlichkeit
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#SciAM:
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Inside NASA’s audacious plan to save a doomed space telescopeNASA’s Swift space telescope is doomed to burn up in Earth’s atmosphere later this year. A daring mission to boost it to safety could have big implications for science
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https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/inside-nasas-audacious-plan-to-save-a-doomed-space-telescope/26.3.2026
#astronomy #Astronomie #Katalyst #KatalystSpaceTechnologies #NASA #Pegasus #Raumfahrt #SpaceFlight #SpaceTelescope #Swift #Weltraumteleskop
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#SciAM:
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Inside NASA’s audacious plan to save a doomed space telescopeNASA’s Swift space telescope is doomed to burn up in Earth’s atmosphere later this year. A daring mission to boost it to safety could have big implications for science
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https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/inside-nasas-audacious-plan-to-save-a-doomed-space-telescope/26.3.2026
#astronomy #Astronomie #Katalyst #KatalystSpaceTechnologies #NASA #Pegasus #Raumfahrt #SpaceFlight #SpaceTelescope #Swift #Weltraumteleskop
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NASA must delay deorbiting the ISS, U.S. lawmakers say
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"U.S. lawmakers are moving to delay the International Space Station’s retirement, giving more time for commercial replacements to be built"".. a draft measure to the NASA Authorization Act of 2026 that would order the space agency to extend ISS operations through 2032, .."
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/nasa-must-delay-deorbiting-the-iss-u-s-lawmakers-say/
6.3.2026
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#SciAm:
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NASA must delay deorbiting the ISS, U.S. lawmakers say
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"U.S. lawmakers are moving to delay the International Space Station’s retirement, giving more time for commercial replacements to be built"".. a draft measure to the NASA Authorization Act of 2026 that would order the space agency to extend ISS operations through 2032, .."
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/nasa-must-delay-deorbiting-the-iss-u-s-lawmakers-say/
6.3.2026
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#SciAm:
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NASA identifies which astronaut triggered the unprecedented medical evacuation of the ISSThis disclosure comes about a month after NASA made the decision to evacuate the four members of Crew-11 from the International Space Station
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"“I’m doing very well and continuing standard post-flight reconditioning at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston,” Fincke said. .."25.2.2026
#Crew11 #ISS #JSC #MikeFincke #NASA #Raumfahrt #Raumstation #SpaceFlight
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#SciAm:
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NASA identifies which astronaut triggered the unprecedented medical evacuation of the ISSThis disclosure comes about a month after NASA made the decision to evacuate the four members of Crew-11 from the International Space Station
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"“I’m doing very well and continuing standard post-flight reconditioning at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston,” Fincke said. .."25.2.2026
#Crew11 #ISS #JSC #MikeFincke #NASA #Raumfahrt #Raumstation #SpaceFlight
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#SciAM:
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Scientists Denounce Trump’s Plan to Kill Crucial Atmospheric Science CenterThe U.S. government is dismantling the National Center for Atmospheric Research, jettisoning key climate science projects in the process
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https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/scientists-decry-trumps-plan-to-kill-crucial-atmospheric-science-center/17.12.2025
#Boulder #climate #climatechange #Klima #Klimakrise #Klimawandel #NCAR #science #UCAR #USA #Wissenschaft #Wissenschaftsfeindlichkeit
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#SciAM:
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Scientists Denounce Trump’s Plan to Kill Crucial Atmospheric Science CenterThe U.S. government is dismantling the National Center for Atmospheric Research, jettisoning key climate science projects in the process
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https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/scientists-decry-trumps-plan-to-kill-crucial-atmospheric-science-center/17.12.2025
#Boulder #climate #climatechange #Klima #Klimakrise #Klimawandel #NCAR #science #UCAR #USA #Wissenschaft #Wissenschaftsfeindlichkeit
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NASA Loses Signal from Critical Mars OrbiterNASA’s MAVEN spacecraft didn’t phone home as expected on December 6
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https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/nasa-loses-signal-from-critical-mars-orbiter/10.12.2025
#Mars #Marsorbiter #MAVEN #NASA #Raumfahrt #Raumsonde #SpaceFlight
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#SciAM:
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NASA Loses Signal from Critical Mars OrbiterNASA’s MAVEN spacecraft didn’t phone home as expected on December 6
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https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/nasa-loses-signal-from-critical-mars-orbiter/10.12.2025
#Mars #Marsorbiter #MAVEN #NASA #Raumfahrt #Raumsonde #SpaceFlight
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See #Vaccine Recommendations Backed by Science in These Handy Charts
These graphics will guide you through science-based vaccine guidelines for children and adults
Because Bobby Brainworms is okay with you getting sick and/or dying of preventable diseases and has gutted US vaccine recommendations.
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See #Vaccine Recommendations Backed by Science in These Handy Charts
These graphics will guide you through science-based vaccine guidelines for children and adults
Because Bobby Brainworms is okay with you getting sick and/or dying of preventable diseases and has gutted US vaccine recommendations.
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Are We Ready for Death in Space?NASA has quietly taken steps to prepare for a death in space. We need to ask how nations will deal with this inevitability now, as more people start traveling off the planet
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https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/is-nasa-ready-for-death-in-space/3.6.2025
#death #HRCU #ISS #NASA #Raumfahrt #Raumstation #SpaceFlight #Tod
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#SciAM:
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Are We Ready for Death in Space?NASA has quietly taken steps to prepare for a death in space. We need to ask how nations will deal with this inevitability now, as more people start traveling off the planet
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https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/is-nasa-ready-for-death-in-space/3.6.2025
#death #HRCU #ISS #NASA #Raumfahrt #Raumstation #SpaceFlight #Tod
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We’re Not Going to Mars Anytime Soon—Despite What Musk Says.. Musk and ..Trump have announced ambitious plans to send a mission to Mars in 2026 and 2028. It’s not going to happen
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"..up to trillions of $. .. real aim—to funnel enormous sums of money away from researchers at NASA + its partners + into his privately-held company w/o having to answer to shareholders or deliver on promised schedules."https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/trump-wants-to-go-to-mars-thats-not-happening/
20.5.2025
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#SciAm:
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We’re Not Going to Mars Anytime Soon—Despite What Musk Says.. Musk and ..Trump have announced ambitious plans to send a mission to Mars in 2026 and 2028. It’s not going to happen
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"..up to trillions of $. .. real aim—to funnel enormous sums of money away from researchers at NASA + its partners + into his privately-held company w/o having to answer to shareholders or deliver on promised schedules."https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/trump-wants-to-go-to-mars-thats-not-happening/
20.5.2025
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Je publie ça pour le retrouver plus facilement. Tiré de "The New Science of Sex and Gender" https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-new-science-of-sex-and-gender/ (paywalled)
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"Stress may make us feel anxious or angry; humor replaces that feeling with a moment of joy, lightness, surprise or connection."
"You’re not denying that there is some trouble in the world or there is great despair and grief. It’s giving yourself a break. And we all need a little break.”
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-humor-can-help-you-get-through-hard-times/
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"Stress may make us feel anxious or angry; humor replaces that feeling with a moment of joy, lightness, surprise or connection."
"You’re not denying that there is some trouble in the world or there is great despair and grief. It’s giving yourself a break. And we all need a little break.”
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-humor-can-help-you-get-through-hard-times/
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Scientific American Loses Its Bold Leader
"Trump spews insults and wins the election. Helmuth loses her job. Critics of cancel culture cheered Helmuth’s cancellation."
Excellent analysis on politics, journalism, and science in the wake of SciAm editor Laura Helmuth stepping down.
https://johnhorgan.org/cross-check/scientific-american-loses-its-bold-leader
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Scientific American Loses Its Bold Leader
"Trump spews insults and wins the election. Helmuth loses her job. Critics of cancel culture cheered Helmuth’s cancellation."
Excellent analysis on politics, journalism, and science in the wake of SciAm editor Laura Helmuth stepping down.
https://johnhorgan.org/cross-check/scientific-american-loses-its-bold-leader
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Hey, I took the quiz, you should too:
I just scored 6/6 on @sciam's Science Quiz! Try it yourself : https://www.scientificamerican.com/game/science-quiz-spooky-lakes-forbidden-colors-2024-11-01/?id=1f126872&set=scientificamerican-science-quiz&puzzleType=quiz
🤣🤣🤣
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Hey, I took the quiz, you should too:
I just scored 6/6 on @sciam's Science Quiz! Try it yourself : https://www.scientificamerican.com/game/science-quiz-spooky-lakes-forbidden-colors-2024-11-01/?id=1f126872&set=scientificamerican-science-quiz&puzzleType=quiz
🤣🤣🤣
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I read that an author in the Scientific American had written a book called “A little man who wasn‘t there” - that I’m sure is a reference to a poem I learned (and loved) in my teens:
I saw a little man upon the stair
A little man who wasn’t there
He wasn’t there again today
Gee, I wish he’d go away -
I read that an author in the Scientific American had written a book called “A little man who wasn‘t there” - that I’m sure is a reference to a poem I learned (and loved) in my teens:
I saw a little man upon the stair
A little man who wasn’t there
He wasn’t there again today
Gee, I wish he’d go away -
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"What characterizes the bullshitter, [the late American philosopher Harry] Frankfurt said, is that they just don’t care whether what they say is true. ChatGPT and its peers cannot care, and they are instead, in a technical sense, bullshit machines."
#llm #chatGPT #sciam #scientificAmerican https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/chatgpt-isnt-hallucinating-its-bullshitting/ -
"What characterizes the bullshitter, [the late American philosopher Harry] Frankfurt said, is that they just don’t care whether what they say is true. ChatGPT and its peers cannot care, and they are instead, in a technical sense, bullshit machines."
#llm #chatGPT #sciam #scientificAmerican https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/chatgpt-isnt-hallucinating-its-bullshitting/ -
Read astronomy professor @sundogplanets Sam Lawler's first-hand account of her close-encounter with space junk:
#astronomy #spacejunk #kesslersyndrome #scientificamerican #sciam
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Read astronomy professor @sundogplanets Sam Lawler's first-hand account of her close-encounter with space junk:
#astronomy #spacejunk #kesslersyndrome #scientificamerican #sciam
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Are you conscious or meta-conscious? An interesting article in #ScientificAmerican.
#SciAm #philosophy #psychology #mind @SciAm
https://getpocket.com/explore/item/consciousness-goes-deeper-than-you-think