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  1. @inthehands

    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

  2. @inthehands

    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

  3. 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 #ScientificAmerican

    scientificamerican.com/article

  4. 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 #ScientificAmerican

    scientificamerican.com/article

  5. 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?

    #scientificamerican #sciam #science #sciencecommunication

  6. 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?

    #scientificamerican #sciam #science #sciencecommunication

  7. Ooooooh I see.

    I did not know Scientific American got sold.

    Scheduled rapid disassembly happened on June 26. Unionised staff sacked, the whole neoliberal capitalist playbook, it seems. FMD.
    Oh well. All things must come to an end.

    #SciAm gone.
    #America plummeting.

    What was your favourite?

  8. Ooooooh I see.

    I did not know Scientific American got sold.

    Scheduled rapid disassembly happened on June 26. Unionised staff sacked, the whole neoliberal capitalist playbook, it seems. FMD.
    Oh well. All things must come to an end.

    #SciAm gone.
    #America plummeting.

    What was your favourite?

  9. Scientific American is being sold to LabX Media, publisher of Discover:

    group.springernature.com/gp/gr

    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]

    #SciAm

  10. Scientific American is being sold to LabX Media, publisher of Discover:

    group.springernature.com/gp/gr

    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]

    #SciAm

  11. 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.

    #SciAm #enshittification RIP

  12. 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.

    #SciAm #enshittification RIP

  13. #SciAM:
    "
    Salty clouds discovered on pink puffball planet

    A cold, cherry-blossom-hued exoplanet supports bizarre clouds chock-full of salts
    "
    ".. 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. .."

    scientificamerican.com/article

    18.6.2026

    #Astronomie #astronomy #BraunerZwerg #BrownDwarf #Exoplanet #Gasriese #GJ504b #JWST #PinkPlanet #salt #Salz #Weltraumteleskop

  14. #SciAM:
    "
    Salty clouds discovered on pink puffball planet

    A cold, cherry-blossom-hued exoplanet supports bizarre clouds chock-full of salts
    "
    ".. 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. .."

    scientificamerican.com/article

    18.6.2026

    #Astronomie #astronomy #BraunerZwerg #BrownDwarf #Exoplanet #Gasriese #GJ504b #JWST #PinkPlanet #salt #Salz #Weltraumteleskop

  15. #SciAM:
    "
    JWST catches cosmic imposters spoofing faraway galaxies
    "
    "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"

    scientificamerican.com/article

    19.6.2026

    #Astronomie #astronomy #BraunerZwerg #BrownDwarf #BulletBD1 #BulletBD2 #JWST #RedDot #Stern #Weltraumteleskop

  16. #SciAM:
    "
    JWST catches cosmic imposters spoofing faraway galaxies
    "
    "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"

    scientificamerican.com/article

    19.6.2026

    #Astronomie #astronomy #BraunerZwerg #BrownDwarf #BulletBD1 #BulletBD2 #JWST #RedDot #Stern #Weltraumteleskop

  17. #SciAM:
    "
    China’s Tianwen-2 spacecraft just arrived at a mysterious ‘quasi-moon’ of Earth
    "
    "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"

    scientificamerican.com/article

    11.6.2026

    #2016HO3 #Asteroid #China #Kamooalewa #Raumfahrt #Raumsonde #SpaceFlight #Tianwen2

  18. #SciAM:
    "
    China’s Tianwen-2 spacecraft just arrived at a mysterious ‘quasi-moon’ of Earth
    "
    "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"

    scientificamerican.com/article

    11.6.2026

    #2016HO3 #Asteroid #China #Kamooalewa #Raumfahrt #Raumsonde #SpaceFlight #Tianwen2

  19. #SciAM:
    "
    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
    "
    ".. ships will be dispatched .. to remove the more than 900 deep-sea instruments .."

    scientificamerican.com/article

    2.6.2026

    #AMOC #ClimateResearch #Klimaforschung #Klimawandel #NSF #Ocean #oceanography #OOI #Ozean #science #Sea #USA #Wissenschaft #Wissenschaftsfeindlichkeit

  20. #SciAM:
    "
    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
    "
    ".. ships will be dispatched .. to remove the more than 900 deep-sea instruments .."

    scientificamerican.com/article

    2.6.2026

    #AMOC #ClimateResearch #Klimaforschung #Klimawandel #NSF #Ocean #oceanography #OOI #Ozean #science #Sea #USA #Wissenschaft #Wissenschaftsfeindlichkeit

  21. “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

    Lawyers know AI can hallucinat...

  22. “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

    Lawyers know AI can hallucinat...

  23. "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.

    youtube.com/shorts/A0Z-xO2igBc

    #Artemis #NASA #Moon #Lunar #Astronaut #SCIAM #Science #Humanity #Earth

  24. "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.

    youtube.com/shorts/A0Z-xO2igBc

    #Artemis #NASA #Moon #Lunar #Astronaut #SCIAM #Science #Humanity #Earth

  25. #SciAM:
    "
    Inside NASA’s audacious plan to save a doomed space telescope

    NASA’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
    "
    scientificamerican.com/article

    26.3.2026

    #astronomy #Astronomie #Katalyst #KatalystSpaceTechnologies #NASA #Pegasus #Raumfahrt #SpaceFlight #SpaceTelescope #Swift #Weltraumteleskop

  26. #SciAM:
    "
    Inside NASA’s audacious plan to save a doomed space telescope

    NASA’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
    "
    scientificamerican.com/article

    26.3.2026

    #astronomy #Astronomie #Katalyst #KatalystSpaceTechnologies #NASA #Pegasus #Raumfahrt #SpaceFlight #SpaceTelescope #Swift #Weltraumteleskop

  27. #SciAm:
    "
    NASA must delay deorbiting the ISS, U.S. lawmakers say
    "
    "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, .."

    scientificamerican.com/article

    6.3.2026

    #NASA #ISS #Raumfahrt #Raumstation #SpaceFlight #USA

  28. #SciAm:
    "
    NASA must delay deorbiting the ISS, U.S. lawmakers say
    "
    "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, .."

    scientificamerican.com/article

    6.3.2026

    #NASA #ISS #Raumfahrt #Raumstation #SpaceFlight #USA

  29. #SciAm:
    "
    NASA identifies which astronaut triggered the unprecedented medical evacuation of the ISS

    This disclosure comes about a month after NASA made the decision to evacuate the four members of Crew-11 from the International Space Station
    "
    "“I’m doing very well and continuing standard post-flight reconditioning at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston,” Fincke said. .."

    scientificamerican.com/article

    25.2.2026

    #Crew11 #ISS #JSC #MikeFincke #NASA #Raumfahrt #Raumstation #SpaceFlight

  30. #SciAm:
    "
    NASA identifies which astronaut triggered the unprecedented medical evacuation of the ISS

    This disclosure comes about a month after NASA made the decision to evacuate the four members of Crew-11 from the International Space Station
    "
    "“I’m doing very well and continuing standard post-flight reconditioning at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston,” Fincke said. .."

    scientificamerican.com/article

    25.2.2026

    #Crew11 #ISS #JSC #MikeFincke #NASA #Raumfahrt #Raumstation #SpaceFlight

  31. #SciAM:
    "
    Scientists Denounce Trump’s Plan to Kill Crucial Atmospheric Science Center

    The U.S. government is dismantling the National Center for Atmospheric Research, jettisoning key climate science projects in the process
    "
    scientificamerican.com/article

    17.12.2025

    #Boulder #climate #climatechange #Klima #Klimakrise #Klimawandel #NCAR #science #UCAR #USA #Wissenschaft #Wissenschaftsfeindlichkeit

  32. #SciAM:
    "
    Scientists Denounce Trump’s Plan to Kill Crucial Atmospheric Science Center

    The U.S. government is dismantling the National Center for Atmospheric Research, jettisoning key climate science projects in the process
    "
    scientificamerican.com/article

    17.12.2025

    #Boulder #climate #climatechange #Klima #Klimakrise #Klimawandel #NCAR #science #UCAR #USA #Wissenschaft #Wissenschaftsfeindlichkeit

  33. See #Vaccine Recommendations Backed by Science in These Handy Charts

    These graphics will guide you through science-based vaccine guidelines for children and adults

    scientificamerican.com/article

    Because Bobby Brainworms is okay with you getting sick and/or dying of preventable diseases and has gutted US vaccine recommendations.

    #RFKjr #CDC #WHO #SciAm

  34. See #Vaccine Recommendations Backed by Science in These Handy Charts

    These graphics will guide you through science-based vaccine guidelines for children and adults

    scientificamerican.com/article

    Because Bobby Brainworms is okay with you getting sick and/or dying of preventable diseases and has gutted US vaccine recommendations.

    #RFKjr #CDC #WHO #SciAm

  35. #SciAM:
    "
    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
    "
    scientificamerican.com/article

    3.6.2025

    #death #HRCU #ISS #NASA #Raumfahrt #Raumstation #SpaceFlight #Tod

  36. #SciAM:
    "
    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
    "
    scientificamerican.com/article

    3.6.2025

    #death #HRCU #ISS #NASA #Raumfahrt #Raumstation #SpaceFlight #Tod

  37. #SciAm:
    "
    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
    "
    "..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."

    scientificamerican.com/article

    20.5.2025

    #Mars #Musk #NASA #Raumfahrt #SpaceFlight #USA

  38. #SciAm:
    "
    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
    "
    "..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."

    scientificamerican.com/article

    20.5.2025

    #Mars #Musk #NASA #Raumfahrt #SpaceFlight #USA

  39. "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.”

    scientificamerican.com/article

    #Humor #Laughter #Stress #Science #Psychology #SCIAM

  40. "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.”

    scientificamerican.com/article

    #Humor #Laughter #Stress #Science #Psychology #SCIAM

  41. 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.

    johnhorgan.org/cross-check/sci

    #Journalism #Science #SciAm #Politics

  42. 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.

    johnhorgan.org/cross-check/sci

    #Journalism #Science #SciAm #Politics

  43. 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

    #SciAm

  44. 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

    #SciAm

  45. "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 scientificamerican.com/article

  46. "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 scientificamerican.com/article