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FDA won’t review Moderna application for first mRNA-based flu vaccine The decision, which shocked company officials, comes as the FDA says it will take a stricter approach to federal vaccine approvals.

So the feds ARE NOT considering an mRNA vaccine for the flu, which could save countless lives, but ARE backing research into whether horse dewormer can cure cancer, because the right views vaccines as elite and ivermectin as populist.

Cool.
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The app is sized for a phone on a tablet. Position never remembered when you log on again. 🤷‍♀️

Quite nice, especially considering the low resolution sensor used. Subtle color contrasts can be seen in some Apollo surface photography between the maria and the highlends.

This colour enhanced image shows the real colours of the Moon, predominantly the lunar maria. The maria were formed by ancient basaltic flood volcanic eruptions that once covered low lying regions in a thick, nearly flat layer of solidified magma. The image is a mosaic of 24 panels taken with the ToUCam's 640x480 resolution. Each panel is a stack of 500 1/1000s frames, which provided for very low noise levels. The result was then heavily colour saturated and a copy of the original image was added as luminosity layer. The result is a lunar mineral map which clearly shows the distribution of titanium minerals on the lunar surface. Mare basalts are generally grouped into three series based on their major element chemistry: high-Ti basalts, low-Ti basalts, and very Low-Ti basalts. While these groups were once thought to be distinct based on the Apollo samples, global remote sensing data from the Clementine mission now shows that there is a continuum of titanium concentrations between these end members, and that the high-titanium concentrations are the least abundant. TiO2 abundances can reach up to 15 wt% for mare basalts, whereas most terrestrial basalts have abundances much less than 4 wt%.

A lunar mineral map - Titanium distribution on the lunar surface - From Rolf Wahl Olsen - https://flic.kr/p/attdMF

A drop of dream fuel - Enchanted City by Hannes Bok

“Hold it right there, Charles! ... Not on our first date, you don’t!”

“Hold it right there, Charles! ... Not on our first date, you don’t!”

“C’mon! You’ll miss the fun! … All the lemmings are going down to the beach!”

“C’mon! You’ll miss the fun! … All the lemmings are going down to the beach!”

Comic. [Person with ponytail pointing to diagram on wall as she talks to two other people, one with short hair.] PERSON 1: The high carbon content of the skeleton indicates that the individual lived less than 12.6 billion years ago, after the first round of stellar nucleosynthesis. [caption] Cosmologist carbon dating

Carbon Dating

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"Listen, Wadsworth ... as far as I’m concerned we can just go anchor somewhere else.”

"Listen, Wadsworth ... as far as I’m concerned we can just go anchor somewhere else.”

Tuesday, Feb 10, 2026 - Long Tracks IV More long tracks. We'll hear a classic from Eberhard Weber off his album, The Colors of Chloe, and an electronic artist out of Denmark, Klaus Schonning, from his album, Symphodysse.

We go Loooong again with side-filling tracks by Eberhard Weber, Klaus Schonning, Colin Rayment and one of our favorite ambient albums from ISHQ. It's Long Tracks on Echoes from PRX. wp.me/p4ZE0X-xrK

Gino D'Achille’s cover artwork for Edgar Rice Burroughs' "The Chessmen of Mars"

Gino D'Achille’s cover artwork for Edgar Rice Burroughs' "The Master Mind of Mars”

Gino D'Achille’s cover artwork for ‘Der Flug des Ikarus’ by Neal Davenport

Gino D'Achille’s cover artwork for ‘The Blue World’ by Jack Vance

Artist Gino D'Achille sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/dachil... died on this day, so here's some of his bookcover artwork from 1973-1976:

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#apod 2026-02-10
In Green Company: Aurora over Norway
Image Credit:
Max Rive

Web page: https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap260210.html

One from the vaults! Cover of Weird Tales May 1940 by Hannes Bok

NonCombatTabletop is like Warhammer, without the war The NonCombatTabletop community makes miniature 'peacegames', and grew from a dad and his son making a game during lockdown about picking apples

It ys reale! Thys lynke was moost generouslye sharid:
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Peacehammer 40K: Paintinge litel miniatures of gardeneres, sculptors, academics. Detailed scale dioramas of museums, kiosks, cafés. Trimminge hedges. Makinge friendes. Yn the cozye glowe of the far future ther ys onlye WARMTH.

Yf tech billionaires reallye reade their Tolkien thei wolde understande that it was the obsessive searche by Sauron for selfish immortalitye, individual power, vain conquest, hoarded wealth, and exploitation of othirs that above all else broughte disaster to Middle Earthe.

A drop of dream fuel - Out of the storm by Hannes Bok

Frank Frazetta's cover artwork for 'Red Moon and Black Mountain' by Joy Chant

Frank Frazetta's cover artwork for 'Vampirella' #11

Frank Frazetta's cover artwork for 'Orn' by Piers Anthony

Frank Frazetta's cover artwork for 'Witch of the Dark Gate' by John Jakes

Frank Frazetta sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/frazet... was born on this day, so here's some of his 1971 book and magazine cover art.

Comic. [2x2 chart. Top left quadrant: seem like dinosaurs x are dinosaurs. Silhouettes of dinosaurs stegosaurus, triceratops, tyrannosaurus, velociraptor, and long-neck dinosaur. Top right quadrant: seem like dinosaurs x are not dinosaurs. Silhouettes of mosasaur, quetzalcoatlus, dimetrodon, plesiosaur, and pteranodon. Bottom left quadrant: don’t seem like dinosaurs x are dinosaurs. Silhouettes of penguin, egret, ostrich, pigeon, falcon. Bottom right: don’t seem like dinosaurs x are not dinosaurs. Silhouettes of squirrel, stapler, plant, person, and bicycle.]

Dinosaurs And Non-Dinosaurs

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After Flip and a companion have a snowball fight, they narrowly avoid getting struck by the King’s unusual snowplow.

In the Land of Wonderful Dreams by Winsor McCay from February 9, 1913.

child carrying an armful of stuff. its obscuring their face as they run down a cobbled street past shops

Barcelona
Joan Colom, 1960

'The company could be bribed to conceal the existence of several hundred survey teams on this planet.' Survey teams, whole cities, lost colonies, traveling circuses, as long as they thought they could get away with it.

(comic) The Bureaucracy Trap

Cover to 'Beyond Time' as by John E Muller, but written by Patricia Fanthorpe and RL Fanthorpe

Cover to 'Infinity Machine' as by John E Muller, but written by Patricia Fanthorpe and RL Fanthorpe

Cover to 'Geborgen in Stahl' as by John E Muller, but written by Patricia Fanthorpe and RL Fanthorpe

Cover to 'Perilous Galaxy' as by John E Muller, but written by Patricia Fanthorpe and RL Fanthorpe

RL Fanthorpe sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/fantho... was born this day: here are covers for some of his books first published in 1962 (John E Muller was a pseudonym) (artist: H Fox, [couldn't identify], RS Lonati and [couldn't identify]). All four were co-written with his wife, Patricia Fanthorpe:

In a scene from ALF, Jim J. Bullock and ALF sit at a table with a floral tablecloth, playing chess with a wooden set. A spinet piano and several potted plants occupy the background.

This is the second time I've posted an image of ALF playing chess in two weeks! This time it's with Jim J. Bullock, who is having his birthday today.

In a scene from ALF, Max Wright and ALF sit at a kitchen table playing chess.

Happy birthday to Paul Fusco!🎂 He's the one in the puppet.

Interior magazine artwork for Maya Kaathryn Bohnhoff's story 'The Boy Who Loved Clouds'

Interior magazine artwork for Maya Kaathryn Bohnhoff's story 'Heroes'

Poster promoting Makoto Shinkai's 星を追う子供

The cover to Makoto Shinkai and Asahi Akisaka's 'Children Who Chase Lost Voices from Deep Below'

Maya Kaathryn Bohnhoff sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/bohnho... and Makoto Shinkai sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/shinka... were born on this day, so here's some related artwork (Artist: Joanne Lorah, Frank Kelly Freas, [couldn't identify] and [couldn't identify]):

In a black-and-white behind-the-scenes photograph, Richard Edlund looks through the lens of a large, complex motion-control camera system set up to film a small model of a Viper.

Battlestar Galactica (1978), a Viper model & Richard Edlund

Nemo and his companions are headed to meet Jack Frost when they stumble into a snowball fight among a huge crowd of snowmen.

Little Nemo in Slumberland by Winsor McCay from February 9, 1907.

Monday, Feb 9, 2026: Deepspace Interview Deepspace is Australian electronic artist Mirko Ruckels. His recent albums, Neon Blue Utopia and Water Planets, are immersive ambient albums wrapped in science fiction stories.

Journey to Water Planets and Neon Blue Utopias when we talk to Mirko Ruckels of deepspace. It's a trip through autism, opera, rock and science fiction in deep ambient music. Hear it tonight 02/09 on Echoes from PRX .
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