Aaron Putnam

Thank you.

Image of an apple watch tied to a prototype wave buoy floating in water. The buoy is actually a pool chlorinator.

What can you do with all the sensors on your smartwatch? Here are some ideas to get you started.

- Build a Wave Buoy
- Measure Tidal Inundation
- Deploy as a stream gauge
- Classify road quality while bicycling

and 10 additional projects below.

www.tiniscientific.com/field-projects

Supreme Leader Kushnir?

a close up of a man 's face with a dirty shirt on Alt: a close up of a man 's face with a dirty shirt on. He is an alien bug that has taken over a man’s body. Or at least his skin.

Is this an Edgar the Bug situation?

You got it backwards - the preferred scent is olives in tuna oil.

Has anyone run this through AI detection? These guys think they’re in a movie from the 80s/90s.

Bizzaro world.

That’s superb. Thanks for sharing!

Here we go…

(I should note that we then witnessed an epic performance by Rana that night)

Reminds me of 2003... I seem to recall marching to the UN in NYC around this time of year then, asking the same questions. Look how that turned out.

It’s inspiration for a tour! This needs to be a road show.

Holy shit.

This this this! Though I'd argue the Maduro regime is still the Maduro regime, too.

No. I was a bit naïve, thinking her experience would be like mine. But the Mandalorian, especially with Grogu, could be a good bridge…

Well, I tried to introduce my 7-yr old to Star Wars (A New Hope) this evening. I was worried she would be startled by the violence, but thought she would be enthralled like I was as a kid.

Nope - just bored. 😔 She liked Chewbacca, but that’s about it. Will try again in a few years.

1/9. In 2020 Iran did try to interfere with the presidential election.

“Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends.” - Gandalf’s advice to Frodo.

Yes!

I’m so sorry. That is hard. Fuck cancer indeed.

Photograph of the cover of Rolling Stone magazine. The cover features a greyscale portrait of Bob Weir, with the text ‘Bobby Weir 1947-2026’.

Just received the latest issue of Rolling Stone. 😢❤️

FFS.

Stockdale - a Navy A-4 pilot - studied the Stoics at Stanford. He was later shot down and held for 7 years in North Vietnam. He credited his studies with helping him survive.

He received the Medal of Honor in 1976.

If all you know of him is from later life, look again

Marine Heat Waves Can Increase Coastal Rainfall - Eos Unusually warm ocean waters can amplify extreme rainfall in downwind areas, leaving coastal communities—especially those in developing countries—at risk.

High temperatures over the ocean can cause more rain to fall over coastal communities, increasing the likelihood of flooding, property damage, and fatalities, according to new research in @natcomms.nature.com. 🧪🌊🌧️ eos.org/articles/mar...

How poisonous mercury can get from coal‑fired power plants into fish you eat For years, people fishing along the banks of the White River that winds through Indianapolis were met by ominous signs warning about eating the fish they catch. One of those risks was mercury poisonin...

My new Commentary on the disasterous decision to pull back from pollution controls that protect children from toxic mercury
Also bad for climate, btw…

www.yahoo.com/news/article...

Is this Cinnamon Toast Crunch cannibalism?

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With potential geophysical implications (I.e., understanding fault stick-slip cycles and earthquakes)… Great discussion with the author on CBC’s ‘As it Happens’. 🧪⚒️

Our tax dollars are buying them luxury jets. Looting the treasury, they are.

Squeaking at soft–rigid frictional interfaces - Nature High-speed imaging reveals that the squeak of soft–rigid frictional interfaces, like sneakers sliding on a basketball court, arises from intersonic opening slip pulses—analogous to earthquake ruptures...

A Boston Celtics ☘️ game inspired this study into the sneaker squeaks on the basketball court. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The first ice-core record of historical atmospheric hydrogen levels Ice-core measurements reveal that hydrogen levels have increased with fossil-fuel burning and might vary with climate change.

👀🤯 The first ice-core record of historical atmospheric *hydrogen* levels back to 900 CE 🧪❄️
www.nature.com/articles/d41...