#PPOD: One of the interesting celestial events happening this year would be the seeming disappearance of Saturn's rings from our perspective on Earth. Astrophotographer Sebastian Voltmer captured this view of the gas giant, sans rings, using his C11 EdgeHD telescope. Credit: Sebastian Voltmer 🧪 🔭
Trump urges Speaker Mike Johnson to raise taxes on the wealthy, adding new wrinkle to massive GOP bill www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...
Catholics Overseeing Gaza Church Send Message as New Pope Inherits War https://twp.ai/4inUJK
When asked about the image, Cardinal Timothy Dolan, the archbishop of New York who is friendly with Trump, said "it wasn't good" and that he hoped Trump had nothing to do with it.
Israel Closes Ben Gurion Airport after Houthi Ballistic Missile Strike https://twp.ai/4inNcd
Mark Zuckerberg’s charity quietly cuts funding for affordable housing, homelessness groups
As we’ve said before now confirmed. FOIA requests reveal that DOGE employees are pulling in six-figure salaries, with many holding the title of “Expert,” a specific Office of Personnel Management (OPM) designation that pays around $190,000 a year.
Earlier this week: heat wave in Paris.
Today: hail storm.
Maybe our planet is trying to tell us something?
🤬 Russia attacked Slovyansk with six Geran-2 drones, all of which hit a construction site in the Zaliznychny microdistrict.
❗️Equipment and premises were damaged, but there were no casualties.
The collapse of Roman Britain in 367 AD was preceded by three summers of severe drought, according to a study of tree-ring records, suggesting environmental crisis as catalyst for Roman Britain’s decline. 🧪
The traits humans inherited from Neanderthals likely helped us adapt to different climates and spread across the world. 🧪
Evidence of Mesolithic hunter-gatherers on the island of Malta could reshape our understanding of human settlement in the Mediterranean. 🧪
In this new episode of Nautilus Narrations, join cosmologist Paul M. Sutter on his journey through the four stages of “quantum grief" and find out how he learned to stop worrying, and love uncertainty.
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Most scholars understand music is an evolutionary adaptation enabling social bonding through lullabies and dance. Yet in Paraguay, the indigenous Northern Aché society does not sing to children or dance together. Why? 🧪
#ICYMI: On this week's SETI Live, Franck chatted with scientists Artem Y. Burdanov and Julien de Wit from MIT about how they used JWST to find 138 small asteroids, improving our planetary defense capabilities. Watch the full interview: youtube.com/live/Igqlj7r... 🧪 🔭
BUFFETT this am:
“Trade should not be a weapon. In the United States, we've won. I mean, we have become an incredibly important country starting from nothing 250 years ago. There’s nothing like it.”
Diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) has been losing with corporate America, with one big exception: the people who actually own the companies. cnn.it/44OgrYb
✅ DEI Update of the Day™
Shareholders from these 11 corporations have voted to reject anti-DEI proposals in 2025:
American Express
Apple
Boeing
Coca-Cola
Costco
John Deere
Disney
Goldman Sachs
Levi Strauss
Pfizer
Visa
#WorldPressFreedomDay 🔥
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Saw this at the University of Maryland last week.
What a line from Warren Buffett this morning:
“Be kind, and the world is better off. I'm not sure that the world will be better off if I'm richer."
[applause] 🙏🏼
Full clip on YouTube for those who need it (me, I need it!)
youtu.be/7xxgRUyzgs0?...
Great song!
Living Colour releases their debut LP today in 1988 — with “Cult of Personality”, a song inspired by a chat during rehearsal about what makes a leader charismatic.
“Vernon played a riff,” said drummer Will Calhoun. “And next we knew we had a song. All while we were setting up for sound check.”
Should this happen, the event would be countered by a massive turnout of citizens protesting his birth.
Elephants heading back from the waterhole under the setting African sun. Hwange National Park, Zimbabwe.
#earth #wildlife #wildlifephotography #bluesky #blueskyphotography #zimbabwe #photographersofbluesky #photography
Charles Barkley is “concerned” for his “great friend” Bill Belichick www.nbcsports.com/nfl/profootb...
Count me in
