Seth Fletcher

Chapter 1 of Moby Dick, page 1 The phrase ‘Call me Ishmael’, the first sentence of the book, is highlighted in blue, with careful highlighting on the very big C at the start. Above this, written in ballpoint pen ‘His name’

Love the glimpse into the beautiful mind that notated this used copy of Moby Dick I got

Why curling rocks come from just two spots on Earth The rocks used in the Olympic sport of curling come from one island in Scotland and one quarry in Wales. What makes them so special?

Had a blast speaking to curler and geologist Derek Leung about the geology of curling rocks. 🥌 🧪

Watch as a massive crack forms in the ice on Lake Erie.

An impressive view captured by GOES-19 earlier on Sunday.

Love it, never get tired of it. And feels good to talk about music on here instead of you know everything, so thank you for the prompt.

Makes you think.

Rand Paul up to his usual dipshittery. "The NSF spent $8 billion to study whether Japanese qual are more sexually promiscuous while on cocaine"

The total NSF budget was 9 billion. I doubt they spend 89% of it on quail.

sales of internal-combustion engine collapsing in China, down by half since 2017. EVs have taken over

And, China's car exports are soaring.

US automakers getting completely left behind as they abandon EVs. Losing market share worldwide
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Colonel Sanders lookin like he's gonna give you all 11 herbs and spices

Cleansing the timeline with this 2020 Lifetime romance where Mario Lopez played a sexy Colonel Sanders.

Humans Made Poisoned Arrowheads Thousands of Years Earlier Than Previously Thought The use of poison on arrows marked a revolution in human hunting technology—new evidence suggests it happened tens of thousands of years earlier than previously known

This is such a cool finding--the oldest direct evidence of poisoned arrows. Poisoned hunting weapons were a game-changing innovation for our ancestors. Absolutely incredible that researchers found traces of plant toxins on these tiny arrowheads from 60,000 ago 🤯🏹 🧪

The man who mistook his imagination for the truth The disappointing reality of one of my (ex-)heroes, Oliver Sacks

Oliver Sacks was a hero of mine. I couldn't let @rachelaviv.bsky.social’s brilliant piece pass without comment. My latest, on why Sacks's fictions are so much worse than those of your garden-variety journalist fabulist.
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How Did DOGE Disrupt So Much While Saving So Little?

On DOGE’s watch, federal spending did not go down at all. It went up. But is still led to cuts that closed offices, canceled programs and deprived people of food, medicine and other aid.

www.nytimes.com/2025/12/23/u...

A small statue about 8 inches high of two figures on a single base on the left cast in bronze is the kneeling figure of a pharaoh making an offering to a falcon larger than he is on the right carved in Stone and covered in Gold Leaf

Pharoah Taharqa makes an offering to the falcon god Hemen, ca. 680 BCE

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if tumblr dies I need this video to make it's seasonal rotation here instead just in case, Happy holidays 🎄

Metro-North conductor this morning announcing a weekend alcohol ban because of SantaCon: "If you're not familiar with SantaCon, it is an unmitigated disaster."

Hometown Unveils Disappointing Microbrewery

Hometown Unveils Disappointing Microbrewery https://theonion.com/hometown-unveils-disappointing-microbrewery/

CDC Vaccine Panel Scraps Guidance for Universal Hepatitis B Shots at Birth New guidance from the CDC’s vaccine advisory panel would do away with a decades-old universal birth dose recommendation for hepatitis B that helped cut infections by 99 percent in the U.S.

An CDC advisory panel voted today to end universal Hepatitis B vaccination at birth. If adopted by CDC, this would reverse a longstanding policy that has been widely effective at lowering hep B cases and deaths in children, @laurenjyoung.bsky.social reports www.scientificamerican.com/article/cdc-...

Wild Turkeys Went from Almost Gone to Millions Strong Wild turkeys once nearly disappeared, but today they’re thriving.

We nearly lost wild turkeys--but now they're thriving. Here's their story: 🧪 🌎 www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/epis...

And David Ellison, the new owner of CBS.

ok I’m sorry to ever say anything but what the fuck does she think a canto is

Five guys who simply ooze late '90s Florida youth group pastor from every pore, hanging out at a bar. In the center is a young man with a handkerchief tied over his head and a Corona in his hand. Even in these tender years, you can tell this man has got some sauce in the way the rest of his pals don't. It's his stare, his slightly pouted lips. Even if you didn't know who he was, you'd guess he was meant for big things. You'd be right. It's Oscar Isaac.

Every day someone new learns that Oscar Isaac was in a late 90s Christian ska band. Who will today’s person be.

Man With Tick-Borne Meat Allergy Dies after Eating Burger Lone star tick bites are the most common cause of alpha-gal syndrome, which causes severe allergic reactions to red meat

True nightmare fuel: Scientists just confirmed the first known death from a severe meat allergy caused by a tick bite.

The man, who died in 2024 after eating a burger, had alpha-gal syndrome, a bizarre disease triggered by tick bites.

www.scientificamerican.com/article/man-...

In the Epstein documents release today, there is a file for a proposed Lawrence Krauss-led event series w/ proposed guests, 23 of which had "already agreed in principle" according to the doc. Some of those listed include Noam Chomsky, Woody Allen, Barack Obama, Larry Page and Elon Musk.

Authorities Investigating Explosion at Harvard Medical School, Believed To Be Intentional
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Is It Time to Classify Hurricanes as Category 6? Hurricane Melissa’s powerful winds and drenching rains devastated Jamaica. But is its wrath a sign that we need a new designation for monster storms?

Hurricane Melissa and the knotty problem of hurricane categories: 🧪 www.scientificamerican.com/article/does...

People need to stop retconning literally the worst era in American popular music history into something it wasn't, just because there were also some amazing records that like 250 people happened to be hunting down and listening to

The Science of How Hurricane Melissa Became So Extreme A nearly perfect alignment of factors has enabled Hurricane Melissa to become one of the most intense Atlantic storms ever recorded

A nearly perfect alignment of factors has enabled Hurricane Melissa to become one of the most intense Atlantic storms ever recorded

It was such a great show. Best of hers I’ve seen in years.

By the way - everything I ever sent you is off record. You're not a journalist so it's weird saying that but just letting you know. 32m

This is actually a perfect meme.

Send this to anyone, at any time, for any reason!

this is the dumbest shit i have ever read

Transforming Presidential Health Care: Insights from a Former White House Doctor A former White House physician reveals the medical realities of caring for the president of the U.S.

On today's Science Quickly, I interviewed a former White House doctor about the president's care, aging and more: "It is a fact of science, it's not a political attack, that humans past the age of 60... start to have cognitive decline."

"We have a gerontocracy."

Listen on @sciam.bsky.social 🎧