Steven Marx

Hookean Physics The aim of this channel is to promote Physics teaching tips and provide stimulating clips for use in class.

For over 700 demonstrations of Physics concepts, sorted by topic, visit my youtube channel 😊
#PhysicsEd
#iTeachPhysics
#Science 🧪

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This image shows 15 of the 341 hitherto identified “little red dot” galaxies discovered in the distant Universe by JWST. These galaxies all exhibit similar features, but only exist very early on in cosmic history; there are no known examples of such galaxies close by or at late times. All of them are quite massive, but some are compact while others are extended, and some show evidence for AGN activity while others do not.

Meet the earliest, most distant supermassive black hole ever seen.

CAPERS-LRD-z9 is a puzzling "little red dot" galaxy. Its black hole had grown to ~50 million solar masses just 500 million years after the Big Bang--possibly forming from a dense cosmic "seed." 🧪🔭

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Again, if you have a conspiracy theorist overseeing a federal agency that he has *repeatedly* and loudly demonized, maybe it’s not so surprising that his verbal attacks resonated with an unstable individual who felt compelled to physically act?

🚨🚨🚨This is the definition of stochastic terrorism. 🧪

Federal Science Advisory Committees Are Being Defunded and Dismantled. Here’s a Toolkit to Help Independent Scientists Step Up Despite the current Trump administration’s efforts to dismantle federal science advisory committees, scientists and their organizations can still collaborate to form independent committees.

New toolkit provides tips for scientists interested in continuing the work of dismantled science advisory committees...

🧪 Policysky 🛟😷🧭📈 Sociology polisky lawsky medsky

Some turkey vultures for you. #birds #photography #vultures #turkeyvultures #

Donate to Support the Cause of HAWK WATCH!, organized by Path 88 Productions WHY THIS CAUSE? The survival of Swainson’s hawks depends on local communities. T… Path 88 Productions needs your support for Support the Cause of HAWK WATCH!

The Borrego Springs #hawkwatch (and Hal) is near and desr to my heart. Please donate. 🪶 📷 #wildlife #nature

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Right-Wing Legal Group With Ties to DOJ Official Targets State Voter Rolls Read more here.

A right-wing anti-voting legal group, known for filing lawsuits against states’ voter list maintenance practices, is targeting voter rolls. The group recently sent letters to election officials in multiple states, alleging mass inaccuracies.

www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

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A Google alert announces Chappell Roan concert tickets, but the image is of Weird Al

You sure about this, Google?

Odd, how South Park is covering Kristi Noem and her ICE hooligans more accurately than The New York Times.

US Air Force to deny retirement pay to transgender service members being separated from the service The U.S. Air Force has decided to deny early retirement options for transgender service members with 15 to 18 years of service.

These Americans served with honor for more than a decade. Put their lives on the line. Trump fired them, just for being who they are-and now is denying retirement benefits our nation promised them for their service.

Treating troops this way is dishonorable, unfair, & harmful to national security.

Prairie dog standing outside its burrow, facing camera, head turned to the left, right eye looking at camera. Another prairie dog in foreground right, facing camera, piece of grass blocking part of its left face.

Prairie dog standing outside its burrow, facing 3/4 left. Another prairie dog slightly in front, head sticking out of its burrow, 3/4 left profile

Prairie dog in center left of frame, facing left in profile, front paws at its mouth, eating something. Out of focus prairie dog in foreground right corner, facing right; also eating.

Three prairie dogs grouped in the middle distance to the left of the frame, eating and foraging. Fourth prairie dog out of focus in foreground, head sticking out of burrow, facing the camera.

Prairie dog appreciation post. #photography #wildlifephotography #prairiedogs #sonyalpha #sonya1 #rockymountainarsenalnwf #wildlifephotographer

NEWS: Annie Farmer, an Epstein survivor who testified against Ghislaine Maxwell, just revealed on CNN that she wrote a letter with her concerns to Deputy AG Blanche — and received no response.

She says neither she nor other survivors have heard a word from the DOJ.

“What they did there was torture us” Now free, the Venezuelan men the Trump administration sent to El Salvador want the world to know what they lived through.

www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Soul Stripping Against AI, again.

In 2010, when I was a PhD student, I uploaded a paper on digital media and social control in authoritarian states to an academic research site. Last month, I got a notice from this site that "An AI created a podcast of your paper." On layers of dystopia: sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/soul-strip...

look, if democrats want to keep trumps epstein ties in the news, one of you need to intentionally draw controversy and get your mic cut on fox news for repeatedly calling him a child rapist

Daddy’s dough really saved my goat smellin’ arse💰

Perez: The governor's coordinating the Texas department of public safety with the FBI, the president—this is really the type of coordination that could have been used when Texans needed it during the recent floods.

“You almost had to already be enrolled in a private school to have a voucher”

As Speaker Sexton says his “gut” tells him most voucher kids are not already in private schools, the reality is he knows they are. That’s why @GovBillLee isn’t tracking it. www.wbir.com/article/news...

Today is the day that Trump was supposed to impose tough new sanctions on Russia if they didn’t agree to a cease fire.

It seems that Tim Apple is taking the company in a different direction.

U.S. Defense Secretary promotes interview in which Christian nationalist Doug Wilson says women shouldn't have the right to vote. Hegseth goes to a Wilson-affiliated church and sends his kids to one of Wilson’s schools. 1/2

The fundamental aim of the American white supremacist movement since the 1980s has been to block sharing of any national resources with anyone and everyone who doesn’t adhere to the white supremacist ideal. MAGA has done more to accomplish this goal than any group or individual since Jim Crow

I fear it's being overlooked that next term, the Supreme Court will likely strike down:

•what's left of the Voting Rights Act
•all bans on LGBTQ conversion therapy for minors
•the last remaining pillar of McCain–Feingold's campaign finance reform

... while upholding bans on trans student athletes.

“What they did there was torture us” Now free, the Venezuelan men the Trump administration sent to El Salvador want the world to know what they lived through.

“They knocked out one of my teeth. They messed up my knees. They messed up my ribs.”

Parts of the Constitution were erased from the Library of Congress website, including the section featuring the foreign emoluments clause.

The removal was blamed on a "coding error."

Here's a reminder of what the clause says, just in case Congress ever decides to enforce it...

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This is F—king real.

They are throwing kids off of school meals and Medicaid and putting real gold all over the White House as if Saddam Hussein was president.

This Is Not a Drill: When the FBI Hunts Lawmakers for Political Resistance...You’re in a Coup The coup isn’t coming. It’s underway. And unless we treat it like a five-alarm fire, we lose everything.

They’re not arresting criminals. They’re arresting resistance. And if that doesn’t shake you, read this twice.👇

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