Dr. Sarah Milkovich

When someone says „Scientists do not want you to know“ you can dismiss everything from there on. Scientists want you to know. They are desperate that you know. They can’t shut up about what they found out and want you to know.

While I certainly agree that this corporate seal hits hard, its Latin motto lets an opportunity for real elegance sail right over the plate. If, as Latin lets you do without penalty, you switch the positions of “salus,” “health,” and “vivis,” “[for the] living,” you get what old master Quintilian…

The hot in the west was hotter than the cold in the east was cold.
#climatechange

How to register to vote in Illinois and check your registration status Ahead of the 2026 primary elections, NPR has collected deadlines and information on how to register to vote — online, in person or by mail — in Illinois.

Eligible voters of Illinois:

TODAY is the online voter registration deadline for the statewide primary election. (And you can register in person at election offices through March 17, the last day of primary voting).

You can find the links you need to register and check your status at npr.org/vote

Seriously though if there’s a time-traveling unicorn who’d like to set things right, I’ll meet you by the star-watching rock.

The company is like an evil vending machine, you put money in and it does what you want, unless somebody else puts more money in and tells it to stop.

The idea of a legislative body representing the population having the ability to check the ultimate power of a country’s leader sounds really neat. Someone should write that down.

The truth is not the average of a fact and a lie.

Read this, and understand why it actually really matters that we bring those samples home.

How Kansas Republicans weaponized the law to target 300 trans driver's license holders SB 244 was put into effect virtually overnight, causing chaos, panic and fear in the trans community.

New — I spoke to eight trans people in Kansas about the new state law that invalidated their driver’s licenses overnight, what’s it’s like to live there right now, plus details of two DMV emails exclusively obtained by The Handbasket that shed light on the law’s chaotic and cruel rollout:

She told me that she believes that she (and other Tesla drivers) get too dependent on the screen, and that the screen doesn’t really see cyclists.

Ok WOW.

So, please, Tesla folks, look out for cyclists. I don’t think you’re evil or anything, just please don’t kill me please! Please!

Whoa, bigger stuff out of Isaacman today than expected

"Increase workforce" is bitterly ironic given how focussed NASA was with layoffs the last 12 months

If your idea of abundance is a robot to make you a sandwich, you might not have a very clear idea of how many hands it takes and how many resources are involved in getting that food into your fridge in the first place.

Colorado borders Kansas. Here is a Colorado non-profit that helps trans people relocate, Trans Continental Pipeline.

Please share.

tcpipeline.org

I really hate anti-trans politicians, and I especially hate it because it was a culture war issue where we were clearly winning and then a bunch of nominally liberal people at the Times and the Atlantic decided to reverse that and they did.

I’m just so fucking tired of the boys club. It’s everywhere and it’s exhausting.

Came across the phrase "cognitive DDOS" to describe our present culture.

Understood instantly what it meant.

A little of column A, a little of column B...

Next time I come over I should bring my trombone

Worrye not about 'being productive,' for thou art not a product. Thou art a star daunsinge yn a hopeful skye. A signal blinking across centuryes and worldes. Thou art a song performid just once and perfectlye.

Every salt-hag has her place of standing. Rocks upon which she sings to summon the winds. Choired by gull shriek and surf rasp, these are her tide temples. These are her places where waves whisper wonders. – #EmilyCBanting, 1982 #WitchSky

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This is the heated rivalry I’m talking about 💖

Gen A.I. barons want us talkinge alone on our phones to a demon thei created, and not goinge places and being wyth each othir yn art and joy and communitye. Thei want cinemas to shut downe and broadwaye to go darke. Thei want wryteres to stop writinge. Thei want to build hell and have us pay for it.

Alas no one seems to want to develop assembly lines of interplanetary spacecraft to hand over to the planetary science community

Thread captures a reason my first instinct is skpeticism: many space advocates are so desperate for a 'space killer app', be it solar power satellites, missile defense, zero-g mfg, or now, data centers.

It's a backwards question. If space makes sense, great, if not, who cares?

Annular solar eclipse captured from space by ESA's Proba-2 satellite on February 17, 2026. The Moon appears as a dark circle nearly covering the Sun, leaving a bright golden "ring of fire" against the black of space. Solar prominences are visible along the ring. Timestamp reads PROBA2/SWAP 17.4nm 2026-02-17 11:31:53.

Last week's annular solar #eclipse captured in UV from space by ESA's Proba-2 satellite ✨ #ringoffire

📸 ESA/Royal Observatory of Belgium

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Previous generations of rich people knew that it was important for them to shut the fuck up and build libraries and parks and hospitals since that was the only way we would tolerate them in society. This generation of rich people have forgotten why this was necessary. We should remind them.

February 21, 1993, died on this day aged 105 years, Danish seismologist Inge Lehman.
She discovered that the Earth has a inner core announcing it in 1936 with the shortest title for a paper ever: P' - after the seismic discontinuity between core and mantle shown by the P-waves

1970's DOONESBURY
1980's BLOOM COUNTY
1990's CALVIN & HOBBES