Rebecca Boyle 🌕

Fuck this timeline for making that statement possible

On moonshots and Minneapolis Space exploration can bring people together and reflect deep societal divisions.

I've been really struggling to write about space while living through the ICE occupation in Minneapolis this winter. I was shocked to find myself thinking, "Who cares about sending people to the moon?"

That feeling is more historically resonant than I thought. 🧪🔭
www.sciencenews.org/article/moon...

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

Help Kelly Pannek

This one is for a REAL need and imma hopeful that an auto company gonna step up. KELLY PANNEK from the women’s hockey team got hits by someone who totaled her car. She needs a new car.

Lots of brands commenting that they want to help,, but few truly stepping up. Who can help,??

Sounds a lot like the WPA, or the CCC. It is good to work together.

(Mental note to ask my friend who will 100 percent know about this)

Most people don’t realize how soon the Colorado River basin will be in crisis. Lake Powell may reach deadpool by the end of 2026. It won’t generate electricity, and no water will flow out of it to the Grand Canyon, Lake Mead, and all the cities and farms downstream that depend on it.

I’m at 7000 feet too and it’s dry as a bone. Hoping for an incredibly snowy March!

Totally a response to Obama’s recent interview! He can’t stand the spotlight being anywhere but on him.

The West’s Winter Has Been a Slow-Moving Catastrophe Without snow in the mountains, the places that depend on the West’s rivers will hurt for water.

I wrote about why it really needs to snow, a lot, ASAP, in Colorado.
Yep, I’ve heard the Sierras are getting a lot! That’s great, and is not going to help Lake Powell or Lake Mead. We need snow in the Rockies. You all should be paying more attention.
Gift link:

www.theatlantic.com/science/2026...

Weird ‘Little Red Dots’ in space are something we’ve never seen Astronomers are racing to understand mysterious ancient objects that pepper James Webb Space Telescope images

Exotic black hole stars could explain the mystery of Little Red Dots

Astronomers are racing to understand mysterious ancient objects that pepper James Webb Space Telescope images

www.scientificamerican.com/article/what...

It’s because the standard is to use the affiliation people have at the time an article publishes, in part so potential collaborators, the public, etc can find them where they presently are. It’s not intended to neglect or ignore any other institutions, though I understand why it feels unfair.

One of the hardest parts of this story was having to stop reporting and just get it done! I knew really cool stuff would come out right after we hit “send”

This is the last thing you have to do before you finish your degree in physics.

Opinion | Thanks Olympics. We Needed This. The Olympics have brought a much needed injection of awe, a welcome breather from a barrage of disturbing news.

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com

“There is a lot of wonder to be had in the dedication that precedes the Games,” Kelly Corrigan writes about the Olympics. “Devotion, the opposite of smash and grab, is slow and full of faith.”

Flavor flav in front of the Olympic cauldron in cortina Italy

Uncle Flav has made it to Italy for the #Olympics

Letz GOOOOOOO USA Bobsled + Skeleton

Live Updates: F.A.A. Halts All Flights at El Paso Airport for 10 Days

The last time American airspace was closed for several days: 9/11

www.nytimes.com/live/2026/02...

👏🏻 well done lolll

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Benito is a threat b/c he makes art so alluring and enjoyable you want to understand everything about it and then you end up learning about sugar and slavery and colonialism and the Taínos and Hawaii and then you probably have some thoughts of your own, and that's why art is powerful and dangerous

winter olympics the superior olympics imo

Trees don't so much need deep, fertile soil, as protection from hungry sheep and deer, as this rowan seeded into a rock crevice – likely by a bird – shows.

Freeing the land from artificial overgrazing would see our lost wild native forests return naturally.

Can you picture it?

The mass layoffs at the Post really just make me feel a deep sadness for our industry. The severe weakening of the media ecosystem since 2017 has been catastrophic for American democracy. It has also, of course, come at great cost for journalists themselves.

This is the thing. Freelancing happens to work very well for some people as individuals (me, for instance) but society needs real newsrooms and real teams. We gig writers are just part of the ecosystem.

A full Moon is partially hidden behind a gigantic rocket sitting on its launch pad

NASA moved its launch of Artemis II until at least March.

If you want to know more about why this is happening, and the cultural context behind both Artemis and the Apollo missions, check out my book.
Happy to talk about it on air too 📺 🎤

(Photo: NASA)

www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/611468...

Today’s forecast for the Rocky Mountain West

Denver: 58
Vail: 43
Salt Lake City: 51
Sun Valley: 45
Bozeman: 47
Mt. Bachelor ski area, OR: 43

Thank goodness. Like in a literal way, thanks to good.
But also —
This painting — !
I must know more about the painting in the background

This is extremely cool work about the most puzzling question in astrophysics 👀