Jack Lawson

I enjoy your choice of images - they really carry my imagination to these distant places and times

You’ve seen my real-time video last night from Beaver.. well here is what Maia saw on her tour! Beautiful from Fairbanks as well.

Maia just got a Sony FX3 to capture real-time video during her tours. Here’s one of the first videos!

Watched the whole interview this morning. Got to this monologue as I was bumbling around making coffee.

He gets about five lines in in before I burst into tears over the stove.

Incredible performance. Such a well crafted lead up and impeccable timeliness. A pair of bloody wizards.

This SpaceX Situation: Not Good! Elon Musk's political projects are combining into a highly concerning megacompany.

Elon Musk's political projects are combining into a highly concerning megacompany.

And I remember that PhD thesis well! 😎

Now that is an amazingly chill and happy cat!

Evergreen.

"Sodium is nearly 50 times cheaper than lithium and can even be harvested from seawater, making it a much more sustainable option for large-scale energy storage”

But their control of media and social media software means they can gloss over concerns or dissent. At this point I would not even call it a “soft” war given the number of people dying in custody or around the world due to reduction of “world order”

Can I let you in on a little secret?

Billionaire philanthropy isn’t charity.

It’s PR to distract you from low wages, labor exploitation, and a tax system that’s rigged for the rich.

Almost two years in for mine. Need to make 16.7 to reach the median survival for this type. I’ll be 83!

That is AMAZING! Thanks for posting.

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Since 0.05 is an arbitrary threshold for “significance” I fear it not

Grim gravestones spotted in a neighbor's front yard.

The eye of Hurricane Melissa.

Image taken today by Sentinel-2.

ChatGPT's Impact On Our Brains According to an MIT Study The study, from MIT Lab scholars, measured the brain activity of subjects writing SAT essays with and without ChatGPT.

MIT basically confirmed it rots your brain

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None of the problems of vaccines, disease, poverty or anything else, are unaffected by climate change. We do not live in a vacuum. It is all connected. We have reached the end of the leeway that we had for making these horrid, cruel, profit driven decisions.

GREAT image! Composed like a fantastic painting!

They are called “sow bugs” or “carpenters” in Newfoundland.

Or punctured by a large shark. Or battered by playful killer whales. Or entangled in one of the thousands of ghost nets. Or….

Now THAT’S a talk poster!

Arctic seals edge closer to extinction as sea ice vanishes Three Arctic seal species have moved closer to extinction, as rapid sea ice loss continues to erode their breeding and feeding grounds, according to the latest update of the IUCN Red List of…

Arctic seals edge closer to extinction as sea ice vanishes

Ew^200

A reminder that change.org petitions have zero impact on politicians in Canada (or anywhere really). It's basically performative engagement.

Only www.ourcommons.ca petitions have any weight whatsoever.

In the midst of some science writing, my headphones were filled with the evocative voice of @kdlang.bsky.social singing her way through "Absolute Torch and Twang". I was swept back to my youth in southern Alberta - so far away in place, time, & life experiences! Thanks KD!

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A photo of a large gold-plated enamel pin photographed on top of a lichen-covered rock. The enamel pin features a whale skeleton covered with various deep sea creatures, such as octopuses, hagfish, a giant isopod, a crab, and chimaeras.

Whale Fall pin 🦀🐋🦑

The Books I Have Not Read, by Shel Silverstein

The Primary Energy Fallacy is the idea that all primary energy from fossil fuels must be replaced with equivalent amount of clean energy.

BUT: Not necessary because >2/3 of all primary energy is lost as waste heat.

Electrification+renewables are far more efficient.

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Jane Goodall, legendary primatologist, has died at age 91 Jane Goodall, primatologist who transformed our understanding of the lives of apes, has died, according to an announcement from the Jane Goodall Institute.

JUST IN: Jane Goodall, primatologist who transformed our understanding of the lives of apes, has died, according to an announcement from the Jane Goodall Institute.