I feel like a new entry needs to be written into the HHGttG. I forgot my towel (what an unhoopy frood I am!) when I went swimming. But have discovered a hoodie does the job just as well!
I mean il approximately dry....
That time when you wonder about doing a podcast about the physics of WH40K but can't think of anyway of explaining about the warp so give up.
Thanks! As long as it's the right way to write it out that's what is important - my friends is planning to get a tattoo of this!
Thanks for this - it's the way that is writing out that is more important. My friend wants to get a tattoo of this so it's important to get right!
What would make it a copolymer?
Thank you!
Hi science-peeps! I've got a question on behalf of a friend. Is the following the correct way to represent a copolymer in a chemical structure equation. I've said "yes" but I'm rusty on my first-year uni organic chemistry!
"-[CH_2-CH(-COO-CH_2-CH_2-C_6H_5)]_n"
with "_" = subscript. Thanks!
That should be "too many things going on"... I'm out of practice.🤣
Thank you Queen Olivia! I've just been more quiet on here over the last few months as there's me too kich going on in work and life. But I always love it when one of your posts comes up in my feed! ❤️
Hmmm... looks like those pockets are built with Time Lord Technology....
@astro-jje.bsky.social @tiylaya.bsky.social I finally read your 2022 review! I really enjoyed it! :) www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
Thank you!
I'm sorry it was so long it took three years to read. 🤣😂🤣
New blog! Today in #CosmicStories I'm going to take a deep dive. I'm considering Doctor Who serial "Robot" as a case study of representations of robot intelligence, science and scientists in the 1970s.
https;//www.warwick.ac.uk/CosmicStories/doctor_whos_robot/
#DoctorWho #ScienceandSF #AI
Doing this in my head after a big meal and too much beer, so I could be off, but I think Voyager 1 will reach one (1) light day from Earth in October or November of next year, and one light day from the Sun in January 2027. 🧪 🔭
Jaimie Veale, the founding president of PATHA and Director of the Trans Health Research Lab at Waikato has written an excellent op-ed for the Conversation: "The government has placed a burden of proof on puberty blockers that we do not place on other paediatric care."
There are excellent expert comments here on the NZ government's puberty blocker ban.
Final thought, even if you have no empathy for those who are going to be effected by this there is a clear financial need. So far it's cost about $60k to undo what happened to my body from puberty that could have been avoided if I had access to care when I was younger.
I don't normally play "what-if" games with the past as I can't change the past, but I can see what a different path today might have benefits for others in the situation I was in.
I knew I was different. I just didn't have the language, knowledge or support to understand myself and explain it to others.
I also knew I would be ostracized if anyone knew so I hid it.
I'm sad that people are not going to access the care they need.
Trans kids know they're trans, it's not a fad, they're not confused. I was a trans kid but growing up in the late 80s and early 90s there just wasn't the understanding. And I'm a person who "follows-the-rules" so I just took on the role that everyone thought I should.
But it was wrong...
This is upsetting on so many levels. Banning new prescriptions is extremely harmful and doing this during trans awareness week, a few days before the transgender day of remembrance just makes it so much worse.
www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
Flagstaff’s Lowell Observatory plans to cut nearly all its research funding and reduce the number of paid science staff to just two positions next year.
Great piece by astronomer and SETI leader Jason Wright on the endless, exhausting claims about 3I/Atlas by Avi Loeb.
"zero planetary scientists give Avi’s claims any credence... because he’s demonstrably wrong"
sites.psu.edu/astrowright/...
NZ electricity reached 99.9% renewable on 25 October, I believe that is a record. And that's despite a tenth of geothermal capacity appearing to be out of action (maintenance?) since the start of October. Source: em6
Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin ✨ figured out what stars are made of ✨ when she was just 25. 🔭🧪
Her PhD thesis basically established the Harvard astro department — at a time when Harvard didn't officially allow woman students.
I wrote this little profile to mark the 100th anniversary of her thesis:
Trade unions vow to oppose Supreme Court trans ruling
'It's trans people they are kicking around; one delegate told the TUC conference
One representative of Unison accused Bridget Phillipson, the equalities minister, of overseeing a “segregation” of trans people in society.
👉🏻 archive.ph/NKVHi
Thanks to @slavkobogdanov.bsky.social for pointing me to this really cool 🔭 history paper! arxiv.org/abs/2509.04127
One of the awesome bits of supernova science I always love is when someone finds a new ancient record of a supernovae! In this case new Arabic records for SN1181 and SN1006 from poems!
arxiv.org/abs/2509.04127
This is Delta. He just had his first bath. And you just had your last day of peace. 12/10 (IG: camphusky)
