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Astrophysicien, énergie, développement durable, radioprotection, systèmes spatiaux, mode de scrutin. @YvanDutil@mstdn.science threads @yvan_dutil https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3843-7473

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Pour bloquer la route aux « chauffards inc. » L’épidémie des « chauffards inc. » sème la mort sur nos routes et le chaos dans l’industrie du transport de marchandises. Si les gouvernements ne donnent pas un coup de frein au plus vite, le dérapage...

Pour bloquer la route aux « chauffards inc. » www.lapresse.ca/actualites/e...

08.10.2025 11:02 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

L'idée de base de la démocratie est de ne pas trop concentrer le pouvoir.

07.10.2025 21:56 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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In 2017, Jessica was diagnosed with thyroid cancer. During a chance visit to the museum she encountered a thyroid with a nodular Goitre. Recently she sat down with our Human Remains Conservator, Cat Irving, to discuss how this visit helped her come to terms with her cancer diagnosis.
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06.10.2025 11:43 — 👍 42    🔁 4    💬 2    📌 0
Someone in a frog costume facing down a line of police in riot gear

Someone in a frog costume facing down a line of police in riot gear

George Orwell’s Animal Crossing

07.10.2025 16:29 — 👍 11179    🔁 2118    💬 147    📌 103
4-panel comic. (1) [person in front of window, shaped like a trapezoid with a curved top] This weekend, I had to make an oversized screen for a porch window. (2) [person sitting with hands on head surrounded by images of assorted equations and measurements] It involved countless tiny problems, each somehow way harder than it should be. Oblique angles. Curved edges. Noncoplanarity. (3) [person in front of window with screen on it, with building detritus strewn on the ground]  ...I solved them all. I measured precisely. I did trigonometry. I made custom parts. And it fit *perfectly.* No gaps, no ripples. (4) [person typing at computer] I know that your foundation normally limits its purview to physics, medicine, peace, chemistry, and literature. However, if you review the attached photos showing how well the screen fits into the...

4-panel comic. (1) [person in front of window, shaped like a trapezoid with a curved top] This weekend, I had to make an oversized screen for a porch window. (2) [person sitting with hands on head surrounded by images of assorted equations and measurements] It involved countless tiny problems, each somehow way harder than it should be. Oblique angles. Curved edges. Noncoplanarity. (3) [person in front of window with screen on it, with building detritus strewn on the ground] ...I solved them all. I measured precisely. I did trigonometry. I made custom parts. And it fit *perfectly.* No gaps, no ripples. (4) [person typing at computer] I know that your foundation normally limits its purview to physics, medicine, peace, chemistry, and literature. However, if you review the attached photos showing how well the screen fits into the...

Window Screen

xkcd.com/3151/

07.10.2025 19:43 — 👍 2601    🔁 277    💬 26    📌 12
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The Supreme Court is headed toward a radically new vision of unlimited presidential power Recent rulings indicate that the high court is leaning toward expanding the type of presidential power that is more emblematic of dictatorship than democracy.

The Supreme Court is headed toward a radically new vision of unlimited presidential power
theconversation.com/the-supreme-...?

07.10.2025 21:48 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Is America contagious? Scholars in political extremism are documenting the global spread of right-wing populism.

Rest of the world better mask up and wash their hands because our illiberalism is contagious. By @annamerlan.bsky.social www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

07.10.2025 20:51 — 👍 145    🔁 32    💬 11    📌 4
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Paul Deegan: How to tell fact from fiction? Consult fact-based journalism — not AI Support Canadian media for a 'made-in-Canada' search for the truth

Paul Deegan: How to tell fact from fiction? Consult fact-based journalism — not AI

07.10.2025 20:32 — 👍 6    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0
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Sweden to Acquire Four Embraer C-390 Airlifters The Swedish Flygvapnet will replace its C-130Hs with four C-390 Millennium airlifters bought through a joint procurement with Austria and the Netherlands.

Sweden to Acquire Four Embraer C-390 Airlifters

The Swedish Flygvapnet will replace its C-130Hs with four C-390 Millennium airlifters bought through a joint procurement with Austria and the Netherlands.

Story: theaviationist.com/2025/10/06/s...

07.10.2025 20:32 — 👍 54    🔁 7    💬 1    📌 0

On voit le même phénomène avec les grains de radiothérapie, mais ceux-ci sont beaucoup plus petits.

07.10.2025 10:47 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Quand le projectile d’une arme à feu voyage du point d’impact jusqu’au cerveau ou dans le cœur Dans de rares cas, une balle peut, emportée par le flux sanguin, s’éloigner de son orifice d’entrée et se loger dans une artère cérébrale ou une cavité cardiaque.

Histoires incroyables de « balle baladeuse ».
Dans de rares cas, une balle peut, emportée par le flux sanguin, s’éloigner de son orifice d’entrée et se loger dans une artère cérébrale ou une cavité cardiaque.
www.lemonde.fr/realites-bio...
#traumatologie #cardiologie #neurochirurgie #cerveau #cœur

07.10.2025 10:21 — 👍 2    🔁 2    💬 2    📌 0
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Le pacte de transition écologique : Êtes-vous certain de savoir ce que vous souhaitez? On ne peut que se réjouir de l’intérêt suscité par le Pacte de transition écologique proposé par certaines personnalités publiques.…

Oui, sauf que c'est tellement de la culture dominate que l'on est mal parti. Un de mes vieux textes donne une idée de ce qui est en jeu.

voir.ca/yvan-dutil/2...

06.10.2025 21:29 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Was prehistory a feminist paradise? Visions of matriarchal utopia may be wishful thinking, but there’s growing evidence of women wielding power

www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

06.10.2025 21:27 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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France’s Ugly Brown Derriere “legions d’honneurs, prix, promotion…. Le champ du cygne de ce système politico médical qui n’a plus le choix que de se soutenir mutuellement. Patience, en d’autre tem…

Il semblerait qu'une fois de plus, @forbetterscience.bsky.social avait vu juste
forbetterscience.com/2021/02/03/f...

06.10.2025 14:50 — 👍 13    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 0
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Fewer children injured by cars after backup camera mandate DENVER — A trauma center reported a sharp decrease in backover injuries among small children after a federal law made backup cameras in cars mandatory, according to a presentation at the AAP National ...

Fewer children injured by cars after backup camera mandate www.healio.com/news/pediatr...?

06.10.2025 21:17 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Radioactive BEC could form a ‘superradiant neutrino laser’ – Physics World Physicists plan to test idea in the lab

Enfin une arme de savant fou digne de ce nom.
physicsworld.com/a/radioactiv...

06.10.2025 21:15 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 1

Non, C'est prévu depuis 50 ans.

06.10.2025 21:14 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Sam Altman Warns That AI Industry Is Due for a Spectacular Implosion OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is once again forecasting what sounds awfully like the catastrophic burst of the AI bubble.

futurism.com/artificial-i...

06.10.2025 20:57 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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What has gone wrong with the economy? Can it be fixed? The economy seems to be headed toward a collapse scenario of the type Dr. Joseph Tainter talks about in his book, the Collapse of Complex Societies.

ourfiniteworld.com/2025/10/06/w...

06.10.2025 17:06 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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India’s reckoning with its dangerous neighborhood All these stories point to a larger worrying trend: Democracy in India’s neighborhood is in retreat.

Commentary: India's challenge is to maintain strategic autonomy and to promote its vision of a more inclusive, rules-based and connected South and Southeast Asia.

05.10.2025 13:26 — 👍 4    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
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Opinion | Why Young Men Are Losing Faith in Science

Men Are Losing Faith in Science www.nytimes.com/2025/10/03/o... @adamfrank4.bsky.social🙏

"Framing science as a debate to be won makes it easy to paint established scientists as opponents..."

Manosphere BS "based on profound ignorance & a disinterest in even the most basic scientific principles..."

04.10.2025 16:17 — 👍 62    🔁 18    💬 7    📌 5
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Who is leading the war against science and what interest do they have Who is leading the war against science and what interest do they have

More on our new book #ScienceUnderSiege @michaelemann.bsky.social @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social @publicaffairs1796.bsky.social

spotmedia.ro/en/news/soci...

05.10.2025 13:25 — 👍 132    🔁 51    💬 3    📌 4
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Alien Abduction Or A Trick Of The Mind? A Down To Earth Explanation Of Close Encounters Probably the only probing happening is psychological.

Alien Abduction Or A Trick Of The Mind? The IFLScience Vault Investigates A Down To Earth Explanation Of Close Encounters

www.iflscience.com/alien-abduct...

05.10.2025 12:15 — 👍 3    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
Transparent Society & Sousveillance | David Brin, Author of The Transparent Society
YouTube video by Foresight Institute Transparent Society & Sousveillance | David Brin, Author of The Transparent Society

Heck, for your weekend pleasure and interest, here's another interview that probes issues far more important today than they were, even then.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=4A0f...

04.10.2025 22:08 — 👍 10    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0
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Opinion | As America fumbles, China races ahead Xi is building the future while Trump pushes tariffs and fights Harvard.

"As America fumbles, China races ahead --
Xi is building the future while Trump pushes tariffs and fights the woke wars."
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

04.10.2025 16:09 — 👍 149    🔁 51    💬 9    📌 3
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Cunk poetry :)

From:
www.facebook.com/PhilomenaCun...

04.10.2025 20:04 — 👍 568    🔁 95    💬 4    📌 3
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Why the federal government is making climate data disappear Under Trump, climate denial has given way to something even more dangerous: climate erasure.

Spoke to @katieyoder.bsky.social about the very disturbing development of the Trump administration disappearing climate reports and data, taking climate denial to an unseen level grist.org/language/tru...

16.07.2025 07:01 — 👍 16    🔁 10    💬 2    📌 0
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En République tchèque, le démagogue Babiš triomphe et se tourne vers l’extrême droite Le parti du milliardaire, ANO, a réalisé le meilleur score de son historique. Il renvoie dans l’opposition la coalition des droites pro-européennes, qui paie les inquiétudes sur le niveau de vie et la guerre sur le sol européen. La gauche, elle, a disparu.

Le parti du milliardaire, ANO, a réalisé le meilleur score de son historique. Il renvoie dans l’opposition la coalition des droites pro-européennes, qui paie les inquiétudes sur le niveau de vie et la guerre sur le sol européen. La gauche, elle, a disparu.

Par @fabienescalona.bsky.social

04.10.2025 20:10 — 👍 37    🔁 19    💬 4    📌 1

Setting the stage for an authoritarian crackdown

04.10.2025 19:58 — 👍 691    🔁 169    💬 52    📌 13
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Climate scientists raise a middle finger to Trump's censorship efforts Hundreds are collaborating to make sure accurate data is available to the public.

Researchers across the US and the world who raced to protect climate data, public reports and other information from the Trump administration’s budget cuts, firings, and scrubbing of federal websites are launching their own climate information portals.

From our friends at @insideclimatenews.org:

04.10.2025 17:30 — 👍 564    🔁 207    💬 16    📌 7

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