Aatish Bhatia

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David Byrne came to my band’s show at a gay bar in Bed-Stuy and sang This Must Be The Place with us and I still haven’t processed it

Troubling scenes from an Arctic in full-tilt crisis The heat that hit Svalbard in February was so intense that scientists could dig into the ground with spoons, "like it was soft ice cream."

Do feel like 'ice on Svalbard so soft you can scoop it out with a spoon' is maybe a bad sign.

Orange berries, called akpiks in Inupiaq, look like fluffy raspberries on top of large green leaves with brown ridges. In the distance are many other akpiks on the tundra.

Tundra therapy

BBC World Service - 13 Minutes Presents: The Space Shuttle, Season 1: The Apollo 11 story How the first moon landing was saved. The story of the people who made Apollo 11 happen

For the anniversary of the moon landing - can’t recommend highly enough this gripping podcast from the @bbc 13 Minutes to the Moon - this & season 2 on Apollo 13, were amazingly informative & edge of your seat listening (even if you know how it turns out)!
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p...

YouTube video by minutephysics The Physics Of Dissonance

Really cool video that made me understand sound harmony and dissonance at a more fundamental level:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=tCsl...

YouTube video by minutephysics The Physics Of Dissonance

If you're into math and music, you'll probably love this in-depth video by my friend Henry! www.youtube.com/watch?v=tCsl... And it features an interactive about dissonance that I put together years ago: aatishb.com/dissonance/

Where Congress’s Cuts Threaten Access to PBS and NPR The loss of federal funding threatens scores of public TV and radio stations across the United States.

New: I teamed up with @elenashao.bsky.social
and nytgraphics to map more than 100 public TV and radio stations that are at risk of closing as a result of tonight's vote:

www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

This is a time bomb that will go off in the fall, when the last federal grants run out.

Watch the seismic waves from today's magnitude 7.3 Alaska earthquake ripple across seismic stations in North America.

More ➡️ loom.ly/kaJp5I0

"For six months, the researchers attempted to train the Chilean flamingos in Atlanta to feed out of clear containers, which could be filmed to reveal how the particles flowed. But "the flamingos did not cooperate," he said."

Why Do Flamingos Eat So Weird? | Defector In 2019, Victor Ortega Jiménez was visiting the Atlanta zoo with his family when he became mesmerized by a flock of Chilean flamingos. The flamingos were feeding, their long necks squiggled into the w...

Videos of capillary waves, vortices, vortex shedding, and flamingo beaks... this post has it all! 🦩🦩🦩 defector.com/why-do-flami...

Why Do Flamingos Eat So Weird? | Defector In 2019, Victor Ortega Jiménez was visiting the Atlanta zoo with his family when he became mesmerized by a flock of Chilean flamingos. The flamingos were feeding, their long necks squiggled into the w...

"Flamingos use their beaks and feet to create miniature, tornado-like vortices that trap their agile, fast-swimming prey. "It's not just quirky and weird that they're doing this," said Felicity Arengo" defector.com/why-do-flami...

Fatal Battles In Common Loons: A Subsequent Analysis | Defector Kathryn Xu: This weekend, my family and I went up to Lake Placid, where I saw several loons. As is the case when I see birds of note, I informed Barry Petchesky of this fact, only to discover that I w...

"You could describe a loon as a black-and-white bird the same way you might describe a rainbow as stripes in the sky. It does not capture the pure majesty of glimpsing the loon on the lake and seeing that wild checkerboard pattern erupting from the water."

Here's Why There's So Much Flash Flooding in the U.S. Right Now (Gift Article) July’s hot temperatures and moist air are the perfect ingredients for rain.

Really like this combination of rainfall info and hydrologic context (geology, wildfire burn scars, impervious surface) ⚒️🧪

🎁 There’s a Flash Flood Season, and This Is It www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

“Even God Cannot Hear Us Here”: What I Witnessed Inside an ICE Women’s Prison Tufts University doctoral student Rümeysa Öztürk opens up about her 45 days in a South Louisiana processing facility—and the generous and compassionate women she met.

A very powerful piece

When Secor’s father later took over the business, he said he remembers in 1959 when one new-to-town woman tried to build a cabin along the river nearby. His father warned her not to, he said. Yet the woman didn’t listen:

As a journalist and emerging public historian, I spent much of the past week reading through transcripts of oral histories made and collected by residents of Kerr County, Texas – where flash floods killed more than 100 people this month.

There’s one recording that stood out to me. 🧵

Being true to yourself amidst a changing world [for over 150 million years]

Maybe that's the real punk rock👍

I was explaining to my Ukrainian colleague the phrase ‘There’s no such thing as a free lunch’. She told me the equivalent in Ukrainian is ‘The only free cheese is in the mousetrap’ - which is so much better

I have fond memories of working through his (notoriously hard) textbook as an undergrad — An Introduction to Mechanics by Kleppner and Kolenkow. Over 20 years later, I still remember many of the problems in it.

sorry but this sucks. consolidation is ruining space. we used to have lots of places to get sucked into an event horizon beyond comprehension and soon it’s just gonna be one infinitely dense point of matter. count me out

Everything We Know About the Interstellar Object 3I/ATLAS A team of astronomers recently discovered the traveling space object, just the third of its kind to pass through our solar system.

Everything We Know About the Interstellar Object 3I/ATLAS www.wired.com/story/heres-...

And their Patreon has some great bonus clips, like this paleontologist's thoughts on the Jurassic World movies www.patreon.com/posts/proble...

YouTube video by Howtown What Quetzalcoatlus was really like

Howtown is one of my favorite science video shows. It's rigorous, funny, deeply researched and incredibly well-produced

BEHOLD! One of Earth's greatest lineages of life: the lil wiggle arm guys, Meteora.

These single-celled critters, originally found in deep-sea sediments, are SO DIFFERENT from other lifeforms on Earth that they're likely in their own kingdom (as in, the Animal Kingdom, the Plant Kingdom etc). 🧪🌿

Can You Stop an Outbreak of a Contagious Disease? An interactive explanation of outbreaks, vaccines and herd immunity.

Luck is not an effective public health strategy. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

What’s to Love About the New Jersey Turnpike? Everything.

Enjoyed this essay about growing up in New Jersey. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/08/m...

doing that thing where we watch the full murderbot credits to con ourselves into believing the eps are longer than 5 minutes

A 17-year-old teen refutes a mathematical conjecture proposed 40 years ago Hannah Cairo has solved the so-called Mizohata-Takeuchi conjecture, a problem in harmonic analysis closely linked to other central results in the field. This fall, she will begin her doctoral studies ...

This is amazing english.elpais.com/science-tech...