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Two burrowing owlets playing.

Good morning! 🪶

A chart showing a selection of swords and their associated weights, starting with a dagger weighing a can of beans, a cutlass weighing a loaf of bread, a scimitar weighing a gallon of milk, an arming sword weighing a pair of hiking shoes, a scottish sword weighing a cat, a bastard sword weighing an iron, a longsword weighing a bottle of laundry detergent, and a zweihander weighing one human baby

PSA: Swords are a lot lighter than you (and lots of video game designers) think
If you can swing a baby you can swing a Zweihänder

Star Trek rules. Pass it on!

Great meeting with Oceana Canada to learn about on-demand fishing gear 🦞⚓️ now being tested in lobster and snow crab fisheries. This innovation protects North Atlantic right whales 🐋 while supporting Nova Scotia fishers and sustainable livelihoods. 🌊💙

Stay safe out there, folks.

The orbital eccentricity of Uranian moons Ariel and Miranda would have generated enough tidal heating to grant them immense oceans up till ~100 million years ago.
Ariel's ocean was 170 km deep, while Miranda would have been 53% liquid water by volume!
www.psi.edu/blog/evidenc...

Important.

Walking into a field with erected stones – whether menhir, circle or portal tomb – is to cross into a territory of wonder. Archaeologist, ley-hunter, stone botherer or pagan pilgrim, we all feel a sense of marvel rippling across our psychic skin. – Dr. K. Brophy #StandingStoneSunday

The full video (18 min) is really sweet. www.youtube.com/watch?v=R9XN...

Talk to the hand!

The roots of human facial expressions might go back a very long way.

Never get involved in a land war in Asia!

Happy Solstice! ☀️🎉

Happy #DecemberSolstice! 🌞

Understanding seasons - a look at the hourly incoming solar radiation during the two solstices (23.5°N/S). I've added a red marker for ease of viewing. Dashed line shows the equator

This graphic can be found at zacklabe.com/arctic-clima...

A macro photograph of a brown mantidfly insect on a stick

It's not a mantid, it's not a fly, it's a mantidfly!

#entomology #bugskye #insect #photography #macro #nature

Opinion | The Big City Where Housing Is Still Affordable (Published 2023)

“In the past half century, by investing in transit and allowing development, Tokyo has added more housing units than the total number of units in New York City. It has remained affordable by becoming the world’s largest city. It has become the world’s largest city by remaining affordable.” 🎁

A black and white lop-eared bunny sits on a clear plastic surface.

This ruling is a victory for people in America and for our clients who are elected representatives.

This decision makes clear that no president can hide the truth about how people are treated in federal immigration custody.

We otterposting? We're otter posting. Yes. That's it.

Fundamentally, my ideal foreign policy vision is Brits & Americans & Frenchmen & Germans & Poles & Ukrainians and Japanese & Taiwanese & South Koreans & Australians and whoever else wants to join, all standing together, under arms if necessary, to declare that all people are and ought to be free.

I don't know you, and yet please know you are not alone. Look for the helpers, and don't doomscroll, and if you can, go outside and put your feet on the ground or hug a tree.

Die Hard: still an S-tier Christmas movie

Camellia
December 15th 2023

“He is not unstoppable and you are not without power”

Remind yourself of this every day.

Especially on the bad days.

Maybe it’s just me, but I’d much rather have an entire Somali immigrant family with two happy trans kids living right next door to me than a white supremacist or a racist MAGA lunatic any day of the week.

The Longest Solar Eclipse for 100 Years Is Coming. Don’t Miss It NASA has announced when the longest total solar eclipse of the century will occur—and you won’t have to wait long. Here’s what you should know.

NASA has announced when the longest total solar eclipse of the century will occur—and you won’t have to wait long. Here’s what you should know. www.wired.com/story/the-lo...