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UK backs biggest English onshore windfarm in a decade among 190 green energy projects Government also offers contracts for record number of solar schemes as it aims to create clean electricity system by 2030

Some good news:

'Contracts were awarded to 157 new solar farms, 28 new onshore windfarms and eight offshore windfarms after ministers doubled the amount of funding available to developers...for Labour’s goal to create a clean electricity system in Great Britain by 2030.'

Black-and-white vintage portrait photograph of Edith Clarke (1883–1959), the pioneering American electrical engineer, inventor of the Clarke Calculator (a graphical tool for solving power transmission problems), and the first woman to earn a master's degree in electrical engineering from MIT. She is shown in a close-up head-and-shoulders view against a dark, neutral background, gazing directly at the camera with a composed, intelligent expression. Clarke has distinctive curly hair neatly styled, and she wears thin, round pince-nez glasses perched on her nose with a thin bridge and side arms. She is dressed in a formal dark blouse or jacket. The classic early-to-mid-20th-century studio portrait style conveys her trailblazing role in electrical engineering and power systems innovation. #EdithClarke #WomenInEngineering #ElectricalEngineering #ClarkeCalculator #InventorsHallOfFame #MIT #MITAlum #PowerSystems

Edith Clarke, the first professional female electrical engineer in the US, was born #OTD in 1883.

+ Invented the Clarke calculator to solve electric power transmission problems faster
+ First woman to earn an MS in electrical engineering (EE) at MIT, 1919
+ First woman EE professor, US #WomenInSTEM

#Women&GirlsinScienceDay Academic & particle physicist Anne Kernan was a huge advocate for women in science, on one occasion funding a trip to CERN for an undergrad she had never met, meeting her at the airport and paying for her accommodation until funding came through. www.dib.ie/biography/ke...

Today we’re launching Open Climate Risk, a fully open option for U.S. building-level climate risk data. It’s unique because it allows you to see not only risk scores, starting with wildfire, but also the complete underlying dataset, methods, and codebase. carbonplan.org/research/cli...

A dresser inside a museum in New York City has been discovered as a secret stop on the Underground Railroad — the first of its kind discovered in Manhattan in over 100 years

Safe house linked to Underground Railroad discovered in Manhattan The Merchant's House is the first landmarked building in Manhattan.

“Historians call this passageway a masterwork of deliberate concealment, designed to be absolutely invisible to slave catchers or city marshals during the 19th-century”

lol how about: ‘should nature be valued and protected?’ Why is there a question mark on this story?

Breaking the Silencing Machine In many ways this society has moved toward a democracy of voices, as people who for their race or gender were shut out of systems of power and possibility – out of jury duty, professions, institutions...

To have a voice means not just the animal capacity to utter sounds but the ability to participate fully in the conversations that shape your society, your relations to others, and your own life. There are three key things that matter in having a voice: audibility, credibility, and consequence.

The Washington Post just laid off its entire award-winning photo team. They were our eyes in places we'll never see. It's a horrifying loss at a time when lying governments, propaganda and AI slop are on the rise.

Milky Way’s ‘Central Black Hole’ is Compact Object Composed of Fermionic Dark Matter, Study Says | Sci.News For decades, the motions of stars near the center of our Milky Way Galaxy have been treated as some of the clearest evidence for a supermassive black hole.

Milky Way’s ‘Central Black Hole’ is Compact Object Composed of Fermionic Dark Matter, Study Says - #Astronomy - ift.tt/vTzBfO4

Jeez, another lost from Television…

Wizards of oz run a lot of the world, and many of them are underpaid in ‘offshore’ and ‘near shore’ digital labor sweatshops that the hegemonic global north depend on for their daily lives. Waymo is not an exception, it is the norm.

Mamdani: "I speak of Renee Good, whose final words to the man who murdered her were, 'I'm not mad at you.' I speak of Alex Pretti who died as he lived, caring for the stranger. ICE shot him bc he did something they could never fathom ... let us offer a new path: one of defiance through compassion."

Totally ok with a re-up of these folks

In the image, we see the 27-km LHC eight surface points from an aerial perspective. Point 8, home of the LHCb experiment, is located close to the French town of Ferney-Voltaire.

Heating homes with the world’s largest particle accelerator

Now operational, a new heat exchange system is reusing hot water from part of the Large Hadron Collider’s cooling system to heat homes and businesses in the local area.

Read more: home.cern/news/news/ce...

A Guide To The Music Of Iannis Xenakis www.theguardian.com/music/tomser...

🌡️Heat pumps convert 1 kilowatt hour into 3-5 kilowatt hours of heating / cooling power.

🏗️ Plant-based building materials absorb almost 4 kg of CO2 from the atmosphere per 1 kg of carbon, stored useful as buildings.

🪙 1 Euro invested in climate protection yields a return of ~ 5 Euros.

Invest.

An anomaly from Hubble’s archive — Gravitational lens 2

An anomaly from Hubble’s archive — Gravitational lens 2

Ontem a noite eu assisti ao filme "Saneamento básico, o filme", de Jorge Furtado. O filme conta com uma equipe de peso, que inclui Fernanda Torres e Wagner Moura.

A plataforma Itaú Cultural Play é gratuita, é só se inscrever.

www.itauculturalplay.com.br

High-resolution map shows dark matter's gravity pulled normal matter into galaxies Scientists have created the highest resolution map of the dark matter that threads through the universe—showing its influence on the formation of stars, galaxies and planets.

Dark Matter Map

"Scientists have created the highest resolution map of the dark matter that threads through the universe—showing its influence on the formation of stars, galaxies and planets."

#News #Science 🧪

The medium is truly the message, because and this message is Ellison

RIP Sly Dunbar

Reporter: You received a letter from AG Pam Bondi making several demands….

Walz: I would just give a pro tip to the AG. There's 2 million documents in the Epstein files we're still waiting on. Go ahead and work on those

I know it's hard to track all the threats to democracy out there right now, but this is at the top of the list.

Seen in Los Angeles

(Credit: Zurita Carpio)

The fossil fuel industry (and its enablers) are responsible for the climate crisis.

Their CEOs receive million pound bonuses from soaring profits, whilst sabotaging climate action and pushing misleading narratives of individual responsibility.

It's time they pay up.

Nearly 400 millionaires and billionaires call for higher taxes on the super-rich: Mark Ruffalo, Brian Eno and Abigail Disney are among signatories of a letter timed for the WEF in Davos, saying the wealthy are buying political influence www.theguardian.com/business/202...

“WILD AT HEART” (1990) dir. #DavidLynch

Nicolas Cage, Laura Dern, Willem Dafoe, Crispin Glover, Diane Ladd, Isabella Rossellini, Harry Dean Stanton

🎬 PolyGram
🎞 Propaganda Films

Call to Action: This Friday, Minnesota is being called to stand together in real, visible solidarity. Labor unions, faith leaders, and community organizers are urging people across the state to plan ahead and take part in a Minnesota Economic Blackout do not work, do not attend school, and do not