Ed

It still seems unreal to me that humans will soon be flying back to the moon! They will be returning to Earth at a speed of 40.000 km/h, the fastest ever reentry of a crewed spacecraft.

This remastered video shows a similar reentry from the #Artemis 1 mission back in 2022 at 9x speed. 🔭🧪

Visual with the text: Action plan for women in research, innovation and startups.

Women make up just 34% of the researchers in the EU.

The European Commission launched a call for evidence to shape an Action plan for women in R&I, tackling gender gaps and boosting equality in the European Research Area by 2030.

Have your say by 23 Feb: link.europa.eu/hh3vx6

#SciComm 🧪

Workplace callbacks after 8pm are not my favourite thing. Human error, in this particular case. Which would have badly escalated by tomorrow. What a day.

Now, there's an interesting metaphor for the capital.

A diagram of the evolution of whales, from land dwelling mammals to the ocean giants we know today.

Whale evolution makes me uncomfortable

'Simple but harmonious': Eight iconic Nordic homes throughout history These design masterworks reveal the origins of Scandi style – and they all emerge from a distinctive vision of "soft modernism" that still influences how we live now.

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www.bbc.com/culture/arti...

Well now, there is a mystery.

Bruising where an osteopath pressed a thumb hard into an inflamed shoulder cartilage, and kept pressing until I asked her to stop. So, lessons in how to ruin your lunch break.

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Reluctantly conceded we can't do trains, like the Europeans, after this once happened to me. Well, three times, actually.

New owner has a laissez-faire attitude to food hygiene. After 28 years this ends my long patronage of the Sierra Cafe, Devonport.

snail cat

ok just sent off a pitch!!!! can get back to finishing the milf comic now

Last week we got more info on what the new high-floor LRT vehicles will look like!

When these 32 new LRVs arrive, Edmonton will finally retire its Siemens U2 fleet, which have been in service since the system opened in the 70s!

This is an image of Sainte Chapelle - Chateau de Vincennes, located just east of Paris. #Photography #Architecture #Interior #France #StainedGlass 📷

Halley’s Comet wrongly named: 11th-century English monk predates British astronomer The British astronomer and mathematician Edmond Halley was not, after all, the first to understand the cycle of the comet that now bears his name. This is shown by research conducted by, among others, Professor Simon Portegies Zwart. It was the monk Eilmer of Malmesbury who, as early as the 11th century,…

The monk Eilmer – or Aethelmaer – of Malmesbury must already have been elderly when he saw Halley’s Comet for the second time in 1066. He realised that he had seen the same comet earlier, in 989.

Seesaw device uses sunlight and gravity to extract lithium from seawater Clever engineering concentrates and grabs more lithium, and sheds unwanted sodium

Researchers engineered a seesaw-like device based on hydrogen manganese oxide (HMO) that boosts lithium concentrations by more than 15-fold in seawater. cen.acs.org/materials/en... #chemsky 🧪

hey wanna see 39 seconds of perfect video editing?

Looking Ahead to When Gas Stations Vanish - Inside Climate News Leaders should plan for declining demand that will undermine the viability of fossil fuel businesses. New research says it could happen sooner than we think.

Reactions to this week's newsletter have ranged from, "This is an absurd premise," to, "This is happening already in my city." So, pretty much what I've come to expect from writing about the energy economy.
insideclimatenews.org/news/0502202...

New Zealand mentioned. Over by the Infectious Disease Physicians, the Indie game developers, and the left wing French.

A Greek vessel with an armed owl, wearing helmet, shield, and a lance.

For #SuperbOwlSunday a gorgeous armed #owl, depicted on a Greek vessel, dating 5th century BC.

📷Louvre, Paris

Only seven new petrol-powered cars sold in Norway in January Data shows 29 hybrid and 98 diesel cars also sold, while the figure for battery electric vehicles was more than 2,000

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www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...

The End of Psychiatry (Kind Of) | Los Angeles Review of Books Neurologist Pria Anand lauds Khameer Kidia’s new dissection of Western psychiatric imperialism.

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lareviewofbooks.org/article/empi...

I'm a big fan of the Luge. Lycra, razor sharp sledge blades, impossible speed, gravity. What's not to love?

The aurora last night in Beaver, Alaska was just incredible. This is a real-time video (not sped up) of the crazy motion I saw. Also, look how BRIGHT it is, wow!

On the one hand it is July (so winter), on the other hand Central is sheltered by the Southern Alps, so more clear than cloudy in the afternoon.
(But I would expect serious international eclipse hunters to try Australia, this is more for local's benefit)

☄️🪙 Divus Iulius comet coin
After Julius Caesar’s assassination in 44 BC, a comet seen over Rome was believed to represent his deified soul. Augustus used this celestial event to legitimize his power and divine lineage. 🧵

Well, I assumed that they very kindly led her to her destination. They looked like the sort of people who use BlueSky.

Rare Semper Augustus striped tulips crown these flowers arranged in a glass vase by Elias van den Broeck, whose day is today.

Tiny, very elderly Chinese woman left at the wrong bus stop and fearfully disoriented by her surroundings, being assisted by a passing couple. She had her address on a paper pad, barely able to hold it with her trembling hands. They led her home.