Eilat Glikman

I’ve got an intro astro text from 1926 with a chapter grappling with how the sun makes its heat!

I cannot overstate how much legit heavy weightlifting has changed my well-being. I see a trainer once a week and do a 2nd workout on my own. ALL the "getting older" body aches that started accumulating since age 40 are gone. Low back, knees, hips, joints. Ive become a true evangelist.

Perfection.

Yes, exactly this and also kill us with botched surgeries, and software malfunctions in self driving cars… oopsie! No one to blame! How can you indict a software? Truly, human life is disposable to those currently in charge.

My doomer-worry about AI is not that the LLMs become omnipotent and take over the world but that the wealthy and powerful use it as a means to consolidate power and marginalize or lay off skilled workers and also everything about our technological and political and social life gets worse

Grateful to have you as my representative in Congress. 🙏

AG Pam Bondi brought a portfolio of degrading insults before the House Judiciary Committee today, but failed to bring evidence, answers, or accountability.

Today’s hearing confirmed that this DOJ protects pedophiles and sex offenders in power, not the American people.

There is a little-known comet, best seen from the Southern Hemisphere, putting on a beautiful show. On the night of February 9, it passed close to the bright galaxy NGC 55. Comet Wierzchos is not very bright and is not visible to the naked eye, but it displays a long, striking tail and it is a very beautiful telescopic object. This image captures the closest approach to NGC 55, taken from the Atacama Desert with my 20 cm Newtonian telescope. I had to deal with a huge amount of satellite tracks (on average 3-4 for each 120 seconds exposure), which almost ruined my attempt to image the comet and the galaxy. The photo is a two panel mosaic made to include the full extent of NGC 55. Even so, the field of view is not wide enough to show the full length of comet tail. Each panel is the average of 10X120 seconds exposures, aligned both on stars and the comet.

Hyperbolic Oort Cloud Comet: This conjunction was a million years in the making. On Feb. 9th, Daniele Gasparri of Atacama, Chile, photographed Comet Wierzchoś (C/2024 E1) gliding past the "string of pearls galaxy" NGC 55.
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I am having consecutive heart attacks watching these downhill skiers!

Very much yes! But for the record, Sabrina was the perfect debut.

Obama level charm. Off the charts!

Yeah 😞

But yeah, the hostile climate is once again being exposed.

FWIW I’ve come to realize that all worthwhile goals are Sisyphean. That is, even when we reach our goals, we gotta keep up the maintenance work because backsliding is real.

You stole a thought straight out of my brain as I was having it!

If I still lived in NYC this might be my #1 issue.

Not a movie from the classic era, but a favorite nonetheless, Catherine O'Hara with Eugene Levy (and Winky) in Best in Show (2000) 🖤

In all the horror, watch this for a little uplift in case you forgot that humanity can be wonderful.

It's genuinely astonishing to me the number of people willing to claim with a straight face that this word association tshotchke that didn't exist a few years ago is absolutely necessary for the conduct of science.

NASA keck time does… I’m not anti, but I’m just seeing a slide to a time when rich benefactors ran science which is a pity.

Look at this! Propose big things. Don’t back down. Have a positive vision and resist naysaying. Mandan is showing us how to model the positive future we all deserve!

Hochul and Mamdani to Announce Road Map to Expand Child Care

The goal of the multiyear plan, which Ms. Hochul is expected to introduce alongside the mayor in an appearance Thursday morning and will be a part of her State of the State address on Jan. 13, would be to offer universal access to children statewide, her office said.

Okay sure. But (a) who will fund the investigators who do the science? Do they plan to give out grants too? Or just let whoever do whatever? And (b) this has such gilded age vibes… like early 20th century when Carnegie etc. funded science. The federal model was such an improvement. Makes me sad.

Just like the gilded age, a century ago 😢

Thank god, given this oversubscription rate!

Yay!

Whoa your July is going to be busy!! 😊

Im at this workshop right now! But off the image on the left side.

Took a nap after my red eye and awoke to a very interesting sight!