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Star Maps: Comet C/2025 A6 (Lemmon) from Gressy, France | TheSkyLive Locate Comet C/2025 A6 (Lemmon) in the sky from Gressy, France using our interactive Star Maps and Planetarium web application.

The sky is currently clear in the Paris region. Try for comet Lemmon later
theskylive.com/planetarium?...

Vaccine-Preventable Disease: A Global Tracker | Think Global Health This map is updated weekly and visualizes outbreaks of nine childhood diseases in collaboration with the International Society for Infectious Diseases

I'd love to say lots of nice things about this invaluable preventable disease tracker from @monscience.bsky.social and team at Think Global Health. It's an incredible resource.

But I can't get over my anger & sadness that this resource is even needed.
www.thinkglobalhealth.org/article/vacc...

In pictures: The jewels of ‘incalculable’ value taken in Louvre heist French police are seeking to recover stolen items include glittering royal tiaras, necklaces and earrings

In pictures: The jewels of ‘incalculable’ value taken in Louvre heist

Voici les éphémérides pour octobre afin de suivre C2025 A6 Lemmon.

Les 2 premières images au coucher du Soleil direction nord-ouest et la troisième pour son déplacement peu avant le lever du Soleil au nord-est.

Son maximum de magnitude est attendu pour le 20/21 octobre.

#comète #c2025a6lemmon

Now’s the time to see Comet Lemmon This celestial visitor is putting on a show in the morning and evening.

See comet Lemmon in the morning or evening. Except I've got clouds www.astronomy.com/observing/no...

La comète Lemmon est visible à l’œil nu ! En même temps qu’elle devient assez brillante pour être repérée à l’œil nu, la comète Lemmon est exceptionnellement grande dans le ciel du matin. Les astrophotographes montrent qu’elle s’étend sur 12°...

La comète Lemmon est visible à l'oeil nu et déploie une queue grande comme 25 fois la pleine Lune !! 🤩
🔭✨ L'avez vous observée ?
www.cieletespace.fr/actualites/l...

The Second Map - VJ Day podcast to air never-before-heard archival recordings and new testimonies from last remaining veterans Meet presenter Kavita Puri and some of the contributors from The History Podcast: The Second Map as they explore World War Two’s forgotten front

If you haven't heard The Second Map yet, the new The History Podcast on BBC Sounds, I highly recommend it. And not just because I'm in it #SWW www.bbc.com/mediacentre/...

Oops. S7 episode 8. I don't remember how I found this

The revelation that @walkhighlands.co.uk has a pronunciation button! Makes this Scot feel less inadequate when his (French) sons will go to Scotland to walk. Great listen

Lend me your ears 👂

As I tune in on YouTube to catch up on @steamingboots Scotlands mountains Murray, you can listen to my conversion with the man of the mountains on my latest podcast.

Listen on your fav podcast player or direct from my website 8am
maliphotography.co.uk/podcast

Total Lunar Eclipse on September 7–8, 2025 – Where and When to See Total lunar eclipse on September 7–8, 2025: Where and when is the Blood Moon visible and what will it look like? Visibility map, animation, and local times.

A good lunar eclipse explainer here. French time is 2 hours ahead of UTC
www.timeanddate.com/eclipse/luna...

September 4, 2025 (Thursday) Senators challenged the decisions of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr.

September 4, 2025

BBC Radio overseas: a new plan after BBC Sounds closes And some great uses of AI in Finland

The BBC has quietly removed the BBC Sounds app from international stores. It closes for all of us outside the UK on July 21, after which you can still listen to BBC domestic radio stations, but through a maze of deadends and hidden links. (Or, your smart speaker).

james.cridland.net/blog/2025/bb...

The Wargame Russia knows our weaknesses. But do you?   A major five-part series from Sky News and Tortoise which imagines how a Russian attack on the UK could play out – and invites real-life former ministers, mi...

🚨The final episode of The Wargame is out now:

After another attack by Russia, our fictional British government faces a terrifying choice. The home secretary asks: “We have the nuclear deterrent. In what circumstances would we use it prime minister?"

podfollow.com/thewargame

two paragraphs from two separate NYT updates on Iran that seem like they belong together

Every Election Is Now Existential A nationalist’s narrow victory in Poland offers a preview of many knife-edge contests to come, all across the democratic world.

Although many hoped otherwise, we do not seem to be returning to a world in which the center left and the center right compete over tax rates or budgets. Every election is now existential

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Old French paper driving licence in a very bad state

Great listen. You've reminded me of something that desperately needs laminating @murielzagha.bsky.social

This week on @garlicandpearls.bsky.social I explain to @suzanneraine.bsky.social the history and significance of the French IDENTITY CARD. The medieval identity-theft story of Martin Guerre features, also the uses of anthropometry… Tune in!

Spot on by Bill Gates. I knew he thought this but am glad he finally said it publicly. He has put up with such shitty misinformation from Musk over vaccines too.

franceinfo - DIRECT TV - actualité France et monde, interviews, documentaires et analyses YouTube video by franceinfo

youtube.com/live/Z-Nwo-y... #8mai #8may #VEday

Trump announces 100% tariffs on movies made overseas, surprising studios The president, on his Truth Social platform, called for a steep tariff on movies made overseas. Hollywood has been hurting as foreign governments offer rich incentives to filmmakers.

Trump announces 100% tariffs on movies made overseas, surprising studios

This also happened in the 2001 election in the UK.

YouTube video by Cambridge Disinformation Summit Belllingcat CEO Eliot Higgins, on how disordered discourse is destroying democracy

I've just come back from the Cambridge Disinformation Summit where I gave the opening keynote, titled "Demanufacturing Consent - How Disordered Discourse is Destroying Democracy", featuring everything from Fake Hooves to Jackson Hinkle being the worst.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-FV...

Like and Subscribe: How YouTube Changed the World - What happens when YouTube gets political? - BBC Sounds As YouTube spreads, so does information - the good and bad. We explore the consequences.

EFF’s @jillian.bsky.social joins BBC Sounds/BBC Radio 4 to discuss YouTube’s power to spread unchecked information.

Medical devices have a highly integrated global supply chain. A typical medical infusion pump manufactured in the US, for example, can contain parts of more than 20 other countries on.ft.com/42qrJjY

Shall I hit follow all?

'We found that we’re already on the precipice of disaster,' the lead author of the study said, adding that there may potentially be thousands or millions of cases www.ft.com/content/19ca...

The Economist cover - The Age of Chaos

As we enter a period of major global instability- what The Economist termed ‘the Age of Chaos’ we need new thinking. So I’m delighted to announce this major new programme on Global Disorder, in partnership with Carnegie Endowment for International Peace www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/news/british...

If the IRS deprives Harvard of its tax-exempt status, that's very bad for Harvard but it's also a catastrophe for the IRS. Instead of a neutral agency that enforces tax law, it will become a tool of partisan warfare. It may never recover.