Colin Stark
@cstark.bsky.social
🧪⚒️⚛️🧮 Geoscientist studying physics of geomorphology/professor/civ eng faculty. Left pieces of my ❤️ in NYC, SF, Rennes, Cambridge. 🇬🇧 🇹🇼 🇯🇵 🌈 日本語/中文/Français ok
I honestly misread this as saying we shouldn’t keep our pet fleas healthy www.bbc.com/news/article...
Restrict sale of pet flea treatments, government urged
The Lords environment committee says their widespread use poses potential risks to the environment.
bbc.com
Another great piece by Daniel Moran (who sadly doesn’t seem to be on BlueSky), this time about the foolishness of adding traffic lanes when trying to solve congestion: spacedaily.com/d-houston-sp...
Houston spent nearly 3 billion dollars widening a single freeway to 26 lanes to kill its traffic — and within three years the drive was taking up to 51 per cent longer, proof of a rule planners keep r...
The Katy Freeway's 26 lanes and $3 billion price tag offer a cautionary tale: induced demand means more road capacity simply generates more traffic to fill it.
spacedaily.com
TIL (from Wikipedia) re Sichuan: "According to historical geographer Tan Qixiang, 'four rivers' is an erroneous interpretation of the name. The name of the province is a contraction of the phrases 'Four Plain Circuits' (四川路; Sìchuān lù) and 'Four Circuits of Chuanxia' (川峽四路; chuānxiásìlù),
Nice piece here about IBM and its subliminal relevance to all our lives www.makeuseof.com/behind-the-s...
The tech giant nobody sees still runs the world behind the scenes
A once household consumer tech titan is more involved in your day-to-day life than you know.
makeuseof.com
Hear me out: remake of Super Troopers but about slacker forest fire pilots and called Super Scoopers
bears eat fascists@thorbites.bsky.social · 4d agoHoly cow, some small Air Tractor tankers have joined the Scoopers (image from jetphotos).
Ballet pic of the day Valeria Photo: Wolfgang DY Gerlach
Count Binface should win just on the basis that he’s endured that head gear amidst the crazy temperatures
Count Binface@countbinface.bsky.social · 6d ago✅ Touring Clacton ✅ Visiting local businesses ✅ Listening to constituents’ concerns ✅ Hi-vis vest Make your Vote Count! #VoteBinface #Clacton
Progress on figuring out the Riemann Hypothesis: phys.org/news/2026-07...
Physicists link the Riemann Hypothesis to phase transitions in quantum systems
A new study in Nature Communications has established a link between the Riemann Hypothesis and dynamical phase transitions in engineered quantum systems, demonstrating the effect on a quantum processo...
phys.org
I think I hit this point later in the summer than I usually do, but I’m fully there now.
This is cool 🧪🛰️🔭⚛️
Melina Thévenot🏳️⚧️@melina-iras07572.bsky.social · last wk.Second image of the Luna light echo (part of Cassipeia A supernova light echo). #JWST NIRCam F444W. Amazing how much it changes in just a few days. Also: Think of light echoes as something like CT scans of the interstellar medium. program: www.stsci.edu/jwst-program...
⚒️ 🧪 A M6.8 earthquake struck Kyushu, Japan today. Large quakes in Japan are common and often pass without much notice, but this one is serious - instead of occurring offshore in the subduction zone, it is a shallow, strike-slip event near Kumamoto. Damage and deaths have already been reported.
Southern Japan struck by deadly M6.8 earthquake
A reminder of the neighboring 2016 Kumamoto M7.0 earthquake
earthquakeinsights.substack.com
That my post here is still near the top of the Earth Scientists’, physics, and geophysics feeds – long after I posted it – is a sad sign of how moribund Bluesky has become these days.
Colin Stark@cstark.bsky.social · last wk.Some days I’m surprised at how introspective people are here, ignoring posts about a genuinely very bad earthquake. Someone said recently that unless there’s a tsunami, westerners pay almost no attention at all, and sadly that seems to be true. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
Never trust a leader named “Rupert”
Sam Vimes@samvimes6.bsky.social · last wk.John Cleese has become a parody of himself.
Some days I’m surprised at how introspective people are here, ignoring posts about a genuinely very bad earthquake. Someone said recently that unless there’s a tsunami, westerners pay almost no attention at all, and sadly that seems to be true. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
Japan earthquake death toll rises as rescue teams search for missing amid aftershocks
Military mobilises thousands of personnel after quake on southern Kyushu island that registered a maximum 7 on the Japanese shindo intensity scale
theguardian.com
Very bad earthquake just now in Kumamoto, prelim magnitude M7.1 ⚒️🧪⚛️
Today in “Japanese is crazy” redux: 舎利 シャリ shari means “rice” if you’re at a sushi place. But it also means “the bones left after you’ve cremated your grandpa.” 😳
Today in “Japanese is crazy”: 雲丹 is not pronounced kumota or whatever. It’s the kanji for uni うに sea urchin 😳
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