How remarkable that an agricultural worker in the 1930s had access to better tailoring than the US Vice President today.
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Textile Scientist. Circularity Champion, Churchill Fellow
Breaking News! Code: y-Axis Alert! Yesterday's Nino 3.4 preliminary sea-surface temperature anomaly set a new record high, at 3.48°C above the 1991-2020 baseline. To clearly show this anomaly, the y-axis max was raised to 4.0°C. Attention historians: this is gobsmackingly bananas.
The warzone that is King's Cross Station at 10pm. Oh the humanity. I expect 15 Tweets before bedtime saying how you can't venture out on London's streets in safety after sunset.
Today, people across the world remember one of the greatest tragedies in Welsh history - the 1966 Aberfan disaster - which left a small mining village robbed of an entire generation
Cofiwn: Sixty years on, Aberfan disaster remembered across the world today
Stephen Price Today, people across the world remember one of the greatest tragedies in Welsh history – the 1966 Aberfan disaster – which left a small mining village robbed of an entire generation. On ...
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When Grammy-winning musician Rhiannon Giddens begins playing “Old Corn Liquor,” a traditional Black American folk tune, acclaimed Chinese pipa virtuoso Wu Man recognizes similarities to Chinese pentatonic music and spontaneously joins in. The joy on their faces says it all.
The preliminary Niño 3.4 sea-surface temperature for October 13 just broke 30°C for the third time, and is now 3.3°C above the 1991-2020 baseline. This marks the 22nd consecutive daily temperature above the previous all-time record high of 29.815°C. set on Nov. 17, 2015.
Well said. How many of Tommy Robinson’s Sport’s Direct paramilitary division go and help or worship at the churches they claim they want to protect. It’s much easier to don a balaclava and shout at the RNLI. #HopeNotHate
"Shameful" The Inquiry hears from expert virologist Prof. Deenan Pillay that the Government chose to spend billions on private consultants from Deloitte instead of listening to experts. The labs they set up have since been dismantled. 'We've been left with nothing'.
You know the xkcd strip about how all modern internet architecture is eventually built on something a hobbyist maintains for free? Someone went out and found them all. sheets.works/data-viz/hol...
Basically AI allows software engineers to produce shitty code *faster* and in higher volumes which increases the amount time spent on code reviews and revisions nullifying the productivity gained from producing the code in the first place.
ah damn, RIP Margaret Hamilton. she took safety-critical software engineering seriously, and got people to the moon and back. news.mit.edu/2026/margare...
A 10,000-year-old glacier in Slovenia is possibly days away from melting entirely.
Voyager 1 is running on less memory than a single photo in your camera roll—69 KB. Its data is saved to an 8-track tape & software was developed when "the cloud" was in the sky. NASA sends commands and the old thing answers. And yet your brand new laptop freezes because you opened too many tabs.
So a telescope deep in the South Pole's icy heart that looks for light only as a way of detecting the ghostly particles that are streaming through us all the time, some arriving from vast interstellar distances. If I were telling the story of humanity, I'd focus on this bit & less on the politics.
Tiny Cosmic Particle Delivers Major Breakthrough in Astronomy
For the first time, astronomers have traced a neutrino back to its birthplace, billions of light-years across the universe.
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Fifteen billion miles from home, the farthest machine humans have ever built is still doing science on less memory than a blank Word document and a data recorder that is, quite literally, an 8-track tape. Voyager 1, launched in 1977, is roughly 15.9 billion miles out—closing in on one light-day
Sir Ian McKellen orates 'The Stranger's Case' from 'Sir Thomas More' by Shakespeare about the Evil May Day xenophobic riot of 1517 in London. This passage was written 400 years ago, but times never change. Humanity refuses to change its unwarranted bias against 'others'.
CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1965: 20-1 CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1 CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 325-to-1 Trickle-down economics was always a sham. Nothing has ever trickled down.
yes my bull went rogue in your china shop but I think we can all agree there’s no liability here it’s an agentic being
tech bros keep promising self-aware ai when they haven't even cracked making self-aware tech bros
Never been to the opera before? Now’s your chance. We’re giving away 70,000 free tickets to the @metopera at the iconic Lincoln Center. Go to on.nyc.gov/opera to enter the lottery. There’s not a bad seat in the house.
🔥This is how it’s done. Imagine if every anti-immigrant fearmongering liar was grilled like this. #ShowMeTheStats #GetYourPhoneOut 🏴 (h/t @ukcameraman.bsky.social )
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The Graph That Should Be Front-Page News
Every so often the Earth produces a signal that is impossible to ignore. This graph is one of them. It shows sea-surface temperatures in the Niño 3.4 region of the equatorial Pacific, one of the most ...
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