“What's wrong with admitting that we don't know something? Is our self-esteem so fragile?” — Carl Sagan
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“Reason obeys itself; and ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it.” — Thomas Paine
"I love America more than any other country in the world and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually." -- James Baldwin, born #OTD 1924
Unearthing a 66-million-year-old Tyrannosaurus rex tooth in eastern Montana: #AGoodPlace Source: www.reddit.com/r/Damnthatsi...
“The propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.” — Aldous Huxley
Something beautiful for the weekend! An extraordinary Acheulean handaxe knapped around a fossil shell c. 500,000-300,000 years ago! From West Tofts, Norfolk 📷 MAA Cambridge University collections.maa.cam.ac.uk/objects/4509... #Archaeology
“Has there ever been a society which has died of dissent? Several have died of conformity in our lifetime.” — Jacob Bronowski
The GOP’s trick is… When capitalism isn’t working… They’ll blame socialism When it is… They’ll call it communism
Ended up going down this rabbit hole. While not scientifically impossible, it looks extremely unlikely, and the only references to the incident came twenty years later (in the wake of Jaws) and, IMO, don't look particularly credible. www.wbez.org/curious-city...
Getting to the Bottom of Lake Michigan's Legendary 'Shark Attack'
Rumor has it a young George Lawson was attacked by a shark while swimming at a Chicago beach in 1955. Is it true, or just a bunch of bull shark?
wbez.org
NASA releases a stunning new image of the Chandelier Cluster 🌌 Globular clusters are dense collections of thousands to millions of stars, all bound together by gravity 📷 Hubble
Allie Wheelz ♿️Disability Advocacy & Education "Source - The Other 98% This is very well written, so I figured I’d share it with you verbally" linktr.ee/alliewh33lz
“I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial of strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country.” —Thomas Jefferson
🚨Michigan State Rep. introduced HB 6008, which would require the Michigan Department of Natural Resources to establish a wolf hunting season within 90 days of gray wolves being removed from the federal Endangered Species List.📣Michigan residents urge your state rep. to OPPOSE HB 6008: bit.ly/4opx2tp
Urgent - Wolves in Michigan Need Your Help!
engage.nywolf.org
Just a reminder that Russians pose as Americans online, and Russia has always supported trump and anything else that harms our democracy (they also work to increase internal US conflict, so may pose as people on the other side of these issues in a way that will inflame tensions).
Kate from Kharkiv@kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 2mo agoSEN. KELLY: Information warfare is one of the biggest challenges that all democracies are now facing, especially with regard to elections. I just spent time with President of Moldova, and interference that Russians applied in their election is happening to us too.
Remembering both the fallen & the powerful men who sent them Happy Memorial Day
“The fact is you cannot be intelligent merely by choosing your opinions. The intelligent man is not the man who holds such-and-such views but the man who has sound reasons for what he believes and yet does not believe it dogmatically.” ― Bertrand Russell
This is awesome (elephant language translator)!
Sheldrick Wildlife Trust@sheldricktrust.bsky.social · 3mo agoHello in Elephant is our collaboration with ElephantVoices, a tool that translates simple human messages using voice recognition, text and emoji into the elephant language, with all sounds recorded from real wild elephants in Africa. Say hello back at: helloinelephant.com
This is a set of frames of the surface of Comet 67P taken by the Rosetta mission on 1 June 2016. The particles in the foreground are bits of dust and ice or cosmic rays effects. The "waterfall" of points moving in the background are stars.
If you only listen to one Rick Wilson podcast, make it this one.
The Lincoln Project@lincolnproject.us · 3mo agoThe MAGA media ecosystem is beset with fake AI influencers, and that ecosystem is now fracturing. Rick Wilson explains what that means on the latest Elephant in the Room: https://youtu.be/AX9wiJfbOmk
“Science is at no moment quite right, but it is seldom quite wrong, and has, as a rule, a better chance of being right than the theories of the unscientific.” — Bertrand Russell
We need to invoke the 25th Amendment and remove Trump. Threatening war crimes is a blatant violation of our constitution and the Geneva Conventions.
