teknohed
@johnmcarls.bsky.social
sub-micron explorer, rhythmic noise maker. #AustinFC #Newcastle #AMomentForMusic https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5690958/
Archaeology meets Star Trek! Today, we celebrate Star Trek. Like Star Trek’s spirit of exploration, archaeology encourages us to discover the human past and broaden our global understanding. Happy Star Trek Day! Live long and prosper 🖖 #archaeology #StarTrek #StarTrekDay
2000 year old hot water therapy!
Alison Fisk@alisonfisk.bsky.social · last wk.Roman clay hot water bottles in the shape of human body parts used for therapeutic purposes some 2,000 years ago! Found in a building which may have been a healing centre. Paphos Archaeological Museum, Cyprus 📷 by me #Archaeology
in 2005, Three 6 Mafia won an Oscar for Best Original Song for the film Hustle and Flow ("Hard Out Here For A Pimp"). Dolly Parton was nominated in the same category. After celebrating heavily, they had a nice personal note awaiting them when they arrived back home.
![An excerpt of the oral history of Three 6 Mafia winning an Oscar in 2005 as told to Variety.
DJ Paul: I woke up in my hotel room the next morning with my housecoat on and a bottle of champagne in my hand, and the phone ringing because the Hollywood Reporter or somebody was calling for an interview and taking pictures of us. Then we did some interviews and flew back home.
When we landed there was so many people in the airport waiting for us, there was applause, the minute we stepped off the airplane people started going crazy, it was almost like a little parade at the airport for us. It was crazy.
Juicy J: When we got back to Memphis, Dolly Parton actually sent us a letter congratulating us and signed it, saying she was just happy [the award] came back to Tennessee.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ynffljsn62r6x3w6gt3qhxsz/bafkreigwmt37xq7vfbczaisddaip5o6iv25jhwxcwrndglxmwfo7ualeye)
Only 5 days until NASA's Roman Space Telescope launches. It will be able to look at ~100x more area on the sky than Hubble at one time with similar image quality! We're hoping it'll teach us a lot about dark matter, dark energy, planets, and more.
in honor of the IBM PC's 45th anniversary today, here is the original prototype motherboard! which side is your favorite?
New discovery puts 'women at the centre of early Bronze Age society'. For >200 years, experts believed bones discovered near Stonehenge belonged to a "stout man". Now, DNA analysis has revealed the 4,000-year-old skeleton of a metalworker & shaman was from a woman. 🧪💀 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
New discovery puts 'women at the centre of early Bronze Age society'
The 4,000-year-old skeleton of a metalworker was first found in 1803.
bbc.co.uk
"Buyers beware: Only 1,965 copies of the recordings are being pressed."
CultureSonar@culturesonar.bsky.social · last mo.“The box set, David Bowie: The Shel Talmy Recordings, was produced by Talmy, who also produced and arranged hits such as “My Generation” by The Who and “You Really Got Me” from The Kinks.” www.culturesonar.com/david-bowies...
“Before EMI’s official Anthology project, the bootleg market had already written the project’s blueprint. Here’s how five Beatles bootlegs influenced the corporate machine to finally open the vaults for all the world to hear.” www.culturesonar.com/5-beatles-bo...
5 Beatles Bootlegs: The Illegal Road to Anthology
Beatle fans are always on the hunt for every scrap of studio magic. The long history of bootlegs is a story in ingenuity and demand.
culturesonar.com
New research out today! Some animals have three eyes?! This eye isn't for "seeing" per se, but it's connected to a part of the brain responsible for regulating body temperature. So if you see a lizard basking out in the sun to get warm, oftentimes this eye plays a central role. But there's more...
A stunning large plate of the Alb-Hegau type (diameter 55 cm). The pottery of the Alb-Hegau type, which is elaborated decorated with ornaments consisting of geometric patterns as well as red paint and graphite, can mainly be found in the Swabian Jura, the foothills of the...🧵1/2 #archaeology 🏺
Not sure if everyone appreciates the difference. Rooftop solar hardwires into your main panel via a dedicated breaker, so it requires a permit, an installer, an electrician, and a utility agreement. Balcony solar just plugs into a wall outlet, sharing an existing circuit with no permits or rewiring.
A new deal on balcony solar just dropped in the US
Plug-in panels can lower your bills. To boost the American market for the tech, nonprofit Bright Saver is selling kits with no markup, starting at around…
canarymedia.com
The Devil's Quoits, Oxfordshire; a neolithic henge and stone circle.
49 years ago, #OTD in 1977, the first mass produced personal computer hit the market. The Tandy TRS-80 was cracked open the market for Commodore, Apple, and the IBM PC. I miss Radio Shack.....
St. Cuthbert’s Cave - Reputed to be one of the resting places for the body of St. Cuthbert on its journey from Lindisfarne to Durham during the 11th century. The cave is situated in the Kyloe Hills near Holburn in Northumberland. 📸 My own. #SaxonSunday #Northumberland #Cuthbert
Everyone's comparing Nolan's Odyssey to Homer, but I think there's much more richness The ancient Greeks adapted the Odyssey into ART While these images might appear static to us, I want to walk through how an ancient Greek saw art: AS DYNAMIC STORYTELLING like our films 1/13
NEW For the first time, researchers have identified the name of a #Maya 'mathematician-astronomer', enabling us to place an Indigenous Maya scholar amongst the ranks of other great astronomers from history. Read the new research 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy... 🏺 #Archaeology
The paper provides an exceptionally well-dated, continuous, 66 million year record of past climate. Its chronology serves as a foundational benchmark for reconstructing Earth's past and testing models of future climate. 🍿📈 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
An astronomically dated record of Earth’s climate and its predictability over the last 66 million years
The response of Earth’s climate system to orbital forcing has been highly state dependent over the past 66 million years.
science.org
U.S. Scientific Ocean Drilling@us-sciod.bsky.social · 2mo agoJR highlight! A 2020 paper in Science combined foram isotope records with astronomical data to reconstruct 66 million years of past climate. Where did they get the forams? Multiple IODP and ODP expeditions carried out by the JR. 🐚⛴️ 📷 Foram shells. Sarah Kachovich, IODP JRSO
Is that awl you found? A Neolithic borer / piercer, a task-specific stone tool, primarily designed to make holes in wood, hides or antler, made of flint over 5,000 years ago Photographed as freshly excavated at Winterborne Kingston #Dorset in June #Durotriges26 #FindsFriday #FlintFriday
Cape Verde are going home, but this World Cup run will be remembered forever. 🇨🇻 The biggest success story of the tournament. This team have done their nation proud! 👏🏼
In case you missed this... @meteorblades.bsky.social @devilstower.bsky.social Climate.us
Climate.us Home
independent, nonprofit, and immune to politics
climate.us
Lea Zengage@leazengage.bsky.social · 2mo ago-From Quarks to Quasars 1/ Fired government scientists just launched a new site to keep climate data public.The site is called Climate.us & it was created by former staffers behind Climate.gov, the NOAA-run website long used by many for trusted climate information."
"Norway that was going in" 😀
Phil West@philwest.bsky.social · 2mo agoIf you're looking for a daily World Cup digest and trying to figure out how the Round of 32 and 16 might shake out, I've been quietly providing this service (and also, if you're in Austin, I'm keeping tabs on watch parties as well) verdeallday.com/world-cup-da...
“It's a sing-along for the ages, kicking up generations of debate by those who know every word.” www.culturesonar.com/the-epic-tra...
The Epic Track: "American Pie"
Admit it: you can't help but sing along to "American Pie." We dig into the story behind this 8 and a half minute opus.
culturesonar.com
Where Watkins Glen State Park (NY) reminds me of Rivendell.
