Welcome to the CAMBRIAN FECAL REVOLUTION. We didn't name it the Cambrian fecal explosion for obvious reasons. I'm happy to share this paper on fecal matter and its role in Cambrian ecosystems. So if you want to read a really shitty paper (50 days free access): authors.elsevier.com/a/1nYg8cZ3X7...
Actual fucking belly laugh! His wife won hands down.
Johnny Depp's Bed
YouTube video by Bobby Fingers
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Benmore Dam on the Waitaki river in Aotearoa NZ is the country's biggest dam. It can produce 821.3 kW per cubic metre of water per second. This means every kW of renewable energy produced retains 1.2 litres per second or 4.3 cubic metres (4.3 tonnes of water) per hour!
Propatella™ recipe: Add a tablespoon or so of cocoa and around the same amount of honey (manuka of course) to a jar of crunchy peanut butter and mix. You're welcome.
Three more moose today. Momma and two babies. These are different than the momma with a single calf I saw yesterday. I'm no statistician, but it appears that I'm on pace to see 77.5 moose this month.
I'm not sure folks have realized just how crazy the second half of 2026 and 2027 will be for global temperatures – on the back of a record-smashing El Niño event. Here is my latest estimate of where both years will end up compared to global temperatures since 1850.
Benmore Dam on the Waitaki river in Aotearoa NZ is the country's biggest dam. It can produce 821.3 kW per cubic metre of water per second. This means every kW of renewable energy produced retains 1.2 litres per second or 4.3 cubic metres (4.3 tonnes of water) per hour!
He is literally making an argument to put Dr. Fauci on Mt. Rushmore.
With highly-pathogenic avian influenza now in NZ, we're taking steps to protect #kakapo and #takahe by vaccinating against the disease, following a successful trial. We're aiming for ~90 kākāpō and 100 takahē in an initial phase to protect the most valuable birds/sites. #conservation #birds
Fun fact- NZ has the most per capita comparisons per capita
Richard Easther@rjme.bsky.social · last wk.I make this plot each year for our "intro to rocket science" course. It's remarkable that as many rockets go to orbit from New Zealand as from Russia – but on a per head basis we stand alone. This is an amazing place for a small country to find itself, and we should be making the most of it...
Even if you treat 1991-2020 as your reference for 'normal', the present sea-surface temperature anomaly is heading off the chart.
Prof. Eliot Jacobson@climatecasino.net · last wk.Breaking News! Code: y-Axis Alert! / UFB!!! On July 25th, global sea-surface temperatures set a record high anomaly of 0.80°C above the 1991-2020 mean, breaking the previous record of 0.76°C set in January, 2024. I had to extend the y-axis to show yesterday's SST anomaly.
Regular reminder that NASA (you know, all the rockets and stuff) is 0.4% of the US tax dollar. Now on with your scheduled doom scroll...
It's hard to believe that it's now 57 years since Michael Jackson did the first moonwalk.
Effectively the entire #Arctic Ocean has observed thinning sea ice over the last 4 decades during the month of July (especially in the East Siberian Sea)... Data simulated by PIOMAS at psc.apl.uw.edu/research/pro.... For more information: doi.org/10.1175/JCLI...
NERDS! STOP EVERYTHING! WATCH THIS! Probably the driest title you could give this video This guy slices insects thousands of times making a video of and insect's insides like an MRI scanner!
Cross sectioning insects in an electron microscope with a femtosecond laser
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The H5N1 strain of bird flu has been confirmed in NZ. What now?
The H5N1 strain of bird flu has been confirmed in NZ. What now?
The H5N1 strain of bird flu that has been affecting countries around the world has arrived in New Zealand.
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Just my iPhone, no enhancement whatsoever. Red sun and smoky skies on Outer Cape Cod due to wildfires in Canada.
![Comic. [Winch arm with labels for “fusion capsule” and “plunger,” with string underneath with labels “recursive trucker’s hitch,” “Fout,” (at start of string) “n= number of layers,” and Fin (at end of string). Equation in box below: Mechanicaladvantage=FoutFin=13(2(2n+1)+1)≈234n. Below box: MA(1)=3:1; MA(5)=683:1 ; MA(20)=733,007,751,851:1 ; MA(50)=845,100,400,152,152,934,331,135,470,251:1 [caption] The international Atomic Energy Agency regulates the recursive trucker’s hitch, since the unlimited mechanical advantage it offers is powerful enough to ignite fusion.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreialsv6bb34yzapxtdelgz4pd33xwfjbhngzvscpbm5f5j3o4x735u)
