It’s interesting how different mountains can look, depending on time of day or season. This one is a view along the Icefields Parkway. Ink and watercolours. #natureart #mountainart
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The Danube's low enough people are finding mammoth bones in it.
Le Monde@lemonde.fr · 6d agoDes os de mammouth découverts en Bulgarie dans le lit du Danube, dont le niveau est exceptionnellement bas à cause de la sécheresse
Rowling: could it be that i'm no longer britainsss mosst beloved national treassure?!? Julia Donaldson: [busts in, blowing vuvazela] GET GRUFFALO'ED BIIIITTTCHHHHH Rowling: GODDAMN IT Rowling: one of thessse dayss i'm going to figure out how she keepsss getting in here
Jezero Crater, Mars, seen on 27 July 2026. There is nothing—and I emphasise nothing—we humans could do to Earth that would make it less hospitable than Mars. So should we send astronauts there? Yes! Absolutely! But we will never colonise Mars, nor should we.
In case anyone is feeling a bit hot tonight, here's some nice cold icebergs from Jökulsárlón glacial lagoon in #Iceland taken in Nov 2025.
The wonderful collections folk at the @amnh.org allowed us to record the reflectance spectra of hair from different species and compare it to the irradiance spectrum of moonlight 8/n #gothmonkeys
While I was out, Sky & Telescope posted this little story of mine about the *second* meteorite to crash through a New Jersey roof in the last few years: skyandtelescope.org/astronomy-ne...
New Jersey Meteorite Offers Early Solar System Clues
When a meteorite tore through a New Jersey home, the homeowner quickly preserved the fragments. Now, they're giving scientists a look at Earth's early history.
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A few more Viking 1 Mars surface images. Vikings 1 & 2 yielded a variety and duration of observations that gave the first 'Ground Truth' about this intriguing neighbor world's surface and atmosphere. It's early digital camera design worked well with the brightness range of the surface details.
From NASA's press secretary, an update on the Madrid DSN site. Wildfire damage is "primarily to pavement and surrounding vegetation, with no significant structural damage observed to antennas or buildings." x.com/NASASpox/sta...
Bethany Stevens (@NASASpox) on X
On July 25, an initial onsite inspection by the NASA Madrid Deep Space Communications Complex (MDSCC) emergency response team found wildfire damage primarily to pavement and surrounding vegetation, wi...
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I need you all to know that the Berkeley Public Library has solicited submissions for a new mascot, and you can now vote for the contestants and I'm losing my mind. berkeleypublic-library.github.io/Fiber-Mascot...
Fiber Mascot Contest — Berkeley Public Library
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Listen, i work in historic preservation and conservation and this headline is misleadingly skipping the key point: this specifically and pointedly destroys the protections for Native American sacred sites. built heritage matters but not as much as the rights of indigenous folk.
NPR@npr.org · 2w agoA council packed with Trump appointees is poised to rewrite historic preservation rules. Critics say that could help him build his D.C. arch faster — and endanger important sites across the country.
The Madrid Deep Space Communication Complex at Robledo de Chavela municipality in the Community of Madrid, Spain on fire. Burgohondo wildfire. 📷 via Infues Avila
The U.S. Secretary of Defense just stated that—so far—the war with Iran has cost $37.5 billion dollars. That's since February. That same amount is how much the United States spent on planetary science from FY2013 through FY2026 inclusive. Thirteen years of planetary science or five months of war.
dawg the brazilians are calling it asfaltos unidos in the QTs we're getting cooked
Arif Hasan, but NFL🔨⚒️🛠️@arif.bsky.social · 2w agothis shot is so bleak lmao
Here's Parkinsonia, one of the most recognisable ammonites. Named after James Parkinson, a surgeon (first to recognise Parkinson's disease), and a palaeontologist (who drew for Mantell), and a radical social reformist, activist for universal suffrage, suspected of scheming to assassinate the King!
People who keep pointing out that golf courses use as much water as data centres as some sort of defence of data centres drastically underestimate the amount we also hate golf.
in the summer of our bowel’s lament
Melody Schreiber@melodyschreiber.com · 3w agoThey kept distributing it until Thursday. So we've still 2 weeks of poss. new cases. "The shredded iceberg product was distributed June 29th thru July 16th in AL, AR, CT, FL, GA, IA, IL, IN, KS, KY, LA, MA, MD, MI, MO, MS, NC, NH, NJ, OH, OK, PA, SC, TN, TX, VA, and WI." www.taylorfarms.com/recall/
Left: Venus, 1 March 1982 Centre: Titan, 14 January 2005 Right: Boston, 15 July 2026
I did some digging in this and thread below on places you might encounter Taylor Farms in addition to lettuce -- they sell onions and cilantro to restaurants so don't order dishes with those raw. The other big one is unlabelled grocery store deli fruit and veggie snacks, or cold sandwiches.
Lev Mirov@thelionmachine.bsky.social · 3w agoHere's the most comprehensive list of their products they sell to the food service industry I could find. taylorfarmsfoodservice.com/products/
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