In Star Trek people often complain that replicated food is not as good as naturally produced food, which is weird when replicators are presumably using the same technology as transporters, which can perfectly replicate Spock every time. But is Spock getting less flavoursome over time? In this essay,
Thoughts on the various Trump administration proposals to revamp US science funding - and what they all have in common:
The Assault On Science Funding Continues
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eponym | noun | one for whom or which something is or is believed to be named cardigan James Thomas Brudenell, 7th Earl of Cardigan. boycott Charles C. Boycott, an English land agent in Ireland who was ostracized for refusing to reduce rents 🧵⬇️
Funkiest QFN I have seen to date. Radar send and receive and digital measurement in the same chip and no external antennas needed! All of those perimeter vias are straight to the ground plane. This was from a board we assembled for a customer last year. ☆ ADMIRE THE MAGIC RUNES ☆
Wasn't expecting to hear the familiar voices of @ahl.bsky.social and @bcantrill.bsky.social on a Veritasium video! youtu.be/aoag03mSuXQ?...
The Internet Was Weeks Away From Disaster and No One Knew
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How do rockets work? A fire extinguisher is just a small rocket nozzle; a chair & cart make a good spaceship. Does it work in space with no air to push against? The mass blasting out makes me roll. Doesn't need any backstop. Newton's 2nd law. Good to have a landing plan - thanks @uwaterloo.ca!
The fact that these sentences always end with "... which we will cram with more work for them" and not "... so we moved to a four-day workweek" really illustrate the hollowness of some AI evangelists' promises that AI will deliver us to some kind of post-work utopia.
Will Nicholes@willnicholes.com · 6mo ago“By removing writing from reporters’ workloads, we’ve effectively freed up an extra workday for them each week” is such a strange sentence to read.
“Now Scientific American has updated and re-released what it calls the “classic graphic” that shows that a human on a bicycle—able to coast, or freewheel, without pedaling—remains the world’s most energy effecient traveler.” @carltonreid.com on the re-release of the iconic graph in @forbes.com.
Here, have some birds perched on appropriate/delightful signage. You're welcome. 🧵 ⤵️ 1. Black Vulture (Coragyps atratus) by tysmith on iNaturalist
this may be the pinnacle of my science communication career
Buchempfehlung für zehn Millionen wählende Deutsche: www.picus.at/produkt/waeh... #BTW2025 #Bundestagswahl
