Every performer’s worst nightmare. Maria Joao Pires instantly realized she had been practicing the wrong piece. Despite that, she ended up playing the entire concerto from memory, even though it was from the previous year’s repertoire. Original post
Rubik
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An alias. Old gamer. Autist. Technician of many things. Parent. Atheist. Science enjoyer. Nonconformist. Offshore worker. Married loner. Leftist. He/Him. Settler on Whadjuk Noongar mountain people land. My name is Mike and I don't share my last name here.
🚀 A high-res satellite image from Vantor, captured on August 3, showing Ship 40 secured alongside the Normand Ranger in the Indian Ocean. The imagery shows SpaceX's post-splashdown recovery operations in action. Explore the map: soaratlas.com/maps/142237 #SpaceX #Starship
Australia’s eSafety commissioner buried a report (released Friday afternoon) that shows the under 16 social media ban didn’t tangibly reduce teen social media use, and also resulted in parents tuning out of kids usage. We traded our privacy for no reason. theconversation.com/more-than-80...
More than 80% of kids still using social media despite ban, new eSafety report finds
The report provides more evidence Australia’s world-leading social media ban isn’t going to plan.
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Marine Biologists are some of the “cutest people watching a screen together” there are.
Michelle says: Be kind. Always. ❤️@snarkysillysad.bsky.social · 4d agoScientists of the Nautilus research ship capture a Big Fin Squid on camera, at 5454m (17’800 ft) depth. This was their live reaction: 🔊 #AGoodPlace
Nonna: You look hungry. We make you a sandwich The sandwich:
Random People: “Why is everyone online Autistic now?” Autistic People: “What part of ‘predisposed to avoid typical social interaction’ did you not understand? We are ‘virtually’ on here avoiding people like *you* ‘in real life’”
Sealant Team Six guarding our vulnerable shores against Algae-Qeada, Algaetifa. And Algae Sharpton.
Such cool science! Scientists transmitted radio waves from a radio telescope out to one of Jupiter's moons, then received the reflected waves back at multiple telescopes and measured the radio albedo. Using circular polarization, they can measure the transparency of the global ice sheet. 📡
AAS Press Office@press.aas.org · 2mo agoNational Radio Astronomy Observatory: Radar Echoes From Europa Reveal Secrets Beneath the Ice public.nrao.edu/news/gbt-eur... #aas248
Anyone telling you the UK needs to drill for more oil because fossil fuels are cheaper is lying "A solar panel that would have cost a family's entire annual income in the 1970s now costs less than a restaurant meal per panel." www.facebook.com/beyondscienc... meme via Beyond Science Facts
Please keep posting art. Scrolling through the doom and then getting hit with art makes me stop and think about other things. It helps.
Human, you all know this game, come on, do it.
Luca@lucagalletti.bsky.social · 2mo agoDog: “c’mon kid, throw it.”
Film is just magic in the hands of a skilled photographer. Look at that detail and dynamic range.
Michael Warburton@michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 2mo agoJANE FONDA shopping at Mayfair Markets in Beverly Hills (1967)
You're watching a leptocephalus ("slim-head"), the larval stage of an eel. Wait for the unrolling! You can see why early naturalists thought they were their own species, but this little guy will grow up into an adult eel, if he manages to stay concealed. (📷: Robert Stansfield, Blackwater Cozumel)
47 year old today -- to this iconic science cover art! It's a train of radio pulses that were generated by the pulsar CP 1919 - the first pulsar ever discovered by Dame Prof. Jocelyn Bell Burnell. Each line represents a single rotation of the star, with the beam detected by radio telescopes. 📡🔭🧪
WHAT A FUCKING RECORD@whatafuckingrecord.bsky.social · 2mo ago47
HF weatherfax is still running. Fired the old clunker up to make sure it's still good today.
Robin Williams in World's Greatest Dad (2009).
The state of the US Government. First they took our satire. Now they have taken our metaphors. What do we have left?
Malreynolds Firefly Speechless Reaction
ALT: Malreynolds Firefly Speechless Reaction
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Chris ßrinton@cjbrinton.bsky.social · 2mo ago
Smooth Exit Follow my cartoons and accompanying written commentary on Substack: nickanderson.substack.com
Prince in mid air, London, 1986 Photo by Michael Putland
💥 In Donetsk region, birds are building nests from drone fiber optics.
Today's earworm. Gentle math rock. youtu.be/ZcS6ix-cIYQ
toe - LONELINESS WILL SHINE
YouTube video by toe
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