Again, people will tell you that penicillin was a wartime secret and only the UK and USA could make it. Yet the first penicillin in Japan was made during the war. Here's a 1944 penicillin vial made in Japan.
Uffe V. Poulsen
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Physicist with a passion for science, higher education, and AaB. Father of three. Mastodon: @uffe1974@mathstodon.xyz
(Sphere eversion is a mathematical construction where one turns a sphere inside out without introducing cuts or sharp creases. Here is a marvelous explainer by @rreusser.bsky.social. The animated procedure is carried out step-by-step as you scroll down the page.)
Sphere Eversion
rreusser.github.io
As a boy, my grandparents wouldn't dream of buying a Ford b/c Henry Ford—who was long dead by then—had been a rabid antisemite. 40 years later, I'm amazed that so many people who deplore xenophobia remain willing to buy a Tesla.
The famous Hindsgavl Dagger, found by a young boy out walking with his mum on the Danish island of Fænø! A masterpiece of flint knapping from Late Neolithic Denmark, c. 1900-1700 BC. 📷 National Museum of Denmark #FindsFriday #Archaeology
Wir können ja im Gegenzug den Super Bowl ausrichten. Zwei Halbzeiten, in der Pause heute journal express, keine Werbung, dann Merte und Kramer, anschließend drei Folgen Wilsberg.
One of the quiet bright moments of lockdown was Sam Neill serenading us on the ukulele. This type of tenderness feels rare nowadays, how lucky we were. Thank you for everything. ❤️❤️❤️
TIL mysterious atmospheric seed crystals that disrupt existing chemical production facilities by spontaneously making it impossible to manufacture a certain form of a drug and that being a factor in subsequent IP battles in pharma manufacturing is a thing
![Form II was of sufficiently lower energy that it became impossible to produce Form I in any laboratory where Form II was introduced, even indirectly. Scientists who had been exposed to Form II in the past seemingly contaminated entire manufacturing plants by their presence, probably because they carried over microscopic seed crystals of the new polymorph.[3] The drug was temporarily](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:plvxn2kpjuseoftweoo4xtag/bafkreicvlnfpu66zxvro2wx6hwzqkz6c5y7p4vnxzoqtqqa5vu4776kgqe)
A weird fact for your morning. When that fine singer and actor Kris Kristofferson was young, he was at Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar doing a B.Litt. One of his tutors was J.R.R. Tolkien.
There's a great deal that's alarming about the Prairieland sentencing, regardless of how one views the shooter, but the biggest deal is 30 years for a man who wasn't there, convicted of moving a box of zines while knowing protesters. Consider the implications. theintercept.com/2026/06/23/p...
Prairieland Defendant Sentenced to 30 Years in Prison for Moving a Box of Antifascist Zines
Anti-ICE activists received lengthy prison terms — including a 100-year sentence — in the first major trial of the NSPM-7 era.
theintercept.com
An interesting thread from a month ago that predicted exactly what we’re seeing in the reflecting pool now (peeling up, prolific microbial activity)
The Monarch Diaries@monarchdiaries.bsky.social · 3mo agoHAHAHAhaha! they're making the world's biggest synthetic scum pond!!! The coating is a polyurea used inside pipes. It gels in about 3 seconds, making it non self-leveling. The texture is like an orange peel, the perfect substrate for biofilms. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/19/u...
Ian Fleming might have made the world’s first trillionaire this evil, but only Philip K. Dick could have made him such a pathetic drug-addled loser, desperate for attention and adulation but incapable of human relationships, and now terrified to go out in public.
Robert Reich@rbreich.bsky.social · 2mo ago
"Luke yo soy tu padre." The artist’s name is Álvaro Ortiz López (his Indigenous Huichol name is Puwari). This is traditional Huichol beadwork.
Chart of the day. The energy transition is happening in real time! 😍
Once dubbed one of the footballs greats, Andrea Pirlo showed his lack of morals by taking Kremlin cash to appear in Moscow. Pirlo, a teammate of Andrei Shevchenko at Milan, was joined by fellow Italian world cup winner Marco Materazzi in posing for photos as Russia hit Kyiv.
I think I can hear 70 million Chinese people saying "We're responsible for less than 1% of global emissions, so why should we have to do anything?! We can't solve climate change!" Oh, look there's another group of 70 million Chinese people saying "We're responsible for less than 1%..."
James Murray@james-bg.bsky.social · 2mo agoThis is such a weak, imprecise, and shabby argument from Blair.
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There are days when I miss being an editor. I loved writing headlines. Whoever did this, I hope they took the rest of the day off.
Going to bed. Just leave everything on a cold soak and I’ll deal with it in the morning.
Alan Beattie@alanbeattie.bsky.social · 3mo agoCyprus: dry-clean. Simple as that. #eurovision
Born #OnThisDay in 1888 was seismologist and geophysicist Inge Lehmann ForMemRS. Lehmann is known for her 1936 discovery that the Earth's core must have a solid inner core inside a molten outer core. Before this, scientists believed that the core was a single molten sphere. #WomenInSTEM
"Even more bugs are inevitable, software is all going to become probabilistic now" is cope. "AI bug-finding means we have to embrace closed-source now" is a psyop. Writing buggy code has moved from hard to trivial. Writing secure code has moved from impossible to hard.
French academics keep delivering. “Montaclair was an unremarkable teaching instructor who liked to write fantasy books, many about vampires, in his spare time.” And awarding himself a fake prize. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...
French professor accused of ‘gigantic hoax’ after inventing Nobel-style prize
Authorities investigate Florent Montaclair over award given to himself and others including Noam Chomsky
theguardian.com