arborscientiae.bsky.social
I teach astronomy, biology, and chemistry, and I coach esports. Hobbies include hiking, biking, climbing, drumming, gaming, and photography.
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Here's another angle from Fox News reporter Bill Melugin of Sen. Alex Padilla getting roughed up by law enforcement after he tries to question Kristi Noem at her presser:
“I’m Senator Alex Padilla. I have questions for the secretary. Because the fact of the matter is, a half dozen... Hands off!”
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Everyone survived, some were hospitalized because Lt. Pike was spraying bear spray (meant to stop a charging grizzly @30 ft) into their faces at point blank range.
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I was a student there. I took a temporary leave to go to a professor's office hours (because the student protesters were still learning and studying during all of the ongoing protests that year) and when I came back everyone was gone. I had to find my roommate and they explained what had happened.
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To be fair, there's probably some pretty nasty pollution that comes from burning them, but otherwise yeah.
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He has apparently already increased the number of protests by 50%, so yeah, I would expect a similar (or greater) increase in the number of protesters
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Although "The Boys" put it back in the mainstream, so definitely a lot of high schoolers even some middle schoolers know it.
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Fair. I know some counterexamples, but reflecting on them reveals that it was unique circumstances, probably not the norm.
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The Americans know about it, it just has harsher connotations here and gets used less often.
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What the euphemism‽ We've been collectively sleeping on this swear alternative!
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If you burn down a forest, you don't miss out on lumber for just that season. You have to replant all the trees, nurture them, and wait for them to grow.
The science and research budget cuts happening now are wanton, senseless arson. Recovery, if it ever happens, will take generations.
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New deal at CVS: A free scarf with every purchase!
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Then I guess we have zero holes. That's a weird definition though, not very topological.
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Don't forget ears...
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Have fun with it! Really lean in to the ELI5 meme.
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Present tense, Europa. Past tense, Mars.
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I was wondering what the particular issue with cultivars was, thank you for the clarification.
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That can be an indicator, so can ear shape and face shape and claw length, but you kind of have to take in the whole picture to make a more confident judgment. Just from this video I would lean towards Black Bear but it could be grizzly, though I will defer to those who were there and saw more.
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Whoa, are you my doppelganger? (My hair was much longer pre-COVID)
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I literally just used it last week in teaching my astronomy class during their astrobiology unit.
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She was using it as a getting to know you conversation starter, but she's also aware of aphantasia. Her husband simply conceptualizes all the chemical formulae and relevant equations, which I can also sort of do, but it's not my first instinct when I'm told to imagine something.
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Yes, but also Blue Origin didn't have Tom Mueller
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My MIL had a "test" for learning about how people visualized things, she would ask them to picture a blue apple and then ask a series of follow-up questions about what exactly was in their head. Mine was a Granny Smith apple that had been hue shifted to a cyan/sky blue in a white void.
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The other sports need to be more like esports, boys, girls, non-binary, trans students, all competing on the same team.
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Mr. Fuji got me, I was ready to pick the right one on vibes, but decided to look more closely to double-check, and some of the leaves in the real image tripped me up and I switched to the wrong answer.
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Suppression of the wildfire regime.
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If behaving ethically sinks your company, then maybe your company deserves to sink.
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I would go for accuracy.
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"I remember Xander being excited to show me Plan 9 From Outer Space..."
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It looks like they fixed it by now, at least on the Grok website. (I don't have Twitter anymore.)
Grok is giving results that contradict claims of white genocide, and highlight the hypocrisy of giving a asylum to South Africans, all while throwing Elon Musk under the bus repeatedly.
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"They aren't fired because we called it a reduction in force." I'm guessing that's how they will defend his statement if pressed on it.
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We got married at Caltech, it was officiated by a professor from yet another university. All the tables were themed after different national parks, and the music playing during the reception was all songs from sci-fi and fantasy shows/movies/games. And there's more.
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Are they explaining it correctly?
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The only things of concern going on in Yellowstone are people going off trail and getting too close to thermal features or too close to wild animals.
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That's okay, I avoid the commercialism by not buying any black holes. The only thing I'm doing to observe #BlackHoleWeek is showing my astronomy students your crash course video on the topic. And maybe having them calculate a Schwarzschild radius. youtu.be/qZWPBKULkdQ
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Domestic product too, just spend a summer in Yellowstone or the Tetons.
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I'm 80% sure I see mine in the chaotic cluster of Southern California.
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Can't have the National Park Service making money, then people might question why it's being defunded.
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It's not that obscure, I could probably only name/recognize a single digit number of jazz tracks and this is one of them.
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And the sequel, Raveheart
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I am all for fewer cheap plastic toys being made and sold, but that really isn't any of the problems I'm concerned about with the tariffs.