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Doing our part for AI training.

Welcome to the archives.

As Russia continues to demand Ukraine’s surrender of five Ukrainian regions — Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhzhia, Kherson, and Crimea — this T-shirt delivers a clear message: 603,628 square kilometers is the only correct size of Ukraine.

Books that thrum a chord in your soul.

Our newest baby yak, born this weekend, frolicking with the two month olds. They grow so quickly!

Ducklings learning to chase bugs. You’re welcome.

I have a new exclamation

From the archives: “The Dancing Tree”

Wow. China's Tiangong space station transiting Jupiter, captured by 沈老思347 and shared via China航天 m.weibo.cn/detail/51753...

Young academia has no work ethics! Every German Professor in the 19th century: 9 am got up 10 am breakfast 12 pm instructed my assistants to do my research 1 pm light reading 2 pm lunch 4 pm some writing 6 pm dinner 7 pm theatre 9 pm cigars with friends 11 pm to bed!

448 may not seem like a big number, but the previous record was 93 back in 2021. These spring-runners are trapped, trucked 150miles to restored spawning grounds and released in cool water below Friant Dam. It’s a start, but very hard work to fix a shattered river.

AIDS Memorial Quilt on display October 11-13 1996 on the National Mall in Washington D.C. Let us never forget.

“the new material is as strong as petroleum-based plastics but breaks down into its original components when exposed to salt. Those components can then be further processed by naturally occurring bacteria,thereby avoiding generating microplastics that can harm aquatic life and enter the food chain.”

Overheard someone trying to explain Menards to someone today “Ok so they’re a home improvement store.” “Like Home Depot?” “Well sort of, but you can get everything you need to build a house. Oh and groceries.” “Wait what?” “Oh and they have a plant nursery. And they sell kayaks and model trains.”

Some tiny bit of good news: for the first time since the beginning of the outbreak, the West Texas measles outbreak reported no new cases this week www.texasstandard.org/stories/texa...

Hope other countries are excited for the LA Olympics!

PhD slot: Invited applications for a fully funded four-year PhD fellowship within the framework of the ERC-Consolidator Grant project “Polymathy and Interdisciplinarity in Premodern Islamic Epistemic Cultures (KNOW)”, led by Professor Islam Dayeh. www.ugent.be/en/work/scie...

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Today’s sunset with a view of Mt. Fuji

You ever watch something and feel it physically moving stuff around in your brain youtu.be/aSugSGCC12I?...

Very smart, high ROI initiative from the Spencer Foundation. Providing bridge funding for canceled NSF grants: 1) directs funds to projects already screened by a top-noch review process. 2) avoids imposing proposal prep costs on researchers. 3) ameliorates the disruption from GOP sabotage.

Simone Biles, continuing to prove she’s the GOAT

Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, the man at the center of a legal maelstrom after the Trump administration mistakenly deported him to El Salvador, has returned to the U.S., Attorney General Pam Bondi said. https://trib.al/d3PBfr0

There was ZERO need for this paragraph about the power of slow consistent habit formation to be this sexy. I now ship the tectonic plates.

This week's earworm www.youtube.com/watch?v=uj-3...

Let's hope the air filter I brought with us when we moved is up to this new challenge.

Well this couldn’t have come at a better time www.bbc.com/news/article...