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This is a fascinating story about @peffertherese.bsky.social and friends' work helping residents of a city block in Oakland, CA, get their homes off fossil fuels. The most striking part for me was how the project helped build friendships between neighbors and a sense of community on the block.

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We've been looking at objects from the Torksey site for our last few Viking Camps #findsfridays, so I thought we'd turn back to Aldwark and view some of the activity there - including this gorgeous find! This is ADB 1224, a gilded copper-alloy mount from an 8th/9th century Irish horse harness. /1

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The Bronze Age ‘Corrard Torc’ which was found in a bog in County Fermanagh by a metal detectorist in 2009. Now part of the collections at the Ulster Museum in Belfast. 📸 My own. #FindsFriday #Prehistory #BronzeAge

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WATCH: What went wrong with the climate relocation of Newtok, Alaska? The challenges of moving the town off a bed of thawing permafrost show how ill-prepared the U.S. is to respond to climate change, @emilyschwing.bsky.social‬ explains. ⤵️

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10 Small Things Neurologists Wish You’d Do for Your Brain www.nytimes.com/2025/04/03/w...

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A disc brooch from a rich woman's grave in Unterhaching/Bavaria, 5-6th century. This is one of a pair of brooches that fastened the garment at the waist. The brooches, made in a workshop in Italy, likely in Ravenna or Rome, serves as evidence of the ties between Bavaria's...🧵1/2 📷me #archaeology

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She was right. #USDemocracy

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Methane leaks from dormant oil and gas wells in Canada are seven times worse than thought Methane is a potent greenhouse gas. Over a 20-year period, it traps about 80 times more heat in the atmosphere than the same amount of carbon dioxide. phys.org/news/2025-06...

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Limestone plaque with the face of an owl. From Egypt, Late Period–Ptolemaic Period, 400–30 BC. Met Museum 📷 by me #ReliefWednesday #Archaeology

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Can a person overdose on cuteness, because I'm dying! 🪶

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When the TTC becomes your stage 🎶✨ This Milton-based women’s chorus, A Cappella Showcase, turned a regular commute into a concert! #TTC #Toronto #LiveMusic

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This week’s flowers

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Stunning Viking treasure discovered on the Isle of Man www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Lynda Sayce plays a piece of lute music that was recently discovered in an archival document at the Museum Plantin-Moretus. Since the handwritten lute tablature was folded and reused as scrap paper, it's problaby the first time in 400 years that this music is heard.

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These are the Fortress Dwellers! I’ve seen video of them performing at a couple of Ren Faires and they are the coolest people there

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Fascinating world of ancient #glass: A lovely Phoenician pendant shaped as a head, dating 6th-4th c. BC. Pendants in the shape of heads were popular products of Phoenician workshops and were presumably designed to ward off evil. 📷 Ruhr Museum/Rainer Rothenberg 🏺 #Archaeology

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Fed Chair Powell graduation remarks to Princeton nod toward our current predicament: "Look around you. I urge you to take none of this for granted. When you look back in 50 years, you will want to know that you have done whatever it takes to preserve and strengthen our democracy."

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Just look at these amazing creatures (Eared grebes) #birds

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Another big FU from Harvard… free online courses on the US government, the US constitution, civic engagement, and more. pll.harvard.edu/subject/gove...

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The Sprotta hand axe is a #Neanderthal masterpiece. The flint tool was found in northern Saxony in 1996 and dates back to 50,000 to 80,000 years ago. This hand axe demonstrates not only the technical skill but also the aesthetic sense of its maker, as it is noted for its carefully...🧵1/2 📷 me

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Childish adults are one of the world’s chief causes of suffering.

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Here's the latest comparison of global surface temperature observations (red) with IPCC climate model simulations (through March 2025, via @hausfath.bsky.social):

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Wow, the amazing ‘Orkney Hood’ is so well preserved it looks like it was woven yesterday rather than c. 1,600 years ago! Found in peat in 1867, this remarkable woollen hood from Iron Age Orkney likely belonged to a child. AD250 - AD615 National Museum of Scotland 📷 by me #FindsFriday #Archaeology

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Sir Augustus Wollaston Franks, after whom the Franks Casket is named, died in London #OTD in 1897. The collector gave the whale-bone box to the British Museum in 1867. Made in C8th Northumbria, it bears runic inscriptions and scenes from both history and legend. 📸British Museum #medievalsky

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We have been quiet, but there has been a lot going on behind the scenes. If you have had a hard day, you might find the parts at 00:20 just what you need to melt everything instantly: your stress, your heart, and your soul. www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZ8m...

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