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It's hard to pick favorites from the Arp catalog of peculiar galaxies, but Arp 282 has to be near the top of my list. Arp 282 looks particularly 3D to me, something that is often lost in 2D images of interacting galaxies. 🔭🧪

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Whilst I had my telescope out, here's Jupiter and its four large 'Gallilean' moons. #astrophotography #astronomy @stormhour.bsky.social @photohour.bsky.social

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Ambassador Spock modeling the proper “fuck you, make me” response to intimidation tactics. Our current-day institutions could learn a lot from him.

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Via Smithsonianmag.com Stone tools found in China resemble Neanderthal tech from Europe, challenging views of East Asia’s Middle Paleolithic. Possibly made by Denisovans, the tools suggest shared innovation or cultural exchange across ancient human groups. ⚒️🧪

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i love uranus

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The utterly ridiculous blue starfish (Linckia laevigata). Yes, it's real. Madang, PNG. #starfish #MarineLife

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In Andalusia Spain the women in a town crocheted a canopy to help cool down the streets. Temps can get as high as 104° F It took 3 yrs but what a beautiful achievement! #crochetsky #crochet #knitsky #knit #globalwarming #climatechange youtube.com/shorts/ZqERZ...

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In more uplifting news, 1,000 people protested ICE’s abduction of a mother and children at the home of the agency’s acting head Tom Homan. Notably, the entire population of the town is just 1,450. www.syracuse.com/state/2025/0...

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WOW WOW WOW LOOK AT THIS BEAUTIFUL NEW HUBBLE IMAGE OF NGC 346!!! 🌌

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They are now estimating 2.3 million across the country. Keep it going folks. #handsoff #50501protests

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That's impressive!

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A mountain bluebird has perched on the tallest frozen rose stalk and is just hanging out in the snow, being blue.

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My brother is in Waynesville NC, which is really red. Protest happening there, "Hands off our Democracy"

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🔎 Take a close look at this tiny, beautifully-drawn reindeer with perfect dimensions looking back over her or his shoulder. 🦌 It was found at Laugerie Basse, #France, width 7.5 cm, circa 12,000 (!) years old. 🏺 #archaeology #ancientbluesky 🗃️ #arthistory #art

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This is really great! You learn so much by making something described that you can't get from just reading the text. I worked with 18th century recipes, and there is no substitute

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If you don't already have this channel on your radar, it's fascinating and fun! Arim, who is Assyrian, recreates recipes from cuneiform tablets. Here, he makes an ancient Assyrian cake with the help of a scholar, food scientist, and baker. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qdps...

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My mom had breast cancer. I know several people with it. This is a true tragedy.

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Let’s do all we can to try to halt the massive decline in pollinators 🐝 🦋 #nature #rewilding #pollinators @nhm.org

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Even in the ancient world, people bought derelict properties to renovate or tear down. A man named Mushezib-Marduk bought a ruined house in the Eanna district of Uruk in 669 BCE. It's in the same neighbourhood where writing was first developed almost three millennia earlier.

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hubble’s recent images 🌌 can’t believe this telescope is almost 35 years old and still giving us these BEAUTIFUL images of our universe 🥹

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Two galaxies, three galaxies? It's hard to tell. I love the weird mess that is Arp 204. 🧪🔭

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Wings of wonder. 📸 amycomp123 #Nature #Owl #Birds

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Did you know humans domesticated rice twice? The first time was in China ~7,000 BCE; the second was in Africa's Upper Niger Delta ~1,000 BCE Historically, much of the rice grown in the US was African gold rice brought over by enslaved people forced to grow both varieties on Lowcountry plantations

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This week I got to work on a podcast episode that tells the incredible story of Teisaku Sugishita—a Japanese college student and the starting quarterback for the NC State football team in.... 1895!!!

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A lovely Neolithic knife - with its wooden handle - from a site with houses built on stilts on marshy land in Germany. Usually, the wooden part rots away and we just have the blade. This makes so much more sense! OP - David Connolly on FB: www.facebook.com/share/p/1EaR...

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“Do not act falsely and terror […] will not consume you. “Do not slander, and you will not ponder grief. “Do not commit evil, and you will not gain eternal distress.” Proverbs from ancient Mesopotamia preserved on a broken clay tablet.

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New evidence for copper metallurgy in the Pre-Pottery Neolithic B. www.turkiyetoday.com/culture/how-... 🏺

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While my phone's camera usually does the trick, Gobekli Tepe was an exception.🏺

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🏺When we're firing 🔥 replica Neolithic or Bronze-Age pottery, like this beaker, we have a hearth in the kiln room that allows us to emulate the open firing conditions of Prehistoric pottery. Filming through a refractory slab so as to avoid melting my phone!

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Who wants some good news? The overwintering monarch population, which had plummeted last winter, has doubled this winter! www.worldwildlife.org/stories/east...

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Venera 13 spent 127 minutes on Venus before getting crushed by the hellish environment, the lander sent us this unique coloured image of the surface. #art #photography #science

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If you’re wondering what a spreadsheet looked like in 1800 BCE, here is one that tallies foodstuffs for cattle received by four cowherds. Three are named in the right hand column as Ubar-Shamash, Sin-iddinam, Sin-re’um, and the last one making the record simply writes “mine”

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It’s that time of year - people asking us about #bumblebees - WHY THEY’RE SEEING THEM ON THE GROUND - so here’s a thread to explain what they’re up to. Please #repost. Every #queen that survives means a new colony that gets to exist & produce new queen #bees for next year! This is important! 1/9

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#medsky

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What are the clumpy parallel lines? Outflows from young, actively forming stars! This is a first-of-its-kind image, only possible with #NASAWebb. Details: bit.ly/4hJZqC0 🔭 🧪

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Ancient humans were systematically producing bone tools as early as 1.5 million years ago, according to a study in Nature. Bone tools discovered in Tanzania pre-date previous evidence of systematic bone tool production by more than a million years. https://go.nature.com/3XpB20D 🏺 🧪

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🧪 Amazing 2-vent lava fountaining yesterday at #Kilauea #volcano. #USGS reports Episode 12 of the ongoing summit #eruption in Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park ended at 10:37 a.m. HST on March 5, after 22 hours of activity. Original NPS video at: x.com/i/status/189...

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