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Little known, recently discovered fact: Measles wipes out immune protections OTHER diseases: many who recover actually face big future risk. Earlier measles may be implicated in HALF OF ALL LATER CHILDHOOD DEATHS from ALL infectious diseases before vaccines. Gift🔗👉 www.nytimes.com/2025/02/28/o...

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Proxima Fusion's stellarator design paper is gripping even if you're not expert. 3.1 GW of fusion power (less will reach grid). Electromagnetic coil length 10 m, cryostat diameter 36 m. Noninsulating magnet design, quench simulations, remote maintenance... www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Lots of Slack conniptions today. slack-status.com

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Excellent, more HDR photo improvements coming in Android 16. HEIC photos now supported, with the AVIF photo format on they way. Also better support for the draft ISO standard. android-developers.googleblog.com/2025/02/seco... #Photography #HDR cc @gregbenzphoto.bsky.social

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How to tell a raven from a crow. An older guide I made with Dr Kaeli Swift. And yes that's an aileron roll, not a barrel roll, but only us nerds know that :)

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“A big bet on fusion could secure America’s position as a technological superpower for decades to come.” That's one conclusion of the SCSP's Commission on the Scaling of Fusion Energy. Here's what our CEO and Co-founder Bob Mumgaard has to say about that report: www.linkedin.com/posts/mumgaa...

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The $2000 Sigma BF looks beautiful. I'm worried its market is a null set: serious photogs appreciate EVFs and lots of buttons for ergonomics. Simple UI folks use their phones. Who is this for? (But the 300-600mm f4 lens looks very promising for nature photogs.) www.youtube.com/watch?v=N3aW...

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The University of Pittsburgh confirmed Friday that there would be no new Ph.D. offers of admission while Pitt works to understand how reduced federal aid could impact the institution.

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New paper out of @cfs.energy — using data from the ASDEX Upgrade tokamak to validate a tool that should benefit our SPARC demonstration machine and later ARC power plant. (Warning: this one is pretty nitty-gritty.) www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #FusionEnergy

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Is there a point at which Elon Musk's business ambitions override his political ambitions? Is there a point at which Tesla's board takes some action? heatmap.news/politics/mus...

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CarbonCapture is moving its facility from Wyoming to Louisiana in part because of energy supply issues. Louisiana also has workable geology for storing the carbon removed from the air. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/14/c...

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D360,249 - issued in 1995 for a design for a "soundproof device for a person to scream into."

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When I was a sci/tech journo I had a private race in my head: quantum computing vs. fusion energy. (Now I'm riding one of the horses.) Both take $$$ invested over years, but both showed steady progress. Good to see Microsoft finally showing their qubits. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/19/t...

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People use the term "learning curve" pretty loosely, but it's got a fairly technical meaning about expertise in manufacturing. Look up Wright's Law. At @cfs.energy we build magnets 30x faster now than when we first started, Chief Science Officer and Co-founder Brandon Sorbom says. #FusionEnergy

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Ok fusion heads, Fusion Energy Insights got itself an app.

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CFS comms guy for scale

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Very obliging demoiselle crane at Safari West near Santa Rosa, California. #birds 🐦

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A good roundup of several of the private-sector efforts to commercialize fusion energy.

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A major partnership with @cfs.energy and @type-one.energy to commercialize fusion energy. More shots on goal: We build tokamaks, Type One Energy builds stellarators, a related but different type of fusion device.

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Spotted a WindBorne balloon today while I happened to be in Palo Alto California. Obviously not with my big telephoto lens. #weather #balloon #AI

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Nature valentines. Thanks to my Patrons for keeping me drawing www.patreon.com/birdandmoon

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Time for some light reading on the plane. Harvard Business School case study on @cfs.energy is 37 pages long. #FusionEnergy

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New Energy Secretary Chris Wright has shared his vision for DOE: cement US energy leadership, make electricity more abundant and affordable, and “unleash American energy innovation.” Those goals are good news for fusion energy. 🧵 1/n

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Props to Lauren Hines-Acosta for writing about fusion energy all the way from the strong nuclear force to the locals in Virginia, where we plan to build our first ARC fusion power plant. www.bayjournal.com/news/energy/...

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The definition of insanity is hitting the escape key on your keyboard over and over again to dismiss a Google Calendar event panel in the browser and expecting it to actually dismiss the panel.

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Decarbonizing cement is a really interesting effort IMO. But it's capital intensive, and the Global Cement & Concrete Association (GCCA) says the industry needs $20B of investment by 2030 and $120B by 2050. www.cleantech.com/record-371-9...

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There's a lot of chatter (deserved, broadly speaking) about China's EAST tokamak "artificial sun" fusion project achieving a pulse length of 1,066 seconds. Here's @cfs.energy CEO and plasma physicist Bob Mumgaard with some important context: Duration is only one factor for full fusion success.

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California homeowner insurance rate alert: www.reuters.com/business/fin... No surprise. Here's a good deep dive on the insurance (and reinsurance) situation before and after the LA wildfires with Benjamin Keys, robinsonmeyer.bsky.social, and @jessedjenkins.com. open.spotify.com/episode/77AQ...

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You could obsess over whether the Grammies are still even relevant in this day and age, with cross-genre music and Auto-Tune and viral TikTok musicians. Or you could just marvel at how much playful conversation and cleverness JS Bach packed into 1 minute of the Two-Part Invention No. 8 in F Major.

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Kazakhstan restores the North Aral Sea water level by 42% The project, in partnership with neighbouring countries, has directed 2.6 billion m3 into the Aral Sea. The sea’s salinity has decreased fourfold while annual fish catches have increased. https://buff.ly/4guRJyw #ShareGoodNewsToo

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