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I always love finding quotes that leave me thinking. Today, thanks to @reasonable-ish.bsky.social, I was exposed to a loosely translated passage from Voltaire’s ‘Questions sur les miracles’. "Whoever can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities,"

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If you love around Dallas

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"The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.” — Epictetus

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"Since 2000, the number of butterflies in the United States has fallen by 22%, on average... ...1 or 2% decline per year of any group is absolutely phenomenal when you compound that over more than one decade."

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Thanks to everyone who participated nationwide!

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#Skynet is just science fiction, Skynet is just science fiction, Skynet is just science fiction...maybe if we say it enough, it will be true. 🤖

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"The call to action — or rather inaction — is asking that American consumers refrain from making any purchases at major retailers on Friday, Feb 28"

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01101000 01100101 01101100 01101100 01101111 00100000 01100001 01100111 01100001 01101001 01101110 Introducing Majorana 1: the world’s first quantum processor powered by topological qubits—a groundbreaking leap toward practical quantum computing. msft.it/6006UxEJG

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Nearly 1,000 teachers, firefighters and other union advocates crammed inside the Utah Capitol rotunda, calling on Gov. Spencer Cox to veto a controversial bill that strips the state’s public unions of their ability to collectively bargain. https://buff.ly/3EumshD

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Analysis of the confined crowds at the San Fermín festival in Spain shows that dense crowds can self-organize into macroscopic chiral oscillators, coordinating the orbital motion of hundreds of individuals without external guidance, according to a paper in Nature. https://go.nature.com/3WKkb8r 🧪

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If they wanted to take over the country, they only had to wait like three weeks until every technocratic nerd was unreachably distracted. They fundamentally do not understand us, and that is why they will lose.

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The DeepSeek controversy: Authorities ask where the data comes from and where it goes #cybersecurity #hacking #news #infosec #security #technology #privacy www.malwarebytes.com...

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Last year, we talked to air traffic controllers and found out they’re working 10-hour shifts, 6 days a week, with mandatory overtime. Trump’s cuts to the federal workforce and push to privatize air traffic control could make matters even worse. www.youtube.com/watch?v=GyN6...

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As mortgage rates and home prices have risen, the rent vs. buy calculation has changed. If you're renting when you'd planned to buy, tell us your story.

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DeepSeek has released a cheap, open-source artificial intelligence. Does it challenge American AI supremacy?

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BREAKING: Philadelphia workers have won the first Whole Foods union under Amazon with UFCW. Since Amazon bought the chain, workers have lost benefits and felt the squeeze. Now they're fighting back against the multi-trillion dollar giant and hoping this win will be the first of many.

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For our L.A. listeners— We’re working on a story about the toxins left behind by the fires and we want to hear from you. How is this affecting you? What are you concerned about? And how are you approaching clean-up? Leave us a voicemail at 1-646-767-6532 or email us at scifri@sciencefriday.com.

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Well. Just saying.

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Good morning and Happy Thursday to everyone who agrees that if you don't want to be compared to Nazis, stop referencing shit from Hitler's speeches, stop supporting far-right extremists in Europe, and stop making Nazi hand gestures. Can you not see what we mean?

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Free books at a local bookstore. Almost grabbed some, but wouldn't want to deprive those in need. Never know when you will need a copy of 'Mac 2nd Edition' or 'Quicken 2013'.

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In fairness, “you can make millions of individual molecules but there are 13 that you need but can’t make so let’s outsource their production to plants. Also, it’s actually 12…you can make one of the vitamins…as long as the sun’s rays touch your skin like you yourself are a plant” does sound fake.

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"By the third day after the flower opens, its stigma collapses and, with the finger-like appendage, comes into contact with the pollen-carrying anther. This enables the pollen to extend their tubes through the appendage into the stigma and subsequently into the ovary, thereby fertilizing the plant."

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I have no words...

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Wow. Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde fearlessly calls out Trump and Vance to their faces. This is heroic. (posting in 3 parts due to Bluesky's 1 minute limit)

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Instead of just reading summaries on news sites, I highly recommend going through these executive orders and really absorbing the intent and language. It's fucked. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

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2d Material Science, an interesting read.

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I’m very excited to finally share the results of a passion project that has been on my mind for nearly a decade. You can find the pre-print below, but what follows is the saga of how this project came to be: