Researchers in Taiwan have added a brand-new biochemical cycle to plants, allowing them to absorb & use carbon dioxide more efficiently than photosynthesis alone. Test plants carrying the “McG cycle” grew up to 3x larger, with bigger leaves & far more seeds and fats buff.ly/FIUA8Ca
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Hell yeah

We're trained to crave and celebrate heroes, instead of changing the conditions that require them.

"I suspect we need less individual heroes, and more stories of distributed heroism, where heroes are people who work with others in concert towards a greater goal." Vigorous agreement to everything from here to end of your post. It would make a difference if we all were steeped in community stories.

"Enceladus ticks all the boxes to be a habitable environment that could support life: the presence of liquid water, a source of energy, a specific set of chemical elements and complex organic molecules."
🧪🪐🔭
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Please - stop doing the screenshot no link thing on Bluesky. This platform does not punish you for posting a URL. You picked up the habit from Meta apps? Stop doing Mark Z's bidding. Link ESPECIALLY to authors, reporters, bloggers, etc. where you quote the work.

Fuck yeah, buddy! Congratulations!

If the posted media is a stated eyewitness account of the poster, that might be citizen or pro journalism you can weigh into evidence as well—but look for confirmation from a separate reputable source. 2/2

Mental health tip in these trying times: Ignore emotionally charged content based on a screenshot, photo, or video unless it is accompanied by a link to a reputable, dated source that you verify. Even that isn't a guarantee of quality, but it will filter out most of the crap. 1/2

Actually y'know, fuck my doomerism.

Timeline cleanser 🐈

We took the coastal road into town after dark, headlights cutting through the mist and clarifying nothing in the haze but movement. The sea, close and unseen, whispered secrets.

highway may not be the infrastructure analogy you were looking for.

Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin ✨ figured out what stars are made of ✨ when she was just 25. 🔭🧪

Her PhD thesis basically established the Harvard astro department — at a time when Harvard didn't officially allow woman students.

I wrote this little profile to mark the 100th anniversary of her thesis:

D'oh

Robert Redford playing a gentle incarnation of death, coming for a frightened old woman in The Twilight Zone episode "Nothing in the Dark" (1962). An extraordinary performance then, terribly bittersweet today

If you like selkie stories (and who doesn't?), I hope you'll enjoy my new story, "I Would Breathe Water," in Club Chicxulub vol. 4, "Limbo."

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Now more than ever we need The Middleman!!

If you've been wanting to read a chapter from "San Francisco's Forgotten Cemeteries," now's your chance.

"Historians aren’t certain how many graves remain at City Cemetery. Researcher Alex Ryder believes it’s at least 10,000 but is probably closer to 20,000 or more."

Certainty is halfway round the world
before curiosity has got its boots on

It has been suggested to me that these sound like band names.

Best glory I’ve ever seen from a plane! It’s an optical phenomenon that occurs when light interacts in and around tiny droplets of water in the clouds, in the direction opposite the sun. More complex than a rainbow. Here’s a link to some more info: www.zmescience.com/science/phys... #optics #physics