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Retiree: teacher, dir. health sci librarian (copyright, archive, training, web admin), nonprofit exec, $/lib. consortia, research analyst. Yes: science nature & evidence. “Out beyond ideas of right or wrong there is a field I will meet you there” No "DMs"
Animal Super Bowl predictions! .. favor Seattle Seahawks. www.coasttocoastam.com/article/anim...
Animal Super Bowl Predictions Overwhelmingly Favor Seattle Seahawks | Coast to Coast AM
As has become tradition ahead of the Super Bowl, a veritable menagerie of creatures from zoos, aquariums, and wildlife parks across the country were enlisted this past week to offer their predictions ...
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February 8, 2026 at 2:51 AM
Animal Super Bowl predictions! .. favor Seattle Seahawks. www.coasttocoastam.com/article/anim...
Universe Today: Is the Universe Older Than We Think? Part 4: The Changing Lambda-scape. In final chapter in series, Dr. Sutter considers the role that dark energy and dark matter have on the age of the Universe www.universetoday.com/articles/is-...
Is the Universe Older Than We Think? Part 4: The Changing Lambda-scape
Isn’t the FLRW metric way generic? It lays out the basic assumptions and tells us how the universe should behave, but it doesn’t say WHAT the universe is made of.
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February 7, 2026 at 5:12 AM
Universe Today: Is the Universe Older Than We Think? Part 4: The Changing Lambda-scape. In final chapter in series, Dr. Sutter considers the role that dark energy and dark matter have on the age of the Universe www.universetoday.com/articles/is-...
Universe Today: Is the Universe Older Than We Think? Part 3: Timescape by By Paul Sutter www.universetoday.com/articles/is-...
Is the Universe Older Than We Think? Part 3: Timescape
The FLRW metric is a model. And you know the saying, all models are wrong, but some are useful.
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February 7, 2026 at 5:11 AM
Universe Today: Is the Universe Older Than We Think? Part 3: Timescape by By Paul Sutter www.universetoday.com/articles/is-...
Universe Today: Is the Universe Older Than We Think? Part 2: Tired Light www.universetoday.com/articles/is-...
Is the Universe Older Than We Think? Part 2: Tired Light
This is all based on the assumption that galaxies are receding away from us. And I actually cheated a little.
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February 7, 2026 at 5:11 AM
Universe Today: Is the Universe Older Than We Think? Part 2: Tired Light www.universetoday.com/articles/is-...
Universe Today: Is the Universe Older Than We Think? Part 1: The Cosmological Clock. Astronomers say Universe is 13.77 billion yrs old. That's a strangely specific number, so how do astronomers know? And could it actually be much older? read more: www.universetoday.com/articles/is-...
Is the Universe Older Than We Think? Part 1: The Cosmological Clock
When I say that the universe is 13.77 billion years old, it sounds rather authoritative.
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February 7, 2026 at 5:10 AM
Universe Today: Is the Universe Older Than We Think? Part 1: The Cosmological Clock. Astronomers say Universe is 13.77 billion yrs old. That's a strangely specific number, so how do astronomers know? And could it actually be much older? read more: www.universetoday.com/articles/is-...
Universe Today: 1st Time Scientists Detect Molecule Critical to Interstellar Life. Thiepine floating freely in space. Ring-shaped sulfur-bearing hydrocarbon from biochemical reactions 13-atom molecule seen in star-forming region 27,000 light-yrs away near center of Milky Way tinyurl.com/58xjmsjs
For the First Time, Scientists Detect Molecule Critical to Life in Interstellar Space
For the first time, a complex, ring-shaped molecule containing 13 atoms—including sulfur—has been detected in interstellar space, based on laboratory measurements. The discovery closes a critical gap ...
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February 7, 2026 at 5:08 AM
Universe Today: 1st Time Scientists Detect Molecule Critical to Interstellar Life. Thiepine floating freely in space. Ring-shaped sulfur-bearing hydrocarbon from biochemical reactions 13-atom molecule seen in star-forming region 27,000 light-yrs away near center of Milky Way tinyurl.com/58xjmsjs
Universe Today: Hubble And The Fingerprints Of An Ancient Merger,, Hubble's picture of the month, showing the lenticular galaxy NGC 7722, located about 185 million light-years away www.universetoday.com/articles/hub...
Hubble And The Fingerprints Of An Ancient Merger
This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image shows NGC 7722, a lenticular galaxy about 187 million light-years away in the constellation Pegasus. This “lens-shaped” galaxy sits in between more familiar ...
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February 7, 2026 at 5:04 AM
Universe Today: Hubble And The Fingerprints Of An Ancient Merger,, Hubble's picture of the month, showing the lenticular galaxy NGC 7722, located about 185 million light-years away www.universetoday.com/articles/hub...
Fraser Colin: Crazy New SpaceX Plans // AI Mars Takeover // NO Artemis 2 in February Another reason why Europa might not be habitable; Artemis II is delayed for a month; Claude takes Perseverance for a drive; SpaceX plans data center satellite launch www.patreon.com/posts/space-...
[Space Bites+] Crazy New SpaceX Plans // AI Mars Takeover // NO Artemis 2 in February | Fraser Cain
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February 7, 2026 at 5:02 AM
Fraser Colin: Crazy New SpaceX Plans // AI Mars Takeover // NO Artemis 2 in February Another reason why Europa might not be habitable; Artemis II is delayed for a month; Claude takes Perseverance for a drive; SpaceX plans data center satellite launch www.patreon.com/posts/space-...
Universe Today: Reading Moon’s Diary One Dust Speck at a Time, By Andy Tomaswick. Research based on analyzing magnetic signature of single grain of lunar dust using advanced diamond sensor doped w/nitrogen-vacancy centers, acting as quantum-scale magnetic sensor www.universetoday.com/articles/rea...
Reading the Moon’s Diary, One Speck of Dust at a Time
Magnetism on the Moon has always been a bit confusing. Remote sensing probes have noted there is some magnetic signature, but far from the strong cocoon that surrounds Earth itself. Previous attempts ...
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February 7, 2026 at 5:01 AM
Universe Today: Reading Moon’s Diary One Dust Speck at a Time, By Andy Tomaswick. Research based on analyzing magnetic signature of single grain of lunar dust using advanced diamond sensor doped w/nitrogen-vacancy centers, acting as quantum-scale magnetic sensor www.universetoday.com/articles/rea...
Judge orders 3 families returned to US after finding DHS used 'lies' deception, and coercion" to remove and deport them By Laura Romero www.newsbreak.com/news/4480981...
February 7, 2026 at 4:53 AM
Judge orders 3 families returned to US after finding DHS used 'lies' deception, and coercion" to remove and deport them By Laura Romero www.newsbreak.com/news/4480981...
Connect the dots... www.thedailybeast.com//epsteins-to...
Epstein’s Top Secret Relationship With Trained Russian Spy Revealed
The late sex trafficker appears to have had his own personal fixer in Moscow.
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February 7, 2026 at 12:26 AM
Connect the dots... www.thedailybeast.com//epsteins-to...
“Catch Me If You Can: What are Trojan Asteroids? www.thequantumcat.space/p/catch-me-i... Their origins, dynamics, and what the Lucy mission reveals about the evolution of our Solar System
Catch Me If You Can: What are Trojan Asteroids?
Their origins, dynamics, and what the Lucy mission reveals about the evolution of our Solar System.
www.thequantumcat.space
February 6, 2026 at 9:46 PM
“Catch Me If You Can: What are Trojan Asteroids? www.thequantumcat.space/p/catch-me-i... Their origins, dynamics, and what the Lucy mission reveals about the evolution of our Solar System
Weekly Anthropocene: Canadian farmers in prairie provinces produce high crop yields despite droughts & floods w/slow-release fertilizer, gene-edited seed w/insect disease weed resistance, fertilizer via soil mapping of self-driving tractors & ZERO TILL SOIL methods tinyurl.com/vpsvchjx
The Weekly Anthropocene, January 7 2026
Canada's fast-adapting farms, pumpkin toadlets, scimitar-horned oryx, battery booms and Amur tigers in China, solar mobile clinics in Zimbabwe, the snake-tail mantis, Raya Power, kestrels, and more!
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February 6, 2026 at 9:42 PM
Weekly Anthropocene: Canadian farmers in prairie provinces produce high crop yields despite droughts & floods w/slow-release fertilizer, gene-edited seed w/insect disease weed resistance, fertilizer via soil mapping of self-driving tractors & ZERO TILL SOIL methods tinyurl.com/vpsvchjx
Tricycle: iscipline is not the enemy of spontaneity but rather its foundation. Without discipline, our actions are dictated by fleeting impulses, external influences, and the whims of an untrained mind. by Raffaello Palandri, “Discipline as a Path of Inner Growth” tricycle.org/article/disc...
Discipline as a Path of Inner Growth
On the liberation and self-mastery that comes with the often misunderstood practice
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February 6, 2026 at 9:30 PM
Tricycle: iscipline is not the enemy of spontaneity but rather its foundation. Without discipline, our actions are dictated by fleeting impulses, external influences, and the whims of an untrained mind. by Raffaello Palandri, “Discipline as a Path of Inner Growth” tricycle.org/article/disc...
Science (journal): Imagination isn’t just for humans, this famous ape shows. Kanzi, a bonobo studied for his language skills, understood make-believe objects at a tea party. Read study, see experiment. www.science.org/content/arti...
Imagination isn’t just for humans, this famous ape shows
Kanzi, a bonobo studied for his language skills, understood make-believe objects
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February 6, 2026 at 8:53 PM
Science (journal): Imagination isn’t just for humans, this famous ape shows. Kanzi, a bonobo studied for his language skills, understood make-believe objects at a tea party. Read study, see experiment. www.science.org/content/arti...
Space.com: This supermassive black hole jet is more powerful than the Death Star's laser. It's nicknamed Jetty McJetface, By Keith Cooper
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This supermassive black hole jet is more powerful than the Death Star's laser
It's nicknamed Jetty McJetface.
www.space.com
February 6, 2026 at 8:39 PM
Space.com: This supermassive black hole jet is more powerful than the Death Star's laser. It's nicknamed Jetty McJetface, By Keith Cooper
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Finally! www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
ICE agents in Oregon cannot arrest people without warrants, judge rules
US federal judge issued a preliminary injunction barring warrantless arrests unless there is a likelihood of escape
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February 6, 2026 at 7:59 AM
Finally! www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
#ArtAdventCalendar day 19!
Did you know the Cat's Eye Nebula was one of the first planetary nebulae ever found? 🤭😍
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Did you know the Cat's Eye Nebula was one of the first planetary nebulae ever found? 🤭😍
🎨🖌🧪🔭🐡📷🎄
February 6, 2026 at 7:27 AM
The Cat’s Eye Nebula (NGC 6543), photographed by the Hubble Space Telescope.
February 6, 2026 at 7:27 AM
Lake Theater & Cafe Oregon known for witty signs: "Does Melania wear Prada? Find out Friday & quoting Sun Tzu’s The Art of War To defeat your enemy you must know them. Melania starts Friday" THEN "Amazon called our Marque made them mad All Melania shows canceled..." www.aol.com/articles/ama...
Amazon pulls 'Melania' from theater over marquee joke, description
A theater in northwestern Oregon said Amazon has pulled the new "Melania" movie from screening after its marquee offered its own film description.
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February 6, 2026 at 5:27 AM
Lake Theater & Cafe Oregon known for witty signs: "Does Melania wear Prada? Find out Friday & quoting Sun Tzu’s The Art of War To defeat your enemy you must know them. Melania starts Friday" THEN "Amazon called our Marque made them mad All Melania shows canceled..." www.aol.com/articles/ama...
It's time for reconsideration of the poor groundhog. Really! www.peta.org/media/news-r...
Time to Cast a New Shadow? Giant Groundhog Hologram on Offer from PETA | PETA
Tupac, Elvis, and most recently, Suzanne Sommers, but could the next big name to be immortalized with a holographic avatar be…Punxsutawney Phil? In a
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February 6, 2026 at 4:34 AM
It's time for reconsideration of the poor groundhog. Really! www.peta.org/media/news-r...
If you want to know how your life used to be in the past, look @ what you’re going through now. If you want to know your life in future, look @ what you’re doing now, interview with the late baseball Hall of Famer Orlando Cepeda “The Baby Bull, a Buddhist” by O Cepeda tricycle.org/article/orla...
The Baby Bull, a Buddhist
An interview with the late baseball Hall of Famer, Orlando Cepeda
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February 6, 2026 at 3:44 AM
If you want to know how your life used to be in the past, look @ what you’re going through now. If you want to know your life in future, look @ what you’re doing now, interview with the late baseball Hall of Famer Orlando Cepeda “The Baby Bull, a Buddhist” by O Cepeda tricycle.org/article/orla...
MURDERERS! Animal cruelty! Deer Hunting Season For 2026 Continues In Princeton on private and public properties through March patch.com/new-jersey/p...
Deer Hunting Season For 2026 Continues In Princeton
Lethal deer removal and deer management activities are happening in Princeton on private and public properties through March 31.
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February 6, 2026 at 3:40 AM
MURDERERS! Animal cruelty! Deer Hunting Season For 2026 Continues In Princeton on private and public properties through March patch.com/new-jersey/p...
Did NASA Just Find ET’s Home? Scientists Detect an Earth-like Planet Orbiting a Sun-like Star by Christopher Plain, Feb 3, 2026 thedebrief.org/did-nasa-jus...
Did NASA Just Find ET's Home? Scientists Detect an Earth-like Planet Orbiting a Sun-like Star
NASA has announced the discovery of an Earth-like planet orbiting a Sun-like star that shares several other similarities with Earth
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February 6, 2026 at 3:16 AM
Did NASA Just Find ET’s Home? Scientists Detect an Earth-like Planet Orbiting a Sun-like Star by Christopher Plain, Feb 3, 2026 thedebrief.org/did-nasa-jus...
Zapotec Death Owl Sculpture Reveals Ancient Mesoamerican Beliefs in Immaculately Preserved Tomb by Ryan Whalen· Jan 31, 2026 thedebrief.org/zapotec-deat...
Zapotec Death Owl Sculpture Reveals Ancient Mesoamerican Beliefs in Immaculately Preserved Tomb
An exceptionally well-preserved Zapotec Tomb dating to around 600 CE, recently uncovered in Mexico, vastly expands archaeologists' knowledge.
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February 6, 2026 at 3:13 AM
Zapotec Death Owl Sculpture Reveals Ancient Mesoamerican Beliefs in Immaculately Preserved Tomb by Ryan Whalen· Jan 31, 2026 thedebrief.org/zapotec-deat...