I find these older issues of Scientific American to be quite interesting. They provide an interesting window into the past and show that things are not much different. In some ways, at least.

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Someone needs to ask him if these standards also apply to the Commander in Chief.

Hic modus est.

(This is the way)

I wonder how many elected Republicans are thinking “if it can be Comey, it can be me”?

I was back at 26 Federal Plaza today, where an ICE agent violently threw this bereft woman to the ground in front of her kids. She had not touched him. She did not pose any threat. She had to be taken to the hospital. (🎥: Elias Eliahu)

A cool and surprising fact is that this jet was first seen over 100 years ago, *optically*

In 1918, Heber Curtis observed a a "curious straight ray" connected to the nucleus of M87 — the jet generated by its black hole. 🔭 🧪

Image: Linda Hall Library; NASA / Hubble Heritage; Event Horizon Telescope

Great quote and photo!

I do not disagree. Valid points.

I suppose the answer is that ….. life, uhhh, finds a way.

I do not know what it will look like, yet I am sure it will happen.

Whether it’s Michelle Obama suggesting kids exercise instead of watching tv or RFK Jr. telling kids to drink raw milk instead of taking vaccines, both figures took a controversial approach to children’s health.

Quant popularists like David Shor who want us to call fascism a "distraction" are using poor pseudoscience methods. Their messaging won't work in the midterms--and even if it did, ignoring fascism risks not having free midterms at all.

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Locked beneath a single-plate crust, Mars’ mantle holds a frozen record of the red planet’s primordial past, according to a new Science study of Martian seismic data collected by NASA’s InSight mission. https://scim.ag/47jTkWX

The United States could have great things like this. But we like to spend our money on kidnapping people and trafficking them to concentration camps instead. #Priorities

This incredibly important - to say, right now, loudly- that when Dems get power again, they will prosecute, change laws, roll back funding for ICE, etc.

Josh Marshall - @joshtpm.bsky.social - had a great post on it today:

talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/the-f...

Congrats!

I read today that scientists have created genetically modified crabs with cheetah genes.

I don’t know about you, but I think this could go sideways fast.

I’m petrified about today’s science news. Genetically modifying crabs to have cheetah genes? This could go sideways fast.

“Here is the inside story of how it unfolded. TL;DR We wrote a lot of anti trans articles and platformed questionable sources in the paper of record, thereby giving anti trans views an air of legitimacy.

- Everyone at the NYTimes”

/s

Carrie Adeline Barbour (1861 – 1942) was a paleontologist and educator.
As an assistant curator of paleontology at the University of Nebraska State Museum and an Assistant Professor of Paleontology, she was among the earliest women paleontologists in the United States.
#WomenInSTEM

Critically important point from Juliette. The only real justification for federalizing the nat guard over a governors objection is when the civil authorities are defying the law. This is attack on the sovereign right of the people of California to self government.

“No god and no religion can survive ridicule. No church, no nobility, no royalty or other fraud, can face ridicule in a fair field and live.”

- Mark Twain, Notebook, 1888

Says the guy that sold Palin nonstop.

“By the pricking of my thumbs,
Something wicked this way comes.”

(Witch, Macbeth)

Galactic bones, filaments of radio-wave-emitting particles, run through our galaxy, and one of them has a fracture. New analysis suggests collision with a neutron star may have caused it. www.wired.com/story/the-mi...