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It's never hard to find something good to read
Moon was never a word I worried about defining or looking up when I read about them.
Y'know, we argue over the definition of "planet" a lot.
But… we don't even have one *at all* for "moon".
What makes a moon?
www.scientificamerican.com/article/what...
🔭🧪
But… we don't even have one *at all* for "moon".
What makes a moon?
www.scientificamerican.com/article/what...
🔭🧪
What Makes a Moon?
Defining the word “moon” is harder than you might think
www.scientificamerican.com
March 21, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Moon was never a word I worried about defining or looking up when I read about them.
The book that introduced me to Paleoseismologists and how they study earthquakes of the past. Earthquake Storms: The Fascinating History And Volatile Future Of The San Andreas Fault by John Dvorak. Learning about pre-modern quakes was really interesting - the details they can learn from geology!
March 17, 2025 at 7:25 PM
The book that introduced me to Paleoseismologists and how they study earthquakes of the past. Earthquake Storms: The Fascinating History And Volatile Future Of The San Andreas Fault by John Dvorak. Learning about pre-modern quakes was really interesting - the details they can learn from geology!
I love encountering new scientific specialties in the fields I read about. Several years ago I was captivated by Paleoseismologists - those who study ancient earthquakes. Tonight I have now encountered Tephrochronologists - those who study and date volcanic ash layers. Amazing.
March 17, 2025 at 1:24 AM
I love encountering new scientific specialties in the fields I read about. Several years ago I was captivated by Paleoseismologists - those who study ancient earthquakes. Tonight I have now encountered Tephrochronologists - those who study and date volcanic ash layers. Amazing.
I'd love to say it's because there isn't enough science education but the reality is I think they understand the issue, they just refuse to have to do anything about it.
BREAKING: Trump's EPA announced plans to reconsider the 2009 "endangerment finding," i.e., that greenhouse gases threaten public health and the welfare.
"This move won’t stand up in court. We’re going to fight it every step of the way.” -- @jasonrylander.bsky.social
"This move won’t stand up in court. We’re going to fight it every step of the way.” -- @jasonrylander.bsky.social
Trump Administration Moves to Revoke EPA Endangerment Finding, Threatening Core Basis for Federal Climate Action
President Trump’s Environmental Protection Agency moved today to scrap the landmark scientific finding that forms the core basis of federal climate action.
biologicaldiversity.org
March 12, 2025 at 9:00 PM
I'd love to say it's because there isn't enough science education but the reality is I think they understand the issue, they just refuse to have to do anything about it.
While I love a good earthquake book, I'm also madly addicted to good science videos and this makes the list. Short, informative and with excellent diagrams explaining complicated stuff.
14 years ago today a M9.1 earthquake shook Japan and generated a tsunami that caused devastation along the coast. This video describes the earthquake and the lessons learned. 🧪 ⚒️
youtu.be/gcSI8fBZsY0
youtu.be/gcSI8fBZsY0
March 11, 2011 Japan Earthquake—10th Anniversary—Lessons Learned (educational)
YouTube video by IRIS Earthquake Science
youtu.be
March 12, 2025 at 12:26 PM
While I love a good earthquake book, I'm also madly addicted to good science videos and this makes the list. Short, informative and with excellent diagrams explaining complicated stuff.
The World In A Grain by Vince Beiser is the story of sand. The different kinds, where it comes from, how it's used. I love reading books about objects or things that seem so simple and learning all the crazy history and science or stuff that goes into getting it or making it.
February 24, 2025 at 1:35 PM
The World In A Grain by Vince Beiser is the story of sand. The different kinds, where it comes from, how it's used. I love reading books about objects or things that seem so simple and learning all the crazy history and science or stuff that goes into getting it or making it.
I feel like this is on point for books too. A good cover and a snappy blurb can lead to a book purchase you'll regret..
February 18, 2025 at 4:43 PM
I feel like this is on point for books too. A good cover and a snappy blurb can lead to a book purchase you'll regret..
The victors write the histories. Reading your own history from a different perspective can be eye-opening. History Lessons: How Textbooks from Around the World Portray U.S. History by Lindaman and Ward collects chapters from non-US textbooks. There's even one from N. Korea which is bonkers.
February 17, 2025 at 1:19 PM
The victors write the histories. Reading your own history from a different perspective can be eye-opening. History Lessons: How Textbooks from Around the World Portray U.S. History by Lindaman and Ward collects chapters from non-US textbooks. There's even one from N. Korea which is bonkers.
1491 by Charles C. Mann is THE book that really kicked off my library on Native Americans. It brings to non-specialists the newer concept that exposure to diseases wiped out up to 90% of people living in the Americas and that there were great civilizations and peoples here.
February 13, 2025 at 3:53 PM
1491 by Charles C. Mann is THE book that really kicked off my library on Native Americans. It brings to non-specialists the newer concept that exposure to diseases wiped out up to 90% of people living in the Americas and that there were great civilizations and peoples here.
It feels like the end of the world right now, making it the perfect time for reading post-apoc stories. One of the best is Until the End of the World by Sarah Lyons Fleming. It is the start of a series set in the same universe, with different groups handling the same post-apoc world.
February 9, 2025 at 6:55 PM
It feels like the end of the world right now, making it the perfect time for reading post-apoc stories. One of the best is Until the End of the World by Sarah Lyons Fleming. It is the start of a series set in the same universe, with different groups handling the same post-apoc world.
As I struggle to handle the current times, this is still the best advice I've found. I've thought about it a lot in the past few days when feeling overwhelmed. And it's why I still take time to read.
February 6, 2025 at 7:54 PM
As I struggle to handle the current times, this is still the best advice I've found. I've thought about it a lot in the past few days when feeling overwhelmed. And it's why I still take time to read.
Not every scary thing you read is a Stephen King novel.
Microplastics have been found in high levels in the brain — ~0.5% by weight, to be exact.
Levels are much higher in samples from those with dementia.
I report on this ground-breaking Nature Medicine study today for @thenewlede.bsky.social 🧪
www.thenewlede.org/2025/02/micr...
Levels are much higher in samples from those with dementia.
I report on this ground-breaking Nature Medicine study today for @thenewlede.bsky.social 🧪
www.thenewlede.org/2025/02/micr...
High levels of microplastics found in human brains
By Douglas Main A new study has found high concentrations of tiny plastic particles in human brain samples, with levels appearing to climb over time. The paper, published Monday in the journal Natu...
www.thenewlede.org
February 3, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Not every scary thing you read is a Stephen King novel.
Because the government cannot stop the average person from valuing diversity... a book for Black History months: The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson. It documents the migration of blacks from the South to the North from 1915-1970.
February 3, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Because the government cannot stop the average person from valuing diversity... a book for Black History months: The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson. It documents the migration of blacks from the South to the North from 1915-1970.
For the times when you want to bury yourself in a nice fantasy series and pretend the world is not there, my top pick goes to The Belgariad by David Eddings. Such a fully developed world and a great mix of different characters. Read it 6 or more times so far and feel like another re-read is due.
February 1, 2025 at 8:02 PM
For the times when you want to bury yourself in a nice fantasy series and pretend the world is not there, my top pick goes to The Belgariad by David Eddings. Such a fully developed world and a great mix of different characters. Read it 6 or more times so far and feel like another re-read is due.
One of the most terrifying books I've read is Nuclear War: A Scenario by Ann Jacobsen. A 2024 book, Jacobsen walks you second by second the process/procedures from the moment a foreign nuclear launch is detected. The time to respond and make all these really important decisions is insanely short.
"It is the determination of the Science and Security Board of the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists that the World has not made sufficient progress on existential risks threatening all of humanity. We thus move the clock forward!"
@thebulletin.org #DoomsdaClock
www.iflscience.com/doomsday-clo...
@thebulletin.org #DoomsdaClock
www.iflscience.com/doomsday-clo...
Doomsday Clock Moves Forward – Closer To Midnight Than Ever Before
"The World has not made sufficient progress on existential risks threatening all of humanity."
www.iflscience.com
January 29, 2025 at 1:58 PM
One of the most terrifying books I've read is Nuclear War: A Scenario by Ann Jacobsen. A 2024 book, Jacobsen walks you second by second the process/procedures from the moment a foreign nuclear launch is detected. The time to respond and make all these really important decisions is insanely short.
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Auschwitz was at the end of a long process. It did not start from gas chambers.
This hatred was gradually developed by humans. From ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder.
Auschwitz took time.
This hatred was gradually developed by humans. From ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder.
Auschwitz took time.
January 27, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Auschwitz was at the end of a long process. It did not start from gas chambers.
This hatred was gradually developed by humans. From ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder.
Auschwitz took time.
This hatred was gradually developed by humans. From ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder.
Auschwitz took time.
The Rise And Fall Of The Third Reich by William Shirer. Probably the leading history of how Hitler and his Nazis came to power. Shirer was an American based in Berlin at the start and offers powerful first hand experiences that go with the massive historical research and documents.
January 27, 2025 at 1:17 PM
The Rise And Fall Of The Third Reich by William Shirer. Probably the leading history of how Hitler and his Nazis came to power. Shirer was an American based in Berlin at the start and offers powerful first hand experiences that go with the massive historical research and documents.
Lies Across America: What Our Historic Sites Get Wrong by James Loewen. All those historical markers you see? Someone wrote them, and not always someone with real historical facts in mind. There are agendas and spin even in what we think of as simple informational markers.
January 22, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Lies Across America: What Our Historic Sites Get Wrong by James Loewen. All those historical markers you see? Someone wrote them, and not always someone with real historical facts in mind. There are agendas and spin even in what we think of as simple informational markers.
IT by Stephen King. Hands down still the best horror novel I've ever read. Doesn't matter how many re-reads, Pennywise still scares the crap out of me 🤡🎈
January 19, 2025 at 6:50 PM
IT by Stephen King. Hands down still the best horror novel I've ever read. Doesn't matter how many re-reads, Pennywise still scares the crap out of me 🤡🎈
Mondays can be overwhelming, so let's start our week with one of the best fun reads ever—Good Omens by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman. An angel, a demon, and the apocalypse. It's also one of the very few books where the TV adaptation holds up just as well—Tennant and Sheen really make it sing.
January 13, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Mondays can be overwhelming, so let's start our week with one of the best fun reads ever—Good Omens by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman. An angel, a demon, and the apocalypse. It's also one of the very few books where the TV adaptation holds up just as well—Tennant and Sheen really make it sing.
Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams.
A bit on the nose, but how could I not? It's a normal morning for Arthur Dent til the Vogons announce the destruction of Earth; his friend Ford turns out to be an alien - so begins his life, hitchhiking the galaxy. Don't forget your towel!
A bit on the nose, but how could I not? It's a normal morning for Arthur Dent til the Vogons announce the destruction of Earth; his friend Ford turns out to be an alien - so begins his life, hitchhiking the galaxy. Don't forget your towel!
January 10, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams.
A bit on the nose, but how could I not? It's a normal morning for Arthur Dent til the Vogons announce the destruction of Earth; his friend Ford turns out to be an alien - so begins his life, hitchhiking the galaxy. Don't forget your towel!
A bit on the nose, but how could I not? It's a normal morning for Arthur Dent til the Vogons announce the destruction of Earth; his friend Ford turns out to be an alien - so begins his life, hitchhiking the galaxy. Don't forget your towel!
I didn't want this place to just be a re-post of stuff I do elsewhere. So I'm going to use this place to promote my favorite reads - not just stuff I've read this year, but any book I've loved. Because what reader doesn't want more stuff on their To Be Read pile!
January 9, 2025 at 3:48 PM
I didn't want this place to just be a re-post of stuff I do elsewhere. So I'm going to use this place to promote my favorite reads - not just stuff I've read this year, but any book I've loved. Because what reader doesn't want more stuff on their To Be Read pile!
Something new, something blue. The perfect place for a Hooloovoo.
January 9, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Something new, something blue. The perfect place for a Hooloovoo.