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Vanessa Wentzloff (she/her)
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Pittsburgh native, Michigander, science educator, mom, Wooster alumna, liberal af
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Bad Santa is the best Christmas movie
December 2, 2024 at 2:48 AM
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If you work in any public service, apply for #pslf NOW
November 24, 2024 at 4:17 AM
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I really know from my millennials: Avicii, Tiesto or Calvin Harris
November 24, 2024 at 4:16 AM
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Was #gladiator2 giving Helm’s Deeps vibes or…….
November 24, 2024 at 3:08 AM
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Leak the report. Pass it on.
November 21, 2024 at 2:08 AM
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“Transgender Day of Remembrance seeks to highlight the losses we face due to anti-transgender bigotry and violence…With so many seeking to erase transgender people…it is vitally important that those we lose are remembered, and that we continue to fight for justice.”–TDOR founder Gwendolyn Ann Smith🏳️‍⚧️
November 20, 2024 at 4:49 PM
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This holiday season don’t forget to protect your peace. It’s okay to say no to gatherings, create your own traditions and be with the people you want to be with.
November 20, 2024 at 7:50 PM
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Thank you for the Pottery Barn and National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation collab. Holiday shopping for my husband is so easy.
November 17, 2024 at 3:06 AM
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Stop and run to #TraderJoes
November 17, 2024 at 2:38 AM
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my favorite jwst images 🌌
A star cluster is shown inside a large nebula of many-coloured gas and dust. The material forms dark ridges and peaks of gas and dust surrounding the cluster, lit on the inner side, while layers of diffuse, translucent clouds blanket over them. Around and within the gas, a huge number of distant galaxies can be seen, some quite large, as well as a few stars nearer to us which are very large and bright. This image of the Ring Nebula, taken by Webb’s Near-Infrared Camera, appears as a distorted doughnut. The nebula’s inner cavity hosts shades of blue and green, while the detailed ring transitions through shades of orange in the inner regions and pink in the outer region. The ring’s inner region has distinct filament elements. Stars litter the scene, with a particularly prominent star with 8 long spikes in the top right corner. The image is divided horizontally by an undulating line between a cloudscape forming a nebula along the bottom portion and a comparatively clear upper portion. Speckled across both portions is a starfield, showing innumerable stars of many sizes. The smallest of these are small, distant, and faint points of light. The largest of these appear larger, closer, brighter, and more fully resolved with 8-point diffraction spikes. The upper portion of the image is blueish, and has wispy translucent cloud-like streaks rising from the nebula below. The orangish cloudy formation in the bottom half varies in density and ranges from translucent to opaque. The stars vary in color, the majority of which, have a blue or orange hue. The cloud-like structure of the nebula contains ridges, peaks, and valleys – an appearance very similar to a mountain range. Three long diffraction spikes from the top right edge of the image suggest the presence of a large star just out of view. Cassiopeia A, a circular cloud of gas and dust with complex structure. The inner shell is made of bright pink and orange filaments studded with clumps and knots. Around the exterior of the inner shell, particularly at the upper right, there are curtains of wispy gas that look like campfire smoke. The white smoke-like material also appears to fill the cavity of the inner shell, featuring structures shaped like large bubbles. Around and within the nebula, there are various stars seen as points of blue and white light. Outside the nebula, there are also clumps of yellow dust, with a particularly large clump at the bottom right corner that appears to have very detailed striations.
November 16, 2024 at 1:56 AM
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Good morning, Loves ♥️
An old mill nestled on fall foliage with a beautiful waterfall. Grist Mill Babcock State Park, West Virginia Logan Beach Photography
November 15, 2024 at 1:29 PM
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#education next year I’m teaching a new astronomy elective and natural disaster elective… if you could take a science elective in high school, what would it be?
November 16, 2024 at 7:58 PM
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Best advice we go (from Reddit): have a separate party for your kid’s birthday for family and friends. For family we had a dinner and then cake and presents at our house. Our friends party is no presents, pizza and good vibes.
November 16, 2024 at 7:55 PM
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There is nothing more humbling than trying to get balloons in your car
November 16, 2024 at 6:51 PM
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Hi world. Thank god we have another alternative to X/Twitter.
November 16, 2024 at 6:25 PM