Lmst

Once I've made my mind up to
do something, it's going to get done.
Maybe. (If I don't forget)

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I think this is brilliant! 👏👏

It's hard to concentrate on two things at the same time.

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If you look beyond the daily hubbub of party politics and culture wars, you'll find that underneath it all is a far more dangerous threat — out of control climate breakdown, the collapse of civilization, and mass extinction.

But let's not talk about that. Isn't celebrity gossip more entertaining and reassuring?

For most people, it is. For the rest of us, here's the latest bad news...
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Antarctica is warming at about double the rate of the rest of the planet and far more quickly than widely-cited models projected, according to a study published Thursday that alarmed scientists around the world.

"This is absolutely devastating news," declared climate scientist and University College London professor emeritus Bill McGuire.

"First, one has to wonder if perhaps we have already passed the West Antarctic collapse tipping point," McGuire added on social media. "Second, it begs the question, are other climate model projections underestimating the speed of climate breakdown?"
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FULL STORY -- https://www.rawstory.com/absolutely-devastating-news-antarctica-warming-quicker-than-models-projected/

#Science #Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency

Me:
“But, Lord, what about when there was only one set of footprints?”

God:
“That was when I was working from home.”

I guess the sun has decided to sleep in this morning.

#Florida #SaltLife #Beach

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I somehow didn’t know that wallcreepers exist and now I still feel a bit suspicious that the entire internet is playing an elaborate joke at my expense.

https://www.vogelwarte.ch/en/birds/birds-of-switzerland/wallcreeper

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The Nation published a damning story about the depth of Harvard's ties to Jeffrey Epstein.

https://www.thenation.com/article/society/jeffrey-epstein-harvard-summers/

I have no doubt that almost all of it is true.

However, there's an egregious lapse in fact-checking that does an injustice to Stephen Jay Gould. In the story, Alan Dershowitz claims that Gould was a regular at Program for Evolutionary Dynamics events at One Brattle Square.

Gould died in 2002. Nowak came to Harvard and opened the One Brattle Square facility in 2003.

According to Dershowitz, the sessions at One Brattle Square were serious affairs. “People from all over the university would come,” he said. The attendees included Howard Gardner, the prominent cognitive psychologist and educator, and Stephen Jay Gould, the renowned evolutionary biologist. Epstein also held dinners at his townhouse for physicists and other scientists, Dershowitz said, and he attended at least one of them. (Dershowitz’s name appears 12 times in Epstein’s flight logs.)

@jbf1755 there are wipes you can purchase in small box at Wal-Mart that prevent fogging.

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[happy clean shaven boy]
“Me, excited to learn about
philosophy to understand
reality better.”

[scruffy looking man with eye patch]
“Me, after I
understand
reality better”

@mlanger @gglockner @PattyHankins I have photos in my home by Ansel Adams, Vivian Maier and ... hmm senior moment. But you're correct ... and now with chatGPT, real photography skills are on the Endangered list

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If you see some important voices who have migrated from #twitter and they still aren't using #hashtags enough, help them out by replying to them and using appropriate hashtags to attract more people to their content.

#mastodon #TwitterMigration #fediverse

@mlanger Very Nice

New mantra:
"I've forgotten why I've walked into this room . . again"

#SeniorMonents

How many licks does it take to get to the Tootsie Roll center of a Tootsie Pop?

Mathematicians at New York University have come up with an answer: 1,000. Previous studies, however, found it only took a few hundred licks to get to the chewy center.

Source:
www.npr.org/2015/02/10/385138839/how-many-licks-does-it-take-to-get-to-a-tootsie-pops-center

#Owls #Mathematical #NPR #Tootsie #NewYork #Trivia