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NASA is about to launch a mission to the most metal asteroid we know. How metal? It may have once had volcanoes of molten iron.

*THAT* metal.

https://badastronomy.substack.com/p/a-totally-metal-asteroid-mission

Artwork of a metallic gray asteroid with huge craters on its surface

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This is a huge benefit of working from home and it needs to be trumpeted from the rooftops. Any company that forces workers back with one side of their face and claims to be caring about the environment out of another should be called out.

Guardian article.

People who work from home all the time ‘cut emissions by 54%’ against those in office
Study in US shows one day a week of remote working cuts emissions by just 2% but two or four days lowers them by up to 29%

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David Catperfield #magic

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Think about a pedestrian/cyclist being hit by a car: the person with the lowest carbon footprint, space use, noise and pollution production hit by a high carbon, space-guzzling, noisy and polluting box of metal.

Roads are for **people**, not for cars - cars have their uses, but that does not imply that the whole system should be built to satisfy their merest whim.

So well done Wales for making 20mph the default speed limit in residential/built-up areas.

https://www.gov.wales/introducing-default-20mph-speed-limits

#cars #Wales

David Carey...
https://neuromatch.social/@jpeelle/111047906422653682

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For no reason in particular I made this highly accurate Venn diagram during a college meeting today

https://xkcd.com/773/

A Venn diagram with two non-overlapping circles: one says "people who design university websites", the second says "people who have seen the xkcd cartoon about university websites"

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Borb is very good hider.

#bird #birding #birdwatching #birdphotography

Young lark sparrow tucked into crook of tree.

My Bergen tradition.

I have had a wonderful weekend talking Neuroscience and functional MRS. It has been amazing to see the insights these amazing people are producing with their ground breaking research. Really looking forward to this community growing and growing.

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✨ Solo by Pixelfed

We've been secretly building a single user federated photo sharing server (based on Pixelfed), with minimal setup, and built-in import

Solo is simple, download the code, drag your photos to the media directory and open your browser

So simple, yet super smart, Solo won't get in your way, but it will impress

Launching Dec 2023

Yep, I did a lot today, but not a lot got done.

Today is turning into one of those days when you do a lot, but very little actually gets done.

Well, he finally did it. That X is enough to break my twitter addiction completely.

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I have never been so lucky in my entire fucking life. #photography #Alberta #landscape

A blue-white lightning strike extends down from low-hanging, green-grey clouds at night, appearing to strike just behind a small forested island in centre distance. The clouds break across a green-fading-to-gold sky, with a rippling lake below reflecting back the sky and the bolt of lightning.

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The majestic land seal

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The amazing golden color of these scarab beetles (Chrysina resplendens) is not a result of pigmentation or actual metal, but ≈70 microscropic chitin layers of decreasing thickness that reflect light to produce a metallic effect.

Video credit: insecthaus_adi/ig
Source: https://www.instagram.com/p/BVaHvmIhjbb/

Further reading: https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/882153