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NunavutBirder, 3 days ago to random

Okay, hear me out. A Baking Show, but no one gets eliminated. The contestants help and learn from each other throughout the series and at the end of it they vote on who takes the top prize. Cooperation not Competition.

pait, 3 days ago to random

https://apnews.com/article/terracotta-bust-renaissance-architect-brunelleschi-florence-dome-cb4761a9da8c401de60f6bbd5fa37161?utm_campaign=TrueAnthem&utm_medium=AP&utm_source=Twitter

!!!!

villares, 12 days ago (edited 12 days ago) to random

today at #PyConUS24 my phone got swept by Tornado/High Wind warning alerts... hard to turn then off... hundreds and hundreds of message dialogs...

pait, 14 days ago to random

Bing, a man and a goat are on one side of the Potomac river. They have a boat. How do they get to the other side?

Copilot, 11:49 AM
To get both the man and the goat across the Potomac River safely, they would need to use the boat in a strategic way. Here's a simple strategy they could follow:

The man takes the goat across the river and leaves it on the other side.
2.
The man returns alone to the original side to ensure the goat doesn't wander off or get into trouble while he's gone.

gutenberg_org, 2 months ago to science

German mathematician Emmy Noether was born #OTD in 1882.

One of her most significant contributions is Noether's Theorem, which establishes a fundamental connection between symmetries & conservation laws in physics. This theorem has had profound implications in fields such as quantum mechanics, particle physics & field theory. Despite facing discrimination as a woman in academia during her time, Noether persevered & made enduring contributions to mathematics and physics.

#science #mathematics

Noether sometimes used postcards to discuss abstract algebra with her colleague, Ernst Fischer. This card is postmarked 10 April 1915. Emmy Noether - Auguste Dick's Emmy Noether: 1882-1935, just after p. 58

timbray, 2 months ago to random

WHO: “Famine in Gaza is imminent, with immediate and long-term health consequences”
https://www.who.int/news/item/18-03-2024-famine-in-gaza-is-imminent--with-immediate-and-long-term-health-consequences

Slower than bombs, but still a continuing slaughter of the innocent.

#gaza

nixCraft, 2 months ago to random

Compliance is the root of all evil. So, you want to destroy the SSD? Drill all SSDs. Destroyed finally. All data is safe. Let’s go home.

The SSDs:

QasimRashid, 3 months ago to random

In 5 months Israel extracted 2 hostages through bombing Gaza while killing 30,000 Palestinians.

Meanwhile diplomatic negotiations during the temporary ceasefire led to the release of 136 hostages & 0 Palestinians killed.

Yes diplomacy. No killing. Stop this atrocity.
#CeasefireNOW

johncarlosbaez, 4 months ago to random

The music director of Leipzig died in 1722, so the city council held an audition for his replacement. The winner was Georg Philipp Telemann. He went back to Hamburg, where he worked, and demanded a raise. They gave him the raise, so he stayed in Hamburg.

Next they tried to hire Christoph Graupner, one of the foremost composers of the day. He worked in Darmstadt, but the city wouldn't let him go. Back then you often needed permission from your employer to get a new job.

One of the Leipzig city councilors said: "Since the best men cannot be obtained, we must make do with the mediocre."

So they hired Johann Sebastian Bach.

QasimRashid, 5 months ago (edited 4 months ago) to random

Today is the 133-year-anniversary of Wounded Knee Massacre. The US Government took their land, broke a treaty and guarantee to give them food and supplies, then sent the U.S. Army, who killed 300 Lakota including 60 women & children😓

The US Govt then:
•Awarded 20 medals of honor to the soldiers guilty of genocide
•Refused to pay reparations or build a memorial
•Waited 100 years to apologize

dangillmor, 5 months ago to random

Not the Onion:

The NY Times editorial page published a "Really, Trump isn't all that right wing, just relax" op-ed today.

pait, 5 months ago to random

Hoje quem queria que o Eixo tivesse vencido a Guerra vai lamentar que a União Soviética perdeu a guerra fria.

urlyman, 6 months ago to random

My grandfather, the son of a Grimsby publican, was a pharmacist who moved from Grimsby to Surrey to marry a well-to-do young woman called Nelly. He went off to war in France and Belgium, fought, was captured and spent a year and a half as a prisoner of war.

After the war he had two sons, prospered as a pharmacist, and sent them off to private school where they learned the arts and… militarism.

pezmico, 6 months ago to palestine

#freePalestine #ceasefireNow #endTheOccupation #fromTheRiverToTheSea @palestine

timnitGebru, 6 months ago to random

"An Israeli guard, probably the same age as my son said to me: "What's your religion bro...It became clear to me that unless I professed my religion,...the RIGHT religion, I wasn't going to be allowed to walk forward...I was in a region where your mobility was inhibited, your voting rights were inhibited...all inhibited based on ethnicity...& that was extremely familiar to me. And the most shocking thing about my time over there, is how uncomplicated it actually is."
https://www.democracynow.org/2023/11/2/ta_nehisi_coates

georgetakei, 7 months ago to random

It is not anti-Israeli to condemn Benjamin Netanyahu. It is, in fact, pro-democracy and pro-peace to do so.

futurism, 7 months ago to random

This looks like something straight out of "Star Wars." https://t.co/SRvf1xuuwY

NicoleCRust, 7 months ago to random

How do we support the Katalin Karikó's?

There's a lot of reasonable outrage today around how Katalin Karikó was treated throughout her career (full disclosure: by my employer, UPenn). Obviously a number of someones made a huge mistake by not recognizing the brilliance and potential of her work - no question there!

What I've been thinking about and I'd love to get some scenius input on: how could we, as an academic community, do better?

Here's one summary of what happened:
https://billypenn.com/2020/12/29/university-pennsylvania-covid-vaccine-mrna-kariko-demoted-biontech-pfizer/

Taking seriously the notion that 1) we want to support the Katalin Karikó's, 2) high-risk, high-reward research takes time, and 3) everyone needs to go through a job evaluation at some point, here are a few ideas:

*) Better support to help geniuses communicate (and fund) their ideas.
*) More funding for high-risk, high-reward projects
*) A longer evaluation period for individuals engaged in high-risk/high-reward research

What would you add/change?

villares, 8 months ago to random

What was the latest nice thing you learned? #NiceThingILearned?

benjaminwittes, 8 months ago to random

I listened to the Merrick Garland testimony so you don't have to. Here's all you need to know about it: the Republicans were embarrassing. https://open.substack.com/pub/benjaminwittes/p/embarrassing?r=22ul4&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

georgetakei, 8 months ago to random

Apropos of nothing, if you complain that a group of Jews who fight against antisemitism are responsible for destroying the value of your company, you are antisemitic.

mattblaze, 8 months ago (edited 8 months ago) to random

This may be obvious, but I recently started routinely adding "-youtube" to google searches. This eliminates most pages with links to garbage YouTube-monetized videos that try to attract people looking for basic instructions on how to do simple things. Greatly improves the quality of search results.