The black hole that ate its own star. This is some neat science!
A new paper reports that VFTS 243, a massive binary system featuring an O-class star and a 10 solar-mass black hole companion, might have formed through the 'complete collapse scenario'.
🐧Thinking of Switching to the Linux, Fellow Academics? | @rwg
"I should note I’m in the humanities, not computer science, so I’m using Linux mainly to write, research, and collaborate with other authors doing social science work. And it’s also important to note that I have worked at “Microsoft Campuses” for my whole career, meaning most of my colleagues use Windows and the IT folks support mostly Windows."
Antoni van Leeuwenhoek was one of the first microscopists, who made his own lenses and small hand-held microscopes. He used his master skill to create a curved glass magnifying objects up to 500 times.
If the moon is the final frontier for humankind, we need to figure out what we’re going to eat up there. In the next two years, NASA plans to send astronauts back to the moon, which provides some insight into what our lunar lunches will look and taste like. “Food is something that keeps astronauts sane,” says Dr. Sonja Brungs of the European Space Agency. BBC Travel has more on what astronauts eat — and what the rest of us might one day consume there. https://flip.it/Xp352- #Science#Food#NASA#Moon
French mathematician Abraham de Moivre was born #OTD in 1667.
He is best known for de Moivre's theorem, which links complex numbers and trigonometry, and for his work in the development of analytic geometry and the theory of equations. He published "The Doctrine of Chances" (1718) where he developed a formula for the normal approximation to the binomial distribution, now known as the de Moivre-Laplace theorem.
“How would the average #atheist react if his daughter got #cancer? Will he pray to #science?”
When my now 30-year-old son was a baby, his mother and I had reason to suspect he had a brain tumor. As it turned out, he didn’t: what he had was a benign fluid cyst that looked remarkably like a certain kind of tumor on x-rays and MRIs. It took the most specialized of specialists, the Air Force’s only pediatric neuro-radio-oncologist, to figure it out. That was a terrifying couple of weeks.
I did all kinds of stuff during that time. I studied the subject, taking advantage of the medical library at the base hospital where I worked. I talked with military and civilian specialists about treatment and prognosis. I discussed options and plans with his mother. I braced myself for the horrifying conversation I expected to have with my parents when I told them what was happening to their only grandchild.
You know what I didn’t do? Pray.
See, I worked in the ER. I saw a lot of prayer. Patients praying for relief of pain. Their families praying for their survival. And chaplains praying for the souls of the dead. Because the patients’ and families’ prayers never made any difference at all.
But most of our patients survived, and left the hospital reasonably healthy and whole. It wasn’t prayer that accomplished that outcome. It was our knowledge and skill. The hard work of the medics and nurses and physicians—not just taking care of patients, but for our whole careers. Late nights and early mornings, endless hours of study and practice.
Many of my colleagues prayed too. They wanted God to guide their hands, and they believed that praying would help make that happen. I’m fine with that: whatever works for you. Me, I’ll put my trust in what I can see and touch. A whole lot of people are walking around today because that trust was warranted. I have no idea if God was there when I was working on them … but I know I was.
So fuck you for turning other people’s very real pain and fear and death into an excuse to evangelize. If you ever need care, I’ll give it, because I’m a better person than you. God won’t save you, but I will. Chew on that for a while: I hope it tastes like ashes in your filthy mouth.
Every time scientists are able to understand another biological process linked to Alzheimer's disease, it offers another way that they might eventually be able to treat or prevent it. New research has shed light on the protein contactin-4 and its relationship with the amyloid precursor protein (APP), which could help unravel the mystery of the disease. Science Alert explains: https://flip.it/nE342h #Science#Health#Brain#Alzheimers
For the first time ever, astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope may have discovered three of the universe’s earliest galaxies. In a new study, researchers reported the possible detection of three infant galaxies sprouting from a primordial cloud of hydrogen and helium gas just 400 to 600 million years after the Big Bang. Live Science elaborates: https://flip.it/BgahqS #Science#Space#Universe#Galaxies
Morse Practice Kits - Easy to build Morse oscillators
The kit consists of pairs of morse practice kits. Each pair of kits can work stand alone or with the included 5M as a morse transmit/receive station.
Ideal for Scouts communication or electronic badges or as a simple to construct electronic kit for anyone.
Batteries ARE included with a long life 3V button cell (UK only), or you can have the option of a three cell AAA battery ho... Read More #kits#makers#stem#science
"'A great sadness': Venezuela is first Andean country to lose of all its glaciers
Scientists explain the loss of the Humboldt Glacier, the last in the Sierra Nevada, which they believe makes the South American country the first in modern history to lose all its glaciers. "
This vendor exhibited a camera that can take 100,000 frames per second, other vendors had demonstrations where you could see individual droplets in a shower.
In this week's #SETILive, Beth Johnson chatted with Dr. Bonnie Teece about her initial analysis of microbial traps left on the floor of the Atlantic Ocean near Axial Seamount and what they could mean for our search for life beyond Earth, especially involving ocean worlds like Europa and Enceladus.
Astonishing the level of idiocracy this society is becoming youtu.be/lWAyfr3gxMA - a podcast with millions of listeners, listening to the most retarded ideas and not even laughing at their stupidity. This is scary. Two rich people talking so much gibberish it is hard to even poke fun at it, since "it" is so outlandish.
"if fixed, undisturbed, in free air, not exposed to radiation, fire, or sun, but in the ordinary light of a well-ventilated room or outer air, the chemical mixture in a so-called storm-glass varies in character with the direction of the wind [...]"
A strange glowing red planet full of active volcanoes has been found. (www.infoterkiniviral.com)
Scientists have discovered a fiery red exoplanet called TOI-6713.01, covered in active volcanoes and spewing lava