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“My solitude is my treasure, the best thing I have..” •A.S Byatt Yehan Wang art

Breathtaking, scenic Glacier National Park, Montana 🇺🇸 TT: @gohiker

The current US administration has requested $200 billion in additional money to fund the war in Iran. 3 weeks into this war and Trump already needs more money for this war, which btw. exceeds the help the previous Biden administration has given to fund the Ukrainian defense, by far.

🫧 Smoke trapped in a bubble on water: surface tension, soap film physics and fluid mechanics in action

So I've been to Iceland 7 times in the past two years for work and have never seen the Northern Lights... I guess the Icelandic trolls decide to make it up to me because this trip I saw this...

Goodnight, skyline, from this Christmas moon.

it’s been cloudy for while, so i haven’t seen the stars. i missed orion so much 🥹🌌

A nice 3D attractor. Made with #python #numpy #pygfx

Voters want a Democratic Party that fights back against the forces that have rigged the system and made their lives more difficult. A party that comforts the afflicted and afflicts the comfortable —not a party that buckles and capitulates. When will party leadership learn this lesson?

The idea that depression stems primarily from a lack of serotonin has lost much of its support. Scientists are rethinking the causes — and definition — of the illness.

Help your fellow researchers and answer this short survey for a chance at a $/€/£100 gift card—how are researchers like you using social platforms for research? Take this short survey: bit.ly/4oNPdrr. #ResearchPublishing #AcademicSky

The Supreme Court Enabled Revenge Prosecutions Chief Justice John Roberts said sweeping immunity was necessary to avoid a president who would “prosecute his predecessors." In the year since, rather than preventing the weaponization of prosecutions, the court has unleashed it. Gift Article

The attack on Charlie Kirk is disgusting, vile, and reprehensible. In the United States of America, we must reject political violence in EVERY form.

#Truth

At 26, during the Reign of Terror in France, Jean-Baptiste Joseph Fourier narrowly avoided the guillotine. A decade later, he made a discovery that changed mathematics forever. @shalmawegs.bsky.social reports: www.quantamagazine.org/what-is-the-...

Under Dr. Oz, Medicare is launching a pilot program that will use AI to determine whether patients would be covered for certain procedures. Companies running the program will be paid a share of the savings from rejecting claims. Who in their right mind voted for this? No one.

i don’t have the necessary language skills to describe the horrors i have witnessed… to describe this scale of violence… this banality of evil… i am so ashamed to have ever believed we had the so-called “human rights.”

if our leaders cannot stand against the most live-streamed genocide in all of history, then what can they stand for? how can our leaders stand for anything, let alone human rights, when they cannot even stand for basic principles of decency? how have they rationalized this?

little children asking themselves… if there is food in heaven, folks… asking themselves why they didn’t die with their parents… why!? why must little ones ponder such things? why must they ponder this theology born of starvation and death? we’ve failed… we’ve failed the little ones of palestine

“never again” seems to have devolved into this unending salvo of again, and again, and—that’s right—again. but did we not say “never again,” folks? did we not stand over the graves and told ourselves never again? was that hollow rhetoric? truly, i am embarrassed and ashamed to be alive

Israel’s own figures suggest there has been an unusually high civilian death rate in Gaza.

Israel murdered 4 journalists and a dozen civilians by bombing a hospital, then they massacred the first responders with a double tap drone strike. Now they’re like TEHEHE OOPS! And that’ll be that. They’ll do it again tomorrow and get away with it. Demon state.

A devastating new milestone: key indicators confirm that conditions have officially reached famine levels in the #GazaStrip. Our colleagues are on the ground doing everything possible to deliver for children in #Gaza, despite the immense challenges. Follow us for humanitarian updates. #promoted

Palantir has a contract with the Israel military. “Palantir last year introduced its AIP, or Artificial Intelligence Platform, an intelligence and decision-making system that can analyze enemy targets and propose battle plans.”

Lots of butterflies on our Joe Pye weed. Mostly Tiger swallowtails but also a lone Monarch! 🦋 #nativeplants #monarchbutterfly #tigerswallowtail #joepyeweed

The Texas gerrymander is funny because Republicans are banking on Hispanics voting in the same margins at 2024 (51 D - 48 R) Polling averages from earlier this month, that I covered on my Substack (Link below), has the Republicans down quite a bit so far

The game is afoot. Or atrain. Or abus. Post along the way with #ZcavengerHunt

Improved version!

📣 #ZcavengerHunt: 🕵🏽‍♂️ The final stop opens at 5:30pm! If you arrive early, please enjoy local neighborhood offerings until then 🙂 🕵🏽‍♂️ Only players with clue cards will be able to access the final stop. We couldn’t have imagined how many New Yorkers would be ready to Zcavenge!

The 6th busy beaver number is so big that even if you somehow carved a digit into every atom in the cosmos, you’d run out of atoms before making any measurable progress. www.quantamagazine.org/busy-beaver-...

Read my lips We don't need vanity projects like this There is thousands of times the energy we need from surface solar, wind, tidal, wave and the rest www.theguardian.com/environment/...

"Every member of the UN should recognize Palestine" Agree: 58% Disagree: 33% Ipsos / Aug 18, 2025

This printable poster shows one of #NASAWebb’s earliest targets, Stephan’s Quintet. Only four of the five galaxies in this “quintet” are truly close together. The fifth, leftmost galaxy is closer: bit.ly/4kGvSWK 🔭 🧪

The concentration of wealth in the hands of a few isn't just bad for our economy. It's corrosive to our democracy. When the wealthy and well-connected control our political system, regular people don't have a voice. The result? The demagoguery and corruption we're seeing now.

Why is my tax money being used to murder Palestinians

Every day is #InternationalWolfDay in our eyes, but today’s a great reminder of how amazing wolves are! 🐺 Support wolf recovery and conservation by donating or advocating for stronger protections. 🌎🐾 Learn more about ways to make an impact: nywolf.org

Electricity bill going up? One study found that AI data centers were responsible for 63% of price hikes for customers of PJM — the nation's largest electric grid. Meanwhile, Trump is pushing for more private-sector usage of AI and fast tracking permits for more data centers.

The effects of insufficient water intake are felt by every cell in the body. So, go have a glass. www.quantamagazine.org/what-does-it...

Global Leader Net-Approvals: 🇮🇳 Modi: +51 🇰🇷 Jae-myung: +28 🇨🇦 Carney: +25 🇦🇺 Albanese: +24 🇲🇽 Sheinbaum: +17 🇦🇷 Milei: +15 🇺🇸 Trump: -4 🇮🇹 Meloni: -13 🇧🇷 Silva: -20 🇩🇪 Mertz: -23 🇪🇸 Sanchez: -27 🇬🇧 Starmer: -39 🇯🇵 Ishiba: -39 🇫🇷 Macron: -58 Morning Consult / August 10, 2025

Today, error-correcting codes are operating behind the scenes everywhere your data is stored or transmitted — even on Netflix. Tune in to The Joy of Why: www.quantamagazine.org/how-can-math...

Discover how astronomers read spectra to learn about how fast (or slowly) things are moving far off in space. #Spectroscopy 🔭 🧪 ☄️

Israeli forces killed more Palestinians waiting for food at aid sites over the weekend, as it continues to starve the population of Gaza. Benjamin Netanyahu is a war criminal — and we as a nation are complicit in this bloodbath. We must stop all military assistance to Israel.

In the 1870s, Georg Cantor proved that infinity, counterintuitively, comes in many shapes and sizes. www.quantamagazine.org/is-mathemati...