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Canada's basic income for families was found to grow the economy $2 per $1 invested, while creating 450K FT-equivalent jobs. And it was 'overwhelmingly' responsible for reducing child poverty. Keep it going.

Perhaps the most important moment in human history. #OnThisDay 1969, Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong landed on the moon as part of the Apollo 11 mission. Astonishing to think that 57 years later, Artemis II pushed the frontier of human spaceflight even further. Exploration is in our nature.

I’m so sorry for everyone at id Software affected by these layoffs. I know what it feels like to leave id while id goes on. It’s a strange and painful thing to step away from a place that holds so much of your work, friendships and history. 1/5

Bears repeating today…

science and space travel are best done by people in love with the science not people in love with profit

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Want to significantly reduce suicide rates? Start universal basic income. Decouple survival from employment entirely and enable everyone to truly pursue happiness.

We couldn’t agree more. Queen guitarist/astronomer Brian May and astrophysicist Derek Ward-Thompson talked with us about their new stereoscopic book of galaxies, that combines art and science to give people a 3D perspective of the universe. Listen to the full podcast episode now: buff.ly/LkdXS62

😎 This weekend, ESA marks 18 years of Europe’s Columbus laboratory in orbit, and we’ve got a couple of these epic ‘How Columbus Learnt to Fly’ books to give away! Just share this post for a chance to win!👍

Biomedical Scientist Answers More Pseudoscience Questions | Tech Support... youtu.be/hfBJTpewWos?... via @YouTube

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"Spain is willing to offer up to €400 million to attract the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) to the Canary Islands island of La Palma." This could be a huge loss for American scientific prestige - an international #astronomy instrument leaving the U.S. www.ciencia.gob.es/Noticias/202...

Investment Executive on one of the best investments Canada can ever make. A guaranteed livable basic income.

The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pies were made in the interiors of collapsing stars. We are made of starstuff. - Carl Sagan, Cosmos

🔭🚀 We will be present at the 55th edition of International Paris Air Show, taking place on 16-22 June at Le Bourget airport. Here we celebrate 50 years of advancing space for Europe, as well as highlighting our vision for the future, ESA’s Strategy 2040. Find out more ➡️ esa.int/About_Us/Exh...

Construction kicks off on a second, 320 MW solar farm at the site of Queensland’s first hybrid PV and large-scale battery project

The very first clip of COSMOS—this is where it all began. A voyage from the shores of Earth's oceans to the infinite expanses of the Milky Way, Andromeda, and beyond. Thank you, Carl, for taking us on this journey. We remain forever in your debt.

We could have just had a normal president and a functioning country. I hope that going forward, the “both parties are the same” motto gets laughed out of polite discourse as the cheap cynicism it always was.

Gotta say, I struggle on some days to reconcile the fact that millions of Americans actually WANT to live in a country with viruses spreading freely, thousand of people getting kicked out of their jobs, billionaires feasting on the government & people being snatched off the street by secret police.

Looks like the evidence for this weird chemical abundance in an exoplanet atmosphere has gotten stronger with new JWST data: www.nytimes.com/2025/04/16/s... Is it really a sign of life? That’s still not clear; lots of analysis left to do. But it’ll be interesting to see how it all pans out! 🧪 🔭

Applications for the next DiscoverEU round are now open 🚆 You could win a free 30-day train pass to explore Europe if you are... ✅ Born between 1 July 2006 and 30 June 2007 ✅ Live in the EU or a third country associated to Erasmus+ ⏰ Deadline: 16 April

About fifty years ago, NASA strapped a message in a bottle to a rocket and flung it into the deep dark It wasn’t supposed to go this far, but it did. Long past its mission, it’s still out there so far away now that a simple hello takes a day to reach it, and another day to hear if it says hello back

Carina Nebula with its glorious colours. February 20th 2025 #astrophotography

And I am grateful for every functioning, progressive #library and #librarian today - the world NEEDS them! #BookSky #booksky #booknerds #booknerdigansunite #bookishpersons #bookishworms #TrumpIsUnfitForOffice #trumpius #ElonMuskIsANazi #Republicans #MAGACultMorons #MAGAts #MAGACultMoron #MAGAMorons

I've been researching the idea of Unconditional Universal Basic Income since 2013. Here's a collection of findings I've compiled from various UBI experiments and studies of cash transfer programs around the world. This will be a VERY LONG and ongoing thread focused entirely on empirical evidence. 🧵

Want to meet others at #AAS245? Check out our starter pack of people & organisations that are there! If you're there and want to join the starter pack, DM this account.

The @esa.int Gaia satellite will take its final scientific measurements on Wednesday. 🔭 This will conclude a 12 year series of continuous observations. Larger Gaia data releases are still in progress, but Gaia has already had a HUGE impact on our understanding of the #milkyway. (Image: ESA)

The Decade that Changed the Universe youtu.be/5vBpqY8PYsA?... via @YouTube

#OTD 19 December 2013, launch of #ESA's Gaia satellite on Soyuz VS06. The mission has produced the richest star catalogue to date, including high-precision measurements of nearly 1.7 billion stars. www.esa.int/Science_Expl... #OnThisDay #SpaceHistory

Got myself something nice for working so hard this Holiday season 😎 #LEGO Guess who's got a date with Percy & Ginny on December 26th? 😉🧪🔭

this is absolutely INSANE footage of the dragon cargo undocking from the iss and heading back to earth taken by astronaut don pettit 🚀

Have you heard of acid-free dissolution?

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This is the future I want for us

We can build the web that we want to see. Watch the recording of my talk from XOXO! www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTae...