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Adam Sweet - Songwriter @adamrsweet.bsky.social · 9m

Astronomers detect a cosmic “heartbeat” in pulsar signals Researchers analyzing pulsar data have found tantalizing hints of ultra-slow gravitational waves.

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Heartbeat of the Cosmos

Astronomers detect a cosmic “heartbeat” in pulsar signals Researchers analyzing pulsar data have found tantalizing hints of ultra-slow gravitational waves. Verse 1 Far beyond the veil of light, Whe

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Adam Sweet - Songwriter @adamrsweet.bsky.social · 59m

The Belchertown Police Department stated that a disabled train has blocked off the Bay Road intersection at approximately 1:45 p.m. on Wednesday. The delay is expected to be significant before the road reopens.

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Belchertown Breakdown

The Belchertown Police Department stated that a disabled train has blocked off the Bay Road intersection at approximately 1:45 p.m. on Wednesday. The delay is expected to be significant before the roa

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Adam Sweet - Songwriter @adamrsweet.bsky.social · 5h

Everybody knows I'm a fiddler, but few people know that I teach fiddle. I recently wrote a song about how much fun it is to play the fiddle.
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Fiddle is Fun

Everybody knows I'm a fiddler, but few people know that I teach fiddle. I recently wrote a song about how much fun it is to play the fiddle. Verse 1 When the morning breaks and the dew's still new,

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Adam Sweet - Songwriter @adamrsweet.bsky.social · 5h

Here's a song I wrote in 1997 when I was playing fiddle with Woodkerne: "Emerald Eyes". Produced by Sweet Songs in Granby, MA with yours truly on violin, Elizabeth C on harp, Mia W. vocal.
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Emerald Eyes

[Verse] Sunrise creeping through the glen Emerald eyes that haunt me when I'm far away across the sea Do you ever think of me [Prechorus] Oh I know I left you standing there With wind swept through y

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Adam Sweet - Songwriter @adamrsweet.bsky.social · 1d

Ford Cuts Production Of Even More Vehicles After Aluminum Supply Shock The fallout from the Novelis aluminum mill fire in Oswego, New York, which shut the plant down until early next year, continues to worsen for Ford Motor.

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Ford on Fire

Ford Cuts Production Of Even More Vehicles After Aluminum Supply Shock The fallout from the Novelis aluminum mill fire in Oswego, New York, which shut the plant down until early next year, continues t

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Adam Sweet - Songwriter @adamrsweet.bsky.social · 1d

Using 11 years of magnetic field measurements from the European Space Agency’s Swarm satellite constellation, scientists have discovered that the weak region in Earth’s magnetic field over the South Atlantic – known as the South Atlantic Anomaly.
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The Anomaly

The South Atlantic Anomaly has expanded by an area nearly half the size of continental Europe since 2014 Using 11 years of magnetic field measurements from the European Space Agency’s Swarm satellite

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Adam Sweet - Songwriter @adamrsweet.bsky.social · 1d

Satellites are leaking private messages and sensitive military data A new study reveals that half of global satellite signals leak unencrypted data—including military, telecom, and corporate communications.
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Silent Signals

Satellites are leaking private messages and sensitive military data A new study reveals that half of global satellite signals leak unencrypted data—including military, telecom, and corporate communica

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Adam Sweet - Songwriter @adamrsweet.bsky.social · 1d

Researchers used ultra-powerful lasers to smash photons particles of light together, triggering a reaction that produced actual particles of matter and antimatter: electrons and positrons. This is known as the Breit-Wheeler process
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Born of Light

Scientists create matter from pure light, proving Einstein's 120-years old theory E = mc², right in the lab. Researchers used ultra-powerful lasers to smash photons particles of light together, trigge

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Adam Sweet - Songwriter @adamrsweet.bsky.social · 2d

Tensors for High-dimensional Object Representation (THOR) AI framework, the system uses tensor network algorithms to efficiently compress and analyze vast configurational integrals and partial differential equations.
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Tensors of Creation

Tensors for High-dimensional Object Representation (THOR) AI framework, the system uses tensor network algorithms to efficiently compress and analyze vast configurational integrals and partial differe

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Adam Sweet - Songwriter @adamrsweet.bsky.social · 2d

Interoception is a little-known process through which the nervous system constantly monitors and interprets internal signals to keep essential body functions stable.
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Hidden Sense

How does your brain recognize when it’s time to take a breath, when your blood pressure has fallen, or when your body is fighting an infection? The key lies in interoception, a little-known process th

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Adam Sweet - Songwriter @adamrsweet.bsky.social · 3d

Effort afoot to boost numbers of purple martins in WMass The birds have been slow to return to Western Massachusetts, in part because the purple martin's natural habitat is being decimated.

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Where the Martins Used to Fly

Effort afoot to boost numbers of purple martins in WMass The birds have been slow to return to Western Massachusetts, in part because the purple martin's natural habitat is being decimated. Verse 1

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Adam Sweet - Songwriter @adamrsweet.bsky.social · 3d

The Warwick Fire Department stated that crews were called to assist police officers with a loose animal on Saturday. Law enforcement provided traffic control on Route 78/Orange Road until the bull, named Carl, was successfully corralled and put back in his pasture.
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Carl The Bull

The Warwick Fire Department stated that crews were called to assist police officers with a loose animal on Saturday. Law enforcement provided traffic control on Route 78/Orange Road until the bull, na

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Adam Sweet - Songwriter @adamrsweet.bsky.social · 4d

The Chinese People’s Liberation Army Air Force has made its first known deployment of GJ-11 Sharp Sword unmanned stealth fighters, which are stationed at Shigatse Air Base in Tibet
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Sharp Sword Stealth

The Chinese People’s Liberation Army Air Force has made its first known deployment of GJ-11 Sharp Sword unmanned stealth fighters, which are stationed at Shigatse Air Base in Tibet marking the first o

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Adam Sweet - Songwriter @adamrsweet.bsky.social · 4d

Light’s complexity—its ability to carry quantum states like entanglement, squeezing, polaritons, or skyrmions—makes it far more than a classical signal. It’s a dynamic medium for encoding, processing, and transmitting data with unmatched efficiency and security
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Light Beyond the Lattice

Light’s complexity—its ability to carry quantum states like entanglement, squeezing, polaritons, or skyrmions—makes it far more than a classical signal. It’s a dynamic medium for encoding, processing,

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Adam Sweet - Songwriter @adamrsweet.bsky.social · 4d

Mind over machine: Neuralink’s breakthrough lets patient control robot with thoughts The patient used his implant to operate a robotic arm, performing tasks like microwaving food, drinking from a cup, and opening the fridge.
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Mind Over Machine

Mind over machine: Neuralink’s breakthrough lets patient control robot with thoughts The patient used his implant to operate a robotic arm, performing tasks like microwaving food, drinking from a cup,

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Adam Sweet - Songwriter @adamrsweet.bsky.social · 4d

First noted 1541 by de Soto's expedition, where Mississippi Valley tribes grew them, Jonathan Carr of Carr's Ciderhouse and farm in Hadley said that he tries to harvest pawpaws just before they fall off the trees.

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De Soto's Banana

First noted 1541 by de Soto's expedition, where Mississippi Valley tribes grew them, Jonathan Carr of Carr's Ciderhouse and farm in Hadley said that he tries to harvest pawpaws just before they fall o

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Adam Sweet - Songwriter @adamrsweet.bsky.social · 4d

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Adam Sweet - Songwriter @adamrsweet.bsky.social · 4d

Twenty-two firefighters graduate from Massachusetts Firefighting Academy's 50-day program, ready to protect communities across the state. I wrote a song about it:

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Fifty Days of Fire and Rain

Twenty-two firefighters graduate from Massachusetts Firefighting Academy's 50-day program, ready to protect communities across the state. (Verse 1) From the hills of the Berkshires to the Cape's wi

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Adam Sweet - Songwriter @adamrsweet.bsky.social · 6d

Once known for enforcing the law over a nearly 40-year career, Peter Fappiano now spends his spare time enforcing flavor with a new mobile barbecue venture. The Chesterfield police chief and Goshen resident recently launched Cleaver & Cigar Smoke House.

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Badge to Barbecue

Once known for enforcing the law over a nearly 40-year career, Peter Fappiano now spends his spare time enforcing flavor with a new mobile barbecue venture. The Chesterfield police chief and Goshen re

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Adam Sweet - Songwriter @adamrsweet.bsky.social · 6d

More than half of the work done by women in the period between the 16th and 18th centuries took place outside of the home, and around half of all housework and three-quarters of care work was conducted professionally for other households.

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Exceptional Women

More than half of the work done by women in the period between the 16th and 18th centuries took place outside of the home, and around half of all housework and three-quarters of care work was conducte

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Adam Sweet - Songwriter @adamrsweet.bsky.social · 6d

The center of this powerful Nor'easter will likely come "ashore" somewhere on the New Jersey shoreline Sunday with 40-70 MPH gusts right on the beaches and areas of coastal flooding and surge at times of high tide.

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Nor’easter Sunday

The center of this powerful Nor'easter will likely come

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Adam Sweet - Songwriter @adamrsweet.bsky.social · 6d

The Healey-Driscoll administration is awarding $7.5 million in grant funding to support 50 new trail projects in Massachusetts, expanding recreational opportunities across the state with a focus on accessibility.

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Fifty New Trails

The Healey-Driscoll administration is awarding $7.5 million in grant funding to support 50 new trail projects in Massachusetts, expanding recreational opportunities across the state with a focus on ac

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Adam Sweet - Songwriter @adamrsweet.bsky.social · 7d

Fresh water sources encouraged human development of the desert more than 12,000 years ago. I wrote a song about it in the Cybernetic Fusion™ style: ancestral music with electronic sound, creating a future-born tradition. Here it is, "Fresh Water" www.youtube.com/watch?v=rI7N...

Fresh Water

YouTube video by Sweet Songs

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Adam Sweet - Songwriter @adamrsweet.bsky.social · 7d

New research challenges the idea that dark matter and dark energy dominate the cosmos. It suggests these mysterious forces might not exist at all—what we see as “dark” could instead be caused by the slow weakening of the universe’s fundamental forces.
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Forces Fading

For many years, scientists have thought that dark matter and dark energy make up most of the cosmos. A new study, however, challenges that long-held belief by proposing that these mysterious component

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Adam Sweet - Songwriter @adamrsweet.bsky.social · 7d

Inspired by a breakthrough from MIT and Harvard, where scientists engineered “invisible” immune cells—CAR-NK cells—that can seek out and destroy cancer.
This piece is about hope, renewal, and the people we’ve lost along the way.

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Invisible Hope

Inspired by a breakthrough from MIT and Harvard, where scientists engineered “invisible” immune cells—CAR-NK cells—that can seek out and destroy cancer. This piece is about hope, renewal, and the peop

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