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NPR @npr.org · 16h

A Cornell University researcher has been developing an artificial heart for children for more than 20 years. Now, his research is on hold and his lab is shut down.

This 4-year-old's heart is failing. A federal grant that might help him was canceled

A Cornell University researcher has been developing an artificial heart for children for more than 20 years. Now, his research is on hold and his lab is shut down.

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Bruce Erickson @bruceerickson.bsky.social · 17h

If Ann Richards former Governor of Texas was alive today she might have said “Poor Trump, he can't help it. He was born with a fugazi golden foot in his mouth.”

Bruce Erickson @bruceerickson.bsky.social · 18h

I am really looking forward to seeing it for the first time in NW Arkansas. And if it starts showing up a lot could mean the kids are starting to get engaged.

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Bruce Erickson @bruceerickson.bsky.social · 18h

What a great list. The wife has already gotten lost in the Chiefs section.

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Bruce Erickson @bruceerickson.bsky.social · 19h

It's easy to find art that speaks us about our world today. 1830s in Japan was a period of famine and use of religion for government control.

Flosshilde @susanjordan.bsky.social · 20h

Katsushika Hokusai, Ejiri in Suruga Province (Sunshū Ejiri), c. 1830–32. Met Museum

Bruce Erickson @bruceerickson.bsky.social · 19h

Gardening can feel hard & intimidating at first. I found an easy, low-maintenance way to keep flowers blooming for bees & hummingbirds all spring, summer, & fall. Grab a couple of wildflower seed packs from Walmart & sprinkle them in the corners of your yard you don’t use. Nature takes it from there

MizChateau @mizchateau.bsky.social · 20h

Fall flowers, an energy boost for autumn bees who've survived into October. #gardening #🌱

Garden showing lavender and yellow chrysanthemums; pink impatiens; hosta and misc greens.

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Ele Willoughby @minouette.bsky.social · 1d

For day 12 of #spacetober_challenge prompt eclipse: #mathematician & #astronomer Nicole-Reine Lepaute (1723-1788) and her calculated path of the solar eclipse of 1764. 🧪🐡👩🏼‍🔬🧮🔭 #histsci She also worked with Alexis Clairaut & Jérôme Lalande to precisely calculate the date of return of Halley’s Comet, 🧵

My linocut print of mathematician & astronomer Nicole-Reine Lepaute (1723-1788) in a vertical gradient (bottom to top) of bright pink to lavender on white paper. She wears a wig and gown and the portrait is from the chest to head. Her 12 diagrams of the phases of the annular the solar eclipse of 1764 as viewed from Paris appear across her shoulders. Behind her head in green is her map of the path of the eclipse across Europe.

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Bruce Erickson @bruceerickson.bsky.social · 22h

A great independent source about shipping and ports can be found on Facebook at www.youtube.com/@wgowshipping

What's Going on With Shipping?

What's Going on With Shipping focuses on Maritime Industry Policy, and current events in the Maritime Sector, along with Maritime History. The channel features videos that examine the world's mercha...

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Bruce Erickson @bruceerickson.bsky.social · 23h

🦃 Planning a trip to Kansas City during Thanksgiving week and looking for ideas! Any must-see spots, local history gems, or great places to eat (bonus points for BBQ 🔥)? Drop your KC favorites below — I’d love to hear your suggestions!

#KansasCity #ThanksgivingTrip #TravelIdeas

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Bruce Erickson @bruceerickson.bsky.social · 1d

1. Learning about the parables in Sunday School
2. Hiking 50 miles along the Erie Canal
3. Neil Armstrong walking on the moon
4. My baseball coach calling me the Error King
5. Kent State .. this was the end of my childhood!

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Rabih Alameddine @rabihalameddine.bsky.social · 1d

Fujita Fumio (b 1933)
Beech trees in Autumn, n.d.

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Bruce Erickson @bruceerickson.bsky.social · 1d

MAGAism definition Isaiah 5:20 Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter.

Jennifer Lee 🎃 @uofagrad97.bsky.social · 1d

He called them out.
MAGA likes to cloak themselves in Christianity, but what they are doing is just evil.

Isaiah 5:20

20 Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!

Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 1d

Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”

Bruce Erickson @bruceerickson.bsky.social · 1d

I call it MAGAism.

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Bruce Erickson @bruceerickson.bsky.social · 1d

Only thing missing is the sheen of fake gold.

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Bruce Erickson @bruceerickson.bsky.social · 1d

Gonna try this!

Bruce Erickson @bruceerickson.bsky.social · 1d

Bet someone in the Trump Admin promised her she could be president of Venezuela in about 6 months if she would back Trump.

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Bruce Erickson @bruceerickson.bsky.social · 2d

It's one way to keep him silent for a bit because of Nobel Peace Prize going to someone else.

Bruce Erickson @bruceerickson.bsky.social · 3d

But Kennedy's proclamation that circumcision causes autism motivated me to make a doctors appointment to get tested. Thanks RFK!!

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Bruce Erickson @bruceerickson.bsky.social · 3d

Instead of saying ‘loosening labor market,’ why not just say ‘lower demand for workers’? It’s clearer and people actually know what it means.

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Bruce Erickson @bruceerickson.bsky.social · 3d

When was the last time you worked for someone else?

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Bruce Erickson @bruceerickson.bsky.social · 3d

Focus on the young beginning readers. Parents are looking and when you start them young they continue to read.

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Bruce Erickson @bruceerickson.bsky.social · 3d

Need a dancing jolt this morning?

zzorgon.bsky.social @zzorgon.bsky.social · 3d

#morningmusic 🇷🇴

Fanfare Ciocărlia is a 12-piece (!) brass band from Romania. Though they’ve been active since 1996, and while their village is noted locally for its musicians, none consider themselves to be professionals. You be the judge.
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Good morning, beautiful.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pvU...

Asfalt Tango

YouTube video by Fanfare Ciocarlia - Topic

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Bruce Erickson @bruceerickson.bsky.social · 3d

Taking a pottery class this week — I’ll be lucky if what I make ends up round and upright! Nowhere near the level of this Greek vase… but a person can dream.

Zeb Cyrus @zbcy.bsky.social · 3d

Terracotta vase ca. 6th to 5th century BCE attributed to Nikoxenos Painter, National Archaeological Museum, Athens, Greece

#photography #Hellas #Greek #Hellenism #travel #art #AncientGreece

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Bruce Erickson @bruceerickson.bsky.social · 3d

A Sycamore tussock moth caterpillar from walk along Applegate Trail Bentonville AR this week.

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Chris Jones @jonesforar.bsky.social · 3d

Arkansas, I'm proud to announce I am running for Congress in the 2nd District. For too long, politicians have played photo-op bingo and left working families trying to make a dollar out of fifteen cents. That ends today. I'm building the Next Arkansas where no one is left behind.

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