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Carl Sagan explains how stars are born, live, die, and give us life www.themarginalian.org/2014/12/17/c...
Carl Sagan Explains How Stars Are Born, Live, Die, and Give Us Life
“We are made by the atoms and the stars… our matter and our form are determined by the cosmos of which we are a part.”
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November 8, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Carl Sagan explains how stars are born, live, die, and give us life www.themarginalian.org/2014/12/17/c...
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"For small creatures such as we, the vastness is bearable only through love."
Happy 91st Birthday to Carl Sagan – a true pioneer of science who ignited our cosmic curiosity. ❤️
Happy 91st Birthday to Carl Sagan – a true pioneer of science who ignited our cosmic curiosity. ❤️
November 9, 2025 at 11:40 AM
"For small creatures such as we, the vastness is bearable only through love."
Happy 91st Birthday to Carl Sagan – a true pioneer of science who ignited our cosmic curiosity. ❤️
Happy 91st Birthday to Carl Sagan – a true pioneer of science who ignited our cosmic curiosity. ❤️
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Carl Sagan warned about the mindset behind MAGA two decades before it emerged.
November 8, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Carl Sagan warned about the mindset behind MAGA two decades before it emerged.
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"Fascism is a temper tantrum disguised as an ideology" is a great line
Dam been writing a book about this and she just TikToked it in 90 seconds.
September 19, 2025 at 2:58 PM
"Fascism is a temper tantrum disguised as an ideology" is a great line
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This is all very simple. Let the world's two biggest babies fight and visibly construct and build a world without them. Anybody who tries to welcome Elon Musk, the world's most preeminent ratfucker, into their political party should be put in a dog crate until 2029.
June 5, 2025 at 9:53 PM
This is all very simple. Let the world's two biggest babies fight and visibly construct and build a world without them. Anybody who tries to welcome Elon Musk, the world's most preeminent ratfucker, into their political party should be put in a dog crate until 2029.
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Almost 50 years ago, conservationists reintroduced white-tailed eagles to Scotland. It’s gone well. Some say too well.
Written by Emma Marris.
hakaimagazine.com/features/the...
Written by Emma Marris.
hakaimagazine.com/features/the...
September 12, 2023 at 8:53 PM
Almost 50 years ago, conservationists reintroduced white-tailed eagles to Scotland. It’s gone well. Some say too well.
Written by Emma Marris.
hakaimagazine.com/features/the...
Written by Emma Marris.
hakaimagazine.com/features/the...
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NEW: Citations in the MAHA Report have telltale signs of AI chatbot use -- we reviewed all 522 of the listed citations, and at least 37 of the footnotes appear multiple times in the citations with another 21 having dead links
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White House MAHA Report may have garbled science by using AI, experts say
The report, led by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., was intended to address the reasons for the decline in Americans’ life expectancy.
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May 30, 2025 at 1:00 AM
NEW: Citations in the MAHA Report have telltale signs of AI chatbot use -- we reviewed all 522 of the listed citations, and at least 37 of the footnotes appear multiple times in the citations with another 21 having dead links
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"Cuts have no apparent regard for civil society or opportunity costs or long-term strategic thinking. Their targets are Elon Musk’s and Project 2025’s targets. They have found no fraud, just democracy at work. They’re apparently eager to see what happens when it no longer does." Brian Barrett:
The DOGE Takeover Is Worse Than You Think
What’s happening to the US government right now is bad. What comes next is worse.
www.wired.com
February 27, 2025 at 3:21 PM
"Cuts have no apparent regard for civil society or opportunity costs or long-term strategic thinking. Their targets are Elon Musk’s and Project 2025’s targets. They have found no fraud, just democracy at work. They’re apparently eager to see what happens when it no longer does." Brian Barrett:
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So close!
DNA is the DNA of life.
DNA is the DNA of life.
February 22, 2025 at 6:06 AM
So close!
DNA is the DNA of life.
DNA is the DNA of life.
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Scientific breakthroughs we might not have had without NSF funding:
The Internet
Smartphones
DNA analysis
MRIs
Doppler radar
Bar codes
And this is just the tiniest tip of the iceburg.
The Internet
Smartphones
DNA analysis
MRIs
Doppler radar
Bar codes
And this is just the tiniest tip of the iceburg.
January 28, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Scientific breakthroughs we might not have had without NSF funding:
The Internet
Smartphones
DNA analysis
MRIs
Doppler radar
Bar codes
And this is just the tiniest tip of the iceburg.
The Internet
Smartphones
DNA analysis
MRIs
Doppler radar
Bar codes
And this is just the tiniest tip of the iceburg.
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Oh no, the Chinese plagiarism machine might have plagiarized the American plagiarism machine
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Microsoft Probing If DeepSeek-Linked Group Improperly Obtained OpenAI Data
Microsoft Corp. and OpenAI are investigating whether data output from OpenAI’s technology was obtained in an unauthorized manner by a group linked to Chinese artificial intelligence startup DeepSeek, ...
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January 29, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Oh no, the Chinese plagiarism machine might have plagiarized the American plagiarism machine
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I think the greatest movie that we'll never get to see is: shadowy black ops agents repeatedly attempting to murder Clark Kent, because he's breaking a huge story about tech-adjacent, governmental corruption, and repeatedly (ludicrously) failing, because they have no idea he's Superman
January 22, 2025 at 4:36 PM
I think the greatest movie that we'll never get to see is: shadowy black ops agents repeatedly attempting to murder Clark Kent, because he's breaking a huge story about tech-adjacent, governmental corruption, and repeatedly (ludicrously) failing, because they have no idea he's Superman
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We're going to end up reversing the most successful public health intervention in US history (our teeth used to just fall out! When I was growing up, all my older relatives were toothless!), and the NYT will share the blame for normalizing the idea that fluoridized water is dangerous.
January 9, 2025 at 5:04 PM
We're going to end up reversing the most successful public health intervention in US history (our teeth used to just fall out! When I was growing up, all my older relatives were toothless!), and the NYT will share the blame for normalizing the idea that fluoridized water is dangerous.
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One thing they don't mention: The overwhelming majority of the 74 studies were in China (45) and India (12), which seems like relevant information to mention when we're talking about US policy. And, again, it ONLY looked at IQ test scores, not other measures of cognitive function.
January 9, 2025 at 4:59 PM
One thing they don't mention: The overwhelming majority of the 74 studies were in China (45) and India (12), which seems like relevant information to mention when we're talking about US policy. And, again, it ONLY looked at IQ test scores, not other measures of cognitive function.
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20 PARAGRAPHS IN, we learn that typical US fluoride levels are less than half of those considered in the study, which are all from other countries. Also deep in the story, we learn that what they mean by "lower cognitive function" is a 1.6-point drop in IQ, a long-debunked measure of "intelligence."
January 9, 2025 at 4:59 PM
20 PARAGRAPHS IN, we learn that typical US fluoride levels are less than half of those considered in the study, which are all from other countries. Also deep in the story, we learn that what they mean by "lower cognitive function" is a 1.6-point drop in IQ, a long-debunked measure of "intelligence."
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NYT continues its irresponsible normalizing of dangerous fringe ideas by mischaracterizing an analysis of fluoridation in other countries very different from the US (more on that in a sec) to suggest that fluoride harms people's brains. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/08/h...
Study Links High Fluoride Exposure to Lower I.Q. in Children
The results of a new federal analysis were drawn from studies conducted in other countries, where drinking water contains more fluoride than in the United States.
www.nytimes.com
January 9, 2025 at 4:59 PM
NYT continues its irresponsible normalizing of dangerous fringe ideas by mischaracterizing an analysis of fluoridation in other countries very different from the US (more on that in a sec) to suggest that fluoride harms people's brains. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/08/h...
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I saw Elon speak at TED in 2017, before his brain had melted entirely from Ketamine and hate. I was curious. His talk was kind of rambling but interesting... until he started claiming the ancient Egyptians had failed because they stopped building pyramids. He went on at LENGTH. My jaw was open 1/2
January 9, 2025 at 12:42 PM
I saw Elon speak at TED in 2017, before his brain had melted entirely from Ketamine and hate. I was curious. His talk was kind of rambling but interesting... until he started claiming the ancient Egyptians had failed because they stopped building pyramids. He went on at LENGTH. My jaw was open 1/2
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Eldersister playing Knowing at Van Sessions.
“Knowing,” Eldersister // Van Sessions at The Monarch
YouTube video by Van Sessions
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November 23, 2024 at 7:49 PM
Eldersister playing Knowing at Van Sessions.
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Post a non-religious photo you think of as holy...
November 21, 2024 at 2:20 PM
Post a non-religious photo you think of as holy...
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There’s more to rainbows than the human eye can see: here’s how a rainbow extends into the infrared and ultraviolet.
Photos:
1. Infrared
2. Visible (obviously)
3. Ultraviolet, and
4. A composite showing how UV is beyond the violet in a rainbow, and IR beyond the red end.
🧪 #photography
Photos:
1. Infrared
2. Visible (obviously)
3. Ultraviolet, and
4. A composite showing how UV is beyond the violet in a rainbow, and IR beyond the red end.
🧪 #photography
November 21, 2024 at 10:35 AM
There’s more to rainbows than the human eye can see: here’s how a rainbow extends into the infrared and ultraviolet.
Photos:
1. Infrared
2. Visible (obviously)
3. Ultraviolet, and
4. A composite showing how UV is beyond the violet in a rainbow, and IR beyond the red end.
🧪 #photography
Photos:
1. Infrared
2. Visible (obviously)
3. Ultraviolet, and
4. A composite showing how UV is beyond the violet in a rainbow, and IR beyond the red end.
🧪 #photography