I just got rickrolled by The Guardian
Wednesday, 15 January 2025

P.E.I. homeowner captures sound and video of meteorite strike on camera, and scientists believe it's a first

quote [ 'It probably would've ripped me in half' ]

I call meteorites to strike the lands
[SFW] [science & technology] [+3 Original]
[by ScoobySnacks@6:01amGMT] [1 comment]

Sunday, 5 January 2025

twtxt.net / yarn.social

quote [ You want to get some thoughts out on the internet in a convenient and slick way while also following the gibberish of others? Instead of signing up at a closed and/or regulated microblogging platform, getting your status updates out with twtxt is as easy as putting them in a publicly accessible text file. ]

A simple, log-like (think RSS as CSV) format from 2016 that allows follows and replies turned into a self-hostable platform in 2020. Link goes to a syndication pod of the main dev, quote via docs. You can set up a simple text file, if I get this right, or run a pod yourself.
[SFW] [science & technology] [+2]
[by Paracetamol@7:55amGMT] [0 comments]

Saturday, 4 January 2025

Century-Scale Storage

quote [ If you had to store something for 100 years, how would you do it? ]

We're dreams in cold storage
[SFW] [science & technology] [+2 Interesting]
[by ScoobySnacks@1:37pmGMT] [0 comments]

Wednesday, 1 January 2025

Searching for 'Dark Oxygen' in One of the World's Deepest Mines

quote [ A scientist's quest for mysterious sources of underground oxygen may offer clues about the origins of life. ]

There's no love oxygen
[SFW] [science & technology] [+1 Interesting]
[by ScoobySnacks@8:56amGMT] [0 comments]

Tuesday, 17 December 2024

How a simple math error sparked a panic about black plastic kitchen utensils

quote [ A study warned that people were being exposed to a toxic chemical from kitchen utensils. But the researchers misstated the safe daily limit ]

Stuck in the elastics
[SFW] [science & technology] [+6 Interesting]
[by ScoobySnacks@6:00amGMT] [4 comments]

Thursday, 12 December 2024

It takes two to think

quote [ improvisational science ]

This is from a podcast series by two bioinformatics people on the creative "night science" aspects of research work. The podcast is a little chatty, but the actual paper is subcscriber-only.

Gist: groups from 3 people might be less creative than just 2 people conversing.
[SFW] [science & technology] [+1 Interesting]
[by Paracetamol@7:31pmGMT] [1 comment]

Sunday, 8 December 2024

Geoengineering Could Alter Global Climate. Should It?

quote [ Scientists and companies increasingly support blocking some sunlight to avoid the worst impacts of global warming. ]

Geo-engineering I'm making those cloudy days
[SFW] [science & technology] [+1 Interesting]
[by ScoobySnacks@6:03amGMT] [0 comments]

Friday, 6 December 2024

Asleep at the Wheel in the Headlight Brightness Wars

quote [ The crusade against bright headlights has picked up speed in recent years, in large part due to a couple of Reddit nerds. Could they know what?s best for the auto industry better than the auto industry itself? ]

Count the headlights on the highway
[SFW] [science & technology] [+3 Underrated]
[by ScoobySnacks@6:01amGMT] [2 comments]

Monday, 2 December 2024

Alexandre Grothendieck, a committed genius

quote [ Alexandre Grothendieck, who is considered one of the founders of modern algebraic geometry, left a considerable mark on mathematics through his genius and his reflections on his time. Ten years after his death, the mathematician Leila Schneps revisits his legacy. ]

Interesting interview about a clever French person.
[SFW] [science & technology] [+1 Interesting]
[by Paracetamol@3:01pmGMT] [0 comments]

Monday, 25 November 2024

Astronomers Discover a 'Newborn' World, the Youngest Known Transiting Exoplanet

quote [ At nearly three million years old, the exoplanet is about the age of a two-week-old baby in planet-years ]

Lowering her landing gear on exoplanet 983
[SFW] [science & technology] [+1 Interesting]
[by ScoobySnacks@1:34pmGMT] [0 comments]

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