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#RFKJr Blames Pills — Not #Guns — for #SchoolShootings
There is NO credible evidence that #antidepressants cause violence, but Kennedy now vows a “massive” effort to prove the failed theory.
#policy #law #Trump #ConspiracyTheories #disinformation #ChildEndangerment #PublicHealth #GunControl #GunLaws #Health #MentalHealth #science #medicine #USpol #SchoolShooting #MassShooting #GunViolence #EnoughIsEnough
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RFK Jr. blames pills—not guns—for school shootings
There is no credible evidence that antidepressants cause violence, but the health secretary now vows a “massive” effort to prove the failed theory.Mother Jones
TLDR; Anyone looking for affordable #science #tutoring let me know.
👩🔬 <- My aunt is a wonderful human being. She is qualified as a #science teacher and over the last year has undergone quite an upheaval in life, relocating to a totally new area in the process. She’s now looking to get back to work via personal tutoring from the new year onwards.
She’s not in it for the money, preferring to help those less advantaged. If you know anyone in secondary education in the UK who wants/needs extra tuition let me know and I’ll put you in touch.
Ideally she’ll get some work local to her in the #Malvern area (#Worcestershire) that she can do in person, but she can also do a few slots per week remote tutoring via Jitsi or similar.
Trump’s anti-green agenda could lead to 1.3 million more temperature-related deaths.
Most of the people expected to suffer live in poor countries in Africa and South Asia that are least prepared to cope with the increasing heat from climate change.
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#News #Climate #ClimateChange #Trump #Data #Science #Politics
Trump’s Anti-Green Agenda Could Lead to 1.3 Million More Climate Deaths. The Poorest Countries Will Be Impacted Most.
Most of the people expected to suffer these temperature-related deaths live in poor countries in Africa and South Asia that are least prepared to cope with the increasing heat from climate change.lena.groeger@propublica.org (ProPublica)
Look at little Mercury transiting in front of the Sun! This scene wasn't visible from Earth, but NASA's STEREO A spacecraft caught it on April 7.
(The video is greatly sped up; the actual event took several hours.)
stereo.gsfc.nasa.gov/ #space #science #nature #nasa
"What is the relationship of science and technology to human history, and how have Marxists conceptualized this problematic within historical materialism? The work of Boris Hessen represents one of the most sophisticated attempts to apply a materialist analysis to the history of science—specifically, how the economic needs of early capitalism influenced what we now think of as modern science and the Scientific Revolution. In this blog, I explore how Hessen pursues his analysis in his seminal essay “The Social and Economic Roots of Newton’s Principia” (henceforth referred to as “Newton’s Roots”).
While Hessen did not develop the first Marxist analysis of science, Hessen’s approach was one of the first truly systematic attempts. Moreover, his work helps us see past the often oversimplified division between “Western Marxism” and Soviet thought, revealing a productive tension in international Marxism through attempts to apply historical materialism in understanding science, technology, and nature under capitalist society.
In the same vein, Henryk Grossman makes the connection between science and capitalist society explicit in his work with the Institute of Social Research (Institut für Sozialforschung, or IfS)—several of Grossmann’s articles were published in the IfS’s journal Zeitschrift für Sozialforschung (ZfS). Grossmann was in fact one of the first defenders of Hessen’s work against critics such as George. N. Clark, Richard S. Westfall, etc. as these critics fundamentally misunderstood Hessen’s theses, and, by extension, Grossmann’s own formulation of the relation between science and capitalist society. While both reached similar conclusions independently, and Grossmann’s work is introduced at points, I focus on Hessen’s formulation here."
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#Marxism #Science #Newton #HistoricalMaterialism #STS #Capitalism
Roots & Branches. Boris Hessen’s Marxist Science Historiography | CTWG
An Introduction to a Marxist Science Historiographyctwgwebsite.github.io
#PPOD: This new JWST picture features a cosmic creepy-crawly called NGC 6537 — the Red Spider Nebula. Using its Near-InfraRed Camera (NIRCam), JWST has revealed never-before-seen details in this picturesque planetary nebula with a rich backdrop of thousands of stars. Planetary nebulae like the Red Spider Nebula form when ordinary stars like the Sun reach the end of their lives. Credit: ESA, NASA & CSA, J. H. Kastner (Rochester Institute of Technology)
As the US government sabotages its own climate web site (along with many other science-based or truth-based sites), a new site is the phoenix borne of its ashes. May it thrive. Please consider donating or otherwise supporting their efforts (e.g., by sharing notice of the site).
#climate #ClimateDenial #resist #science #truth #media #journalism #ClimateData #ClimateReporting #propaganda #hope #politics #USPolitics #fascism #PostTruth
Here's another URL that might be worth sharing:
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Experts fired by Trump revive popular climate website
After cuts by US President Donald Trump forced the closure of the popular climate.gov website, experts have launched an independent successor. They say climate literacy is important in Trump's war against science.Stuart Braun (Deutsche Welle)
The Trump administration isn’t stopping at skepticism about climate change. It’s moving to bar any future administration from responding to it. Read more from @CNN:
has been "adopting the messaging of political propaganda, rather than the #science that the EPA’s work relies on. This includes spreading misinformation about science through official EPA channels, claiming science is a 'religion,' praising 'clean coal'(which does not exist), and attacking members of Congress (which may have violated the Hatch Act, which disallows political campaigning by federal employees)."
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Hundreds of EPA employees have asked their boss, Lee Zeldin, to stop lying
Nearly 500 EPA employees wrote a letter calling out Lee Zeldin for injecting politics into the agency, ignoring science, and spreading misinfoJameson Dow (Electrek)
In a serious gain in efficiency, a Space X Starship prototype has exploded without actually being launched.
They're next plan is to see if they can produce an explosion during the assembly process.
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#news #science #space #NASA #spacex
SpaceX Starship 36 Explodes During Flight 10 Testing at Starbase
While preparing for a 6-engine static fire test as part of its pre-flight test campaign, SpaceX's Ship 36 experienced an anomaly, resulting in destruction of...YouTube
This is the original middle finger of the right hand of #GalileoGalilei as it can be seen in the #MuseoGalileo, Istituto e Museo di Storia della Scienza in #Florence:
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My personal highlight of this trip to Italy so far.
Yes, the #middlefinger gesture is old enough. Even old greeks and romans used it:
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Maybe this (and the #catholicchurch forcing him to publicly revoke his findings) is why somebody decided to steal this part of his body when he was moved years after his death.
From now on, this picture will be awarded by me to anybody who is talking bullshit that was scientifically proven wrong already.
Use my photos under #CCbyNCSA: creativecommons.org/licenses/b…
#Homöopathie #homeopathy #Schwurbel #nonsense #science #research #galileosmiddlefinger #relic #education #religion #history #church #catholic
/cc #minkorrekt @minkorrekt
Where to go for a PhD? Change of interest from non-US students.
Source: Economist, 2025 economist.com/science-and-tech… #science #uspol
America is in danger of experiencing an academic brain drain
Other countries may benefit. Science will sufferThe Economist
Penguins to the rescue; Penguin poo->ammonia->cloud seeding
🐧 💩
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Penguin guano is an important source of climate-relevant aerosol particles in Antarctica - Communications Earth & Environment
Penguin colonies emit gaseous ammonia that enhances new particle formation processes in Antarctica, according to online observations of gaseous ammonia and aerosol particles from a coastal site in Antarctica.Nature
Gray’s Music: Over the Telegraph
Inventor of the telephone Elisha Gray also pioneered the world’s first purpose-built electric musical instrument.
By: Matthew Wills
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NASA engineer Ed Smylie, who helped keep the Apollo 13 astronauts alive using a combination of a spacesuit hose, sock, plastic bag, cue cards and duct tape, has died at age 95. Four hours after the explosion that tore through Apollo 13 in 1970, Smylie became concerned that the crew would suffocate due to the accumulation of carbon dioxide in the air. He and his team of 60 came up with a plan, tested it and explained to Jim Lovell, Fred Haise and Jack Swigert how to build it during their emergency trip back to Earth. Smylie, who died in late April, received a Presidential Medal of Freedom for his service to the space program. Here's more from @Spacecom.
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#Space #Science #NASA #Engineering #SpaceTravel #EdSmylie #InMemoriam #RIP
NASA engineer Ed Smylie, who led carbon dioxide fix on Apollo 13, dies at 95
Smylie, with his team, found the "way to make 'this' fit into the hole for 'this,' using nothing but 'that.'"Robert Z. Pearlman (Space)
I am honored to share that I’ve been nominated for an Emmy as host of PBS’s Serving Up Science - a series funded by the National Science Foundation.
This recognition is a testament to what federal science funding & public media can achieve when we invest in #science, education & evidence-based storytelling.
And it’s a reminder that curiosity matters & there is value in making science understandable & available to all.
If this resonates with you, I hope you’ll support science agencies & PBS.
New #intro!
I’m a hyperjack musician, writer & video artist. My latest album, ‘Status’, is mainly about escaping Big Tech dystopia.
My website meljoann.com includes nerdy blog posts on Faircamp, Owncast & leaving mainstream social media.
Some stuff I love:
#musicProduction #videoProduction #books #experimentalMusic #electronicMusic #RandB #earlyMusic #improvisedMusic #science #knitting #history #scienceFiction #horror #alternativeComedy #anarchism #foss #linux #introduction
![Katy's Shit Cartoons
@KatysCartoons
Atoms are binary. They are either intended to be
hydrogen or helium. We can't just scrap this
worldview just because of a handful of
exceptions
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Types of atom in the universe
[Pie Chart: Hydrogen 74%, Helium 25%, Other 1%]](https://fedi.ml/photo/preview/640/662169 "Katy's Shit Cartoons
@KatysCartoons
Atoms are binary. They are either intended to be
hydrogen or helium. We can't just scrap this
worldview just because of a handful of
exceptions
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Image:
Types of atom in the universe
[Pie Chart: Hydrogen 74%, Helium 25%, Other 1%]")
Possibly the weirdest planet yet discovered?
Newfound world 2M1510 (AB) b appears to orbit not one but two stars...and they are actually failed stars, known as brown dwarfs...and the planet orbits sideways, in a unique up-and-down polar orbit.
eso.org/public/news/eso2508/ #space #science #astronomy #nature
"Big surprise": astronomers find planet in perpendicular orbit around pair of stars
Astronomers have found a planet that orbits at an angle of 90 degrees around a rare pair of peculiar stars. This is the first time we have strong evidence for one of these ‘polar planets’ orbiting a stellar pair.www.eso.org
Released last Friday, a digital reconstruction of the Titanic chronicles a never-before-seen view of the wreck that is “accurate to the rivet,” a statement says.
thisiscolossal.com/2025/04/tit…
#titanic #history #photography #science #ocean #technology
'Titanic: The Digital Resurrection' Unveils an Unprecedented View of the Harrowing Maritime Disaster — Colossal
In the summer of 2022, a team of deep-sea researchers spent six weeks in the North Atlantic Ocean, revisiting the remains of HMS Titanic.Kate Mothes (Colossal)
Anyone who is blind, or who has worked with the blind, knows how expensive our technology can be. This couldn't be more true with relation to braille displays. Even the cheapest costs at least $799, and it's already behind the newest in that line, at $899. This is the Orbit Reader 20 and 20+. Now, a student in India wants to change that by creating a display that is truly affordable (under $50)! Please pass this on, so that we can give him greater recognition within the blind community. Even if it costs a bit more than he initially suspected it would, there is no excuse for the $2,000 to $5,000 average price of such technology when cheaper alternatives can be designed! He is determined to bring this to market, so let's help him do it and show our appreciation for his hard work on this life-changing project!
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#access #ACB #accessibility #affordability #blind #braille #BrailleDisplays #children #education #employment #independence #India #learning #NFB #ocr #parent #reading #science #school #students #teachers #technology #work #writing
Holy shit, the PCB design of this new sensor board, called Ophanim, of CERN’s Aegis experiment just fucking slaps. Right now, there don’t seem to be many images of it on the web, but I hope to see more in the future.
Global warming has accelerated. Earth’s climate is heating up faster today than it was 20 or 30 years ago.
That’s not doomism. It is reality.
If we do not end capitalism, capitalism will end us.
#Science #Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #Capitalism
Like the more famous Pompei, Herculaneum was destroyed by Mount Vesuvius in 79 A.D.
In 1752, workmen discovered charred papyri and excavations of them started later. Over the years, attempts have been made to open and read them, but they have disintegrated.
Now, using volumetric scanning, the scrolls are beginning to be "unrolled."
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The mRNA technology behind coronavirus vaccines is now being used to create bespoke vaccines for cancer patients.
"Cancer vaccines weren’t a proper field of research before the pandemic. There was nothing. Apart from one exception, pretty much every clinical trial had failed. With the pandemic, however, we proved that mRNA vaccines were possible.
mRNA cancer vaccines work by giving the body instructions to make a harmless piece of a cancer-related protein. This trains the immune system to recognize and attack cancer cells carrying that protein. Think of it like a training manual for security guards. The vaccine gives the immune system a guide on what cancer looks like, so it knows exactly who to watch for and remove.
Going from mRNA Covid vaccines to mRNA cancer vaccines is straightforward: same fridges, same protocol, same drug, just a different patient.
In the current trials, we do a biopsy of the patient, sequence the tissue, send it to the pharmaceutical company, and they design a personalized vaccine that’s bespoke to that patient’s cancer. That vaccine is not suitable for anyone else. It’s like science fiction.
The UK was ready. We had fridges and we had world-class manufacturing and research facilities. During the pandemic, we had proven we could open and deliver clinical trials fast. Also, the UK had established a genomic global lead with Genomics England and the 100,000 Genome Project. All doctors and nurses in this country are trained in genomics.
So the UK government signed two partnerships: one with BioNTech to provide 10,000 patients with access to personalized cancer treatments by 2030, and a 10-year investment with Moderna in an innovation and technology center with capacity to produce up to 250 million vaccines. The stars were aligned.
For many years, we believed that research is inherently slow. It used to take 20 years to get a drug to market. Most cancer patients, unfortunately, will succumb by the time a drug gets to market. We showed the world that it could be done in a year if you modernize your process, run parts of the process in parallel, and use digital tools.
We have a trial to stop skin cancer coming back after you cut it out. It’s now completed. We over-recruited again, just like every single one of the trials that we ran, and the trial finished one year ahead of schedule. That’s completely unheard of in cancer trials because they normally run over-long.
What will happen now is that, over the next six to 12 months, we will monitor the people in the trial and work out if there’s a difference between the people who took the cancer vaccine and the ones who didn’t. We’re hoping to have results by the end of the year or beginning of 2026. If it’s successful, we will have invented the first approved personalized mRNA vaccine, within only five years of the first licensed mRNA vaccine for Covid. That’s pretty impressive."
- Dr. Lennard Lee, UK National Health Service oncologist and medical director at the Ellison Institute of Technology in Oxford
Here it is: The first clear image of an eclipse of the Sun by the Earth, taken from the surface of the Moon.
This is what last night's lunar eclipse looked like from the Blue Ghost lander's perspective on the Moon. Amazing!
flickr.com/photos/fireflyspace… #space #science #art #tech
Blue Ghost Mission 1 - Solar Eclipse Diamond Ring Effect
Credit/copyright: Firefly Aerospace Blue Ghost got her first diamond ring! Captured at our landing site in the Moon’s Mare Crisium around 3:30 am CDT, the photo shows the sun about to emerge from totality behind EarthFlickr
I loved working on this article:
The technology in your cell phone has a hidden connection to the stars. Modern computer chips are made using ultraviolet light from vaporized balls of tin--and those balls closely mirror the physics of supernova explosions!
spectrum.ieee.org/euv-light-so… #science #tech #space
The Tiny Star Explosions Powering Moore’s Law
The same math that describes supernovas makes EUV lithography possibleJayson Stewart (IEEE Spectrum)
Josephine Cochrane Invented The Modern Dishwasher — In 1886
Popular Science has an excellent article on how Josephine Cochrane transformed how dishes are cleaned by inventing an automated dish washing machine and obtaining a patent in 1886. Dishwashers had …Hackaday
Okay, now #trump is claiming to be tackling #toxic #chemical exposure & heralding #RFKJr as the #health secy. This will be very difficult for me to watch. #Liar.
Holy shit, he’s claiming a kid received #transition #medical procedures at school during the school day. Literally impossible.
He says #transgender care is mutilation.
#POS
#PublicHealth #science #medicine #ConspiracyTheories #hate #bigotry #heterosexism #LGBTQIA #HumanRights #CivilRights #FactCheck #TrumpLies
I love rice cookers
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#Cooking #Food #Rice #RiceCookers #Science
Old-fashioned rice cookers are extremely clever
You can support this channel on Patreon! Link below Bet you didn't think a rice cooker was so interesting, did ya?Links! Get your links! Hot, fresh, links...YouTube
We can now safely say, asteroid 2024 YR4 is not coming for us after all.
Latest observations indicate that the asteroid has just a 0.0039% risk of hitting Earth in 2032. But there's still a small chance it could hit the Moon.
cneos.jpl.nasa.gov/sentry/deta… #science #space #2024YR4
Sentry: Earth Impact Monitoring
NASA's Near-Earth Object (NEO) web-site. Data related to Earth impact risk, close-approaches, and much more.cneos.jpl.nasa.gov
This is what an erupting volcano looks like from space.
Credit: NASA Johnson
More details: earthobservatory.nasa.gov/imag…
Sarychev Peak Eruption, Kuril Islands
A fortuitous orbit of the International Space Station in 2009 offered the astronauts a striking view of the volcano in an early stage of eruption.earthobservatory.nasa.gov
Fellow comrades in #academia - there’s a very cool project launching called Science Homecoming, that allows you to find local papers from your hometown and encourages you to pitch them an opinion piece about the current attacks on #science and #highered.
I pitched a piece to my hometown paper and they got back to me in about 10 minutes saying they definitely wanted to see it. So think this is a simple thing to do with high impact potential
More info here 👇
sciencehomecoming.com/