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The toast sandwich article was created on English Wikipedia twelve years ago today!

(photo: Qwantz, CC BY-SA 3.0)

Apropos of nothing (and everything):

It is way more fun to lift people up than to tear them down.

After DART Smashed Into Dimorphos, What Happened to the Larger Asteroid Didymos? @asrivkin tells me about new observations using JWST to see how the parent asteroid is doing, post-DART impact. universetoday.com/163895/after

Massachusetts ME/CFS and FM Annual Event

"ME/CFS: Changing the Narrative"

October 28, 1-3 PM Eastern Time (on Zoom)

Guest Speaker: Ed Yong

Fee is $10 for non-members

Full details: massmecfs.org/news-events/866-

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I'm always struck by how uncanny the images from space missions can look: the precision of the movements and the flatness of some textures
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bro levels are 06% and falling

(06%) ■□□□□□□□□□

I signed a thousand books today. Almost all of them were ones I wrote!

Lizardite, a green serpentine-subgroup mineral is surprisingly not named for lizards, but for The Lizard, in Cornwall, also strangely not named for lizards but rather for “Lys Ardh” the Cornish High Court.

I will give Rhodochrosite the art vote. It does appear in jewelry, but really it’s for strictly aesthetic “forbidden bacon” reasons. I mean look at it! #MinCup23

I think part of the reason I favor integrative models in biology is that the way I've learned to understand complex things is through syntactically complex linked structures like program code that, in a (somewhat loose) sense, recapitulate the structure of what they describe. The way I've learned biology up to this point is by linking together, in my head, a variety of narrative descriptions and figures that I have to integrate in a loosely structured manner. An integrated, multi-level model (a schema, perhaps) seems like an effective alternative, though it may ultimately only be legible to the person who creates it.

> "Searching for a solution" to kill a process

Windows. You're the f*cking OS. You just do it, babe

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I *hate* how actively coddles its users. They even redirect away from features explicitly asked for. It's so stupide.

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