Stunning photo of early morning clouds over Jezero Crater taken by the Mars Perseverance Rover's NavCams a few hours ago on Sol 738.
NASA/JPL-Caltech/Kevin M. Gill
A letter from a former slave to his "owner".
Backstory: the owner wanted the freed slave to return to him.
This reply, by the former slave, is genius.
It was published in the Cincinnati Commercial newspaper on August 7, 1865. #BlackMastodon https://www.good.is/Culture/jordan-andersons-legendary-clapback-rp
Philip Batterham
This video is misleading, possibly deliberately so. There are people born with Y chromosomes who are female and it is not that rare. To say so is not leftist. You just need an education in genetics. Further, there are people born intersex, and it's genetic.
Reply (some dude):
You look like a nice guy Philip, but she is a Pediatrician
Reply (Philip Batterham):
And I am the President of the International Genetics
Federation.
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Mastodon: Please read my academic white paper describing the impacts of public school system underfunding
What kind of biologist should you be?
I adore this charming - and pretty accurate - chart by @rosemarymosco to help make the decision.
The Ontario government announced today they’ll let students to drop out of school in Grade 11 for full time construction work. Upon completing apprenticeship, they’ll give them a high school diploma.
I was a dropout. I’m a construction worker. I’m a Red Seal tradesperson, an electrician. I am now a trades instructor.
These children are fifteen years old and they should be in class. Construction can be dangerous backbreaking work.
Let’s be very clear: this is child labour, and it’s *wrong.*
People storming school board meetings are “concerned parents,” which implies that their motives are genuine and just, basically shielding their “concerns” from political scrutiny; but students protesting a racist speaker are always “activists,” never “concerned young people.”
College professor, part time nerd and sci-fi enthusiast. Not actually a duck, but what’s Humphrey Bogart got that I ain’t got?