Dr Keith Walker @SteelFolk@qoto.org
Steel industry metallurgical specialist.
Joined Nov 2022
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Police make 630 arrests of climate protesters in London in one month.
U.K.'s ‘staggering and shocking’ statistic as anti-protest legislation is enacted.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/dec/04/police-arrest-climate-protesters-london
@sciencebase I take it that you were kept in the pit to avoid an 18 certificate.😉
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Belgian philosopher, cartographer & mathematician Gerardus Mercator died #OTD in 1594.
He made the group of stars we know as Coma Berenices into an official constellation. He also made terrestrial & celestial globes and was one of the 1st to show the now-obsolete constellation Antinous on a star globe, this being on one he made in 1551. The 47 km diameter lunar crater Mercator, located on the south western edge of Mare Nubium, is named in his honour. via SocietyHistoryAstronomy
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Really, really interesting.
Behind The Lines with Arthur Snell | Ep 17 Can Parliament Take Back Control? on Podbean. https://www.podbean.com/ea/dir-jh7cs-1c27e0d5
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Russian mathematician and geometer Nikolai Lobachevsky was born #OTD in 1792.
He is known primarily for his work on hyperbolic geometry, otherwise known as Lobachevskian geometry, and also for his fundamental study on Dirichlet integrals, known as the Lobachevsky integral formula.
Another of his achievements was developing a method for the approximation of the roots of algebraic equations (Lobachevsky method). via @wikipedia
@sciencebase They could learn from cats how to look like they meant to make a cods of it afterwards. Ours was good at that with butterflies she missed completely.
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We would like to make tungsten needles for doing our dissections. Does anyone know where we can get size 0.008 tungsten wire? We would prefer to have it in the form of 3 ft rods if possible. #Drosophila #microscopy
@sciencebase Not so much a 'stoop' as a 'flop'.
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"We should regret our mistakes and learn from them, but never carry them forward into the future with us."
The Anne of Green Gables Chronicles
Canadian Author Lucy Maud Montgomery was born #OTD in 1874. Most of her novels were set on Prince Edward Island, and those locations within Canada's smallest province became a literary landmark and popular tourist site – namely Green Gables farm, the genesis of Prince Edward Island National Park.
L. M. Montgomery at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/36
@sciencebase Spawny get.
@sciencebase Is it still called a 'stoop' if it's a wol?
@sciencebase He looks well snoddened. Curious word coming from 'snod. which usually means 'smooth'.
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For those wondering what #feminist solution is, there is a helpful book 'Feminist Solutions for Ending War'.
https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/52008
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“Climate change is a man-made problem and requires a feminist solution,” said the former President of Ireland Mary Robinson 👏 👏 👏
https://www.bcheights.com/2022/04/24/former-president-of-ireland-speaks-at-boston-college-hosting-earth-conference/
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My piece on the repugnant economics of hostage-taking explains why Israel releases far more prisoners than Hamas does hostages, and why Hamas treats hostages better than Israel does Palestinian prisoners.
https://coppolacomment.substack.com/p/hostage-economics
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A guy in an SUV yelled sexual harassment while biking at night, stalked me for 4 miles, popped around the corner to drive directly at me in the wrong lane of traffic to continue yelling bc I ignored him; tried to ram me into parked cars or directly into his car's grill. I had only a few feet and 1 second to maneuver.
Roads need protected bike lanes to reduce this violent, shitty behaviour! It's easier to advocate for infrastructure than for not being treated like property or murdered. *sigh*
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Fascinating Atlantic Monthly piece on America's falling economy.
It's complicated, of course, but finds a place for racism, RFK, LBJ, the rise of college educated voters, the rift betw/ white working class & the Dems, Nixon, global events, Reagan, etc.
Makes it seem so inevitable.
tinyurl.com/u3r3y7ex
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Make no mistake. Trump wants to TERMINATE healthcare for millions by gutting the Affordable Care Act.
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"Scientific discovery consists in the interpretation for our own convenience of a system of existence which has been made with no eye to our convenience at all.
One of the chief duties of a mathematician in acting as an advisor to scientists is to discourage them from expecting too much of mathematicians."
As quoted in Comic Sections (1993) by D MacHale
Steel industry metallurgical specialist.
Joined Nov 2022
