Dr Keith Walker @SteelFolk@qoto.org
Steel industry metallurgical specialist.
Joined Nov 2022
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Sometimes marketing is all about waiting long enough for your audience to forget about the 80s and 90s.
I love how ALDI celebrates this brilliant new design that saves 40% of plastic by removing the plastic lid.
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Lastest data: 🥺
+ Carbon dioxide (*new monthly record*)
+ Methane (*new monthly record*)
+ Nitrous oxide (*new monthly record*)
Observations provided by https://gml.noaa.gov/ccgg/trends/
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#Kyanite is a beautiful blue mineral that is typically found in metamorphic rocks. It is an aluminum silicate mineral, with the chemical formula Al₂SiO₅. Kyanite is known for its bladed crystals, Read more here:
https://www.geologyin.com/2024/03/kyanite-properties-occurrence-uses.html?fbclid=IwAR3lup-OlmvFyou8p4DoyT_yGi2lI7Z16lo9zytut2FhS-60bVKnY56nWNU
By #GeologyWonders
#Geology #GeologyPage #Nature #minerals #crystals #gems #Nature #NatureLovers #NaturePhotography #Photographer
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A great article by @STAT's newsletter strategist Alexa Lee: #Puberty is hitting girls earlier, bringing with it mental and social hurdles.
"I didn’t get to explain the educational part of puberty to her before it took place. We were stuck dealing with the changes and learning all at the same time."
https://www.statnews.com/2024/03/07/girls-precocious-puberty-mental-health/
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It's fascinating how quick we are to assign value based on pay, yet slow to recognize the immense contribution of caretakers, artists, and volunteers. What if we flipped the script? Universal Basic Income isn't just about money—it's about valuing all forms of work, paid or not.
@sciencebase It gets stuck in the coiled strings. Entirely unforeseeable as I explained.
@sciencebase Not what Dr Kemp said when he unfolded his views on the matter and me in particular.
@sciencebase I got a right bollocking for trying it on a Spanish at school. It actually wore completely through into two hanging bits either end.
@sciencebase Got your bow for the extended version of 'Dazed and Confused'?
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Please repost: #job in #climatescience
I am looking to fill positions in my group at Universitaet Hamburg and @MPI_Meteo
👉Postdoc examining the response of the ocean carbon storage to abrupt events during the last deglaciation
https://www.uni-hamburg.de/stellenangebote/ausschreibung.html?jobID=13da546994dd624cdb680d4ab26a89af41aedb89
👉Postdoc developing the ocean carbon cycle in emission-driven ICON ESM
https://www.uni-hamburg.de/stellenangebote/ausschreibung.html?jobID=e6e26a5f837885c12285f9902ac36689f720f611
👉PhD investigating mechanisms of predictability of compound extreme events in the ocean and their effects on the carbon sink
https://jobs.mpimet.mpg.de/jobposting/fcb8fa96c351b278f4199dea84df1c5ff57bf0630
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The Design Research Society Special Interest Group on Design Ethics has just published a web collection of UNETHICAL Designs:
https://unethical-designs.framer.ai/
Ah, you can also send more examples.
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In the same way as "the cloud is just someone else's computer" - "AI decisions are just someone else's prejudices".
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Italy’s far-right party proposed using AI to assign youth mandatory jobs.
“The young person will no longer be able to choose whether to work or not, but [will be] bound to accept the job offer for himself (sic), for his family and for the country, under penalty of loss of all benefits.”
https://algorithmwatch.org/en/italian-neofascists-artificial-intelligence/
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An very insightful analysis of Dune that contextualises it within Arab histories. Well deserved your time.
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“Please turn off your ad blocker to continue”
Nah. Easier to hit the back button and just carry on living my life. You have nothing that I want to read that’s worth what little privacy I have left.
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Why is it that on every single hike I take I encounter so many large old trees having been felled.
When will people understand that they don't grow as fast as one chops them down.
In some cases there may be valid reasons; but often, as far as I can tell, the reason is mainly "potential risk to passing traffic", interpreted as "reduce risk to zero" - a sterile worldview. The damage to the quality of our landscapes is immense.
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Imagine if all the collective money spent of “self driving cars” had been spent on public transport.
As in, not cars - which are ultimately bad solutions for most of the world - but punctual and pervasive clean-energy public trams, trains, and buses.
It’d have cost less and been far more useful for far more people. Including non-drivers. And actually be here. Today. Working.
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Howard Beckett: There are EU nations refusing to partner with Israel’s genocide and vow to continue funding UNRWA:
Ireland 🇮🇪
Scotland 🏴
Belgium 🇧🇪
Luxembourg 🇱🇺
Norway 🇳🇴
Slovenia 🇸🇮 doubled funding
Portugal 🇵🇹 donating an extra €1ml
Spain 🇪🇸 trebled funding to €50ml.
Celebrate them
@palestine
@sciencebase Maybe nobody nose what it is.
Steel industry metallurgical specialist.
Joined Nov 2022
