Ag Terrane @agterrane@qoto.org

Incredibly rare photo of Schrödinger's cat.

#Cat #Joke #schrodinger

An iconic view of the Glen. One of the 3 rivers which meet a short distance down the Glen from this location. #landscape #landscapephotography #photography #water #trees #mountains #scotland #nature #winter #snow The snow capped 3 Sisters of Glencoe , with a small river and Rowan tree growing out of a rocky outctop in the foreground.

In the past few hours, a severe #ColdWave has hit the #UK

According to @metoffice, 🇬🇧 saw its coldest day since December 2010

#Scotland covered with snow is visible in the image acquired yesterday, 12 December, by #Copernicus #Sentinel3 🇪🇺🛰️

#UKSnow

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/CopernicusEU/status/1602592290480046080

Fifty years after astronauts left the Moon, they are going back. Why? Words by me https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-04425-6

“Queer' not as being about who you're having sex with (that can be a dimension of it); but 'queer' as being about the self that is at odds with everything around it and that has to invent and create and find a place to speak and to thrive and to live.”
bell hooks

Physicists clock the speed of light at 9,460,730,472,580.8 km/yr (fast!), yet light from the bright stars we see in #space still takes an extraordinarily long time to reach us.

NASA’s Webb telescope has provided a glimpse back more than 13 billion years in time, nearly to the beginning ✨

My goals for 2023: write more poetry, hang out in more cafés, become a vengeful forest spirit

Apparently now people are sending death threats to UFoI members... all this does is reafirm to me the dire need for sonethi g like the UFoI

https://awoo.fyi/@Transparency/posts/AQXMaePil3qyNs6MM4

@ufoi #UFoI #UFI

Why Half of St. Bernard Parish Moved Away After Hurricane Katrina
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After #Katrina devastated the parish, many residents didn’t receive enough money from the state to rebuild. Nearly half made the difficult decision to start over somewhere else.

“My wife had a mother that was elderly, and there was going to be no hospital," said one former resident. "We had a daughter in school, and there was going to be no schools.”

#Louisiana #NewOrleans #Hurricanes

https://www.propublica.org/article/why-half-of-st-bernard-parish-left-after-hurricane-katrina?utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

Just now trying Mastodon to reach out to other Earth-minded people.
My site geologypics.com supports science teaching. It offers >4500 searchable Earth-science photos for free download. Please have a look!
#geology #earthscience #teaching

Happy Monday! Start your week on a positive note by using this handy online tool to simulate the devastation from an asteroid landing in your neighbourhood.

https://neal.fun/asteroid-launcher/

12 December 1934 | A Norwegian Jewish girl, Fanny Synnøve Ganz, was born in Oslo.

In November 1942 she was deported to Auschwitz with her mother Lea and her brother Charles. They were all murdered in a gas chamber after the selection.

#Auschwitz #Birkenau #Holocaust #Shoah #Jews #history #histodons #Nazis #Germany #NeverForget #ww2 #Memorial #Remember #memory #Norway #Oslo

Hi everyone! Just getting started with my mastodon account. I am a Scientific Editor @JExpMed, and I am looking forward to getting to know the mastodon science community!