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A universe in motion seen from the International Space Station during a night pass over Earth.
#TIL that we need 'negative leap seconds'.
#Climate #ClimateChange #Research #News #Physics #Engineering #Geophysics #InformationTechnology #IT #STEM #Technology #Tech #Science
"Magellanโs behavior became increasingly rebellious and not in tune with the Portuguese authoritiesโ expectations. He took leave without permission, was accused of illegally trading in Morocco, and even quarreled with the Portuguese King Manuel I."
Perpuli, Francisco. "Ferdinand Magellan & The First Voyage Around the World" TheCollector.com, https://www.thecollector.com/ferdinand-magellan-voyage/ (accessed March 27, 2024). #History #Histodon #Histodons #Portugal #Spain #Europe #EarlyModern @histodon @histodons @earlymodern
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#GoodMorning to all on #Mastodon and in the #Fediverse.
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#shrinkflation - Anyone cracking open an #Eastereggs this year may notice two things: not only is it a lot more expensive, itโs also smaller, chart @FT https://www.ft.com/content/02f3475b-3c5f-4685-83a2-f8026afc63b2?segmentId=114a04fe-353d-37db-f705-204c9a0a157b
I miss the days of the #ShortWave #Wireless. #Radio #Nostalgia
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๐จ๐ฎ ๐ฌ๐ญ "The FTโs Susannah Savage explains how a rise in cocoa prices has pushed up the cost of chocolate. She says that speculation, climate change and under-investment have also affected the price in the market." https://youtu.be/Y43JgRmIvkw #FT #Video #Shorts #Cocoa #Chocolate #Climate #ClimateChange #Environment #IvoryCoast #Ghana #Africa @climatechange
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Did you know: Helsinki (Finland) is closer to Alaska than it is to New York City?
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Here's a beautiful oddity: This nebula was created by a very rare type of supernova that HALF-exploded 800 years ago.
Two white dwarf stars collided & detonated, lighting up Earth's skies. Somehow one of the white dwarfs survived, leaving behind the hottest star in our galaxy.
https://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Images/2024/03/Marvel_at_stunning_echo_of_800-year-old_explosion?rand=771654 #space #science #astronomy #nature
"For some people, their status was elevated still further by the widely publicized discovery in 2007 that some Neanderthals carried genes suggesting they had red hair and light skin. These ancient inhabitants of Europe and Asia became coded as white, and on social media some people began to claim Neanderthal ancestry as a mark of racial superiority." http://www.doi.org/10.1126/science.z6n7io6 #DOI #Science #STEM #Anthropology #Neanderthals #Racism #Racist @science @anthropology
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The ancient Romans had an alternative to daylight savings time.
BBC News reports: "Twice a year, around a third of the world's countries perform a hotly-debated ritual: meddling with time to create longer summer evenings and brighter winter mornings."
"Examining current temperature increases, it seemed to this observer that scientists have been underestimating for some time how quickly the situation is deteriorating." https://www.theguardian.com/news/2024/mar/29/copernicus-online-portal-offers-terrifying-view-climate-emergency #Climate #ClimateChnage #ClimateCrisis #Environment #Weather #Science #STEM #News @science @climatechange @climatecrisis
"To experience the popes and their city from afar meant to gaze upon metres-long rolls of an unfamiliar, precious, Egyptian fabric, and to watch them being unfurled in a church, palace, or place of assembly, to reveal decrees penned in a strange southern Italian script, sometimes even an Arabic one that looked stranger still. Was this the Rome of Bede, Offa, Wulfstan, รthelred? " https://blog.oup.com/2024/03/england-and-egypt-in-the-early-middle-ages-the-papal-connection/ #Europe #History #Histodon #Histodons #Literature #MiddleEast #England #Egypt #Medieval #Rome #Medievodons @histodon @histodons @medievodons
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This will either melt your head or set you up for the day!
Deriving Newtonโs Law of Universal Gravitation via thermodynamics and entropy in a holographic Universe ๐ง ๐ง๐คฏ
#QOTO: is there any way on the desktop version to schedule toots?
"Archaeology supports the conclusion that Brittany was not founded in the mid-fifth century. A foundation in the late fourth century is most compatible with the archaeological evidence, limited though it is."
Howells, Caleb. "Was Brittany Founded by Magnus Maximus?" TheCollector.com, https://www.thecollector.com/magnus-maximus-founded-brittany/ (accessed March 28, 2024). #History #Histodon #Histodons #Britanny #France #Britain #Europe @histodon @histodons
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Will this new feature reduce attention spans even further? https://www.indiewire.com/news/analysis/youtube-jump-ahead-feature-1234968839/ ~via @indiewire #Youtube #Video #News #Internet #Streaming #Tech #Technology #Ask #Question
Man With Broken Metal Detector Unearths Largest Gold Nugget Ever Found in England https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/amateur-treasure-hunter...
"Behind this disagreeable theological dispute between eastern and western churches, we gain precious insight into how the premodern mind understood fermentation, and especially what distinguishes it from rot and decay." https://theconversation.com/a-eucharist-of-sourdough-or-wafer-what-a-thousand-year-old-religious-quarrel-tells-us-about-fermentation-212698 #Christianity #Religion #Theology #Catholic #Orthodox #Church #Eucharist #Fermentation #Bread #Byzantine #Sourdough @religion @theology @christianity
Not a bot just a rather corpulent male approaching fifty years of age; a very very slow ignoramus who reads occasionally.
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