Lasermom @lasermom@qoto.org

Approximately 24,100 school board seats in 35 states are up for regular election in 2023.

The 24,100 seats up for election represent 29% of all school board seats in the country.

And the MAGA Fascist GOP want their folks in those seats.

#RunForSomething

https://ballotpedia.org/Why_School_Board_Elections_Matter_and_What_You_Need_to_Know?_wcsid=39A43A7239BFC203BD65E2AF4FC4C1B813EB3C1C71416F6E

Never get tired a this un...

"Years ago, anthropologist Margaret Mead was asked by a student what she considered to be the first sign of civilization in a culture. The student expected Mead to talk about fishhooks or clay pots or grinding stones.
But no.
Mead said that the first sign of civilization in an ancient culture was a femur (thighbone) that had been broken and then healed.
Mead explained that in the animal kingdom, if you break your leg, you die.
You cannot run from danger, get to the river for a drink or hunt for food.
You are meat for prowling beasts.
No animal survives a broken leg long enough for the bone to heal.
A broken femur that has healed is evidence that someone has taken time to stay with the one who fell, has bound up the wound, has carried the person to safety and has tended the person through recovery.
Helping someone else through difficulty is where civilization starts, Mead said."

We are at our best when we serve others.
Be civilized.

I do a lot of #OTD posts, but sometimes it’s hard to find reliable info about an obscure scientist.

This is my annual plea for help with theoretical physicist “Albert Einstein,” born #OTD in 1879. His contributions are minor but still of some interest to me personally.

You may have seen his work attributed to "Alfred Einstein,” "Albert Eisenstein," or similar. Any help you can provide digging up info on this little-known scholar is much appreciated.

How to make money in the stock market: Buy a stock, wait until it goes up, and then sell it. If it doesn't go up, then don't have bought it. -- https://mathstodon.xyz/web/statuses/106764975771909790

I love the #weather forecast for #Munich Literally anything can happen. They could've thrown in there a meteorite or a zombie apocalypse for completeness 😅 (This is accurate though: we often go through all 4 seasons in the same day...)

Artificial light at night disrupts plants' "seasonal rhythms, their ability to sense and react to natural light, and their fragile relationship with pollinators. The more strained that relationship becomes, the more our food supply may be put in jeopardy. And just one broken link could create unfathomable physiological consequences up and down the food chain."

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20230308-how-light-pollution-disrupts-plants-senses

"[F]or the people in advanced age whose #circadian system is already weakened, further #desynchronization under influence of #ALAN seems to be particularly dangerous".

https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-22468-3_21

New paper by Schwamb et al.: "It is now certain that the accelerating industrialisation of near-Earth space will have major adverse effects on astronomical observation. ... [Rubin] will have to observe into a hyper-industrialized sky."

https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.02355

#Astronomy #Satellites

Your child is too delicate to hear RuPaul read Dr. Seuss. Also, too busy. He needs to clock in at the factory.
https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/arkansas-child-labor-law-sarah-huckabee-sanders/