Lasermom @lasermom@qoto.org

The outrage over security from TikTok might be taken a bit more seriously if we didn't just watch Facebook admit to enabling Rohingya genocide, help to manipulate the 2016 election, cause massive PTSD to its own employees, and face zero meaningful accountability whatsoever.

Skype a Scientist and the Fishtown Neighbors Association is taking 22 high school arts students to the Philadelphia Water Works on Wednesday to do research for our Delaware River Biodiversity mural. This is... impeccably timed.

@philshapiro @donwatkins
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/mar/24/new-orleans-pythagoras-theorem-trigonometry-prove
#students #highschool #mathematics #trigonometry #pythagoras

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If we saw the former president of any other country warning of death and destruction in the wake of their arrest, we'd think, "Man, that place is a shithole."

New paper in Nature Astronomy from @JohnBarentine and collaborators discusses the consequences of satellite megaconstellations for astronomy: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-023-01904-2

The same people who cry “politicization” over charges around a porn star hush money cover-up designed to swing a national election brought perjury and obstruction articles against another president for lying about a blowjob.

Spare me the sanctimony and hypocrisy.

"The revolution in LED lighting has increased the scope of light pollution in the United States. We can combat this pollution as a nation by transitioning to equally efficient warm-light LEDs from the currently in-place cool-light LED fixtures."

https://www.sciencepolicyjournal.org/article_1038126_JSPG220111.html

#LightPollution #DarkSkies

"Earth needs darkness just as much as it needs light. But human light pollution is pushing back the dark, which is changing the natural world, and could be hurting us, too."

WBUR 'On Point' podcast episode featuring several prominent dark-sky folks:

https://www.wbur.org/onpoint/2023/03/15/how-human-light-pollution-is-pushing-the-natural-world-into-the-dark

#LightPollution #DarkSkies

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