If I had billions of dollars, I would not waste a chunk of it taking a personal trip around the moon. I would put a satellite in orbit as part of a Moon Internet system and put lots of cameras and sensors on board. Then share the data with the roughly 2 Billions kids now.
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Sandy Smith, I was dreaming about you. You were in India meeting with thousands of women of all ages. And you were all sewing. More properly, you were all “demonstrating and preserving” “the ancient and eternal arts of fabric and string and thread”. So there was much embroidery, crochet, lace, geometric, permanent, and elaborate constructions
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I often review groups related to global topics. For instance, today (“punctuated evolution”) which on Google search shows 56,200 entry points. That ought to be small enough to sample all of those, but using manual methods is not really accessible for study. Is it possible to get random samples from Google API? For instance (“evolution”
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Ricard Solé @ricard_sole How does complexity arise in (macro)evolution? Is it a continuous or a stepwise process? What about hierarchies? Check this new @Trends_Ecol_Evo review led by @svalver on the @eldredge and Gould’s Theory of Punctuated Equilibrium across scales. https://cell.com/trends/ecology-evolution/fulltext/S0169-5347(24)00114-9?_returnURL=https%3A%2F%2Flinkinghub.elsevier.com%2Fretrieve%2Fpii%2FS0169534724001149%3Fshowall%3Dtrue https://pic.x.com/z7qwsxp1bd Replying to @ricard_sole @Trends_Ecol_Evo and 2 others Richard Sole, it seems like your groups
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Mysteries of Missing Galaxies Solved! at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DI364qeyzQ8 Do you remember when you were a baby and your parents played peek-a-boo? Quickly gets boring. Only so much surprise can be squeezed from “I hid something. Here is is!!”. I don’t want explanations, just data and tools. Not filtered or hoarded. Filed as (Knowledge should be recorded,
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You I am looking at live videos of a volcano in iceland. A plume is 50 meters tall and the base seems for that plume of liquid magman seems to be about 10 square meters. What is the pressure diiferential at the base to force magma to the height of 50 meters? You should have
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Zhigang Suo @zhigangsuo Knowles Lecture and Caltech Solid Mechanics Symposium Friday, 31 May 2024, 9:00am, 135 Gates-Thomas I will begin with a lecture titled, Topology and chemistry determine mechanical properties of polymers Followed by young mechanicians at Caltech— https://mce.caltech.edu/events/knowles-lecture/knowles2024 Replying to @zhigangsuo It seems this is only open to people who happen to live nearby. I
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Google DeepMind @GoogleDeepMind “We have entered an age where a single human mind cannot comprehend the data that we are gathering about the universe.” Our VP Research for Science @pushmeet joined @a16z to discuss how AI can help scientists and others with new insights. Listen now ↓ https://dpmd.ai/3wTVug5 https://pic.x.com/6rjcbep58a Replying to @GoogleDeepMind @pushmeet and @a16z
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Sebastian S. Cocioba @ATinyGreenCell If I ever make it, would love to just spend my time enabling others. An angel investor in people, not ideas, not ventures. People. Giving someone support and structure, a trellis to lean on, can have incalculable impact and I detest the notion that support makes people lazy. Replying to @ATinyGreenCell
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Chenxin Li, PhD (@chenxinli2.bsky.social) @ChenxinLi2 A related mood is “find the answer first, worry about the specific questions later.” It might sound counter intuitive, but very productive when it comes to genomics research. Replying to @ChenxinLi2Yes, it is called “cherry picking”. In new fields there is lots of low hanging fruit. Groups find things that
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