Telepathic Axe YouTube video by The Lavender Flu - Topic

Listened to this Lavender Flu album a couple times today while driving from Chi to Cle. youtu.be/_Q6Jpjgn4Ms?...

Endearingly janky KTMA era Crow T Robot

Smoking that shit that makes you feel like KTMA era Crow.

Pretty skeptical of the big festivals but the geese set at coachella seems significant

when we're all unable to connect to use the internet, send emails, pay our bills, use our toasters, and god knows what else if AWS goes down, i want you to know now that i blame our lack of antitrust laws far more than i'll blame a foreign missile

Wham City YouTube video by Dan Deacon - Topic

Finally saw Deacon in cbus a couple weeks ago and it was extremely fun. youtu.be/-rHNe83QSdU?...

The human-made roots of Japan's hay fever crisis Efforts to thin forests and breed low-pollen cedar advance, even as labor gaps and neglected land complicate the work.

Japan’s hay fever problem is the legacy of a postwar reforestation campaign. My story: www.japantimes.co.jp/environment/...

Another good phrase a Swedish friend shared with us was the 'Minnesota potato'. It's was a way to say that someone is exaggerating about how green the grass is on the other side - in this case exaggerations about the size of MN potatoes to family back home in Sweden in the mid 1800s.

Watching oil leveraged by bad actors across the globe, including the Trump admin, increases my conviction in decentralized energy production. There's still potential for nefarious actions at bottlenecks in alt energy but I think it's less likely.

Blue Train (Remastered 2003/Rudy Van Gelder Edition) YouTube video by John Coltrane - Topic

Draws me in again and again youtu.be/HT_Zs5FKDZE?...

Someone in PA caught the Cleveland meteor on his dashcam driving towards NE Ohio.

Source: x.com/hankf330togo...

europeans when asked to help unblock the strait of hormuz

Rocks and Sand. NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS/Kevin M. Gill

The workspace in front of the Mars Curiosity Rover following it's Sol 4834 drive this week.

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The Four Louies I, by Bill Orcutt from the album The Four Louies

This resonates a bit too much fakeestates.bandcamp.com/track/the-fo...

Tatsuya Nakatani | Re:Sound 2023 YouTube video by Jacob Felix Heule

Apr 24 in Cle but not sure where yet. youtu.be/S-V-g_kv0Zs?...

holy shit

Alt-country shows on tap: Ryan Davis in June and Merce Lemon in a couple weeks.

Thinking about and listening to more jazz lately. From a year ago at the jazz spot intro in Tokyo. Jammed into the bar on a Friday night and got to sample a bunch of upcoming talent.

I am wrong about IU's campus. Pretty incredible. But I stick to this idea for people. The best ones have something askew.

A line graph showing NSF grant awards made through 2/27/26 for fiscal year 2026 compared with grant awards for fiscal years 2021-2025.

NSF Update (Awards through 2/27/26)

Directorates to follow

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incredible image on wikimedia commons

Left over Time YouTube video by Meic Stevens - Topic

Planning a hanami party with friends this year since the cherry tree in our front yard is reliably amazing. The icing with be the new cherry tree we planted a few years ago that looks like it is about to take off.

Doctor, doctor, doctor, dr, dr, dr, dr, dr, dr, dr, dr, dr, dr, aaaaaand doctor - Spies Like Us YouTube video by Jeff Campbell

Instead of 'good curling' youtu.be/ArsrKHYn5v4?...

Is there a person or group that forecasts peak cherry blossoms in northeast Ohio?

It's a treat working on research with such curious, talented, and motivated students.

Play off that red rock off the rings all day.

Snow conditions at the skiathalon look terrible. Slush.

I've gotten into the organic chem of precipitation. Trees emit these organic molecules that end up in raindrops. My research site in New Hampshire has shown a bunch more of these molecules in the rain in recent years. Super interesting to study and try to explain what it tells us.

Sweet seeing Sunny's reaction to the win. Well played.

Good curling shot. Coulda got four, but three's good enough.

Okay, convert a good number with this power play