The way I laughed! On multiple views. The way it fully commits to its self-destruction, and then the stretcher. 🤣

Participants holding lit signs spelling "TEACH TRUTH" stand outside a building. In the foreground, a banner from the American Historical Association reads, "We need historians not just to understand the past, but to shape what comes next." The hashtag #TalkAboutHumanities is visible.

We need historians not just to understand the past, but to shape what comes next.

As we look ahead, the work of historians remains essential to public life, education, and a thriving democracy.

What should we better understand about the past as we think about the future? 🗃️
#TalkAboutHumanities

This is stunningly beautiful!

Our Phi Alpha Theta chapter has pretty much suggested an event that is exactly this!

Oh, I remember those Baby Yoshi photos! He was so small then.

I admit that I am saying this as someone who doesn't drink coffee, but...

How hard is it to order coffee? Do people really need "inspiration" from a chatbot?

WASHINGTON - In light of recent public comments regarding the Catholic Church's teaching on war and peace, Bishop James Massa, chairman of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops' Committee on Doctrine, issued the following statement: "For over a thousand years, the Catholic Church has taught just war theory and it is that long tradition the Holy Father carefully references in his comments on war. A constant tenet of that thousand-year tradition is a nation can only legitimately take up the sword 'in self-defense, once all peace efforts have failed' (Catechism of the Catholic Church, no. 2308). That is, to be a just war it must be a defense against another who actively wages war, which is what the Holy Father actually said: 'He does not listen to the prayers of those who wage war.'

"When Pope Leo XIV speaks as supreme pastor of the universal Church, he is not merely offering opinions on theology, he is preaching the Gospel and exercising his ministry as the Vicar of Christ. The consistent teaching of the Church is insistent that all people of good will must pray and work toward lasting peace while avoiding the evils and injustices that accompany all wars.

INBOX: Bp. James Massa — who chairs the USCCB’s doctrine committee — appears to rebuke VP Vance’s criticism of Pope Leo, who Vance said should be “careful” when discussing theology/the Iran War.

Massa: Leo isn’t opining but “preaching the Gospel and exercising his ministry as the Vicar of Christ.”

I can't message you here, so I sent it to your university email. Good luck! I've really enjoyed teaching it.

My first thought when reading the Hampshire news was that of all the college closures of late, Mills and Hampshire are the two biggest losses to higher education.

(Also, historical puppetry sounds like a really cool major.)

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I'm happy to share you my syllabus for our 1000-level global environmental course if you'd like. I last taught it in fall 2023, so there's plenty of room for updating (always a work in progress), but it might give you some ideas.

👇 Yep, AI makes you boring.

We need more historians because history is one of the most powerful forms of knowledge. Just ask any autocrat why they want to control it! #TalkAboutHumanities

Trump Attacks Pope Leo as Too Liberal and ‘Weak on Crime’

When JD Vance was asked about the reported] meeting between a Trump administration official and Cardinal Christophe Pierre: "He initially did not seem to know who Cardinal Pierre was." Says a lot about who Vance is as a politician & a Catholic. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/12/u...

Hungarian flag, with red, white, and green stripes.

LFG!

It's not just that Orbán losing inspires hope in other competitive-autocratic countries ruled by right-wing nationalist authoritarians. It's that his loss materially changes things in those other countries, because he's been operating as a headquarters and funding source...

Hungarians showing how to win big in an unfair election: organize AND protest AND vote AND demand profound change.

I think some people interpreted "the ai con" narrowly as saying these tools don't have their advertised capabilities

when clearly the larger con is the pretense that it's about tools and not power

The Punchline One of the worst players in the NHL gets voted into the All-Star Game.

Not sure how I missed this @radiolab.bsky.social episode when it first broadcast (and yes, I'm late listening to the rebroadcast), but it's a great story, especially for hockey fans. radiolab.org/podcast/the-...

art002e009284 (April 6, 2026) – Earth appears tiny as the Moon looms large in this photo taken by the Artemis II crew during their lunar flyby on April 6, 2026. Taken 36 minutes before Earthset, our home planet is visible in the blackness of space off the limb of the illuminated Moon. Earth is in a crescent phase, with sunlight coming from the right. Orientale mare basin, with its dark floor of cooled lava and outer rings of mountains, covers nearly the lower third of the imaged lunar surface. Different colors in the mare hint at its mineral composition. The lines of small indentations above Orientale are secondary crater chains, formed by material ejected during a violent primary impact. Both of the new craters that the Artemis II crew has suggested names for – Integrity and Carroll – are in full view. The edge of the visible surface of the Moon is called the “lunar limb.” Seen from afar, it almost looks like a circular arc – except when backlit, as in other images captured by the Artemis II crew.

art002e009288 (April 6, 2026) – Earthset captured through the Orion spacecraft window at 6:41 p.m. EDT, April 6, 2026, during the Artemis II crew’s flyby of the Moon. A muted blue Earth with bright white clouds sets behind the cratered lunar surface. The dark portion of Earth is experiencing nighttime. On Earth’s day side, swirling clouds are visible over the Australia and Oceania region. In the foreground, Ohm crater has terraced edges and a flat floor interrupted by central peaks. Central peaks form in complex craters when the lunar surface, liquefied on impact, splashes upwards during the crater’s formation.

art002e009289 (April 6, 2026) – The lunar surface fills the frame in sharp detail, as seen during the Artemis II lunar flyby, while a distant Earth sets in the background. This image was captured at 6:41 p.m. EDT, on April 6, 2026, just three minutes before the Orion spacecraft and its crew went behind the Moon and lost contact with Earth for 40 minutes before emerging on the other side. In this image, the dark portion of Earth is experiencing nighttime, while on its day side, swirling clouds are visible over the Australia and Oceania region. In the foreground, Ohm crater shows terraced edges and a relatively flat floor marked by central peaks — formed when the surface rebounded upward during the impact that created the crater.

art002e009301 (April 6, 2026) – Captured by the Artemis II crew during their lunar flyby on April 6, 2026, this image shows the Moon fully eclipsing the Sun. From the crew’s perspective, the Moon appears large enough to completely block the Sun, creating nearly 54 minutes of totality and extending the view far beyond what is possible from Earth. The corona forms a glowing halo around the dark lunar disk, revealing details of the Sun’s outer atmosphere typically hidden by its brightness. Also visible are stars, typically too faint to see when imaging the Moon, but with the Moon in darkness stars are readily imaged. This unique vantage point provides both a striking visual and a valuable opportunity for astronauts to document and describe the corona during humanity’s return to deep space. The faint glow of the nearside of the Moon is visible in this image, having been illuminated by light reflected off the Earth.

Wow, just wow! Awe-inspiring beauty!

Image credits: NASA www.nasa.gov/gallery/luna...

Just as an FYI: This incredible photo is not from Artemis but from NASA's Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera (EPIC) aboard the Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR). Doesn't make it any less incredible! www.planetary.org/space-images...

This is really good, on multiple levels.

In 1970, students in a fifth-grade class at Hawthorne School in Beverly Hills were assigned to write a letter to someone they admired, asking them “What makes a good citizen?"

So 10yr old Joel Lipton wrote to Peanuts cartoonist Charles M. Schulz.

Joel got a reply.

The Artemis II mission seems good because it is.

People seem excited by it because they are.

It looks like a testament to the value of teamwork because it needs many people working together to succeed, and it’s succeeding.

One of the best things about this is how straightforward it is. Authentic.

A mostly dark screen with the NASA logo in the upper right and a bit of hazy light peeking out from an entirely dark Moon in the lower right

Total solar eclipse! Solar corona! From behind the Moon! #Artemis

NASA patch: blue circle with red comet going across it. The word NASA in white, with a white orbit and lots of stars.

A lot of Artemis reposts from me, I know, but I'm not sorry at all. The Griffith Observatory and the Hayden Planetarium are two of my favorite places, because the universe is awe-inspiring. So I am space-geeking out over here, b/c it's all just so cool!!! Time for my NASA badge again.

efore going to sleep on flight day 5, the Artemis II crew snapped one more photo of the Moon, as it drew close in the window of the Orion spacecraft. Orion and the four humans aboard entered the lunar sphere of influence at 12:37 a.m. EDT on April 6, at the tail end of the fifth day of their mission. That marked the point at which the Moon's gravity had a stronger pull on the spacecraft than the Earth's. Artemis II's closet approach to the Moon will come on flight day 6, as they swing around the far side before beginning their journey back to Earth. About an hour after entering the lunar sphere of influence, Artemis II Mission Specialist Christina Koch said, "We are now falling to the Moon rather than rising away from Earth. It is an amazing milestone!"

It is astonishing that humans are able to do these things. This is what happens when we act collectively to solve extremely difficult technical problems. (It works with many other kinds of problems, too.)

You can follow Artemis II's encounter with the Moon starting at 1pm EDT. 🧪🔭

plus.nasa.gov

Earth and Moon from DSCOVR NASA's Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera (EPIC) aboard the Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) satellite captured this unique view of the Moon as it moved in front of the sunlit side of Earth last month. This view shows the fully illuminated “dark side” of the moon that is never visible from Earth. Ian Regan processed this version of the image to account for the Moon's motion. NASA / NOAA / Ian Regan

I hadn't seen this before. This is pretty remarkable.

Earth and Moon in one NASA photo.

ht @astrokatie.com

Christina Koch’s facial profile backlit by Earth in the background, through the spacecraft window

So, to sum up, a couple of days ago Christina Koch became the first woman to see Earth in its entirety, and today – right now, in fact – she is the first woman to see the Moon up close, and the first woman to see the far side. 🥹

Crescent view of Earth. NASA/Artemis II/Kevin M. Gill

Crescent Earth as viewed by the Artemis II crew yesterday (April 4th).

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