Christina Koch, mission specialist on NASA’s Artemis II, became the first woman to leave Earth orbit and head toward the Moon’s far side.
She also spent 328 days on the ISS in 2019-20 and helped complete the first all-female spacewalk in human history.
Germany just activated its largest ever solar installation — one farm, 1.5 million homes, zero carbon. The #CottbusSolarPark covers 3,500 hectares and produces 2.1 tw-hours annually, replacing two coal plants that operated on this same land until 2022. #SolarPower #ActOnClimate #Renewables
NASA just dropped the closest image ever taken of Jupiter...
Definitely never saw this kind of footage back in the Apollo days! Very cool.
Such a sweet video. "I found myself noticing not only the beauty of the Earth, but how much blackness there was around it ... it just made it even more special. It truly emphasized how alike we are, how the same thing keeps every single person on planet Earth alive."
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A beautiful song by a great songwriter
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A chart from Our World In Data, showing the shift away from coal power in the UK - nearly 70% of electricity production in the late 1980s, to less than 0.1% in 2025.
There's a lot being shared right now about China's incredible shift towards renewable energy - and rightly so.
But this, from the UK, is equally astonishing & encouraging.
It's not just that change can happen. It's that it *is* happening.
(Via climateactapp.substack.com/p/your-daily...)
Heard this beautiful bluesy tribute to Sonny Criss on jazz.fm tonight. Canadian alto saxophonist & jazz musician Dylan Cramer plays Jeannie's Knees with: Ron Johnston piano, Leroy Vinnegar bass, and John Nolan drums youtu.be/jzdeK5g-USs?...
(from "Remembering Sonny Criss", available on Bandcamp)
There's something just so brilliant about coal mines being directly replaced with solar farms
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This is great for #wordpress.
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Great version!
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Nicely done! So good
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Doug Ford needs to abandon plans to fly jets from Toronto Island. Who cares about jets? We care more about health care, housing, Northern Ontario ...
Ontarians: sign this petition to tell your elected representatives that this is the wrong plan for our province!
share.nwmd.social/s/cq01bb0p
For anyone else who also felt a bit disappointed by its absence in Peter Matthiessen's 1978 book :-)
the human body was not designed to know what the worst person in the world is doing every fifteen minutes
What a great version by Nick Lowe!
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Another classic
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This is super charming.
"Oh and by the way, people love to dance." :-)
From Donovan Leitch, who knows what he's talking about!
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Classic.
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Interesting video on doing a solar-powered concert tour through Canada, the Rolling Trout Revue, courtesy of the Trout Forest Music Festival.
3 solar panels, total of just over 1 kilowatt, are enough to power each show. Nice!
www.troutfest.com/rolling-trou...
"I think there can be fragments of you out there all over the place. Tiny pieces of yourself, what you said or what you did, can pass around like oral culture."
This is a beautiful video. Very inspiring.
A quick and funny way to illustrate that "correlation is not causation": tylervigen.com/spurious-cor...
Courtesy of Tyler Vigen
Global solar generation surpassed 2,000 TWh in 2024, enough to power ALL of India and avoiding emissions equivalent to the US power sector ☀️
Find out how solar is changing the world’s energy landscape in 2025 at the launch webinar of our #GER2026🔜
ember-energy.org/lat...
Just discovered this course & companion book, which look like something everybody (not just students) would benefit from. "... how to think critically about the data and models that constitute evidence"
Developed by professors @carlbergstrom.com and @jevinwest.bsky.social
callingbullshit.org
Also this - what a song! And what a band.
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Fantastic.
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Fantastic performance of a great song by @rickastl3y.bsky.social, who's happy to share the spotlight with his amazing backup singers.
(The original video of this song has around 43 million views, so I guess I'm not the only one who likes it :-)
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