The First WORLD FENCING LEAGUE is happening April 25th!!! I'M GEEKING!!!
Japanese engineers developed this "Sword Tip Visualisation" tracking technology specifically for this event that will make it so much easier for the average person to see what's going on!
I MUST WATCH THIS ENTIRE TOURNAMENT
A view of the Wadden Sea from above. Farmland on the mainland is seen through sparse clouds. The Wadden Sea is muddy and extends towards the Wadden islands which are lined by beach in the far northern side. Channels of bluer water flow through the muddy sea in the deeper parts. The island in the distance is Terschelling.
The Netherlands: must be almost wadlopen season! 😁 Where does the land end and the sea begin?
Only a little sad that ankylosaurus didn’t make the top 7. Honorable mention is okay I guess. Cheers to the being part of the dinosaur renaissance. 🦖 🦕
View from the outside of the observatory. It’s an impressive, broad, white stone facade with steps leading up to the door. Above the door is a winged figure covered in gold leaf. On the top of the building is a large white dome.
A view from the observatory overlooking Nice, towards the Mediterranean Sea.
The refractor telescope mounted on a large cement pedestal inside the dome. Blue and red colored lights illuminate the inside of the dome.
A stair case that rolls around the inside of the dome against the wall in order to be able to move and interact with the telescope.
The Nice Observatory at Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur is stunning. The building was built by Charles Garnier and the dome by Gustave Eiffel! Definitely worth a visit.
Big fan of the slinky spring - @astrokatie.com style
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7GC8...
"When Badin died, he left behind diaries, a vast book collection, private letters and an autobiography offering a window into his life in 18th- and 19th-century Stockholm." New Black Europe exhibition at the Swedish National Museum #earlymodern 🗃️
Saw a reel making fun of people who were expressing skepticism of the #Artemis II images in Instagram comments and while it's true that a lot of folks are just spreading conspiracy theories, there are misconceptions that can just be addressed directly!
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Deal! Now if I can just remember which one is x and y…
I would volunteer to stick dipoles on the moon’s surface for ya! At higher freqs I also wouldn’t complain if there was a practical solution to give us back access to large volumes of the universe in HI that are now impossible due to satellites. 😔
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Standing stones(?) on top of a hill against an overcast sky. Origin of stones unconfirmed.
A tent next to a lake with an east bonfire in the distance.
A very very old stone bridge across a river covered in moss.
Ljungleden: Ride through beautiful countryside. May or may not have seen some standing stones (not on any verified source I’ve found yet) but in the process learned we missed legit Viking rune stones(!). Camping next to a bird sanctuary lake, and spoke to some locals about their Easter bonfire.
Two fully loaded bikes for bike packing lean against the inside of a train car while a lake and trees roll by outside.
Long holiday weekend calls for some bike packing and sleeping outside.
If you'd like to follow along with the #Artemis II launch, NASA has a live blog here: www.nasa.gov/blogs/missio...
and you can watch the official broadcast on the NASA site here:
plus.nasa.gov/scheduled-vi...
or on YouTube here: www.youtube.com/live/Tf_UjBM...
I thought I heard recently that some funding agency was trialing something uh lottery-like, but now I can’t remember the details.
Sunset reflected in a broad city canal. Silhouetted against the sunset in the distance are two of Gothenburg’s iconic harbour cranes, now retired.
From Monday, but…
Good evening Göteborg, ya beauty.
Hell yeah. 💪
Today I discovered there’s a Guinness shortage. 😥 “Do you know why?” I ask the bartender. “Too many young people drinking it.”
Young people, please go back to (or learn to appreciate?) IPA. 😘
A black-and-white comic strip featuring a child asking his dad for a traffic safety poster slogan. The dad enthusiastically suggests a slogan promoting cyclists' rights and criticizing motorists, saying "I hope gas goes p to $8 a gallon". The child responds by deciding to ask his mom instead.
It's finally happening!
Yay!
Very reasonable approach. Your secret is safe with me. 🙃
What?! Why didn’t anyone tell me there are puffins in Oregon!?! 🫠
With a policy as sweeping as the IOC’s, “fairness" in women’s sports is actively making sports less fair for women. Because of this policy, it is now harder for women and girls—both cis and trans—to follow their Olympic dreams compared to their male counterparts.
This'll have virtually no effect on trans women, who already weren't competing in the Olympics (in the more than 20 years in which trans women could participate in the Olympics, a grand total of... 1 actually made a team. She came in dead last in her event).
However....
apnews.com/article/ioc-...
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Good people, please fill out those Anthropic claims. Settlement is going to be around $3000 per book.
"Anthropic will pay $1.5 billion plus interest into a settlement fund, equating to approximately $3,000 for each work covered by the settlement."
www.susmangodfrey.com/wins/susman-....
It’s happening…!
🎉 Making plans for Easter 🎉
😍 It’s amazing what happens when airports/cities invest in good infrastructure too.
That place is so cool! Been there once for sunrise. Hope you also got some good green chile, and sending happy vibes for Socorro, geology museum at New Mexico Tech, and the VLA.
