Northeast Swings From 90 Degrees to Freezing Cold in Just a Few Days

www.nytimes.com/2026/04/20/w...

love this! if there's any public writeup i'd be interested in reading more about how this works

Global glacier mass change in 2025 - Nature Reviews Earth & Environment Glaciers lost 408 ± 132 Gt of mass during the hydrological year 2025, equivalent to 1.1 ± 0.4 mm sea-level rise. Since 1975, glacier mass loss has totalled 9,583 ± 1,211 Gt, equivalent to 26.4 ± 3.3 m...

Glaciers had one of their worst years in 2025:

👉 408 billion tonnes of ice mass lost
👉 ≈1.1 mm added to global sea levels
👉 6 of the 7 worst years have happened in the past 7 yrs

Since 1975: ~9,600 billion tonnes gone (≈26.4 mm SLR)

This isn’t a gradual change...

www.nature.com/articles/s43...

A thin crescent Earth, some details of its cloudy surface barely discernable.

Earth.

In the dark.

From Artemis II.

Poetry "is about looking seriously at the world and seeing what’s right in front of you, but you’ve forgotten to notice." www.nature.com/articles/d41...

This video [ tinyurl.com/bs8ytpap ] is just 1min 32sec long. But behind it lies a great deal of work: mapping, coding, interviews, data processing, 3D printing, and even manual labor—painting the model. Take a look to the final piece in the link above. 🚀🌝 To the moon and beyond!

Kelsey Young, Artemis Science Officer hears that the crew saw impact flashes.

NASA’s Artemis II Crew Flies Around the Moon (Official Broadcast) YouTube video by NASA

This is extremely worth watching right now as Artemis is an hour away from its closest approach to the Moon 🌖 m.youtube.com/watch?v=z-j1...

Watch 1 minute and 50 seconds of the Artemis II launch from the Orion capsule, including booster separation and adapter panel jettison...

...set to "No Time for Caution" from the Interstellar score.

Good morning everyone today is MOON DAY 🚀🌖🥰 #Artemis

It has been more than half a century since humans have been to the moon. The question is, why go back now? or even why go back at all? Here's our latest piece: tinyurl.com/3hnp9nvs 🎁 link #artemis-ii

The Moon! At right is a portion of the surface not visible to us on Earth because the Moon is tidally locked (i.e., it shows the same face to us all the time).

The Artemis II crew is now getting a good look at the Moon—including parts we can't see from Earth!

At the right of the Moon in this view is the Mare Orientale multiring basin, only a portion of which is visible to us normally.

In this photo, the Moon's south pole is to the top.

Handwritten math on graph paper. A diagram at top shows two circles — a larger one labeled R_E (Earth) on the left and a smaller one labeled R_M (Moon) on the right — with two lines crossing between them forming an X, defining distances d_E and d_M from a shared observation point. The derivation begins by setting the angular size condition R_E/d_E = R_M/d_M, rearranging to d_E/d_M = 6,371 km / 1,737 km = 3.67. Substituting into the constraint d_E + d_M = d_EM and solving yields d_E = d_EM / 1.27 = 384,399 km / 1.27 = 302,676 km = 188,074 miles.

Some back of the envelope math: The point where Earth and the Moon appear equal in size is 79% of the distance to the moon, or around 188 thousand miles. Currently, Orion is about 88% of the distance to the Moon, which is why the Moon appears larger than the Earth in this picture.

Two side by side views from spacecraft Orion from two cameras. The view on the left shows a small full moon in the distance, against the blackness of space, with Orion to the left. The view on the right shows the rear end of Orion, with a space panel in view, and a small crescent Earth in the distant on the right, against the blackness of space.

I checked the live feed to see how Orion is doing today, and wow! At 210,00+ miles away from Earth, the Moon actually appears larger than the crescent Earth at this point.

cover of John Chu The Subtle Art of Folding Space levels of bamboo steamers, top one filled with dumplings, middle filled with dumplings turning into planets, lower has planets, lower still a level with gears, as hands reach in from different directions with chopsticks to choose dumplings or planets against a techno background

cover of What We Are Seeking by Acclaimed Author of The Fortunate Fall Cameron Reed a white and yellow dahlia in a circle offset from a black circle, against a purple to blue gradient background

cover of The Edge of Space-Time Particles, Poetry, and the Cosmic Dream Boogie Chanda Prescod-Weinstein left half of image: black and white nested circles or ellipses left half: half-ball filled with green-to-pink gradient

Because writers shouldn't have to do all the work of #BookPromotion: I have three (3!) #Preorders dropping to my e-reader Tuesday, April 7!! #Booksky
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Oh my.

It's taken from the right side of an aircraft flying past Cape Canaveral just as the Artemis II mission was taking off.

Source: Reddit (posted by u/Spook_485; I don't know if that's the person who took the video)

Today I learned about zodiacal light! starwalk.space/en/news/zodi...

Close-up view from an onboard camera of the Orion spacecraft's crew module and service module adapter, brightly lit by sunlight. The conical heat shield end of the capsule gleams white, with rivets and panel seams visible along the metallic surface.

Onboard camera view of the Orion crew module showing the large red NASA "worm" logo on the spacecraft adapter.

Close-up onboard camera view of the Orion crew module's forward end, showing the spacecraft's blue-tinted thermal protection tiles and heat shield hardware in detail.

And here's the real thing, a live view from Orion (currently coming in and out of transmission): www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Rwf...

Screenshot of NASA's Artemis II Real-time Orbit Website showing the mission view. The Orion spacecraft's trajectory is traced in blue, looping from Earth out past the Moon and back. The spacecraft is currently on its outbound leg.

Screenshot of NASA's Artemis II AROW tool showing a close-up camera view of the Orion spacecraft against the black of space, with the Moon visible in the upper right.

Screenshot of NASA's Artemis II AROW tool showing the Orion spacecraft from a different camera angle, with a crescent Earth visible behind it.

This is a neat visualization for tracking where Artemis is right now: www.nasa.gov/missions/art...

"The failures are the curriculum. The error messages are the syllabus. Every hour you spend confused is an hour you spend building the infrastructure inside your own head that will eventually let you do original work. There is no shortcut through that process that doesn't leave you diminished"

it is a damp, drizzly November in my soul

stunning work!

Apple turns 50 today 💻

The iconic Apple II became home to countless software breakthroughs. "The Print Shop" let anyone create posters, cards & more from home 🖨️

Celebrate software preservation⤵️ archive.org/details/The_...

#Apple #Apple50 #AppleII #HomeComputing #VintageComputing

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Opinion | There’s a Good Reason You Can’t Concentrate

Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/03/27/o...

Opinion | There’s a Good Reason You Can’t Concentrate

This piece is an excellent argument for building back your attention. "We should consider taking as strong a stance against ultraprocessed content as we already do against ultraprocessed food. Which is to say: Most people should avoid these diversions most of the time."

How the Iran War Has Rippled Across the World Deflated balloons? Pricier sugar? The fighting in the Middle East has played out across the world in sometimes surprising ways.

I made some illustrations for a project about how the Iran War has affected the world in surprising ways, from deflated balloons to higher sugar prices. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Trump’s Ballroom Design Has Barely Been Scrutinized Fake windows and a stairway to nowhere: Three months that could change the White House for generations.

“The ballroom is literally an imposition between two branches of our government,” said David Scott Parker, an architect on the board of the National Trust for Historic Preservation, and one of more than 30,000 people who wrote to the planning commission objecting to the building.

Bar graph titled "Women are paid less than men at every education level" and subtitled "Average horly wages, by gender and education, 2025"

Women with an advanced degree are paid the same as men with just a bachelor's. And at every education level, women's hourly wages are about 20% lower than men's