US artist Nikki Root recycles vintage and modern bottles and glassware to create stained glass windows #WomensArt

Someone in Florida snapped a picture of a raccoon riding a gator at the Ocala National Forest.

An owl gliding through a cloud of helium-filled soap bubbles reveals wingtip and tail vortices. 📽: Usherwood et al.

A brand new English translation of Marx's Capital (the first in 50 years), translated by Paul Reitter and edited by Reitter and Paul North, will be out soon Princeton University Press It is based on the last German edition revised by Marx himself and will be an essential book for all

To cleanse your palate of how totally f&%ked everything feels right now ... ... animating the 30-day running global suface temperature anomaly (above the pre-industrial baseline), 1940 - present.

It begins. This is another sign that LLMs are going to be able to work with structured & unstructured spreadsheet data soon. This will unlock a lot of use cases (projections, financials, valuations, etc.) and having a spreadsheet source of truth will tend to lower hallucinations

This visualizationshows the occurrence of earthquakes on Earth between July 2017 and July 2018, but differently from other charts, this ones shows them with their depth. [🎞️ nicolaraluk]

A personal message from 2022 chemistry laureate Carolyn Bertozzi to all young researchers on why to aspire for a career in science: ”I would want to share with them how a life in science is incredibly rewarding. It is rewarding because it is creating." #NobelPrize

The Busy Beaver Challenge, an open online collaboration, started working together in 2022 to solve a major problem in theoretical computer science. “We’re playing at this edge of unknowability,” said Shawn Ligocki, a programmer and contributor. quantamagazine.org/amateur-mathem…

From the 'Shared Sky' exhibition, 'Jupiter and Ten Moons' by Indigenous Australian artist Barbara Merritt #WomensArt

Our infrastructure was built for a planet that no longer exists.

The pursuit of knowledge should be driven by curiosity and the sheer joy of understanding how the world works, not just for practical outcomes.

Does GPT-4 have Theory of Mind? Apparently. “Across the battery of theory of mind tests, we found that GPT-4 models performed at, or even sometimes above, human levels” except when detecting faux pas, but that turned out to be an issue with guardrails. nature.com/articles/s4156…

“The most important task of this moment is to generate a base of people who are eager to practice perceiving the complexity and interdependency in every aspect of our lives.”  —nora bateson

#Jung: “Connecting him with the first world, that is, the world of external objects, is the #persona, developed by the forces from within and the forces from without in interaction with one another. We may think of the persona as the bark of a #conscious personality. As we have

Did you know? There's an Interplanetary Transport Network in our Solar System, used to launch spacecraft from Earth and send them to the desired destination. It is a collection of gravitationally determined pathways through the Solar System that require very little energy for

TBH, this seems worse than having the road blocked by climate activists for a few minutes, much less talk about doing so on a Zoom call.

Week 308. This week, activists from all across the world gather in Melle, a village in France, to mobilise for water justice and against the construction of huge water reservoirs for irrigation, and other water-grabbing projects. Constructions of mega-basins have accelerated in

Meanwhile at Microsoft headquarters.. 😅

"One of the most important things as a scientist is that you have to be an optimist. If you’re a pessimist, a failed experiment will tell you that the whole idea is bad and you’ll quit. When you fail you have to continue." - chemistry laureate Richard Henderson's advice.