The 2026 National Science Foundation budget is $8.75 Billion.
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The 2026 National Science Foundation budget is $8.75 Billion.
why did we even domesticate peeves
So nice to hear a happy success story! ⚒️
Yes, indeed. We're pretty special. ⚒️
none of us should have to spend this much time thinking about an elderly cognitively impaired person to whom we are not related
A cartoon by Ron Cobb (1975), showing a shadow of US B-52 bomber above cratered landscape. Two people who look like Vietnamese peasants look up; one says “they’re having problems with their economy again.”
This is from 1975.
When asked to comment on the Iran War, Speaker Mike Johnson declined, saying this was the first he was hearing about it.
March 11, 2011 tsunami washing ashore on the Sendai coastal plain, sweeping into a coastal village. I visited this spot a few months later in August, 2011.
15 years ago right about this time of day, the Tohoku-oki earthquake was unleashed, with as much as 100 meters of fault slip documented at the Japan Trench. The resulting tsunami rocked Japan and the world, claiming ~18,000 lives. It was one of only 5 M9 quakes ever recorded. ⚒️
Picard programming tip: A computer is like a mischievous genie. It will give you exactly what you ask for, but not always what you want.
Opinion | By killing schoolchildren en masse, we are giving Iranians the freedom and liberty that Americans have enjoyed in Littleton, Newtown, Parkland, and Uvalde.
I don't need fun to have alcohol.
meow
Forgot the little hammer and pick doo-hickey. ⚒️
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Cross-cutting fractures may form barriers to the propagation of major quakes along the Cascadia Subduction Zone. (Oregon Live) www.oregonlive.com/weather/2026...
The horror I felt seeing this kind of footage come in still resonates, 15 years later. ⚒️
This Day in Labor History: March 10, 1925. The New York Times first reported the story of the so-called Radium Girls, as U.S. Radium Company employee Marguerite Carlough had sued her employer for $75,000 for the horrific health problems caused by her work with radium that would soon kill her!!!!
A year ago we were supposed to be getting $2,000 rebate checks, DOGE was going to find $2 trillion in waste to balance the budget, we were going to pay no income taxes because tariffs would pay for everything, gas and home electric bills would be cut in half, and no new wars.
*efficient way
A common saying in the 80s was "A lecture is the most efficient was to transcribe a professor's notes into students' notes without anybody having to think about them."
A Noem aide spent $3 million on pickup trucks emblazoned with the ICE name & logo, which ICE agents -- notoriously averse to advertising their presence -- will not drive, so they're just sitting in a lot, useless. The contract went to a Trump donor who owns a regional Chevy dealership.
There is a *lot* of geothermal potential in the PNW. These examples are all on the Cascade axis, but there are a number of other areas for exploration. ⚒️
Mary Anning, ‘the greatest fossilist the world ever knew’, died of breast cancer on 9 March, 1847, at the age of 47. 🧪⚒️
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Interesting to think that Donald Trump may have, completely inadvertently and at a horrific cost, finally woken up the world to how urgent it is we get off our dangerous addiction to fossil fuels.
Winter weather advisories are in effect through Tuesday afternoon along the Cascades in Washington and northern Oregon.
I'm asleep more than awake now so yes.
Next week we'll be calling this "Joe Biden's war on Iran".
Pixelated black and white Voyager photo of Io, showing a plume from a volcanic eruption.
Voyager 1 captured the first evidence of an extraterrestrial volcanic eruption #OTD in 1979, on Jupiter's moon Io.
The plume in this image was discovered by astronomer Linda A. Morabito, working as a JPL engineer at the time, and announced a few days later. 🔭 🧪 👩🔬
Image: NASA/JPL
TV Talk Show Chatterbox Pete Hegseth's Pentagon:
I get yelled at for saying this but for many hundreds of years people went to university not to get diplomas or be employable but because immersion in the humanities was considered foundational to a good life, and school must return to its original purpose: the joy of learning.