George Dvorsky

I'm looking for a freelance editor to help on the Gizmodo science desk. Must be science literate, fast, flexible, and experienced with digital editing. Remote OK. Not a steady gig, but reliable work when it comes. DM or email if interested.

Humans Could Orbit Earth’s Poles for the First Time Today. What Took So Long? The private Fram2 mission is launching later today, sending a crew of amateurs to an unprecedented polar orbit—a frontier never before explored by astronauts.

Humans Could Orbit Earth’s Poles for the First Time Today. What Took So Long? https://gizmodo.com/humans-could-orbit-earths-poles-for-the-first-time-today-what-took-so-long-2000582235

‘The wheels are off’: Senior Conservatives think the Poilievre campaign needs a reset - National | Globalnews.ca Conservative sources tell Global News that Poilievre’s team is isolated and refusing to bring in outside voices as poll numbers continue to slump.

Kory Teneycke is going after Poilievre. 🍿

And:

"Multiple Conservative sources describe a shambolic central campaign with an isolated leader."

This is a scathing article. ⬇️

#cdnpoli

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YouTube’s play button doing the lord’s work

Captured this view of last week’s lunar eclipse. No post-processing or filters—this is literally how it looked coming out of the telescope.

I’m already envisioning this book on a future bookshelf: Useful Idiot: How Putin Played Trump and Made Russia Great Again.

Strikes me how many in this story are biologists or forestry workers. You won't find a more dedicated group in the public service. These are literally dream jobs we have trained decades for.

Rare Handwritten Copy of Famous Shakespeare Sonnet Found in Oxford Library The recently discovered copy of Sonnet 116 "reads as a political love song" during England's Civil Wars, according to the professor who found it.

Rare Handwritten Copy of Famous Shakespeare Sonnet Found in Oxford Library https://gizmodo.com/rare-handwritten-copy-of-famous-shakespeare-sonnet-found-in-oxford-library-2000570872

Starliner Astronauts Refuse to Play Into Trump, Musk's Ploy to Politicize 'Rescue' Mission The president is trying to pull a political stunt by claiming to rescue the two astronauts, but the Starliner crew shut it down.

Starliner Astronauts Refuse to Play Into Trump, Musk's Ploy to Politicize 'Rescue' Mission https://gizmodo.com/starliner-astronauts-refuse-to-play-into-trump-musks-ploy-to-politicize-rescue-mission-2000572032

Mars Society Denounces Trump Plans to Wreck NASA Space Science - The Mars Society News broke today that the Trump administration will ask for a 50 percent cut in NASA’s Space Science Directorate budget for FY 2026. These cuts will almost certainly entail the shutting down of the Ma...

Mars Society Denounces Trump Plan to Wreck NASA Space Science
www.marssociety.org/news/2025/03...

A person in a mask holding a painting that says “hands off my transgenic mice”

At @standupforscience.bsky.social and the signs are statistically significantly excellent

Intuitive Machines Moon Lander Confirmed Dead After Toppling on Its Side The Athena lander will not be able to recharge its batteries due to the orientation of its solar panels.

Intuitive Machines Moon Lander Confirmed Dead After Toppling on Its Side https://gizmodo.com/intuitive-machines-moon-lander-confirmed-dead-after-toppling-on-its-side-2000573314

As Canadians cancel trips due to Trump, the U.S. tourism industry could lose billions The Trump administration's attacks on its northern neighbor have been met with confusion and anger by some Canadians who are now cancelling their trips to the U.S. in protest.

Canadians are the biggest group of foreign nationals who travel to the United States. Trump's hateful comments and his tariffs are likely to destroy America's tourism appeal to Canadians, costing billions of dollars www.npr.org/2025/03/06/n...

Worse than tariffs, that’s a laugh.

Kessler syndrome but suborbital

It takes a unique kind of genius to fuck up the US-Canada relationship.

Ike asking Churchill why he doesn’t wear a suit before not suggesting that they cower to a maniac.

Portuguese editorial cartoonist Zez Vaz reaches back to Tiananmen Square to call on American defiance.

Trump will not make America great again (whatever that means) and will instead fail spectacularly, delivering harmful policies while focusing on distractions. Sadly, these failures will be acknowledged, with Trump inevitably blaming and castigating outsiders for his political ineptitude.

Hardly a surprise that Trump failed to mention climate change even once during his inaugural address, despite referencing N. Carolina hurricane and LA wildfires. So regressive. This failure to act is already proving to be so costly across multiple domains, including human lives.

Fairly confident Musk will come to regret a trade war with Canada given Tesla's reliance on Canadian nickel and other critical minerals like lithium and cobalt for battery manufacturing.

I feel nothing but disgust and disdain for everyone in the room yesterday who cheered when Trump said "there are only two genders," and that a person's gender can't be changed. Shameful.

A NASA astronaut may have just taken the best photo from space—ever During his third stay in orbit, Pettit is absolutely killing it.

Don Pettit is a national treasure.

arstechnica.com/space/2025/0...

P.E.I. homeowner captures sound and video of meteorite strike on camera, and scientists believe it's a first | CBC News A man in Prince Edward Island got doubly lucky last July, recording a meteorite's impact on his home security cameras. The space rock also landed in the exact spot he'd been standing minutes earlier.

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Inaugural launch of Blue Origin's New Glenn postponed to NET Sunday at 1:00 a.m. ET. Delay having to do with bad weather expected at the site of the ocean-based landing platform.

New Glenn press kit: blueorigin.app.box.com/v/New-Glenn-...; Blue Origin: "We’ll be updating it throughout the week."

The insanity of being a fire ecologist in the epicenter of a major fire event, bags packed and ready to evacuate, watching active fire from my window, while taking media requests and explaining to the public, for the 100,000th time how climate change is largely responsible for this

Remember when Francis Fukuyama declared the "End of History" in 1992? Lol.

'Margarita Burn': When Juicing Limes in the Sun Goes Horribly Wrong The man had developed an unusual skin condition called phytophotodermatitis, also colorfully known as "lime disease."

'Margarita Burn': When Juicing Limes in the Sun Goes Horribly Wrong https://gizmodo.com/margarita-burn-when-juicing-limes-in-the-sun-goes-horribly-wrong-2000533087