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1. Un geólogo en apuros (geologoenapuros@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 21-Dec-2024 10:15:51 UTC Un geólogo en apuros

   🌌¿Sabías que algunos de los paisajes más misteriosos de nuestro Sistema Solar podrían haber sido excavados por agua líquida? 🤯 Una nueva investigación sugiere que las cárcavas del asteroide Vesta podrían haberse formado por la acción de breves corrientes de agua salada 💧✨
2. NYbill (nybill@mastodon.sdf.org)'s status on Saturday, 21-Dec-2024 00:05:03 UTC NYbill

   Alright, which one of you jokers is this? Come clean it up!
3. Jon "The Nice Guy" Spriggs (jontheniceguy@toot.io)'s status on Friday, 20-Dec-2024 23:21:03 UTC Jon "The Nice Guy" Spriggs

   Today I submitted my first podcast for Hacker Public Radio. I literally wrote a script for myself to deliver, turned on the recorder and read it. I saved the result, filled out a form, attached my file and now it's in the queue to go out. Thanks for hosting my show #HackerPublicRadio #HPR

   • Dave M7TLB 🐞🇺🇦🌻 (thelovebug@mastodon.me.uk)'s status on Friday, 20-Dec-2024 23:22:09 UTC Dave M7TLB 🐞🇺🇦🌻

     in reply to

     @JonTheNiceGuy
     I am genuinely shocked by this... I didn't realise that you'd never submitted an episode before. I look forward to listening to your dulcet tones on the podwaves once more... it's been too long!

4. NYbill (nybill@mastodon.sdf.org)'s status on Friday, 20-Dec-2024 22:18:47 UTC NYbill

   The only toy she hasn't chewed up.
5. Organic Maps (organicmaps@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 20-Dec-2024 12:22:55 UTC Organic Maps

   Organic Maps Turns 4 🎉

   https://organicmaps.app/news/2024-12-20/organicmaps-turns-four/

   - ~3M¹ users from all countries of the world
   - ~15k ratings and reviews on AppStore and Google Play
   - 4.8/4.6 average rating on AppStore/Google Play
   - 10k+ stars on GitHub
   - 10k (almost) issues + PRs on GitHub
   - 1k (almost) forks on GitHub
   - 7k+ git commits
   - ~100 awesome contributors who made 5+ commits

   Congratulations to all the users and contributors for your hard work and dedication! Thank you for being a part of this journey!
6. NYbill (nybill@mastodon.sdf.org)'s status on Thursday, 19-Dec-2024 21:44:39 UTC NYbill

   X-mas present from Me to Me.
7. Ricardo (rgbes@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 19-Dec-2024 20:13:04 UTC Ricardo

   Why This Lizard’s Venomous Spit is Worth $50 Billion | Be Smart
   
   https://youtu.be/KELjtarJ2TY
   
   #science #medicine #history
8. NYbill (nybill@mastodon.sdf.org)'s status on Wednesday, 18-Dec-2024 21:41:16 UTC NYbill

   As for 'deep carry' the new Bear and Son wins.

   • NYbill (nybill@mastodon.sdf.org)'s status on Wednesday, 18-Dec-2024 22:15:38 UTC NYbill

     in reply to

     ...as long as you like tip up in a right hand pocket. Which I just happen to prefer. Of those 6 knives you can only swap 2 to a left hand carry. And only one to a tip up or down carry.

     I'm slightly ambidextrous. Fine motor movements I use my left hand. Gross motor movements, my right hand. (I.E. I use a right handed mouse in my left hand. I just angle it so my left index finger is on the 1 button.)

     So, I guess cutting tape and cardboard is a gross motor movement! :P

9. Andrew (bookseller era) (ajroach42@retro.social)'s status on Wednesday, 18-Dec-2024 21:41:53 UTC Andrew (bookseller era)

   It appears we've executed a successful color change.

   • Dave M7TLB 🐞🇺🇦🌻 (thelovebug@mastodon.me.uk)'s status on Wednesday, 18-Dec-2024 21:41:53 UTC Dave M7TLB 🐞🇺🇦🌻

     in reply to

     @ajroach42 M600 for the win!

10. Ricardo (rgbes@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 18-Dec-2024 19:33:50 UTC Ricardo

    The Secret Rewrite Behind Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker | David Bruce Composer
    
    https://youtu.be/oAUoL-kXomg
    
    #music #ClassicalMusic #harp
11. Nina Willburger (ninawillburger@social.anoxinon.de)'s status on Wednesday, 18-Dec-2024 11:52:42 UTC Nina Willburger

    Things used in everyday life are the real archaeological treasures! These sewing #needles were made from animal bone some 15,000 years ago. Some designs simply don't need to be improved, because form and functions were perfectly matched from the start. Form follows function! 1/2

    Found in the Grotte du Placard à Vilhonneur (Charente).
    Photo: RMNGP/MAN

    #archaeology
12. Ricardo (rgbes@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 17-Dec-2024 20:08:00 UTC Ricardo

    Don't believe everything you've been told about the Vikings... The latest episode of the Future Imperfect podcast is really interesting
    
    What were ordinary Vikings really like? - Future Imperfect | Acast
    
    https://shows.acast.com/future-imperfect/episodes/what-were-ordinary-vikings-really-like
    
    #history
13. AkaSci 🛰️ (akasci@fosstodon.org)'s status on Tuesday, 17-Dec-2024 18:34:46 UTC AkaSci 🛰️

    Happy Birthday to Émilie Du Châtelet (Dec 17, 1706 - Sep 10, 1749), French natural philosopher, mathematician and physicist.

    A fierce advocate of women's education, Du Châtelet wrote -

    “If I were king, I would redress an abuse which cuts back, as it were, one half of human kind. I would have women participate in all human rights, especially those of the mind.
    This new system of education that I propose would in all respects be beneficial to the human species ..."

    https://www.google.com/books/edition/Selected_Philosophical_and_Scientific_Wr/TgDSoGgR5YMC?hl=en&gbpv=1
    1/n
14. Robert McNees (mcnees@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 17-Dec-2022 17:23:14 UTC Robert McNees

    Émilie du Châtelet, who hypothesized conservation of energy, established kinetic energy as distinct from momentum and proportional to (speed)², and combined work by Newton and Leibniz with her own original ideas in "Institutions de Physique," was born #OTD in 1706.

    Du Châtelet is an important figure in the development of classical physics, but she is not nearly as well known as many of her male contemporaries.

    Portrait: M. Q. de La Tour

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    • Grassroots Joe (joeinwynnewood@mstdn.social)'s status on Sunday, 01-Jan-2023 15:06:07 UTC Grassroots Joe

      in reply to

      @mcnees
      I was pretty sure I'd not heard of Madam du Châtelet, but apparently it is only my memory that is at fault.
      I pulled Volume III of the History of Science in Western Civilization text book for the course I took junior year at Cornell in the late '70's; while the index fails to include du Châtelet, she is included in the section titled "French Science during the Century of Lights". She's introduced as Voltaire's mistress, an accomplished mathematician and translator of the Principia.

    • Robert McNees (mcnees@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 01-Jan-2023 15:06:07 UTC Robert McNees

      in reply to

      • Grassroots Joe

      @joeinwynnewood While I think it’s true that they had an affair, when books lead with that it detracts from her skills and accomplishments. And she really accomplished quite a bit!

    • Qob (qob@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 17-Dec-2024 18:27:05 UTC Qob

      in reply to

      @mcnees example of why more women historians are needed

15. Robert McNees (mcnees@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 17-Dec-2024 14:38:33 UTC Robert McNees

    in reply to

    • Paul Haddad

    @paul Same here, with a pair of c2009 27” cinema displays.

    • Paul Haddad (paul@tapbots.social)'s status on Tuesday, 17-Dec-2024 14:38:36 UTC Paul Haddad

      Did something happen with Sequoia and sub-pixel font smoothing? For whatever reason my 1x display looks pretty good lately and doesn't want to make me toss it in the garbage.

16. NYbill (nybill@mastodon.sdf.org)'s status on Monday, 16-Dec-2024 22:23:11 UTC NYbill

    For years now I've carried a Kershaw Crown (and still do) in my work jeans coin pocket. No cardboard or tape is safe!

    Kershaw stopped making the Crown. I prefer a svelt knife. So went looking for what is out there. I think this Bear and Son CB21 will do nicely!

    About the same size, same clip side, similar liner lock. Feels at home.

    • NYbill (nybill@mastodon.sdf.org)'s status on Tuesday, 17-Dec-2024 01:16:05 UTC NYbill

      in reply to

      • jezra

      @jezra it camera perspective. The Bear and Son is actually a bit longer. But, I like the shape/feel of It. And I like that is made in good'ol Alabamy.

    • jezra (jezra@pleroma.jezra.net)'s status on Tuesday, 17-Dec-2024 01:16:06 UTC jezra

      in reply to
      @NYbill nice find. between the 2, I'd go with that Bear and Son.
17. NYbill (nybill@mastodon.sdf.org)'s status on Monday, 16-Dec-2024 20:44:55 UTC NYbill

    @rust1 lets see a pic of the hot air/solder station. I never even opened it.
18. Kelly Lepo (kellylepo@astrodon.social)'s status on Monday, 16-Dec-2024 18:54:43 UTC Kelly Lepo

    For a while, I had a gig answering astronomy questions online.

    When I got "what is that bright thing I saw in the sky?" questions, I'd guess "Venus" and then go look it up, putting their location and the time and direction of the observation into Stellarium. I'd say 98% of the time that guess was right.
19. Daniel Marín (eurekablog@astrodon.social)'s status on Monday, 16-Dec-2024 09:08:21 UTC Daniel Marín

    En el blog > Urano, ¿un enorme planeta rocoso o un gigante de hielo? https://danielmarin.naukas.com/2024/12/15/urano-un-enorme-planeta-rocoso-o-un-gigante-de-hielo/
20. Kevie 🇬🇧🇨🇾 (kevie@mastodon.me.uk)'s status on Sunday, 15-Dec-2024 22:12:01 UTC Kevie 🇬🇧🇨🇾

    Cheers everybody 🍷 enjoying a glass of Rhubarb Mead https://untp.beer/EzLX2

    #mead #meadsofmastodon

    • Dave M7TLB 🐞🇺🇦🌻 (thelovebug@mastodon.me.uk)'s status on Sunday, 15-Dec-2024 22:12:01 UTC Dave M7TLB 🐞🇺🇦🌻

      in reply to

      • Moosical
      • Ciarán Ainsworth :funkwhale:

      I'm sorry @cda

      @kevie @Moosical