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What makes this foil ring float with no strings attached? ⚡️🧪
Using a handheld Van de Graaff generator, we build up a strong negative charge. When a lightweight foil ring is brought close, it picks up some of those electrons.
Using a handheld Van de Graaff generator, we build up a strong negative charge. When a lightweight foil ring is brought close, it picks up some of those electrons.
November 10, 2025 at 8:46 PM
What makes this foil ring float with no strings attached? ⚡️🧪
Using a handheld Van de Graaff generator, we build up a strong negative charge. When a lightweight foil ring is brought close, it picks up some of those electrons.
Using a handheld Van de Graaff generator, we build up a strong negative charge. When a lightweight foil ring is brought close, it picks up some of those electrons.
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November 10, 2025 at 10:14 PM
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Since 1968, CEO pay has exploded while worker pay has remained stagnant. If worker pay grew at the same pace as CEO pay, today’s typical worker would make $431.80 per HOUR.
Instead, today’s typical worker makes $36.49 per hour — while CEOs make 280 times that on average.
The system is rigged.
Instead, today’s typical worker makes $36.49 per hour — while CEOs make 280 times that on average.
The system is rigged.
November 10, 2025 at 7:06 AM
Since 1968, CEO pay has exploded while worker pay has remained stagnant. If worker pay grew at the same pace as CEO pay, today’s typical worker would make $431.80 per HOUR.
Instead, today’s typical worker makes $36.49 per hour — while CEOs make 280 times that on average.
The system is rigged.
Instead, today’s typical worker makes $36.49 per hour — while CEOs make 280 times that on average.
The system is rigged.
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Dorothy Vaughan | NASA mathematician, programmer & manager died #OTD in 2008
First Black female supervisor at NACA (precursor to NASA), expert programmer, Scout Launch Vehicle Program contributor & more. #WomenInSTEM
Learn more about this "Hidden Figure:" nasa.gov/people/dorot...
First Black female supervisor at NACA (precursor to NASA), expert programmer, Scout Launch Vehicle Program contributor & more. #WomenInSTEM
Learn more about this "Hidden Figure:" nasa.gov/people/dorot...
November 10, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Dorothy Vaughan | NASA mathematician, programmer & manager died #OTD in 2008
First Black female supervisor at NACA (precursor to NASA), expert programmer, Scout Launch Vehicle Program contributor & more. #WomenInSTEM
Learn more about this "Hidden Figure:" nasa.gov/people/dorot...
First Black female supervisor at NACA (precursor to NASA), expert programmer, Scout Launch Vehicle Program contributor & more. #WomenInSTEM
Learn more about this "Hidden Figure:" nasa.gov/people/dorot...
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My all-time favorite Far Side
November 10, 2025 at 7:43 PM
My all-time favorite Far Side
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Far Side
Poor Humpty
Poor Humpty
November 10, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Far Side
Poor Humpty
Poor Humpty
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Oh, I love this. A new species of sea anemone was discovered recently that parks itself on top of a hermit crab shell like a hat. It seems to feed partly off the crab's faeces, but it also excretes a hard shell that extends the crab's home. In return, it's carried around the seafloor like a king.
November 10, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Oh, I love this. A new species of sea anemone was discovered recently that parks itself on top of a hermit crab shell like a hat. It seems to feed partly off the crab's faeces, but it also excretes a hard shell that extends the crab's home. In return, it's carried around the seafloor like a king.
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If worker pay grew at the same pace as CEO pay, today’s typical worker would make a staggering $431.80 per HOUR (including benefits).
Instead, today’s typical worker makes $36.49 per hour — while CEOs make 280 times that on average.
The system is rigged.
Instead, today’s typical worker makes $36.49 per hour — while CEOs make 280 times that on average.
The system is rigged.
November 9, 2025 at 9:10 PM
If worker pay grew at the same pace as CEO pay, today’s typical worker would make a staggering $431.80 per HOUR (including benefits).
Instead, today’s typical worker makes $36.49 per hour — while CEOs make 280 times that on average.
The system is rigged.
Instead, today’s typical worker makes $36.49 per hour — while CEOs make 280 times that on average.
The system is rigged.
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He’s helping me unload the dishwasher
November 9, 2025 at 8:07 PM
He’s helping me unload the dishwasher
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She’s not wrong.
When we’re born, we have about 300 bones, but over time, we end up with just 206, because many fuse together as we grow.
And here’s a fun fact: Bone is a living tissue that constantly renews itself. Your skeleton is completely new about every 7-10 years.
When we’re born, we have about 300 bones, but over time, we end up with just 206, because many fuse together as we grow.
And here’s a fun fact: Bone is a living tissue that constantly renews itself. Your skeleton is completely new about every 7-10 years.
November 9, 2025 at 5:27 PM
She’s not wrong.
When we’re born, we have about 300 bones, but over time, we end up with just 206, because many fuse together as we grow.
And here’s a fun fact: Bone is a living tissue that constantly renews itself. Your skeleton is completely new about every 7-10 years.
When we’re born, we have about 300 bones, but over time, we end up with just 206, because many fuse together as we grow.
And here’s a fun fact: Bone is a living tissue that constantly renews itself. Your skeleton is completely new about every 7-10 years.
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"Everything that China does is covered by the national security law in China, and that means every single company has to co-operate with the Chinese authorities in handing over data."
Shock, horror, China flexes its muscles and puts backdoors in foreign products.
Shock, horror, China flexes its muscles and puts backdoors in foreign products.
UK investigates remote ‘kill switch’ on Chinese-made buses — The Times and The Sunday Times
The UK is investigating a security loophole that could allow hundreds of Chinese-made electric buses to be remotely deactivated. Government officials are working with the National Cyber Security Centr...
apple.news
November 9, 2025 at 1:56 PM
"Everything that China does is covered by the national security law in China, and that means every single company has to co-operate with the Chinese authorities in handing over data."
Shock, horror, China flexes its muscles and puts backdoors in foreign products.
Shock, horror, China flexes its muscles and puts backdoors in foreign products.
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Dogs and their Love of Sticks ❤️ #FridayVibes #FridayFeeling
November 7, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Dogs and their Love of Sticks ❤️ #FridayVibes #FridayFeeling
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What they use to use in your great grandmother's age to cure "hysteria" (aka sexism)
A vibrating saddle
A vibrating saddle
November 6, 2025 at 10:39 PM
What they use to use in your great grandmother's age to cure "hysteria" (aka sexism)
A vibrating saddle
A vibrating saddle
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Australia has so much electricity from solar power that it is going to start offering free electricity to everyone for at least three hours during the day as the wholesale price of power goes negative
electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...
electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...
Australia has so much solar that it's offering everyone free electricity
Australia's extensive solar power penetration makes so much energy that the government wants to offer free electricity at peak hours.
electrek.co
November 6, 2025 at 4:58 AM
Australia has so much electricity from solar power that it is going to start offering free electricity to everyone for at least three hours during the day as the wholesale price of power goes negative
electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...
electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...
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How a radical experiment to bring a forest into a preschool transformed children’s health
In #Finland, kindergartens are exposing children to more mud, wild plants and moss - and finding changes to their health that show how crucial biodiversity is to wellbeing
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
In #Finland, kindergartens are exposing children to more mud, wild plants and moss - and finding changes to their health that show how crucial biodiversity is to wellbeing
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
How a radical experiment to bring a forest into a preschool transformed children’s health
In Finland, kindergartens are exposing children to more mud, wild plants and moss - and finding changes to their health that show how crucial biodiversity is to wellbeing
www.theguardian.com
November 5, 2025 at 5:25 PM
How a radical experiment to bring a forest into a preschool transformed children’s health
In #Finland, kindergartens are exposing children to more mud, wild plants and moss - and finding changes to their health that show how crucial biodiversity is to wellbeing
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
In #Finland, kindergartens are exposing children to more mud, wild plants and moss - and finding changes to their health that show how crucial biodiversity is to wellbeing
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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When you call Mamdani a socialist, please remember:
November 5, 2025 at 2:30 PM
When you call Mamdani a socialist, please remember:
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