Tomorrow, February 28, let’s disrupt the status quo by spending ONLY at businesses that uplift our communities.

That means:
🚫 No gas from corporate giants
🚫 No fast food chains
🚫 No big-box retailers (Target, Walmart, Amazon, etc.)

Norbert Wiener, the American mathematician & philosopher who coined the term #cybernetics, was born #OnThisDay in 1894.

Find out more about his life & career in today's #ScientistOfTheDay post, written by 2024-25 LHL fellow Ericka Herazo: www.lindahall.org/about/news/s...

#histSTM #histtech 🗃️📜

Sometimes a stroll through nature helps in these times.

When the media calls Bluesky a “liberal” platform they are missing the point. It’s not about politics. It’s about decency. Putting this into a left/right dichotomy is just further normalizing the behavior of deranged MAGA trolls.

well which is it

Unfortunately, this seem an apt time to share: A group of historians annotated sections of Project 2025, contextualizing and commenting on its plans to undermine environmental protections, exacerbate inequalities, and burn, burn, burn more fossil fuels. #envhist 🌎

Admittedly I’m no expert in gender politics and I’m just a guy but I’m pretty sure that the election to the presidency of a man found by a federal jury to have forcibly penetrated a woman’s vagina with his hands in a department store dressing room isn’t a great thing for women.

If anti-vax policies take root in the new US administration, kids & families could pay a toll, senior government officials warn. "The natural consequences of not believing in science or the potential benefit of these vaccines may be that we have unnecessary deaths."
www.statnews.com/2024/11/13/v...

In 1592 there was a lottery in Amsterdam to raise money for the expansion of the local Dolhuys (Madhouse). The painting shows the drawing. The drawing is the Dolhuys in 1617

The Carina Nebula

Looking forward to my next visit!

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