After analyzing billions of radio signals received over fifteen years, a team of researchers has zeroed in on 100 that are most likely to have been sent by extraterrestrials 👽. Are the 100 remaining signals messages from across the universe or just a bunch of space noise? https://ow.ly/X2Ls50Y0mCY

It's been ~2 years but I still find it fun:

Animation vs. Math
www.youtube.com/watch?v=B1J6...

#animation #mathematics

closing out a great year for palaeontology with a surprising discovery from denmark that indicates the survival of ammonites following the asteroid impact that marked the cretaceous-paleogene boundary
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

There have been five mass extinctions in Earth's history
ourworldindata.org/mass-extinct...

There have been five big #massExtinctions in Earth's history – these are called the "Big Five". Understanding the reasons and timelines of these events is important .. #paleontology

How Babies and Young Children Learn to Understand Language
lithub.com/how-babies-a...

How children learn language has long been of interest to those concerned with its evolution. The idea that ‘ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny’ has been promoted, ...

#earlyChildhood #linguistics

Fonts for Complex Data
www.typography.com/blog/fonts-f...

Retail displays, packaged goods, financial reports and apps all present readers with a dizzying array of data. Here are a few ways to make quick work of their long lists, tiny annotations, and mighty stacks of numbers.

#typography #fonts

That #rotationCurves become flat at large radii is one of the most famous results in extragalactic astronomy. This had been established by #VeraRubin and her collaborators by the late 1970s. #galaxy #cosmology

tritonstation.com/2024/06/18/r...

Probably the best summary of the current state of #observability in the tech industry - a total, mass confusion. Everyone is confused. What is a #trace? What is a #span? Is #log line a span? Do I need #traces if I have logs? #metrics

isburmistrov.substack.com/p/all-you-ne...