The Air Whisperer
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22nd-Century
Aerodynamics
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Zombie Sukhoi! Ukrainian Engineers Restored A 40-Year-Old Su-27 That Hadn't Flown in 26 Years.
Zombie Sukhoi! Ukrainian Engineers Restored A 40-Year-Old Su-27 That Hadn't Flown in 26 Years.
Every restored Su-27 delays the type's extinction in Ukraine.
open.substack.com
January 24, 2026 at 10:06 PM
Zombie Sukhoi! Ukrainian Engineers Restored A 40-Year-Old Su-27 That Hadn't Flown in 26 Years.
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Home solar in rural America: how much battery do you need in a winter storm?
Home solar in rural America: how much battery do you need in a winter storm?
There’s no shortage of advice on how to size a home solar and battery system, but most of it assumes a suburban home with city services and outages measured in hours, not days. Rural homes play by different rules, especially during major winter storms. When ice and snow take down lines and your utility prioritizes restoring power to urban neighborhoods, having a home battery isn’t about convenience — it’s about damage control.
more…
electrek.co
January 24, 2026 at 10:35 PM
Home solar in rural America: how much battery do you need in a winter storm?
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🌀 CO₂ thresholds matter...
In essence, the study emphasises that, 'clean indoor air matters because good ventilation reduces the build‑up of exhaled pollutants - including viruses - keeping people healthier, safer and more comfortable'.
💯 Lidia Morawska et al.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
In essence, the study emphasises that, 'clean indoor air matters because good ventilation reduces the build‑up of exhaled pollutants - including viruses - keeping people healthier, safer and more comfortable'.
💯 Lidia Morawska et al.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
January 24, 2026 at 9:14 AM
🌀 CO₂ thresholds matter...
In essence, the study emphasises that, 'clean indoor air matters because good ventilation reduces the build‑up of exhaled pollutants - including viruses - keeping people healthier, safer and more comfortable'.
💯 Lidia Morawska et al.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
In essence, the study emphasises that, 'clean indoor air matters because good ventilation reduces the build‑up of exhaled pollutants - including viruses - keeping people healthier, safer and more comfortable'.
💯 Lidia Morawska et al.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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In the new video, you see the victim Alex Pretti, directing traffic, protecting fellow citizens from getting pushed and grabbed by ICE before he is pepper sprayed and shot multiple times. Stephen Miller is calling him a domestic terrorist. The truth is, Miller is thedomestic terrorist.
January 24, 2026 at 7:27 PM
In the new video, you see the victim Alex Pretti, directing traffic, protecting fellow citizens from getting pushed and grabbed by ICE before he is pepper sprayed and shot multiple times. Stephen Miller is calling him a domestic terrorist. The truth is, Miller is thedomestic terrorist.
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Margaret W. Rossiter coined the term “Matilda effect” to describe the bias against acknowledging the achievements of women scientists. Some cases illustrating the Matilda effect include Eunice Foote, Rosalind Franklin, & Jocelyn Bell Burnell
#Womeninstem
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#Womeninstem
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Eunice Foote, climate change, and the Matilda Effect
The birth of modern science was hostile to women’s participation. The world’s major academies of science were founded in the 17th century: the Royal Society of London (1662), the Paris Académie Roy…
paleonerdish.wordpress.com
January 24, 2026 at 4:58 PM
Margaret W. Rossiter coined the term “Matilda effect” to describe the bias against acknowledging the achievements of women scientists. Some cases illustrating the Matilda effect include Eunice Foote, Rosalind Franklin, & Jocelyn Bell Burnell
#Womeninstem
paleonerdish.wordpress.com/2022/03/07/e...
#Womeninstem
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'The Power of the Vortex'
23/n:
The ILLUSION of air 'flowing' backwards past a vehicle that's moving forward through it IS POWERFUL
- but like the tornado that carried Dorothy 'over the rainbow', POWERS of the kind attributed to the air swirling after an aircraft are no more than FEVER DREAMS...
23/n:
The ILLUSION of air 'flowing' backwards past a vehicle that's moving forward through it IS POWERFUL
- but like the tornado that carried Dorothy 'over the rainbow', POWERS of the kind attributed to the air swirling after an aircraft are no more than FEVER DREAMS...
September 2, 2025 at 10:02 PM
'The Power of the Vortex'
23/n:
The ILLUSION of air 'flowing' backwards past a vehicle that's moving forward through it IS POWERFUL
- but like the tornado that carried Dorothy 'over the rainbow', POWERS of the kind attributed to the air swirling after an aircraft are no more than FEVER DREAMS...
23/n:
The ILLUSION of air 'flowing' backwards past a vehicle that's moving forward through it IS POWERFUL
- but like the tornado that carried Dorothy 'over the rainbow', POWERS of the kind attributed to the air swirling after an aircraft are no more than FEVER DREAMS...
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Dirty tricks are unreliable
- and the Scientific Community has an Ace it can play at any time.
Science is under attack because it's vulnerable; the Scientific Revolution made Science IMPORTANT in Society, an upgrade from being necessary but 'unsung'.
It is again, and can be upgraded again.
🧪🪂🌪️
- and the Scientific Community has an Ace it can play at any time.
Science is under attack because it's vulnerable; the Scientific Revolution made Science IMPORTANT in Society, an upgrade from being necessary but 'unsung'.
It is again, and can be upgraded again.
🧪🪂🌪️
January 11, 2026 at 1:37 PM
Dirty tricks are unreliable
- and the Scientific Community has an Ace it can play at any time.
Science is under attack because it's vulnerable; the Scientific Revolution made Science IMPORTANT in Society, an upgrade from being necessary but 'unsung'.
It is again, and can be upgraded again.
🧪🪂🌪️
- and the Scientific Community has an Ace it can play at any time.
Science is under attack because it's vulnerable; the Scientific Revolution made Science IMPORTANT in Society, an upgrade from being necessary but 'unsung'.
It is again, and can be upgraded again.
🧪🪂🌪️
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Moving from the 22nd Century to your time, the communication issue I have is not with the words in your language, which are ALMOST all the same
- but rather with the many 'normal' CONCEPTS you don't yet have that even academics tell me are nonsense...
- but rather with the many 'normal' CONCEPTS you don't yet have that even academics tell me are nonsense...
January 22, 2026 at 9:37 PM
Moving from the 22nd Century to your time, the communication issue I have is not with the words in your language, which are ALMOST all the same
- but rather with the many 'normal' CONCEPTS you don't yet have that even academics tell me are nonsense...
- but rather with the many 'normal' CONCEPTS you don't yet have that even academics tell me are nonsense...
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A more significant question might be:
'How LONG will it take for Physicists to recognize the (exciting, but dim...) notion that 'familiar-scale' objects like tennis balls and people 'are not also' waveforms AS A LOGICAL FALLACY...?
Schrödinger's SATIRE hasn't persuaded them, nor has Feynman's...
'How LONG will it take for Physicists to recognize the (exciting, but dim...) notion that 'familiar-scale' objects like tennis balls and people 'are not also' waveforms AS A LOGICAL FALLACY...?
Schrödinger's SATIRE hasn't persuaded them, nor has Feynman's...
January 22, 2026 at 11:31 AM
A more significant question might be:
'How LONG will it take for Physicists to recognize the (exciting, but dim...) notion that 'familiar-scale' objects like tennis balls and people 'are not also' waveforms AS A LOGICAL FALLACY...?
Schrödinger's SATIRE hasn't persuaded them, nor has Feynman's...
'How LONG will it take for Physicists to recognize the (exciting, but dim...) notion that 'familiar-scale' objects like tennis balls and people 'are not also' waveforms AS A LOGICAL FALLACY...?
Schrödinger's SATIRE hasn't persuaded them, nor has Feynman's...
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Looks like a wave crashing against the shore but it's actually a cloud at just about eye level, as I was about 4000 above sea level. Santa Barbara sunsets are full of surprises!
#Sunset #Photography #SantaBarbara #LaCumbrePeak
#Sunset #Photography #SantaBarbara #LaCumbrePeak
January 24, 2026 at 7:55 AM
Looks like a wave crashing against the shore but it's actually a cloud at just about eye level, as I was about 4000 above sea level. Santa Barbara sunsets are full of surprises!
#Sunset #Photography #SantaBarbara #LaCumbrePeak
#Sunset #Photography #SantaBarbara #LaCumbrePeak
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Economía circular de guerra
militarnyi.com/en/news/ukra...
militarnyi.com/en/news/ukra...
Ukraine Starts Restoring Engines from Shaheds for Its Own Drones - Militarnyi
Ukrainian volunteers have started restoring engines from downed Russian Shaheds.
militarnyi.com
January 24, 2026 at 7:30 AM
Economía circular de guerra
militarnyi.com/en/news/ukra...
militarnyi.com/en/news/ukra...
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Completely unoriginal thought but: it's frustrating that the actual experience of living in large cosmopolitan multicultural city (London Uk in my case) is actually pretty dope, but a lot of politics is organised around this being a nightmare scenario that must be apologised for and avoided.
January 24, 2026 at 12:48 PM
Completely unoriginal thought but: it's frustrating that the actual experience of living in large cosmopolitan multicultural city (London Uk in my case) is actually pretty dope, but a lot of politics is organised around this being a nightmare scenario that must be apologised for and avoided.
Flat-earth fantasists claim "It is impossible for humans to have calculated the circumference of the Earth without satellites."
[...and satellites are faked in order to justify older claims that it's round...]
'Proofs' that they're wrong often fail because they SHARE THE SAME logical fallacy...
[...and satellites are faked in order to justify older claims that it's round...]
'Proofs' that they're wrong often fail because they SHARE THE SAME logical fallacy...
January 22, 2026 at 11:53 AM
Flat-earth fantasists claim "It is impossible for humans to have calculated the circumference of the Earth without satellites."
[...and satellites are faked in order to justify older claims that it's round...]
'Proofs' that they're wrong often fail because they SHARE THE SAME logical fallacy...
[...and satellites are faked in order to justify older claims that it's round...]
'Proofs' that they're wrong often fail because they SHARE THE SAME logical fallacy...
A more significant question might be:
'How LONG will it take for Physicists to recognize the (exciting, but dim...) notion that 'familiar-scale' objects like tennis balls and people 'are not also' waveforms AS A LOGICAL FALLACY...?
Schrödinger's SATIRE hasn't persuaded them, nor has Feynman's...
'How LONG will it take for Physicists to recognize the (exciting, but dim...) notion that 'familiar-scale' objects like tennis balls and people 'are not also' waveforms AS A LOGICAL FALLACY...?
Schrödinger's SATIRE hasn't persuaded them, nor has Feynman's...
January 22, 2026 at 11:31 AM
A more significant question might be:
'How LONG will it take for Physicists to recognize the (exciting, but dim...) notion that 'familiar-scale' objects like tennis balls and people 'are not also' waveforms AS A LOGICAL FALLACY...?
Schrödinger's SATIRE hasn't persuaded them, nor has Feynman's...
'How LONG will it take for Physicists to recognize the (exciting, but dim...) notion that 'familiar-scale' objects like tennis balls and people 'are not also' waveforms AS A LOGICAL FALLACY...?
Schrödinger's SATIRE hasn't persuaded them, nor has Feynman's...
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In this line of work, there is no such thing as a sure thing, but any story about Concorde comes pretty close. A new, well-written, fourteen-minute read by (clearly a fan) Francesca Street writing for @cnn.com Travel. | 🛩️ 📹
What it was like to pilot the supersonic Concorde jet | CNN
Those who took the controls of Concorde say it was like no other airplane. Here they reveal the secrets of flying the world’s fastest commercial passenger aircraft at more than twice the speed of soun...
www.cnn.com
January 21, 2026 at 3:56 PM
In this line of work, there is no such thing as a sure thing, but any story about Concorde comes pretty close. A new, well-written, fourteen-minute read by (clearly a fan) Francesca Street writing for @cnn.com Travel. | 🛩️ 📹
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Picking up on Beyond Aero's hydrogen-related developments we shared earlier this week, here is a much more detailed treatise on a related subject brought to us by the way of @universitypress.cambridge.org. This is a very readable abstract, with a link to the complete academic paper. | 🛩️ ⚡️ 🏫 🥇
Turning boil-off hydrogen from a loss into a resource – a metal-hydride concept for future sustainable aviation « Engineering# « Cambridge Core Blog
Liquid hydrogen (LH2) is considered as a cornerstone of a low-carbon aviation future, yet the inevitable formation of hydrogen boil-off gas (BOG) is one of its main drawbacks.
www.cambridge.org
January 21, 2026 at 6:08 PM
Picking up on Beyond Aero's hydrogen-related developments we shared earlier this week, here is a much more detailed treatise on a related subject brought to us by the way of @universitypress.cambridge.org. This is a very readable abstract, with a link to the complete academic paper. | 🛩️ ⚡️ 🏫 🥇
An unfortunate tendency in your time is the superstition of 'Label Permanence'.
It's the psychological mechanism whereby the label 'Intelligence', once it's attached to Data Automation tools in order to boost their market value, is very difficult to 'repeal' when it becomes obvious they're 'dumb'.
It's the psychological mechanism whereby the label 'Intelligence', once it's attached to Data Automation tools in order to boost their market value, is very difficult to 'repeal' when it becomes obvious they're 'dumb'.
Regardless of the usefulness of "AI" based tools for progressing science, there can't be any such thing as a "AI co-scientist" because scientist is a term that describes people, not things, and we absolutely must not lose sight of that. It's not just semantic.
Nature Genetics: Engineering AI co-scientists for statistical genetics applications www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧬💻🧪 read free: rdcu.be/eZ2wR
January 21, 2026 at 11:20 AM
An unfortunate tendency in your time is the superstition of 'Label Permanence'.
It's the psychological mechanism whereby the label 'Intelligence', once it's attached to Data Automation tools in order to boost their market value, is very difficult to 'repeal' when it becomes obvious they're 'dumb'.
It's the psychological mechanism whereby the label 'Intelligence', once it's attached to Data Automation tools in order to boost their market value, is very difficult to 'repeal' when it becomes obvious they're 'dumb'.
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A highly amplified atmospheric pattern over Northern Hemisphere, characterized by persistent high-latitude blocking & equatorward displacement of cold Arctic air (-AO & +TNH), will continue for the next 10+ days. Net result: warm & dry in U.S. West and cold (& maybe stormy) East.
January 19, 2026 at 11:00 PM
A highly amplified atmospheric pattern over Northern Hemisphere, characterized by persistent high-latitude blocking & equatorward displacement of cold Arctic air (-AO & +TNH), will continue for the next 10+ days. Net result: warm & dry in U.S. West and cold (& maybe stormy) East.
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Fossil fuel proponents are lobbying for and implementing policies that oppose renewables because fossil fuels cannot compete with renewables in the free market. They are faster to build out and cost less to build, operate and maintain. 🧪🔌💡☀️💨💧🔋 www.irena.org/News/pressre...
91% of New Renewable Projects Now Cheaper Than Fossil Fuels Alternatives
Renewables maintain their cost leadership in global power markets, IRENA’s new report on Renewable Power Generation Costs in 2024 confirms.
www.irena.org
January 19, 2026 at 5:08 PM
Fossil fuel proponents are lobbying for and implementing policies that oppose renewables because fossil fuels cannot compete with renewables in the free market. They are faster to build out and cost less to build, operate and maintain. 🧪🔌💡☀️💨💧🔋 www.irena.org/News/pressre...
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US Congress map showing US bases across Europe.
Many of these installations are not meant solely to “protect” Europe; rather, they are primarily designed to enable US power projection toward the Middle East and Africa.
For US security, Europe matters far more than Greenland
For US security, Europe matters far more than Greenland
January 18, 2026 at 8:29 PM
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Always nice to be recognised for my work in @thetimes.com, but I haven't done any fluid dynamics research for a while. I had my one year anniversary at @tandfresearch.bsky.social last week!
www.thetimes.com/uk/science/a...
www.thetimes.com/uk/science/a...
Science journals retract 500 papers a month. This is why it matters
A small team of volunteers is tracking thousands of falsified studies, including cases of bribery, fraud and plagiarism
www.thetimes.com
January 18, 2026 at 9:14 PM
Always nice to be recognised for my work in @thetimes.com, but I haven't done any fluid dynamics research for a while. I had my one year anniversary at @tandfresearch.bsky.social last week!
www.thetimes.com/uk/science/a...
www.thetimes.com/uk/science/a...
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I am very tired of this. Flu is predominantly airborne and you need a mask.
And we need clean indoor air in public places.
And we need clean indoor air in public places.
As flu season continues, it’s a good time to remember the basics: stay home when you’re sick, wash your hands often, and get vaccinated if you haven’t already. It’s not too late.
January 18, 2026 at 3:49 PM
I am very tired of this. Flu is predominantly airborne and you need a mask.
And we need clean indoor air in public places.
And we need clean indoor air in public places.
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If the “improve ventilation” and “wear respirators” messaging comes from Forbes will executives finally listen?
January 18, 2026 at 1:55 PM
If the “improve ventilation” and “wear respirators” messaging comes from Forbes will executives finally listen?
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Some sources, plus the call for comics if you want to participate.
![Ice Out! Cartoonists against Ice. Calling on cartoonists and artists to tell your stories about the Ice occupation of your towns and cities! 4-panel comics, 3:4 instagram format, Use this blue (there's an image of a particular blue color). Use these hashtags: #iceout[your city] #iceoutmpls #iceoutcomics](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ciczkjj6zodjr7x6zugk7lcz/bafkreidxf7cziyjba4dtb3kuax3pw7x47trp5kawobc5ttywmoceootc4a@jpeg)
January 18, 2026 at 2:12 PM
Some sources, plus the call for comics if you want to participate.
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🔴 Who Funds the Free Speech Union?
Toby Young’s outfit has gone to court to stop publication of a list of its donors
So we decided to take a dive into its funders
Watch video with me and @writesbright.bsky.social 😀
youtu.be/oP0OGYhYyaA?...
Toby Young’s outfit has gone to court to stop publication of a list of its donors
So we decided to take a dive into its funders
Watch video with me and @writesbright.bsky.social 😀
youtu.be/oP0OGYhYyaA?...
Who Really Funds the Free Speech Union?
YouTube video by Democracy for Sale
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January 18, 2026 at 11:31 AM
🔴 Who Funds the Free Speech Union?
Toby Young’s outfit has gone to court to stop publication of a list of its donors
So we decided to take a dive into its funders
Watch video with me and @writesbright.bsky.social 😀
youtu.be/oP0OGYhYyaA?...
Toby Young’s outfit has gone to court to stop publication of a list of its donors
So we decided to take a dive into its funders
Watch video with me and @writesbright.bsky.social 😀
youtu.be/oP0OGYhYyaA?...