Rian Nejar 🦋
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Rian Nejar 🦋
@riannejar.bsky.social
Entrepreneur, educator, 𝐚𝐮𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐫 of nonfiction HnH at https://goo.gl/FKUnCM
Blogs at https://riannejar.wordpress.com/ and at Substack
Gilbert, AZ, Southwest US

Narcissists and porn bots - instantly 𝐛𝐥𝐨𝐜𝐤𝐞𝐝. 🚫💰👻🐟 🧑‍🤝‍🧑✔️

All posts: https://tinyurl.com/2evxfd9r
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Data Centers are responsible for 2/3rds (~63%) of the average customer's electricity price increases. [via More Perfect Union] 🧪🖥️🔟🏭🔋🐷🐖

And these energy-hog monsters are growing in number and energy/resource consumption at an #exponential rate.

youtu.be/YN6BEUA4jNU

#data #center #energy #water
We Found the Hidden Cost of Data Centers. It's in Your Electric Bill
YouTube video by More Perfect Union
youtu.be
More about Jupiter, the 'Deus Pater' planet [via UChicago] 🧪🥼🌌🪐

"Among the findings is a new calculation for how much oxygen Jupiter has. [] Jupiter likely has about one and a half times more than the sun."

news.uchicago.edu/story/comput...

#Jupiter #Godfather #atmosphere #Juno #Galileo #space
Computer models let scientists peer into the mystery beneath Jupiter’s clouds
Atmospheric study finds surprises about our largest neighboring planet and its deep atmosphere
news.uchicago.edu
January 31, 2026 at 4:03 PM
Shielding astronauts from the dangers of deep-space radiation [via @sciam.bsky.social] 🧪🥼🌌🚀☢️☠️

"beyond Earth’s magnetosphere, they'll face the risk of solar storms that can push particle radiation to potentially lethal levels in a matter of hours"

www.science.org/content/arti...

#space #radiation
As humans return to the Moon, scientists confront the dangers of deep-space radiation
Shields and biological countermeasures could help protect astronauts during prolonged missions beyond Earth's magnetic bubble
www.science.org
January 30, 2026 at 5:24 PM
Sodium Glucose cotransporter-2 drug protects kidneys and #cardiovascular #health [via MDI Labs] 🧪🥼⚕️❤️🩺

"treatment also preserved communication between different #kidney cell types and reduced age-associated inflammatory signaling"

mdibl.org/press-releas...

#SGLT2 #medicine #diabetes #inflammation
A Fish That Grows Old in Months Reveals How Kidneys Age—and How a Common Drug Protects Them
mdibl.org
January 30, 2026 at 5:04 PM
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Disrupting a Congressman who voted to fund ICE
YouTube video by Walter Masterson
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January 29, 2026 at 8:37 PM
What happened, #republicans, #conservatives, #maga, to your campaign for #transparency? Forgotten or sidetracked just as #DementiaDon does?
January 29, 2026 at 8:53 PM
Lifespan may be more genetically determined - up to 50% - than previously thought [via @sciam.bsky.social] 🧪🥼🧓📏🕰️

“intrinsic mortality comes from [] biological aging [] and genetic mutations[;] extrinsic mortality [] from outside causes"

www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-...

#aging #lifespan
How long you live may depend much more on your genes than scientists thought
A new analysis suggests that genes play a much larger role in human longevity than previously believed. But lifestyle factors still matter
www.scientificamerican.com
January 29, 2026 at 7:57 PM
Accurate footprint tracker for tiny mammals to gauge ecosystem health [via Frontiers] 🧪🥼🐾🤖🧠🌍🩺

"a model which can identify small mammals from their footprints. These animals are often crucially important to an ecosystem"

www.frontiersin.org/news/2026/01...

#elephant #shrew #morphometry #ecosystem
96% accurate footprint tracker for tiny mammals could help reveal ecosystem health
New footprint identification technology can identify ecosystem-critical species which were once only distinguishable by DNA.
www.frontiersin.org
January 29, 2026 at 5:04 PM
An earth-sized planet with a 355-day orbit 146 LY away [via Science.org] 🧪🔭🌍🌞

"HD 137010 b would be an ideal target for efforts like the Terra Hunting Experiment"

www.science.org/content/arti...

#exoplanet #earth #habitable #zone #Kepler #space #telescope
Earth-size planet spotted with yearlong orbit
Long-overlooked Kepler signal discovered by citizen scientists reveals promising world worth a closer look
www.science.org
January 28, 2026 at 6:11 PM
The brutal murders of 𝐑𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐞 𝐍𝐢𝐜𝐨𝐥𝐞 𝐆𝐨𝐨𝐝 and 𝐀𝐥𝐞𝐱 𝐏𝐫𝐞𝐭𝐭𝐢 bring to mind George Floyd's torment in his last moments [author blog] 💙📚

riannejar.wordpress.com/2021/04/04/m...

#police #brutality #DHS #ICE #ReneeNicoleGood #AlexPretti #George#Floyd #America
“Mama… mama!”
Dying sons call out for their mothers. Soldiers do. So do patients and those in extreme distress. George Floyd’s plea for the comfort that only his beloved mama could give him – as he l…
riannejar.wordpress.com
January 25, 2026 at 10:22 PM
Gun supremacy in the land of Ameriguns [Wordpress author blog] 💙📚📰

"My land of Ameriguns recognizes the truth: might is right. The Gun is supreme, and we shall never be caught unvigilant."

riannejar.wordpress.com/2017/10/03/g...

#author #blog #guns #minnesota #shooting #AlexPretti
Gun Supremacy in the land of Ameriguns
Did we ever come out of the wild wild west? Ever learn to settle issues without violence? Or learn to ask questions, of others and oneself, before shooting first? “The Gun makes all me…
riannejar.wordpress.com
January 25, 2026 at 6:14 PM
Reposted by Rian Nejar 🦋
We’re supposed to believe this is a domestic terrorist attacking ICE with a gun
January 24, 2026 at 9:35 PM
QM - wave/particle duality - valid for large clusters of superposed atoms [via @sciam.bsky.social] 🧪🥼⚛️🐱

"each chunky cluster behaved like a #wave, spreading out into a #superposition of spatially distinct paths and then interfering"

www.scientificamerican.com/article/quan...

#quantum #mechanics
Quantum physicists just supersized Schrödinger’s cat. What happens next could be revolutionary
A record-breaking experiment shows that a cluster of thousands of atoms can act like a wave as well as a particle
www.scientificamerican.com
January 25, 2026 at 4:13 PM
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24/7 1 GW Solar!

UAE broke ground on a 5.2 GWdc PV facility paired with 19 GWh of battery storage in Abu Dhabi in October 2025.

It’s world’s first GW-scale renewable project, engineered to deliver 1 GW of continuous, around-the-clock baseload power.
www.woodmac.com/news/opinion... #energysky
January 23, 2026 at 2:12 PM
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Hear That
January 24, 2026 at 1:17 AM
Cells use bioelectricity to coordinate and make 'group decisions' [via @quantamagazine.bsky.social] 🧪🥼🦠⚡💭

"protective layers of cells that compose your skin and line your organs use electrical signals to make decisions"

www.quantamagazine.org/cells-use-bi...

#cell #bioelectricity #growth #death
Cells Use ‘Bioelectricity’ To Coordinate and Make Group Decisions | Quanta Magazine
The discovery that tissues use electricity to expel unhealthy cells is part of a surge of renewed interest in the currents flowing through our bodies.
www.quantamagazine.org
January 23, 2026 at 6:24 PM
Animals with more high-quality friends were biologically younger than their lonely peers [via @sciam.bsky.social] 🧪🥼🐬🧑‍🤝‍🧑🧒

"dolphins with stronger long-term social partnerships were biologically younger than their more solitary counterparts"

www.scientificamerican.com/article/dolp...

#aging #friends
Dolphins age more slowly with a little help from their friends
A study of dolphins’ epigenetic ages found that animals with more high-quality friendships were biologically younger than their lonely peers
www.scientificamerican.com
January 23, 2026 at 6:20 PM
The Carnot Principle does not apply to correlated objects at the atomic scale [via U of Stuttgart] 🧪🥼⚛️🚒🥈🌡️❌

#quantum #mechanics has succeeded in reducing the size of heat engines [with higher #maximum #efficiency than larger systems] to the #microscopic range.

www.uni-stuttgart.de/en/universit...
More efficient than Carnot: Quantum mechanics trumps the second law of thermodynamics | News | Oct 16, 2025 | University of Stuttgart
New paper in Science Advances
www.uni-stuttgart.de
January 22, 2026 at 5:26 PM
A video clip of three Solar eruptions [via ESA and NASA] 🧪🥼☀️💥⏏️

"a new video from the European Space Agency’s (ESA’s) Proba-3 mission that shows a string of fountainlike explosions on the sun"

www.scientificamerican.com/article/watc...

#solar #CME #eruption #prominence
Watch three solar prominences erupt in epic video
A European spacecraft caught rare footage of three successive prominences popping off the sun
www.scientificamerican.com
January 21, 2026 at 4:08 PM
𝐖𝐚𝐥𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐬𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐤 𝐛𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐤𝐬 𝐛𝐢𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐠𝐲 𝐫𝐞𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐝𝐮𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐫𝐮𝐥𝐞𝐬 [via James Cook U] 🧪🥼🦈🥚❌

“Under environmental stress many species will choose between survival and reproduction, but the epaulette shark might be able to continue to produce eggs, even under such stressors."

www.jcu.edu.au/news/release...

#biology
Walking sharks breaking biology reproduction rules
New research from James Cook University has made the extraordinary discovery that epaulette sharks can reproduce and lay eggs without any measurable rise in energy use.
www.jcu.edu.au
January 21, 2026 at 4:00 PM
Researchers discover the origins of THC, CBD, and CBC in Cannabis [via Wageningen U] 🧪🥼🚬🌿🧘

"researchers reconstructed extinct enzymes that were active millions of years ago in ancestors of the cannabis plant"

www.wur.nl/en/news/orig...

#cannabis #marijuana #THC #CBD #CBC #origin #enzyme
Origins of THC, CBD and CBC in cannabis revealed
Wageningen researchers reconstruct millions-of-years-old ‘ancestral enzymes’ from cannabis Reconstruction of extinct ‘ancestral enzymes’ from cannabis opens new avenues for innovative medicinal plants
www.wur.nl
January 18, 2026 at 1:40 AM
Distinct AI models appear to converge on encoding 'reality' [via @sciam.bsky.social] 🧪🥼🤖🧠👩‍💻🐈

"different AI models can develop similar representations, even if [] trained using different datasets or entirely different data types"

www.quantamagazine.org/distinct-ai-...

#artificial #models #reality
Distinct AI Models Seem To Converge On How They Encode Reality | Quanta Magazine
Is the inside of a vision model at all like a language model? Researchers argue that as the models grow more powerful, they may be converging toward a singular “Platonic” way to represent the world.
www.quantamagazine.org
January 9, 2026 at 10:21 PM
Reposted by Rian Nejar 🦋
Officer 1: “Get out of the car!”
<simultaneously>
Officer 2: “Get out of here!”

The confusion is not surprising. The shooting officer had his phone out too.

This deserves a clear and fair investigation
January 9, 2026 at 4:08 PM
Insights from Brazilian #supercentenarians [via Genomic Press] 🧪🥼🧓🧒

"Supercentenarians [have] unusually long lives. They demonstrate #resistance, adaptability, and #resilience, traits [] as important as #lifespan itself."

genomicpress.kglmeridian.com/view/journal...

#aging #immunity #longevity
genomicpress.kglmeridian.com
January 9, 2026 at 7:40 PM
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Amanda Gorman wrote this poem for Renee Good and that’s it for me tonight.
January 9, 2026 at 2:54 AM
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Just over 100 years ago...

Science history: 🏺🧪
Anthropologist sees the face of the 'Taung Child'
— and proves that Africa was the cradle of humanity —
Dec. 23, 1924
www.livescience.com/archaeology/...
January 9, 2026 at 4:00 PM