Corey S. Powell
@coreyspowell.bsky.social
Fascinated by things very big, very small, and beyond the limits of the human senses. Founder of OpenMind: www.openmindmag.org Creator of the Invisible Universe column: https://invisibleuniverse.substack.com/
Historians are still decoding the complex calendar system in the Dresden Codex. Who knows what information was in the many other lost Mayan manuscripts.
All of this was done using centuries of carefully recorded, naked eye observations. 🧪
archaeologymag.com/2025/10/maya...
All of this was done using centuries of carefully recorded, naked eye observations. 🧪
archaeologymag.com/2025/10/maya...
November 11, 2025 at 12:55 AM
Historians are still decoding the complex calendar system in the Dresden Codex. Who knows what information was in the many other lost Mayan manuscripts.
All of this was done using centuries of carefully recorded, naked eye observations. 🧪
archaeologymag.com/2025/10/maya...
All of this was done using centuries of carefully recorded, naked eye observations. 🧪
archaeologymag.com/2025/10/maya...
But I too am open to persuasion.
November 10, 2025 at 2:21 PM
But I too am open to persuasion.
I like the comma because when I speak those sentences, I pause or shift inflection before the "too."
November 10, 2025 at 2:19 PM
I like the comma because when I speak those sentences, I pause or shift inflection before the "too."
The world would be illuminated by old FM stations
November 10, 2025 at 12:10 PM
The world would be illuminated by old FM stations
The visible colors of the rainbow correspond to radiation with wavelengths from 400 to 750 nanometers.
The colors in this image are a direct analog, but translated into radio wavelengths (in this case, 1.3-4.2 meters).
The colors in this image are a direct analog, but translated into radio wavelengths (in this case, 1.3-4.2 meters).
November 10, 2025 at 12:35 AM
The visible colors of the rainbow correspond to radiation with wavelengths from 400 to 750 nanometers.
The colors in this image are a direct analog, but translated into radio wavelengths (in this case, 1.3-4.2 meters).
The colors in this image are a direct analog, but translated into radio wavelengths (in this case, 1.3-4.2 meters).
The radio image is intentionally tuned to emphasize discrete sources over diffuse ones. That may account for much of the difference in contrast.
November 9, 2025 at 6:35 PM
The radio image is intentionally tuned to emphasize discrete sources over diffuse ones. That may account for much of the difference in contrast.
Here's a comparison between the sky that you can see with your human eyes & the sky seen through the radio eyes of the Murchison Widefield Array in Western Australia. 🧪🔭
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
November 9, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Here's a comparison between the sky that you can see with your human eyes & the sky seen through the radio eyes of the Murchison Widefield Array in Western Australia. 🧪🔭
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
The Aaron Burr theory of customer service
November 8, 2025 at 8:16 PM
The Aaron Burr theory of customer service
It's kind of like panpsychism. The fundamental unit of reality is alien spaceships, so at some level all matter is spaceships.
November 8, 2025 at 7:26 PM
It's kind of like panpsychism. The fundamental unit of reality is alien spaceships, so at some level all matter is spaceships.
November 8, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Astronomers call this planet a "Tidarren" world. It is probably the remains of a former star that was eroded down to planet size by its cannibalistic companion star. 🧪🔭
scitechdaily.com/jwst-finds-a...
scitechdaily.com/jwst-finds-a...
November 8, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Astronomers call this planet a "Tidarren" world. It is probably the remains of a former star that was eroded down to planet size by its cannibalistic companion star. 🧪🔭
scitechdaily.com/jwst-finds-a...
scitechdaily.com/jwst-finds-a...
Some of them even hallucinated!
November 6, 2025 at 11:06 PM
Some of them even hallucinated!
I hope so. It's a 28th magnitude object, much fainter than MoM-z14, so it will be a more time-consuming target.
November 5, 2025 at 12:08 AM
I hope so. It's a 28th magnitude object, much fainter than MoM-z14, so it will be a more time-consuming target.
Among the many oddities in the paper is the claim of transients preferentially appearing a day *before* or after a nuclear test.
Meaning...effect might preceed cause? Or UAPs might have known when tests were planned? (Or it's easier to find correlations when you make a broader bin.)
Meaning...effect might preceed cause? Or UAPs might have known when tests were planned? (Or it's easier to find correlations when you make a broader bin.)
November 2, 2025 at 7:16 AM
Among the many oddities in the paper is the claim of transients preferentially appearing a day *before* or after a nuclear test.
Meaning...effect might preceed cause? Or UAPs might have known when tests were planned? (Or it's easier to find correlations when you make a broader bin.)
Meaning...effect might preceed cause? Or UAPs might have known when tests were planned? (Or it's easier to find correlations when you make a broader bin.)
Raw. And I saw multiple people eat them that way!
November 1, 2025 at 1:14 AM
Raw. And I saw multiple people eat them that way!
We offered candy or Brussels sprouts, and a surprising (ie, nonzero) number of kids chose the sprouts
October 31, 2025 at 11:05 PM
We offered candy or Brussels sprouts, and a surprising (ie, nonzero) number of kids chose the sprouts