Because kids have to see it to believe it:

It’s been done!

Presently reading an excellent book that mentions this.

Incredibly proud of my old crew at @asmedotorg.bsky.social @mengineeringmag.bsky.social for nabbing two Eddies last night. Best little magazine no one’s ever heard of. Onward and upward.

Distressed reporters? Thinking we’re all distressed at this point.

Used to be a science fiction trope.

Odds are, he wants to bone Morena Baccarin

At that price point, I feel like you’d only see extraordinary weirdos.

Another way to think about it is manufacturing construction as a percentage of total construction, which shows that the Biden program focused resources on factory building rather than it being a result of an otherwise rising tide.

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Of course, these days you can get them up front from STScI.

To think that at one time, receiving and redirecting mail that arrived via pneumatic tube was a full-time job.

I mean, who would want to be called this?

3x is a little much — masks the flavor more than I’d like — but 2x is wonderful. It’s my choice for Friday ramen night.

Per @hushkit.bsky.social (well, their other feed): NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter carried a small swatch of muslin material from the lower-left wing of the Wright Brothers Flyer 1.

FDNY [via the other place] photo from Prospect Park in Brooklyn (and less than a mile from my home), as drought conditions have allowed a brush fire to take hold.

For no particularly good reason, I remembered this passage from a PBS Nova episode from 2001.

Not even thinking about bio-attacks. Just that novel viruses and bacteria can produce weird immunological effects. And that the society-wide surrender on public health could be really, really unwise.

Energy expert Michael E. Webber gives his firsthand impressions of COP28. He says getting wealthy petrostates (like the UAE and U.S.) onboard with climate action is the only way to reach emissions goals.

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