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Your life will improve and you will be more effective at making change when you maintain a charitable attitude and give people the benefit of the doubt. Darkness can't drive out the darkness, etc.
December 15, 2024 at 4:51 AM
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the pillars of creation, from chandra and webb. simply stunning 🌌
December 15, 2024 at 5:02 AM
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November 30, 2024 at 6:33 AM
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One of the UK's great #Composers and #Conductors (his 🐇 #WatershipDown Suite for Large Orchestra - youtu.be/fFmmuF_HZcc - is one of my all time favourite pieces of music) is certainly worth a follow. ⤵️ 🙂
November 28, 2024 at 12:19 AM
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The star-forming region 30 Doradus, also known as the Tarantula Nebula, seen in visible and near-infrared light with Hubble and near-infrared light with JWST.🔭🧪
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📷 hubblesite.org/contents/med...
📷 webbtelescope.org/contents/med...
November 20, 2024 at 6:03 PM
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How privatisation works (and Thames Water is just the latest example).
1. A government takes a national asset built up with taxpayers' money and the work of public servants over many years, and hands it, for a fraction of its value, to a private company.
2. In doing so, it creates a monopoly.
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November 18, 2024 at 12:02 PM
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How Scientific American's Departing Editor Helped Degrade Science

When magazines like Scientific American are run by ideologues producing biased dreck, it only makes it more difficult to defend the institution of science itself. reason.com/2024/11/18/h...
How ‘Scientific American’s departing editor helped degrade science
When magazines like 'Scientific American' are run by ideologues producing biased dreck, it only makes it more difficult to defend the institution of science itself.
reason.com
November 18, 2024 at 11:53 PM
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Meanwhile, Caraballo has the history wrong:
November 17, 2024 at 3:35 AM