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Ada Lovelace is an English mathematician and writer. She excelled in math and science during the time when women and girls didn’t have an interest. She did so well that she was regarded as the world’s first computer programmer. She developed algorithms for Charles Babbage.

Women’s History Month
March 14, 2025 at 1:09 AM
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Berthe Morisot, Grande Dame d'Impressionisme - Heights Art Lecture Series with Dr. Emma Clute
Cleveland Heights-University Heights Public Library
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Berthe Morisot, Grande Dame d'Impressionisme - Heights Art Lecture Series with Dr. Emma Clute
YouTube video by Cleveland Heights-University Heights Public Library
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February 12, 2025 at 7:58 AM
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FRAGMENT
collaboration artwork with @movsum.bsky.social
December 29, 2024 at 10:30 AM
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🧪🍎📃 #medsky

Excess sugar intake plays a key role in primary hypertension:
-Fructose from added sugars affects kidney function.
-This leads to blood vessel tightening.
-Over time, inflammation keeps vessels constricted.
-Result? Persistent high BP.

Salt amplifies this process.

🔗 shorturl.at/gdFYI
January 24, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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Absolutely amazing ….. 💫🧡💫🧡💫🧡💫

A mesmerizing time-lapse of the Sun in ultraviolet light, captured by the Solar Dynamics Observatory spacecraft over the course of a month.
January 23, 2025 at 4:56 AM
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Smalls became a Union Navy captain, serving in 17 military engagements, including Fort Sumter. After the war, he purchased his enslaver's home & was elected to the U.S. Congress in 1875, championing civil rights.
December 2, 2024 at 6:48 AM
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(been watching this lecture series alongside to try and catch up on the math and its really excellent so far) www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
Central Lecture Course - YouTube
www.youtube.com
November 9, 2024 at 10:00 PM
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February 3, 2024 at 8:14 AM
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Quantic - another artist I found because of Spaced.
Transatlantic
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Quantic - Transatlantic
YouTube video by TruThoughtsJukeBox
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November 2, 2024 at 12:12 AM
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Sapolskyの消去主義的還元論は、非還元的唯物論のMitchellにとっては、自由意志をせいぜい数個から数千個くらいの神経活動の問題にしてしまい、それらの集団的な振る舞いから生まれるマクロな性質を無視しているように見えるらしい。意志だのなんだのってのはそういう水準で考えるべきということで、わしもそう思った。
www.wiringthebrain.com/2023/12/unde...
January 4, 2024 at 6:21 AM
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Every second, the Sun ejects 1.5 million tons of material into space at hundreds of miles per second, but Earth's magnetic field protects it from the solar wind.

Credit: NASA Goddard
March 2, 2025 at 10:28 PM
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Today, we honor Frederick Douglass on his chosen birthday. 🎂 His 1855 autobiography MY BONDAGE AND MY FREEDOM is a powerful account of his journey from enslavement to freedom.

Read it here ➡️ https://archive.org/details/mybondagemyfreed6062doug/

#Blackhistorymonth #LetReadersRead #InternetArchive
February 14, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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If you want academic insight as a podcast you need In Our Time, which has over 1000 episodes of deep, interesting discussion where three academics explain a topic to an intelligent layman in 45 minutes. Human epistemology always wins. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b...
BBC Radio 4 - In Our Time - Available now
Available episodes of In Our Time
www.bbc.co.uk
October 10, 2024 at 8:54 PM
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"Radiance"

By Ghana-born US based artist Clara Nartey (2022)
February 18, 2025 at 3:40 AM
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My interview with former climate Skeptic physicist Richard Muller, at the American Geophysical Meeting in San Francisco, 2014, has become one of my most-watched videos.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sme8...
Richard Muller: I Was wrong on Climate Change
YouTube video by greenmanbucket
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January 27, 2025 at 12:43 AM
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The far side of the moon, illuminated by the sun, as it crosses between the DISCOVR spacecraft's camera and the Earth - one million miles away.
🔭 🧪
February 7, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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Not much is known about Thutmose II, but his wife (and half-sister), Hatshepsut, was a towering figure, one of the most powerful women not just in Egypt but all of antiquity.

She, like Tut, remains an icon of the 18th dynasty, when Egypt was at its political, architectural, and artistic peak.
February 20, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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If you or your friends want a funny, perfect, 10 minute summary of the scientific method, and why it’s not “arrogant” to doubt pseudoscience, here it is from the famed physicist Richard Feynman:

m.youtube.com/watch?v=EYPa...
Feynman on Scientific Method.
YouTube video by seabala
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January 1, 2025 at 10:16 PM