- Meet Aerospace Engineer Judith Love Cohen
RT @ameeliah: Tonight’s internet rabbit hole reveals that Jack Black’s mum was an absolute badass: pioneer engineer in the space program, author, feminist trail blazer and goddamn ballerina
- (400) https://twitter.com/tveitdal/status/1408040710922674185/photo/1
RT @tveitdal: Mystery illness strikes down birds across US south and midwest
Scientists are trying to find the cause of an affliction that leaves victims with crusty eyes, swollen faces and the inability to fly
@OHWildlifeCntr @Fuglevern - Mystery illness strikes down birds across US south and midwest | Birds | The Guardian
RT @tveitdal: Mystery illness strikes down birds across US south and midwest
Scientists are trying to find the cause of an affliction that leaves victims with crusty eyes, swollen faces and the inability to fly
@OHWildlifeCntr @Fuglevern - Gender and leadership in organizations: Promotions, demotions and angry workers
" Finally, low-rank employees send more angry messages to female managers, and are more likely to question their decisions."
This seems not unrelated to how women teachers (at least at college level) get worse evals from students than their male counterparts. Of course we already knew that "Numerous studies have shown that, holding performance constant, women in a position of power are
judged more negatively than men." - (400) https://twitter.com/AnnieCushing/status/1407867429049487360/photo/1
RT @AnnieCushing: A pair of red-billed leiothrix.
Photo by Rahul Ghosh. More photos:
#NaturePhotography
- Record-breaking temperatures more likely in populated tropics: New research shows that most extreme heat events are going to occur in the tropics rather than the poles
New research shows that most extreme heat events are going to occur in the tropics rather than the poles.
- Kenyan Habitat & Environment Conservation
RT @SheldrickTrust: #HumanElephantConflict is now the biggest threat facing elephants in Kenya. It’s root cause? The loss of wildlife habitat, which is bringing humans and elephants together, making saving wilderness areas all the more important:
- (400) https://twitter.com/SheldrickTrust/status/1407783024159252486/photo/1
RT @SheldrickTrust: #HumanElephantConflict is now the biggest threat facing elephants in Kenya. It’s root cause? The loss of wildlife habitat, which is bringing humans and elephants together, making saving wilderness areas all the more important:
- ‘The water is coming’: Florida Keys faces stark reality as seas rise — The Guardian
Officials prepare to elevate streets despite financial shortfalls, amid recognition that not every home can be saved
- Daring Fireball: 'I Swallowed One of My AirPods'
RT @daringfireball: ‘I Swallowed One of My AirPods’
- (400) https://twitter.com/idvck/status/1407613965245587456/photo/1
RT @idvck: Genuinely astonishing
- (400) https://twitter.com/highcountrynews/status/1407741992503808002/photo/1
RT @highcountrynews: There are 50 active large fires in the U.S. today, 49 of which are burning in the West. Welcome to the pyrocene:
- West coast wildfires signal a planetary fire age — High Country News – Know the West
RT @highcountrynews: There are 50 active large fires in the U.S. today, 49 of which are burning in the West. Welcome to the pyrocene:
- How the Delta variant took over
The Delta variant accounts for 90 per cent of new Covid-19 cases in the UK. Scientists fear its global spread is going unchecked
- Brave Search is a new alternative to Google built on its own index
- The Rocket Behind Snowflake’s Rocketship
- The Quest for Cancer-Detecting Blood Tests Speeds Up
- The Cloud Genie
In which I demonstrate how to spend hundreds of millions of dollars a month in an @awscloud “free tier” account without speaking to a human, and very likely without tripping fraud alarms.
There’s a joke that I’ve always been partial to: a software engineering type rubs a lamp and a genie appears.
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