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Scientists crack what they say is the perfect way to boil an egg theguardian.com/science/2025/f… #Worldnews #Science #UKnews #Eggs #Food

Scientists crack what they say is the perfect way to boil an egg

Linda Geddes tests new approach developed in Italian lab that involves alternating egg between different temperatures
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#Science #food #worldnews #uknews #eggs

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Relaxing High Definition Videos of Walking Through Tokyo in the Heavy Rain

SoulHealing99 creates wonderfully relaxing 3 hour high definition videos of walking through the streets of Tokyo in the heavy rain.
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Researchers trained an OpenAI rival in half an hour for less than $50

The researchers used distillation to draw from Google’s Gemini reasoning model.

Researchers trained an OpenAI rival in half an hour for less than $50

AI researchers say they have trained a reasoning model rivaling OpenAI’s in just a half an hour and less than $50.
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Swansea Bus Museum in Winch Wen, Wales

A Swansea industrial estate hides a sanctuary to that most humble mode of public transport: the bus.#transportation #bus #museumsandcollections #museums #section-Atlas

Swansea Bus Museum

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#section-Atlas #transportation #Museums #bus #museumsandcollections

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#QuizOfTheDay: The #MuscularSystem is responsible for the movement of the human body.

What is the single largest #Muscle in the #Human #Body?

A. Genioglossus
B. Latissimus dorsi
C. Gluteus maximus
D. Sartorius

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Knowledge Zone Quiz - Quiz of the day
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#muscle #human #body #quizoftheday #muscularsystem

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BBC.com: Climate puzzle persists with unexpectedly warm January…

Last month was the world's warmest January on record and raised further questions about the pace of climate change, scientists say... #climatechange #climateemergency #climatecrisis

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BBC.com: Climate puzzle persists with unexpectedly warm January…

Last month was the world’s warmest January on record and raised further questions about the pace of climate change, scientists say… #climatechange #climateemergency #climatecrisis
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#ClimateChange #climatecrisis #climateemergency

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🪦Plants that evolved in Florida over millennia now face extinction and lack protection

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Plants that evolved in Florida over millennia now face extinction and lack protection

Modern scrub mints, delicate flowering plants that grow mostly in Florida, likely result from ancient hybridization, according to a recent study I published with colleagues.
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#plants #ecology #extinction #florida

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Ecoticias: The end of EVs has arrived ― This engine uses water as fuel instead of gasoline…

The automotive industry awaits a tremendous transformation that is about to occur. The automotive world stands at a transformative moment because hydrogen engines that run on water-based fuel have entered... #electricvehicles #transportation

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Ecoticias: The end of EVs has arrived ― This engine uses water as fuel instead of gasoline…

The automotive industry awaits a tremendous transformation that is about to occur. The automotive world stands at a transformative moment because hydrogen engines that run on water-based fuel have …
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#transportation #electricvehicles

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Saffron-headed Parrot

Unmistakable medium-sized parrot found from eastern Panama into Colombia and Venezuela. Green body with a bright yellow head and white eyering. Also note yellow shoulder and blue flight feathers. In flight, look for red underwing coverts and short square tail. Uncommon in forests and edge, mainly in the lowlands and foothills, up to around 1,600 m.

Link: ebird.org/species/sahpar1
Photo Location: Colombia

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#ITByte: #Reversible #Computing is a computational paradigm where every step of the process is reversible, meaning that the computation can run backward to retrieve the initial state.

This approach is unconventional compared to traditional computing, but it holds significant promise for energy efficiency and other unique applications.

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Reversible Computing

Reversible computing is a computational paradigm where every step of the process is reversible, meaning that the computation can run backward to retrieve the initial state.
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#computing #itbyte #reversible

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🫀 Second pig heart transplant patient offers vital lessons

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Second pig heart transplant patient offers vital lessons

Continuing significant advancements in the field of xenotransplantation, surgeon-scientists from the University of Maryland School of Medicine provided an extensive analysis on the second patient in the world to receive a genetically-modified pig org…
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#healthcare #medicine #heart #transplant #pigs #xenotransplant

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The Guardian: ‘Denmark is showing the world what is possible’: how the North Sea became the ‘green power plant of Europe’…

The North Sea, a waterway hugged by major European nations, is providing clean power to the continent – and inspiring the next generation of engineers... #renewableenergy #northsea #greentechnology #denmark #europe #electricity #windpower #energy #greenenergy

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The Guardian: ‘Denmark is showing the world what is possible’: how the North Sea became the ‘green power plant of Europe’…

The North Sea, a waterway hugged by major European nations, is providing clean power to the continent – and inspiring the next generation of engineers… #renewableenergy #northsea #greentechno…
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#europe #denmark #energy #renewableenergy #greenenergy #electricity #windpower #NorthSea #greentechnology

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Mary Douglas Leakey was born #OTD in 1913.

She discovered the 1st fossilised Proconsul skull, an extinct ape which is now believed to be ancestral to humans. She discovered the robust Zinjanthropus skull at Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania. She developed a system for classifying the stone tools found at Olduvai. She discovered the Laetoli footprints, and at the Laetoli site she discovered hominin fossils that were more than 3.75 million years old.

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#anthropology #womeninStem

British paleoanthropologist (1913-1996)

Contributors to Wikimedia projects (Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.)
#anthropology #otd #womeninstem
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Sonnet 047 - XLVII
Betwixt mine eye and heart a league is took,
And each doth good turns now unto the other:
When that mine eye is famish'd for a look,
Or heart in love with sighs himself doth smother,
With my love's picture then my eye doth feast,
And to the painted banquet bids my heart;
Another time mine eye is my heart's guest,
And in his thoughts of love doth share a part:
So, either by thy picture or my love,
Thy self away, art present still with me;
For thou not farther than my thoughts canst move,
And I am still with them, and they with thee;
Or, if they sleep, thy picture in my sight
Awakes my heart, to heart's and eyes' delight.

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#sonnet #poem #Shakespeare

#poem #Shakespeare #sonnet @David August ❌👑

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Vanishing Culture: What Early Internet Era GIFs Show Us About Preserving Digital Culture

By JD Shadel via @internetarchive

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#vanishingculture #digitalculture

Vanishing Culture: A Report on Our Fragile Cultural Record : Luca Messarra : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

In today’s digital landscape, corporate interests, shifting distribution models, and malicious cyber attacks are threatening public access to our shared...
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Good to hear that things are going well with the new design. I’m hoping that the Mac interface with the new framework will be improved in terms of navigation. It tended to be a little bit tough to navigate easily, but I guess part of that could be to do with the Mac layout as well. Anyway, looking forward to testing the new versions as they are produced.
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Top Tech Tidbits for Thursday, February 6, 2025 - Volume 1001 ♿️
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#phallusthursday #greekromanart @The Partial Historians @antiquidons group
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Want big food, large flowers, or healthy trees, then watch the documentary The Living Soil by the Soil Health Institute.

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#Gardening #Agriculture #Farming

#farming #agriculture #gardening

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@JimmyB I don’t know about the UK, but in the US there are university and some government agricultural bodies called extensions and we can send them a sample of our soil for analysis or get a testing kit for a relatively cheap price. Here’s a link the Rutgers U program:

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Soil Testing Kits (Rutgers NJAES)

Information where to get a soil testing kit
njaes.rutgers.edu
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🌟Special Episode - Gladiator II with Dr Lindsay Steenberg 🌟

We sit down to dissect Gladiator II. With Dr Steenberg’s expertise in gladiators on film, this is an analysis not to be missed! Are you not entertained? 😉

#AncientRome #GladiatorII #History

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Special Episode - Gladiator II with Dr Lindsay Steenberg - The Partial Historians

Dr Lindsay Steenberg joins us to discuss the conventions of gladiator movies with a particular focus on Gladiator II (2024).
The Partial Historians
#history #ancientrome #gladiatorii

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Bugun Liocichla

Small laughingthrush-like bird with a tiny range in far northeastern India. Look for a neat black cap, glowing yellow-orange broken “eyebrow,” and yellow-tinged wings. Appears to favor dense forest edge and degraded forest at 2060-2340 meters. Clambers about in lower levels of forest, typically in pairs or small groups, occasionally with otherwise uniform flocks of other species. Song is a series of mellow descending whistles, often with a slight rise at the end.

Link: ebird.org/species/buglio1
Photo Location: India

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Hey, what’s up?

Just realized #introduction is overdue.

I’m Erik, and I use he/him pronouns.

I’m 50 something years old and live with my spouse, two teenage kids, a cat, and two dogs. My oldest child is away at college as a #botany major.

For the last 14 years I’ve biked for transportation. I follow the #BikeTooter and #BikeNite tags.

I make art, mostly #figuredrawing and #printmaking

I build software in the film industry.

I play in a biweekly tabletop role playing game.

#introduction #printmaking #botany #biketooter #bikenite #figuredrawing
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On Ellesmere Island in the Canadian Arctic, the dense, salty waters create a stunning mirror-like reflection, blurring the line between sky and sea. Part of Sebastian Copeland’s Arctica: The Vanishing North, this breathtaking scene captures a fragile world. #Arctic #Nature #Reflection #Photography
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🥩 Crafting the perfect bite of meat: Engineers develop metamaterials that mimic muscle and fat architecture

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Crafting the perfect bite of meat: Engineers develop metamaterials that mimic muscle and fat architecture

In a new publication in Nature Communications, Israeli and Palestinian engineers from The Hebrew University of Jerusalem pioneered the use of metamaterials to create whole cuts of meat.
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#food #manufacturing #meat #materials #protein #metamaterials

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Coppery-tailed Coucal

Huge coucal with a hefty bill. The head and tail usually look black, but can show a coppery or purplish sheen in certain light. Found in thick wetlands, especially papyrus. Fairly skulking, though occasionally seen in the open. Massive size is obvious in flight. The call is a slow, deep version of the typical coucal descending and accelerating series of “boop” notes. Very similar to Blue-headed Coucal, but there is virtually no overlap in range, and Coppery-tailed is larger, without a blue sheen to the head. Burchell’s and Senegal Coucals have a similar pattern, but are much smaller.

Link: ebird.org/species/cotcou1
Photo Location: Namibia

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How a UC Davis Research Center Is Changing the World of Coffee#coffee #food #scientistsatwork #section-Articles

How a UC Davis Research Center Is Changing the World of Coffee

That’s that UC espresso.
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#section-Articles #food #Coffee #scientistsatwork

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💤 The paradox of sleep perfection: How striving for ideal rest disrupts sleep

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The paradox of sleep perfection: How striving for ideal rest disrupts sleep

A recent survey from the American Academy of Sleep Medicine highlights a surprising paradox: 81% of Americans report losing sleep due to worries about sleep problems.
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#health #sleep #habits #selfimprovement

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ChatGPT drops its sign-in requirement for search

OpenAI is making its AI search engine more accessible.

ChatGPT drops its sign-in requirement for search

ChatGPT no longer requires you to sign in to use the AI chatbot’s search feature.
Emma Roth (The Verge)

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To those who recently tried to follow me. If you find that I have not accepted your request, either as a friend or as a subscriber, please resend them! I accidentally hit ignore/discard, and now, I can't find your requests anymore. I think I had two or three.

#Fediverse #followers #friendica #friends #SillyKeyboard

#friendica #fediverse #friends #followers #SillyKeyboard
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You might have noticed that some accounts on here have posts much longer than 500 characters. If you're wondering how this is possible, find out in this guide:

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TL;DR - You need to be on a server that allows larger post sizes, either running a modified version of Mastodon or a totally different kind of Fediverse server.

You can browse some well-run servers with larger post sizes in the "larger post size" section of fedi.garden:

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#FediTips

Larger Post Size | Fedi.Garden

Highlighting nice servers on Mastodon and the Fediverse
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D. Olifant Still Won't Shut Up

but at the moment GTS is mainly aimed at self-hosting people. It isn't easy to sign up on for others.


It's aimed at smaller instances for you and a few friends, sure. Maybe 50 users or less, though I'm sure it would scale to a bit more than that without issue.

But there's a regular signup page for it, which forces manual review, and no more than 20 unapproved signups can be in the queue at once.... so in the case of a Mastodon where thousands of people can just flood onto your server overnight, that's not really possible with GTS....by design.

Perhaps what you mean is that with the requirement for installing another client and not providing a front-end by default, that makes it harder to use?

Olifant Social - GoToSocial

An Oliphant Social remix, running on a solar-powered sweet potato.
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@crossgolf_rebel @oli

"Perhaps what you mean is that with the requirement for installing another client"

I don't mean that, it's fine if an instance works through apps as that's what most people use anyway.

I just mean there's no equivalent of JoinMastodon.org or JoinBookWyrm.com etc where ordinary people can go and find a GTS server. There isn't any obvious onboarding?

I would absolutely *LOVE* to list GTS on fedi.garden but cannot find public instances to feature?

Fedi.Garden

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@crossgolf_rebel @oli

p.s. This is not a criticism of GTS, I love the way they are doing things. It's incredibly mature that they are taking their time to get things right before recommending people use it.

They deliberately stayed in alpha for a long time to make sure they had certain features in place, and specifically told people not to use it until they were ready for beta.

If they have a long term plan for onboarding then that's great, and it's totally fine if it takes a while.

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I am deliberately not promoting flagship instances on fedi.garden (there's a maximum size limit after which instances are delisted).

But it seems like GTS currently doesn't have any public instances at all? GTS instances are all ones where you have to already know the person who runs it? If someone doesn't know anyone who self-hosts, they're sort of shut out of using GTS?

(Again, not a criticism, but this is why GTS is difficult to promote to new non-tech people.)

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D. Olifant Still Won't Shut Up

So technically I have 3 public "island network" GTS instances that anyone can sign up for, to join the Island One network.

codeberg.org/oliphant/islands/…

Only Canary Island has broad federation with the wider fedi.

islands

A quick GoToSocial starter kit to set up an island quickly on a Debian (Ubuntu) server. Learn more about Islands: Opt-In Federated Networks here: https://writer.oliphant.social/oliphant/islands-an-opt-in-federated-network
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Serie – Fediverse-Dienste: Die Idee

Neben Mastodon bietet das Fediverse noch viele Dienste; in dieser Serie sollen diese ihre verdiente Aufmerksamkeit bekommen.
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Ginger Kittens Play Mother to a Brood of Baby Ducklings

Little ginger kittens happily took turns playing mom to an adorable brood of baby ducklings, keeping them warm as they slept.
Lori Dorn (Laughing Squid)

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Canyon Towhee

Large, stocky, long-tailed sparrow. Uniform matte brown body, with buffy throat and orange undertail coverts. Also note reddish-brown crown and messy dark streaks on upper breast (usually with a dark central spot). Occurs in deserts and dry grasslands with scattered dense shrubs. Forages primarily for seeds by running and hopping on the ground. Visits feeders. Essentially no range overlap with the very similar California Towhee; also note Canyon has reddish crown and lacks rusty tones on face.

Link: ebird.org/species/cantow
Photo Location: United States

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Why a 15th Century Portrait of a German Noblewoman Depicts Her With a Fly on Her Head

Francesca Whitlum-Cooper of the National Gallery looks at a 15th Century portrait of a German noblewoman memorialized with a fly on her head.
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AI helps researchers read ancient scroll burned to a crisp in Vesuvius eruption theguardian.com/science/2025/f… #Artificialintelligence(AI) #UniversityofOxford #Archaeology #Technology #Computing #Worldnews #Science #Europe #UKnews #Italy

AI helps researchers read ancient scroll burned to a crisp in Vesuvius eruption

Writing on PHerc. 172 papyrus, found at Roman mansion in Herculaneum, revealed after 3D X-rays and software competition
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#archaeology #Science #europe #worldnews #technology #uknews #italy #artificialintelligence #computing #UniversityOfOxford

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