Is the #Human #Brain Fully Developed at #Age 25? : Medium
#Comets played a 'major' role in making #Life on #Earth possible, new #Study hints : Live Sci
#Physicists discover that 'impossible' #Particles could actually be real : New Sci
Check our latest #KnowledgeLinks
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Hey new people, do you want help with using Mastodon? Feel free to ask in this thread, or message me if you prefer. 🙂
Any question is fine, there is no such thing as a stupid question.
There is also lots of help for beginners on the website at fedi.tips (especially in the "Quick Start" section at the top).
If you're just wondering what the heck is going on here and want someone to explain this place briefly and simply, watch this video: tilvids.com/w/f747058d-3991-40…
An unofficial guide to using Mastodon and the Fediversefedi.tips
Mastodon in 180 Seconds 🐘
Lately, everyone seems to be trying to jump ship from Twitter to this new thing called "Mastodon". But when they do it, the first thing many of them say is "I don't get Mastodon. How does it work?" It's actually not complicated, just "different" from what you're used to. Here's a really simple explanation to help get you started.
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It's just a norm, you don't have to do this if you don't want to.
Having said that, some third party apps have this behaviour by default, where they use public for new posts and unlisted/quiet public for replies. I think Ice Cubes does this for example? (The official apps just have one default visibility setting so you have to manually change it when using them.)
#OTD in 1818.
Percy Bysshe Shelley's poem "Ozymandias" appears in Leigh Hunt's weekly The Examiner (London; p. 24) under the pen name "Glirastes". Horace Smith's contribution to the same informal sonnet-writing competition, "On a Stupendous Leg of Granite, Discovered Standing by Itself in the Deserts of Egypt, with the Inscription Inserted Below" is published on February 1 under his initials.
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#OTD in 1879.
During construction of an extension to Birmingham Central Library in England, a fire destroys 50,000 books and the original manuscript of the Coventry Mystery Plays (including the "Coventry Carol").
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Coventry Carol at PG (as audio book):
gutenberg.org/ebooks/20603
Free kindle book and epub digitized and proofread by volunteers.Project Gutenberg
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#OTD in 1884.
Britain's poet laureate Alfred Tennyson is created 1st Baron Tennyson of Aldworth in the County of Sussex and of Freshwater, Isle of Wight, in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. Thus he becomes known as Alfred, Lord Tennyson.
Lord Tennyson at PG:
gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/29…
Project Gutenberg offers 74,588 free eBooks for Kindle, iPad, Nook, Android, and iPhone.Project Gutenberg
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🌱 In Brazil, an Amazon reforestation project seeks to redeem carbon markets
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#brazil #forests #amazon #globalsouth #finance #carboncapture #environment #climatechange
In the Brazilian Amazon, workers use metal tubes to sow seedlings in rapid succession, as part of an effort to reforest the jungle with millions of trees.Anna PELEGRI (Phys.org)
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“The mind is just like a muscle– the more you exercise it, the stronger it gets, and the more it can expand.”
– Idowu Koyenikan
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Spicebush Swallowtail (Papilio Troilus)
Butterfly 2019-115
Setbacks are temporary
Unless we choose otherwise.
#butterfly #butterflies #macro #photography #beauty #nature #insect #flower #bokeh #thephotohour #thankyou #mramsdellpics
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Column of Marcus Aurelius, built between 180-193 AD, in Rome, Italy, commemorates emperor’s campaigns against Germanic tribes and Sarmatians during Marcomannic Wars.
Standing about 39m tall in Piazza Colonna, it features a spiral relief depicting vivid and dramatic scenes of battle, including a rare depiction of “Rain Miracle,” where a sudden storm is said to have saved Roman army. Modeled after Trajan’s Column, it was constructed from Proconnesian marble and remains in its original location.
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This 14th Century AD, door at Exeter Cathedral, UK 🇬🇧, is thought to be the oldest existing cat flap...
A cat was paid a penny each week, to keep down the rats and mice in the north tower, and a cat flap was cut into the door below the astronomical clock to allow the cat to carry out its duties.
Records of payments were entered in the Cathedral archives from 1305-1467 AD, the penny a week being enough to buy food to supplement a heavy diet of rodents.
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The oldest surviving deck of 52 playing cards (1475 AD), made in the Netherlands 🇳🇱
The concept of playing cards is thought to have originated in Asia, making its way to Europe by the late 14th Century AD, likely through trading routes.
In the Netherlands, cards became popular during 15th Century AD, as both a pastime and a means of socialization among nobility and the growing merchant class.
Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY
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In ancient Roman world, a tintinnabulum (tintinnum) was a wind chime or assemblage of bells. A tintinnabulum often took the form of a bronze ithyphallic figure or of a fascinum, a magico-religious phallus thought to ward off evil eye and bring good fortune and prosperity.
📷 : Roman Tintinnabulum in the shape of Phallus, symbol of power, luck and fertility, 1st Century AD, from Sesamón, Burgos - Spain.
(Archaeological Museum of Barcelona, Spain)
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New research “Computer-Use Agent” AI model can jump in and help users with on-screen tasks.Benj Edwards (Ars Technica)
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The launch was supposed to be back in October to coincide with the 35th anniversary of Ice-T's seminal album *The Iceberg/Freedom of Speech... Just Watch What You Say!*, which includes "Shut Up, Be Happy" featuring Jello Biafra, but it was delayed a bit.
"At last, everything is done for you."
invite donc le loup dans ta bergerie...
mastodon.social/@arstechnica/1…
OpenAI launches Operator, an AI agent that can operate your computer
New research "Computer-Use Agent" AI model can jump in and help users with on-screen tasks.
arstechnica.com/ai/2025/01/ope…OpenAI launches Operator, an AI agent that can operate your computer
New research “Computer-Use Agent” AI model can jump in and help users with on-screen tasks.Benj Edwards (Ars Technica)
The world's iceberg is heading for South Georgia—a wildlife haven in the South Atlantic—and scientists are worried.Tom Howarth (Newsweek)
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Reviving Legacy Systems: Linux Enhances 32-Bit PAE Support in 2025
In a surprising turn of events, the Linux kernel team has announced significant improvements to the 32-bit PAE (Physical Address Extension) support, enabling legacy systems to efficiently utilize more...
news.lavx.hu/article/reviving-…
#news #tech #LinuxKernel #PhysicalAddressExtension #PageTableIsolation
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Pink-throated Brilliant
Scarce hummingbird found in cloud forest in the eastern foothills of the Andes in Ecuador, southern Colombia, and northern Peru. Green with a white vent and a small white dot behind eye. Male has a glittering pink throat patch, which is reduced or lacking on female. Small compared to other brilliants, and the only one with a white vent. Found only in remote and relatively undisturbed forest, and rarely encountered.
Link: ebird.org/species/pitbri1
Photo Location: Peru
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Balto Statue in New York, New York
This monument is dedicated to Balto, the heroic Alaskan sled dog.#publicart #parks #statues #dogs #section-Atlas
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Wildlife biologist Miguel Ordeñana explains how blazes push animals into the unknown.Kylie Mohr (High Country News)
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We published a new paper on mastodons today! It's in the open access journal PeerJ, and reports newly recognized occurrences of Pacific mastodons. 1/
#paleontology #fossils #mastodon
The presence of at least two contemporaneous Pleistocene mastodon taxa in North America (Mammut americanum and M.PeerJ
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The paper included 9 authors from 7 institutions and 3 countries, and reported the presence of Pacific mastodons in Oregon, USA. Alberta, Canada, and Jalisco and Hidalgo, Mexico. 2/
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Blue-crowned Racquet-tail
A medium-sized parrot of forest from the lowlands to lower mountains. The two central tail feathers have extended shafts ending in a racket shape. Overall green in color, darker on the back and paler below, with deeper green on the head and a blue crown. Overlaps with Mindanao Racquet-tail, but has a brighter green back, lacks blue on the cheek, and is found at lower elevations. Voice consists of ringing metallic squawks that are similar to Green Racquet-tail’s, but more grating.
Link: ebird.org/species/bcrtai1
Photo Location: Philippines
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🐺The strange Ethiopian nectar-eating wolf: A predator that may also act as a pollinator
english.elpais.com/science-tec…
#animals #africa #wolf #pollinators #ecology
Researchers at Oxford University have managed to document the unusual feeding behavior, unique among carnivorous animals, of this endangered African canidConstanza Cabrera (Ediciones EL PAÍS S.L.)
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I’m experimenting with olla #gardening. I’ve filled a low-fired (porous) pot that I made with water and buried it in the soil with my seedlings. This pot wasn’t made specifically to be an olla, but any porous pot should work. Ollas slowly release water into dry soil, and roots pull it in through osmosis.
Olla gardening conserves water, reduces irrigation frequency, promotes deep root growth, and supports #sustainable, low-maintenance plant care.
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Local clay pottery (potentially, anyway) going back into the ground to make gardening less wasteful is making me SO HAPPY.
Do you have paired spots with similar soils and plants to make it explicitly experimental?@potterybyosa
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Hi guys! I'm a professional artist dipping my toes into the fediverse.
I'm already a bit nervous to start, but I managed to learn the basics of servers on Mastodon and have chosen one that I think is neat!
I'm really interested in expanding my fediverse experience so, if you have any tips or apps to recommend for someone who loves art, nature and the news, don't be shy to let me know!
To the pleasure of meeting all of you! 😀
#art #animation #fediverse #nature #gardening #NewHere #news
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Hello and welcome, it's great to have you with us! If you ever have any questions about this server or Mastodon in general, my co-admin @Kitty and I are happy to help! 😁
If you could use some starter tips, here's a little thread we made on our joint admin account: mastoart.social/@artmin/111443…
PS: I love the hell out of your profile pic!!! 😁
Finding your way around a new platform as an artist can be difficult at first. But they all have one thing in common: you sign up, connect with people, start posting and pick up everything else as you go along.mastoart.social
@bestiaexmachina @Kitty Thanks a lot!! Everyone already seem so kind and I've barely posted :')
I'm definitely going to look at those tips as well as study/join other fediverse apps!
And thanks for complimenting my profile pic! I'll have to draw a more "clean" one to build my brand upon in the future but I still really love that sketch. Everyone else's art is so gorgeous too! I barely know where to start favouriting! Sorry for the spam in advance haha... ❤️
Free kindle book and epub digitized and proofread by volunteers.Project Gutenberg
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The Oldest Beer Receipt (Circa 2050 BC)
openculture.com/2025/01/the-ol…
Above, we have the Alulu Beer Receipt. Written in cuneiform on an old clay tablet, the 4,000-year-old receipt documents a transaction.OC (Openculture.com)
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Corbit-Sharp House in Odessa, Delaware
This historic Georgian mansion contains a hidden room that was used to harbor a fugitive in the days of the Underground Railroad.#history #abolitionsim #undergroundrailroad #slavery #section-Atlas
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Inside a Collection of 'Imaginary' Books
Some of these books were lost and never found; others were never even written.#literature #history #art #books #section-Articles
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Perplexity now has a mobile assistant on Android
The AI assistant can perform tasks for you as well as ‘see’ what’s on your screen.
Perplexity has launched a mobile assistant for Android phones that can answer general questions, perform tasks across apps, “see” what’s on your screen, and more.Emma Roth (The Verge)
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If you're looking for a server to join or move to, it's best to pick from a human-curated list:
- The official Mastodon site's server list is at joinmastodon.org/servers and its requirements for being listed are at joinmastodon.org/covenant
- I run an unofficial server list at fedi.garden and its requirements are at fedi.garden/about-this-site
It's a bad idea to use automated non-curated server lists as they do not have requirements, so they may contain unreliable or unsafe servers.
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Also worth noting, if you want an instance that does not federate with Meta or, even better, promises to never federate with Meta, there's an automated list of instances that have either defederated Meta's threads.net, or have signed the fedipact to never federate with Meta. This matters since Meta/threads.net violates most instances' federation rules and/or standards but many still federate with them just because they're big.
Here's the list:
An interactive list to see which ActivityPub (Matodon, Lemmy, FireFish, etc) instances are federating with Threads.netfedipact.veganism.social
Just a warning that the list can get out of date, a lot more have been suspending Threads since Zuckerberg's pro-hate speech.
For example mstdn.social blocks Threads now, but the list shows it as federating.
You can check directly if an instance federates with Meta by going to the instance's website and then searching for @ zuck @ threads.net (without the spaces).
If Zuck's account shows up AND if you can see his posts, then the instance federates with Threads.
MiniDiscs for recording, MD data for recording, and MiniDV cassettes will also be abandoned.Jowi Morales (Tom's Hardware)
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Krinos in Athens, Greece
This century-old, family-run bakery specializes in loukoumades, a sweet Greek doughnut dating back to Olympian times.#sweets #bakery #frieddough #friedfoods #donuts #section-Atlas #section-GastroPlace
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Royal Danish Library Treasures in Copenhagen, Denmark
Denmark’s ultra-modern library hides a treasury of rare, unique books.#rarebooks #books #section-Atlas
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Coming soon: Organic Seed Growers Conference
This gathering will be a great opportunity to make new connections, share knowledge, and celebrate the collective power of the organic seed movement.
Hosted by Organic Seed Alliance, it will take place February 26 –March 1, 2025, in Corvallis, Oregon and virtually.
Learn more and register at www.seedalliance.org/conference
#OrganicSeed #OSGC2025 #seeds #gardening #agriculture #agroecology
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A sneaky squirrel stole a cupcake from a set of four that were delivered to Casey Bard's doorstep for his twins' birthday.Lori Dorn (Laughing Squid)
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☕️ Not all #coffee is created equal!
✨ Specialty-grade coffee refers to coffee that scores 80 or above on a 100-point grading scale by the Specialty Coffee Association and ensures the coffee has exceptional taste, aroma, and character!
⭐️ Take 15% OFF your next order with code: FirstTime15
☕️ www.CoffeeForTheArts.com 🎨
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The Zeus the Pomsky YouTube channel explained the real difference between cats and dogs in terms of human age.Lori Dorn (Laughing Squid)
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✨☕️ NEW COFFEE ROAST ALERT ☕️✨
Mexican Chocolate #Coffee
☕️ www.CoffeeForTheArts.com 🎨
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Knowledge Zone
in reply to Knowledge Zone • • •"Impossible particles," also referred to as "#Paraparticles," are theoretical particles that would not fit into the current classification of fundamental particles as either #Fermions or #Bosons.
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Impossible Particles
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in reply to Knowledge Zone • • •The "#Origin of #Life" refers to the scientific inquiry into how life arose from non-living matter.
It explores the processes by which the first living organisms on #Earth came into existence.
knowledgezone.co.in/posts/Orig…
Origin of Life Theories
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