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Chants d'oiseaux.
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Chants d'oiseaux.
SpaceX IPO confirms my view that US is one big grift. Financial sector (Wall Street, hypersclerlers, crypto, Big 4 accounting, credit ratings), politlical system, military, society fraudulent from top to bottom. Must break one day, but who can say when.
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If you've ever watched The Big Short, or spent any time correlating stock prices with ratings, it is very apparent very quickly how much the rating agencies are responsible for all of it!
'Breaking: Swiss court shames UK by refusing to criminalise anti-genocide protest. A court in Geneva has confirmed that peaceful opposition to Israelโs genocide in Gaza is a legitimate right. As Palestinian exile Muzna Shihabi notes, the landmark decision'
thecanary.co/skwawkbox/2026/06โฆ
#uk #zionist #AxisofEvil #genocide #gaza #palestinianaction #suisse
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#uk #zionist #AxisofEvil #genocide #gaza #palestinianaction #suisse
Breaking: Swiss court shames UK by refusing to criminalise anti-genocide protest
A humbling lesson for the genocide-enabling Starmer government and its war on free speech and peaceful protestSkwawkbox (Canary)
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I love the simple sophistication of these garden irrigation tools. Ollas are one of those ancient technologies that probably have multiple originsโdifferent groups across space and time figuring out a similar technique. Iโve read about their historic use in China, Central & South America and North Africa.
Working on ollas is great practice for me. Itโs a return to the basic technique of pulling a cylinder, which is the first skill you acquire when learning to throw pots on the wheel.
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what would you say is the smallest size one could find or make? I'm thinking of pot sized, if they would make sense...
@mdione Iโm sorry, but I donโt understand the question and donโt know what โpot sizedโ means. There is no limit to how small one could make an olla. The smallest size I make holds about a pint. One of the points of an olla is to reduce the labor of watering. I would say the contents of an olla should last at least one week to be considered effective. Would a very small olla accomplish this? What are we calling โsmallโ?
yeah, sorry, I meant "so small it would fit in a pot and still leave enough space for plants". Alternatively, which is the smallest pot that would reasonably hold an olla.
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La palissade...
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Itโs not really hot tea season anymore but I felt like practicing my #teapot making skillsโand yes, I still consider it practice. Iโm always tweaking the design.
With this iteration, I thickened the handle for comfort & durability, as Iโve been doing with my mugs and pitchers. I also added a lid catch that you can barely see beneath the rim, to the right of the knob.
The bodies of my teapots are modeled after African water pots.
#pottery #FunctionalPottery #beautility
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Teapot still hot from the kiln ๐ฅ a successful kiln load is a great way to end the week. I havenโt gone through every piece yet, but there are always a couple of pots in the mix with glaze imperfections, which is to be expected. From what I can see so far, everything looks really good. I can see all of the time, effort, patience and detail I put into every single piece. Have a good weekend, everyone!
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'Hot from the Kiln' is the title of my new romance novel.
Anyway, I love the intricate design and patina-like coloring. Kiln on!
Anyway, I love the intricate design and patina-like coloring. Kiln on!
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@Nead ๐ A tale of two potters falling in love and the fiery passion that ensues. Thatโs great. Thanks so much.
Out today: About 822,500 U.S. citizen children in #Texas live with at least one #undocumented parent. No federal or state programs exist to help cover rent, utilities, or childcare when the breadwinner is deported. texasobserver.org/ruptured-famโฆ
#ICE #immigration #children #politics #USpol #news #Trump #fascism
Ruptured Families: The U.S. Citizen Children Left Behind by Deportations
More than 800,000 Texan kids with citizenship depend on an undocumented parent. Trumpโs immigration crackdown is tearing their households apart.Jesรบs Jank Curbelo (The Texas Observer)
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Bye bye #Hadopi ! Et pas merci pour toutes ces annรฉes !
Le Conseil d'รtat vient de donner raison ร La Quadrature du Net, @FDN, @franciliens et @federationfdn. Il a enjoint au Premier ministre d'abroger une partie du dรฉcret central de la Hadopi. ๐ฅณ
laquadrature.net/2026/04/30/haโฆ
Hadopi (2009โ2026)
Aujourd'hui, le Conseil d'รtat a donnรฉ raison ร La Quadrature du Net, French Data Network (FDN), Franciliens.net et la Fรฉdรฉration FDN.La Quadrature du Net
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Je pensais que c'รฉtait la redistribution qui รฉtait illรฉgale, non le tรฉlรฉchargement. D'oรน l'essor de Youtube...
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Featured story from Gaige Davila: Meenu Batra, 53, is #Texas' only licensed Hindi, Punjabi, and Urdu legal interpreter. She once helped immigrants in the courts.
Now she's languishing in a Raymondville detention center. Sheโs lived in America for 35 years. texasobserver.org/immigration-โฆ
#immigration #politics #USpol #ICE #fascism #Trump #SouthTexas #HumanRights #news
Longtime Immigration Court Interpreter Arrested by ICE at South Texas Airport
The stateโs only licensed Hindi, Punjabi, and Urdu legal interpreter is now languishing in a Raymondville detention center. Sheโs lived in America for 35 years.Gaige Davila (The Texas Observer)
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Iโm having another open studio event this Saturday. Just wanted to share what my studio looks like. Itโs the garage behind our house, converted into a #pottery workshop. Thatโs a wood fired #RocketKiln in front and I have electric kilns inside. I could run my biz solely online (and I was grateful to during early pandemic era, 2020-2021) but that feels strange since my pottery pulls so much from my surroundings. It only makes sense to share it with other people who live here. #Florida
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I would love to know more about the rocket kiln. I got part way through building one and it might actually work but I got so overwhelmed by the process that I haven't touched it since.
@Bumblefish hereโs a blog post I wrote that included links to download diagrams and other additional info. Mine was simple to build but itโs an earlier iteration. The diagrams have become more complicated over time (toward the goal of more even heat distribution within the kiln.) Hope this helps.
potterybyosa.com/blogs/clay-peโฆ
Portrait of a Kiln: The Wood Fired Rocket Kiln
This post was written for "Portrait of a Kiln," a show of photographs of ceramicists Jesus Minguez, May Wong, Austin Lindsay, Chad Steve and others with the kilns we built, accompanied by our writing and a handful of pots fired in those kilns.Osa Atoe (Pottery by Osa)
โItโs not targeting criminals, itโs not targeting dangerous people, itโs targeting individuals who are members of our community, who have a lot to offer and continue to offer a lot of positive things for our entire country and our society.โ
texasobserver.org/immigration-โฆ
#immigration #ICE #news
Longtime Immigration Court Interpreter Arrested by ICE at South Texas Airport
The stateโs only licensed Hindi, Punjabi, and Urdu legal interpreter is now languishing in a Raymondville detention center. Sheโs lived in America for 35 years.Gaige Davila (The Texas Observer)
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A few months ago, a Canadian judge got her #amazon , #google , #uber, credit cards accounts, etc. closed.
She was doing her job investigating war crimes made in Afghanistan, including by the #USA
That offended Americans. They decided to close all her accounts, which they have control over.
I'm expecting this behavior to become more and more common.
This is why #canada should work on #digitalsovereignty
irishtimes.com/world/us/2025/1โฆ
โItโs surrealโ: US sanctions lock International Criminal Court judge out of daily life
Canadian judge Kimberly Prost is unable to use credit cards, transfer money or book everyday services in what she calls an attack on the independence of the judiciaryNaomi OโLeary (The Irish Times)
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Yeah, we've been using Big US Tech for so long.
Most people don't know what it is to not use them.
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Sannoisiennes, Sannoisiens, votez pour nous ! La liste de gauche, รฉcologiste et humaniste.
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RT: @DropSiteNews The U.N. human rights office publicly defended Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese after at least four European governments attacked her and called for her resignation over comments she never made.
Marta Hurtado, spokesperson for the Office of the High Commissioner for Human
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โ๏ธ La #LDH porte plainte pour provocation ร la haine contre Arno Klarsfeld aprรจs ses propos violents sur #CNews appelant ร organiser "de grandes rafles" ร lโencontre des personnes migrantes. Ses propos doivent รชtre fermement sanctionnรฉs.
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ยซ Ses parents sont connus pour leur engagement comme ยซ chasseurs de nazis ยป et dรฉfenseurs des fils et filles de dรฉportรฉs au sein de l'association qu'ils ont crรฉรฉe en 1979. Lui-mรชme porte le prรฉnom de son grand-pรจre paternel, assassinรฉ ร Auschwitz. ยป
รงa se trouve, en fait c'est un vrai antisioniste qui veut montrer par l'absurde comment le racisme peut se rรฉpandre etโฆ
Non rien. ๐
Another #Albo fail. Trump insults our soldiers' sacrifice, and Albo takes it in silence. His apologists are saying* "he said NATO troops, and we're not in NATO"
He is the lamest PM in my 50+ year political memory. Even Morrison and McMahon had more spine.
thenewdaily.com.au/news/nationโฆ #auspol
Angry RSL boss calls for official complaint over Trump 'insult'
The RSL president wants Canberra to lodge an official complaint over Donald Trump's "insult" towards Australian troops in Afghanistan.www.thenewdaily.com.au
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@PaulWay @treleanor in the context of the person behaving poorly being someone you have a personal connection to, calling it in can be an effective way to change their behaviour because itโs less shaming. Itโs hard for people to imagine themselves doing better when theyโre feeling shame. But if itโs not someone you can have a conversation with, and you donโt know anyone else who could do it, there isnโt an option other than call it out or let it go. Sometimes people reach a point where they just canโt let it go, and they need to name the problem behaviour.
Amidst the onslaught of news, find time to watch this video of Veronika the cow, who developed the ability to use tools to scratch herself.
youtube.com/watch?v=bAk4PFEuWKโฆ
#Science #Animals #Biology #Cognition #Cows
Flexible use of a multi-purpose tool by a cow
Auf YouTube findest du die angesagtesten Videos und Tracks. Auรerdem kannst du eigene Inhalte hochladen und mit Freunden oder gleich der ganzen Welt teilen.Antonio Jose Osuna Mascarรณ (YouTube)
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A successful UK ban on X/Grok would be both justified and desirable in forcing a break between Starmer and Trump.
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@pharsicle @luciedigitalni That's right. Algorithms undermine the premise that platforms are common carriers
They don't get it at all.
What they did was racist at best, supporting genocidal ideology is what it looks like to everyone out here; and that's what it is.
Using the Bondi terrorist attack as an excuse made it even worse. We've endured weeks of Zionist monsters linking Palestinians to the attack, despite no Palestinians being involved in the attack.
This is your typical "I'm sorry you took offence" apology, and reeks of Zionist damage control. We can all see what they're doing:
Adelaide writersโ week 2026 cancelled as board apologises to Randa Abdel-Fattah for โhow decision was representedโ
theguardian.com/culture/2026/jโฆ
Adelaide writersโ week 2026 cancelled as board apologises to Randa Abdel-Fattah for โhow decision was representedโ
Almost all remaining festival board members have resigned following backlash to decision to disinvite the Palestinian Australian authorSian Cain (the Guardian)
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It's a shit-show: "but rather a continuing rapid shift in the national discourse around the breadth of freedom of expression in our nation"
Anyone can see that means "we're reading the room; the message is clear; haven't been told to silence you, because that's now how it's done, so we're painting it as something it's clearly not, but we're surprised when a bunch of clearly intellectual people instantly see through this, and join you in deciding not to play along. We're surprised that authors aren't complying like the media, but we're not as sharp as Louise Adler, who so clearly put it in her open resignation letter "its stenographers in the media".
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โThe US has been doing this sort of stuff in Latin America for decades, deposing rulers, supporting authoritarian governments like Chileโs Pinochet or Paraguayโs Stroessner.โ
~Brian Feeney
The Irish News
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ยซ It works on my satellite ยป ou l'histoire d'un bug dans l'espace
linuxfr.org/news/it-works-on-my-satellite-ou-l-histoire-d-un-bug-dans-l-espace
ยซย It works on my satelliteย ยป ou l'histoire d'un bug dans l'espace - LinuxFr.org
Lโactualitรฉ du logiciel libre et des sujets voisins (DIY, Open Hardware, Open Data, les Communs, etc.), sur un site francophone contributif gรฉrรฉ par une รฉquipe bรฉnรฉvole par et pour des libristes enthousiasteslinuxfr.org
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: Et le journal ร l'origine de la news est suivi de nombreux commentaires dignes d'intรฉrรชt.
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already known...but let's put a spotlight on the next ICC judge (from Canada) who is cancelled from the digital life. No Amazon, no Mastercard, no Netflix account...
Just because Trump doesn't like the ruling of an independent international institution like the International Criminal Court.
ICC judges have been forcibly removed from most digital services, credit cards, and banks.
"Amazon, obliged to implement the sanctions as a US company, had cancelled her account."
irishtimes.com/world/us/2025/1โฆ
โItโs surrealโ: US sanctions lock International Criminal Court judge out of daily life
Canadian judge Kimberly Prost is unable to use credit cards, transfer money or book everyday services in what she calls an attack on the independence of the judiciaryNaomi OโLeary (The Irish Times)
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#PhotoJanuary2026 #PhotoJanvier2026 - Jour 2
"Boisson chaude"
02/01/2026
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Roger Waters said it all about warmongers.
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Pink Floyd - The Gunners Dream HD
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Live du vendredi 21 novembre - Sommes-nous ร l'heure du technofascisme ?
Lors de ce live, nous avons reรงu @nastasiahadjadji , journaliste et co-autrice du livre "Apocalypse Nerds, comment les technofascistes ont pris le pouvoir", aux รฉditions Divergences.
Pour voir la rediffusion du live en entier, rendez vous sur notre chaรฎne Peertube et Youtube : video.lqdn.fr/w/eJoXfAgCgiTg5Lโฆ
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Aujourdโhui, plus personne ne hausse les รฉpaules de faรงon crรฉdible quand on parle dโun retour des fascismes. ร La Quadrature du Net, nous parlons ยซ dโautoritarisme ยป depuis longtemps.La Quadrature du Net
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j'avais trouvรฉ son prรฉcรฉdent livre faible sur pas mal de sources ; je me souviens de la petite ferme de crypto au Congo qui dans son livre รฉtait un truc gigantesque servant de cheval de Troie ร la Chine, mais sans source prรฉcise citรฉe, et en creusant (un peu) cela ne ressemblait ร rien d'autre qu'ร une ferme minuscule, unique, sur un terrain en terre battue, financรฉe sur fond franรงais (ou europรฉen). Donc pour argumenter contre la crypto, son livre n'รฉtait pas le bon outil malheureusement, on m'avait clouรฉ le bec comme รงa.
Et des criminels notoires! Des juges veulent les poursuivre, certains ont dรฉjร รฉtรฉ condamnรฉs...
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I'm an astronomer currently fighting for regulation and better engineering of satellites (particularly Starlink) so that the night sky isn't ruined for everyone: theconversation.com/soon-1-outโฆ
I also have super cute baby goats!
Soon, 1 out of every 15 points of light in the sky will be a satellite
Megaconstellations of satellites will visually clutter the night sky, disrupting astronomical research. And the environmental damage caused by these satellites is still unknown.The Conversation
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I was driving home at night looked up at sky and saw this lovely straight line of โstarsโ. My wife explained this was starlink sats. I thought there were like 4 up there. Nearly 8000. Thanks for educating me. Beautiful goats. Hello from Ireland
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New lamps!๐ก In 2023 I created a line of lamps for an interior design company. They wanted a very simple, classic, non-decorative surface and so itโs been fun to return to the idea with the addition of my Earth Tones and carved surfaces. The larger one is an order from a long-time collector whoโs become a friend. The other one is for my momโs birthday! #handmade #pottery
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those lamp bases are absolutely stunning. I am so glad you are willing to share your work here.
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Now for some sports news... (this week's cartoon for @theguardian.com@bsky.brid.gy books pages)
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Happy 76th Birthday, Tom Waits!
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Three of my cartoons have been released as prints by @theguardian.com@bsky.brid.gy. They are an open edition in two sizes and are available for two weeks only. Get one here:www.guardianprintshop.com/pages/tom-gaulds-best-cultural-cartoons-of-2025
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Here are the other two images. They can be framed on request. www.guardianprintshop.com/pages/tom-gaulds-best-cultural-cartoons-of-2025
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Le fichier TES (pour ยซ titres รฉlectroniques sรฉcurisรฉs ยป) centralise les photographies et empreintes digitales que nous donnons pour faire nos titres d'identitรฉ et lutter contre les faux documents. Il nโest censรฉ servir quโร cela. Pourtant, nous rรฉvรฉlons aujourd'hui que la police se sert allรจgrement dans cette base de donnรฉes pour identifier des personnes lors de ses enquรชtes, en violation du droit. laquadrature.net/2025/11/24/laโฆ
La police dรฉtourne le fichier des passeports et des cartes dโidentitรฉ
Fournir sa photographie et ses empreintes quand on demande son passeport ou sa carte dโidentitรฉ est plus lourd de consรฉquence que ce quโon imagine.La Quadrature du Net
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Quand on constate en #France les mรชmes pratiques que dans les #USA de M. #Trump , on peut dire qu'on a un (trรจs) sรฉrieux problรจme :
> ยซ US states give some federal agencies unlimited access to their drivers license records - and now these agencies may be using them for facial recognition, disregarding laws and human rights ยป
mastodon.xyz/@rms/115613670622โฆ
techcrunch.com/2025/11/12/lawmโฆUS states give some federal agencies unlimited access to their drivers license records - and now these agencies may be using them for facial recognition, disregarding laws and human rights.
Lawmakers warn Democratic governors that states are sharing drivers' data with ICE | TechCrunch
A group of Democratic lawmakers asked governors in California, Colorado, and other states to block ICE from accessing their residentsโ driverโs license data without their knowledge.Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai (TechCrunch)
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Twinning in the sun ๐ with my favorite mug from this collection. I did not consciously dress like the mug but considering the fact that I mostly wore neutral tones before I started working with #WildClay sig, itโs safe to say that the clay is speaking through my outfits these days. The pink, orange and olive green on the exterior are all natural clay tones. This mug is going to a home in Gainesville, Florida. A few pieces are left: www.potterybyosa.com
#pottery #ceramics #handmade
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"...I did not consciously dress like the mug.." ๐ ๐
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The handful of you who also follow my gardening account @PermaSolarPotter know that Iโve begun #spinning native cotton. I love plants in the hibiscus family and was given permission to gather some seeds from a plant at the community garden last spring. I started off spinning the fiber with a pencil and then got my neighbor to make me a spindle from scrap wood. The two ceramic whorls I made just came out of the kiln and my neighbor fashioned some dowels to fit them. #FiberArts
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yes, they also have pottery in the museums. But I was busy looking at the textile artifacts and wood construction. I must admit that I don't remember much of the pottery.
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TGIF! I just finished writing up my newsletter that will go out tomorrow and I started it by mentioning that my pieces for this monthโs collection had to share kiln space with a fair number of pieces by kids & students as well as my larger sculptural vesselsโand also a lamp commission. Life feels varied and full at the moment, just like that kiln load. Off to an art show now. Have a relaxing weekend, everyone. #pottery #ceramics #art
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I see the photo first and think, "hooray, more beautiful pots from Osa!"
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Given the current temperature in Glasgow, I figured it's worth posting this plaque I came across on Westbank Quadrant about the origins of Lord Kelvin's ground-breaking research into absolute zero while he was a professor at Glasgow University. None of it is remotely true, but it's an amusing tale nonetheless, and with the current cold snap, it feels quite plausible!
#glasgow #glasgowtoday #keepglasgowweird #lordkelvin #absolutezero #sciencefriday #glasgowhumour
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Interestingly, this post cropped up on my feed this afternoon. The true story is almost as weird, although it was James Dewar who fell into the river: damninteresting.com/absolute-zโฆ
Absolute Zero is 0K
Victorian scientists struggle to reach and understand the vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly cold universe at Absolute Zero.Alan Bellows (Damn Interesting)
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Maths Puzzles for Conspiracy Theorists. One of the cartoons from my new book 'Physics for Cats'. In good bookshops now and online in English, French, German and Spanish editions.
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Itโs very suspicious that Susie was so keen to give the fruit to others, yet didnโt eat any herself. Maybe she ate hers in the way to school? Or did she perchance have a malign smirk on her face as she watched her classmates bite into their Coxโs Pippins?
I was feeling mean one day and tormented the algebra teacher: "All these word problems are bullshit. We both know the train doesn't depart the station at 40 mph. It takes five minutes to get to 40 mph..."
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