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As winter is approaching in Ukraine, the Kerch bridge has been heavily damaged, the day after Putin's 70th birthday. The very next day daily bombardments of Kyiv and other population centers had a massive increase in intensity, but this had probably been planned for a week already and mostly intended for the domestic audience. In a public debate where Western concerns dominate, the Ukrainian minister of defence Andriy P. Zagorodnyuk lays out the Ukrainian perspective on their path to victory. [more inside]
posted by seanmpuckett at 2:06 PM PST - 407 comments

Calculating when eclipses will happen using "the sort of mathematics that you learn in grade school and an understanding of what we in music would call harmony" along with a vertical stick, a place to sit, and a reasonable timepiece. If you prefer text, NASA explains the Saros in Solar Eclipse Periodicity.
posted by clawsoon at 12:43 PM PST - 15 comments

Nature Red in Tooth And Claw and Don't Give a.... What's a fair fight? The internet's favorite tough critter - the Honey Badger faces off against 3 Leopards - a mom and 2 juveniles. Who wins?
posted by drewbage1847 at 10:51 AM PST - 24 comments

Kauers and Moosbauer pen a short, understatedly snarky response to the recently heavily hyped Nature cover article describing the DeepMind team's AlphaTensor project. [more inside]
posted by 3j0hn at 10:50 AM PST - 14 comments

Whenever a thought enters your mind, you will briefly observe it, place it upon a leaf, and watch as it floats down the stream. [more inside]
posted by dancestoblue at 7:24 AM PST - 4 comments

We have imagined time, at least in Western countries, as subservient to commerce, and attempted to export or forcibly impose that understanding worldwide. And just as there’s nothing “natural” about eating with, say, a fork, there’s nothing natural about the way we’ve organized time. It is ideological, which is to say, it is also political — and a means of imposing a particular type of order on others. For her Culture Study newsletter, Anne Helen Petersen writes on The Diminishing Returns of Calendar Culture and those who suffer under this approach to time, including folks who have disabilities, those with ADHD, and many more. [more inside]
posted by Bella Donna at 4:55 AM PST - 89 comments

Someone is pretending to be me. [via.]
posted by chavenet at 4:29 AM PST - 25 comments

Steve Keen just won the Friede Gard Prize for Sustainable Economics (and has choice words for that other thing). Keen's talks about economists' denial and minimization of climate change are colorful (37 min) concise (15 min) and sometimes technical (30 min). [more inside]
posted by jeffburdges at 4:13 AM PST - 14 comments

2022 Nikon Small World Photomicrography Competition — Explore a tiny alien universe unseen by the naked eye, with photo galleries going back to 1975.
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As winter is approaching in Ukraine, the Kerch bridge has been heavily damaged, the day after Putin's 70th birthday. The very next day daily bombardments of Kyiv and other population centers had a massive increase in intensity, but this had probably been planned for a week already and mostly intended for the domestic audience. In a public debate where Western concerns dominate, the Ukrainian minister of defence Andriy P. Zagorodnyuk lays out the Ukrainian perspective on their path to victory. [more inside]
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