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2025-Jul-31 17:36:39 Deepest ever marine life filmed:
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c3wnqe5j99do |
2025-Jul-31 09:39:29 Celsius energy drink cans accidentally filled with vodka.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4g0z1d28e5o |
2025-Jul-30 22:37:22 Disintegrating #planet.
#space #astronomy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BD%2B05_4868Ab |
2025-Jul-30 14:36:17 Today I gave a talk on prospects for using ultra-low emittance beams in colliders, including this video of making a "long nucleus" at a nuclear-density focus.
This and several other good talks on the page below: https://agenda.infn.it/event/47981/timetable/#20250730.detailed #accelerators #physics |
2025-Jul-29 21:05:01 Video of #asteroid debris field. #space #astronomy
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap250728.html |
2025-Jul-28 13:01:24 Call me weird but one of the first things I notice when going to a new area is the vegetation! The trees around the hotel are certainly distinctive.
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2025-Jul-28 09:50:44 Just arrived at a meeting on far future colliders at the Galileo Galilei Institute. Looks like it should be a very interesting meeting: https://ggi.infn.it/showevent.pl?id=509
#physics #accelerators
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2025-Jul-27 05:33:08 Oddly my first flight departed from gate B26 at JFK and my connecting flight also departs from gate B26 at Amsterdam. #BoringFact |
2025-Jul-25 23:54:54 An oft-forgotten corollary of cosmological redshift is that we're actually seeing the early universe evolving in *slow motion*. #astronomy #cosmology #physics
https://www.skyatnightmagazine.com/news/astronomers-observe-early-universe-slow-motion |
2025-Jul-25 18:34:55 How do you undo a HEX-HEAD BOLT?
Yes, that's correct, with PLIERS, because I don't have spanners in my office. |
2025-Jul-24 23:17:20 Seems like a good idea. #energy
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2025-Jul-24 22:59:59 Microsoft trying to record your screen and send it to their AI servers again.
https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/23/microsoft_copilot_vision/ |
2025-Jul-24 22:00:23 Purchase dates vaguely suggest my car leaks oil faster during the summer months, which I suppose what with viscosity decreasing with temperature makes sense. |
2025-Jul-24 00:29:22 Some photos including a weird lump on #Mars. #space
RT https://x.com/NASAMars/status/1948096859874177196 |
2025-Jul-23 01:30:07 Do I spend $400 on a UMPC and just roll the dice and see if Debian has the drivers for it? I got it mostly working on an old ASUS Transformer Book (10") but that was left over after upgrading. |
2025-Jul-23 01:15:03 Seems like UMPCs (7-9" screen) are coming back into fashion. I wonder if there are any running Linux?
https://www.tomshardware.com/laptops/ultrabooks-ultraportables/tiny-gpd-micropc-2-smashes-crowdfunding-goal-sequel-to-2019-original-improves-mobile-productivity-yet-remains-under-500g |
2025-Jul-22 22:36:58 Betelgeuse has a companion star larger than the Sun but it's orbiting within Betelgeuse's extended atmosphere at 4AU. Causes brightness variations. #space #astronomy
https://www.skyatnightmagazine.com/news/betelgeuse-companion-star |
2025-Jul-22 17:45:13 The ion trap experiment now has an electron beam and a camera. #physics #accelerators |
2025-Jul-22 00:55:12 A small girl was touching the supermarket robot and preventing it from moving from the spot. |
2025-Jul-22 00:46:31 Privacy-focussed alternatives to common #web tools. #computing #internet
https://www.elderlogs.net/why-privacy-matters/ |
2025-Jul-21 22:03:31 Heating up radiation-damaged cameras can sometimes fix them! #physics #space
https://www.missionjuno.swri.edu/news/nasa-shares-how-to-save-camera-370-million-miles-away |
2025-Jul-21 21:49:52 Dutch maintenance vehicle evading a #bollard. [video]
https://x.com/WorldBollard/status/1947354080269287579 |
2025-Jul-20 18:44:20 Earth eclipses the Sun (several times) in this week-long timelapse from NASA. #space #astronomy
RT https://x.com/NASASpaceAlerts/status/1946963313159528753 |
2025-Jul-20 17:42:13 #SpaceX's lift boat appears to have recovered a Starship booster's engines from under the sea.
RT https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1946836455919394935 |
2025-Jul-20 03:10:08 The advantage of metric measurements is the simpler multiples used. For example,
1 kph = 5/18 m/s Compare that to Imperial measurements such as 1 short ton = 2000 lb. |
2025-Jul-19 20:14:44 Anyone else noticing that the useful stuff has been commoditised so the hype train is isolating itself in an ever smaller region of useless products? |
2025-Jul-17 21:18:52 New Glenn #rocket is sending a probe to #Mars. #space #BlueOrigin
https://x.com/davill/status/1945881904835613041 |
2025-Jul-17 14:12:11 View through the permanent #magnets in the hadron therapy test beamline mentioned in https://www.bnl.gov/newsroom/news.php?a=222471 . The innermost surface of each permanent magnet wedge piece is visible: they cover the whole perimeter of the aperture to get the maximum field. #physics #accelerators
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2025-Jul-16 23:59:54 Genetic technique allows babies to be born free of hereditary mitochondrial disease.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn8179z199vo |
2025-Jul-16 02:28:26 Passive #CPU cooler (large).
https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/case-fans/noctua-nh-p1-review |
2025-Jul-16 01:20:44 It's odd how computer games can have pleasant ambience, but computer software has whatever the opposite of ambience is. |
2025-Jul-15 21:01:07 Glass sculptures of electron orbital distributions. #physics #chemistry
RT https://x.com/museum_kahaku/status/1944959925568090381 |
2025-Jul-14 23:33:36 Now that I've added text labels to the taskbar icons in #Windows 11 at work, the order doesn't matter as much as if they were just icons and I've started using multiple desktops again (which if you recall mess up the icon order every time I switch).
There are still some glaring bugs though, like if I open a second file in Excel it moves me to the desktop where the first (often unrelated) file was open. |
2025-Jul-13 19:03:21 Interstellar navigation by parallax demonstrated by New Horizons spacecraft. #space #NASA #astronomy
https://pluto.jhuapl.edu/News-Center/News-Article.php?page=20250630 46.9AU is 0.00074 light years. |
2025-Jul-13 18:50:56 Used the ATM in Spanish because my car's too low to reach English. |
2025-Jul-13 17:53:09 Mowed the lawn 🌱 and snapped some dead branches off a tree that were on eye level. |
2025-Jul-13 16:23:52 Blue Impulse formation flying. [photo]
RT https://x.com/sanrinoq/status/1944291892428255725 |
2025-Jul-13 15:48:54 Saw a chipmunk in my garden. I'd seen them (rarely) in this town before but never this close. |
2025-Jul-13 01:07:36 This evening's walk: 🎇🐇🦇🦌 but no 🦝. |
2025-Jul-12 20:08:14 Small electric plane lands at Gatwick.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx20gljd8vro |
2025-Jul-11 20:59:38 This tree hollyhock is almost as tall as the house now.
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2025-Jul-11 18:31:40 I've been designing optical breadboard layout options using pixel art. #physics
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2025-Jul-10 20:22:14 #NASA Parker Solar Probe records timelapse video from within the Sun's atmosphere. #space #astronomy
https://science.nasa.gov/science-research/heliophysics/nasas-parker-solar-probe-snaps-closest-ever-images-to-sun/ |
2025-Jul-09 22:56:14 New tube of rocket. #space #SpaceX
RT https://x.com/SpaceX/status/1942975057040404843 |
2025-Jul-09 22:55:41 I searched for "duck spanner" and it showed me these oddly-shaped things.
https://www.amazon.com/Mdvora-Coilover-Spanner-Suspension-Adjustment/dp/B0C5BQLDHZ |
2025-Jul-08 23:36:43 Interesting paper with video simulations of a star being tidally disrupted by a black hole, the star remains circling the hole many times and forming an opaque cloud. #astrophysics
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ad6862 |
2025-Jul-08 18:32:22 Using the "real" 4K USB camera rather than my smartphone gets a better image of the electron beam hitting the screen. #physics #accelerators I should have posted an actual 4K image not the 1080p scaled one, but my computer can only process uncompressed 4K at about 5fps, so I was using 1080p for viewing it continuously.
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2025-Jul-08 14:57:17 Here's what some of our #magnets and fixed-field accelerator designs are being used for. #physics #accelerators
https://www.bnl.gov/newsroom/news.php?a=222471 |
2025-Jul-07 18:06:56 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holmium%E2%80%93magnesium%E2%80%93zinc_quasicrystal |
2025-Jul-07 01:08:09 Went for a walk as it was getting dark; saw fireflies, rabbits, bats, racoons and a deer. 🎇🐇🦇🦝🦌 |
2025-Jul-06 03:26:19 This guy's videos are great. I also watched the "making the world's most concentrated Red Bull" one.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=crjxpZHv7Hk Also there's a guy who makes car wheels out of odd materials? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cLRrvxsg0c4 |
2025-Jul-05 23:14:09 UK aircraft carrier gets gaming room.
https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/pc-gaming/uk-royal-navy-builds-esports-suite-loaded-with-gaming-pcs-onboard-its-newest-warship-eight-high-powered-pc-battle-stations-added-to-war-room |
2025-Jul-05 22:37:55 River Seine reopens to swimmers in Paris after century-long ban
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4gk7nk35l2o |
2025-Jul-05 22:30:04 Mowed the lawn, got an Allen key into the other side of the fastener that kept coming loose on the mower and tightened it. Maybe that wheel won't get wobbly again for a while. |
2025-Jul-04 19:48:18 7 little-known items in Trump’s big agenda bill
https://www.cnn.com/2025/07/04/politics/seven-little-pieces-trump-agenda-bill |
2025-Jul-04 18:29:50 Flemish giants.
RT https://x.com/PPapakonNucl/status/1941108550522269728 |
2025-Jul-03 17:23:54 Lightning going upwards into #space. [photo]
RT https://x.com/Astro_Ayers/status/1940810789830451563 |
2025-Jul-03 14:34:33 Examples of Velella velella (jellyfish-derived colony organism).
https://x.com/LegoLostAtSea/status/1940660576667197862 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Velella |
2025-Jul-03 14:19:38 These are the large bugs that have been making noise in the forest at work.
https://www.bnl.gov/newsroom/news.php?a=222516&btw=1 |
2025-Jul-03 00:20:33 Third interstellar comet discovered. #space #astronomy
https://science.nasa.gov/blogs/planetary-defense/2025/07/02/nasa-discovers-interstellar-comet-moving-through-solar-system/ |
2025-Jul-02 22:01:41 Peanut-shaped #asteroid. #space #NASA #astronomy
https://science.nasa.gov/blogs/lucy/2025/07/02/nasas-lucy-mission-provides-full-view-of-asteroid-donaldjohanson/ |
2025-Jul-02 22:01:15 "While most customers were ordering snacks or drinks, one decided to request a tungsten cube. This led the bot [to] stock the entire snack fridge with them."
https://tech.co/news/anthropic-gives-claude-ai-store-to-run |
2025-Jul-02 22:00:57 Magnetic extractor for shrapnel wounds being used in Ukraine.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1mgdendnv7o |
2025-Jul-02 20:29:43 The electrodes moving the 500eV electron beam. One is 2Hz and 3Hz (+/-10V on the electrodes), one is 2MHz and 2.000001MHz. #physics #accelerators |
2025-Jul-01 22:12:48 Aphelion is on Thursday. #sun
https://www.skyatnightmagazine.com/space-science/aphelion-perihelion |
2025-Jul-01 21:35:09 My digital barometer clock thing has a flashing light to inform me the risk of mold outside is critical. So bear that in mind if you are outside and see mold. |
2025-Jul-01 21:14:05 How much debt and spending are in various versions of the US megabill? #politics #economics
https://x.com/MarcGoldwein/status/1940097496417530008 |
2025-Jul-01 21:10:11 Short train.
[video] RT https://x.com/AluminiumMania/status/1939810326524174793 |
2025-Jul-01 20:18:13 Got a slightly more convincing beam spot by messing with the settings, maybe 0.5uA? (500eV e-) #physics #accelerators
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