A lightning strike exploded an eagle's nest in Boulder County. A female eagle managed to survive and has been spotted looking for a new nest with her mate.
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Octopus suckers inspire new tech for gripping objects underwater
New adhesive system could be powerful tool for underwater salvage, rescue operations.
arstechnica.com/science/2024/1…
Cool tech.
It reminds me of the recent Smithsonian story about corporate interests in undersea manganese harvesting, and the cynical side of me assumes this is why government bodies such as the NSF would be interested in funding it.
According to the original paper, they provided some financial support in the form of a DMREF grant, for research that “accelerates the materials discovery-to-use timeline”.
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In the pantheon of first lady memoirs, Melania Trump's is something else (Monica Hesse/Washington Post)
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![A social post from @davesouthorn on X that says: Boise State having a goth beach volleyball player is the best. [A reply from @CollegeSportsOnly that shows an image of the players, in which one is clearly the goth player and asks, "Which one is she?"]](https://social.trom.tf/photo/preview/640/16745069 "A social post from @davesouthorn on X that says: Boise State having a goth beach volleyball player is the best. [A reply from @CollegeSportsOnly that shows an image of the players, in which one is clearly the goth player and asks, \"Which one is she?\"]")
BREAKING: Unusual Whales has hit 1.9 million followers on Twitter/X.
Right here, we started a movement to get Congress to ban trading (before anyone else!), made financial tools used by many, & created a community of millions!
Thank you for being part of it.
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With the storm-battered Southeast bracing for another massive hurricane and the hyperpartisan election just four weeks away, government officials and rescue workers aren’t just battling the elements, they’re fighting against a spiraling misinformation war.
#Tucson #Arizona
Archaeologists Discover Intricately Decorated Coffins Belonging to the Only Daughter of an Ancient Egyptian Governor
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/archaeologists-discover-intricately-decorated-coffins-belonging-to-the-only-daughter-of-an-ancient-egyptian-governor-180985217/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Wealth distribution in the United States.
Ken Shirriff: It turns out that if you put Elon Musk on the graph, almost the entire US population is crammed into a vertical bar, one pixel wide. Each pixel is $500 million wide, illustrating that $500...
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The Democratic ticket is working overtime to bury Minnesota Governor Tim Walz’s hot take on the Electoral College.
The developer of VoiceNote, a note taking, translation, speech to text, and text to speech app for Linux is working on the accessibility of the app!
#accessibility #blind #Linux #foss
Who owns your shiny new #Pixel9 phone? You can’t say no to #Google’s #surveillance
Satellite images show Antarctica is turning ‘green’ faster than previously thought.
Satellite imagery shows that vegetation on the peninsula grew from less than one square kilometres in 1986 to almost 12sqkm by 2021. #ClimateChange
GNOME Triple Buffering May Need To Be Re-Engineered - Helping NVIDIA Performance
GNOME Triple Buffering May Need To Be Re-Engineered - Helping NVIDIA Performance
The long-in-development GNOME triple buffering support that is patched into the Ubuntu and Debian builds and available for years in patch form might need to undergo a redesignwww.phoronix.com
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If you’re going to point fingers, point at the problem, not something you don’t understand.
Wayland has problems; it is not the problem. X needs a replacement and I strongly encourage you to research why if you don’t understand why. Wayland is relatively new, and has large shoes to fill.
It will be many years before it has matured enough to fill your and everyone else’s needs, and by then there will a new replacement for someone else to gripe about on the internet.
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Narrated video: youtu.be/-vkBdtuVzu0
#StearnsLake #BoulderCounty #BCPOS #Colorado #baldEagle #OpenSpace
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