“They turned what would have been an opportunity for us to get a couple hundred people to read what we were handing out,” he says, “into what has become an international story.” Diabetes society officials resign after removal of Trump protesters from conference #SheShed #ScienceIsReal #EndMAHA

Diabetes society officials res...
Newly Discovered Asteroid to Make Close Pass by Earth

Newly Discovered Asteroid to Make Close Pass by Earth: It was first spotted over the weekend

Newly Discovered Asteroid to Make Close Pass by Earth

Newly Discovered Asteroid to Make Close Pass by Earth: It was first spotted over the weekend

Jimmy, "You can't smoke around the baby!"

Virginia, "Jimmy, smoke rises, she's not going to be tall enough to breath it for a LONG time!"

Before she knew of 2nd hand smoke my mom smoked in the car & my open window drew all the smoke past my face.

But she knew about vaccines in the 60's & she made sure I got all my shots.

Thanks to progress in science, I survived childhood. Also, I never took up #smoking.

#ScienceIsReal #Vaccination

#scienceweek2026
#scienceisreal

Students at Municipal High Humanist School seriously participating in the science Week.
Passionate enthusiastic Science teachers busy engaging the #learners

More about the school:
https://kasesehumanist.blogspot.com/

With Science, we can progress

"... reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled." - Richard P. Feynmann, Report of the PRESIDENTIAL COMMISSION on the Space Shuttle Challenger Accident

https://web.archive.org/web/20251231045113*/https://www.nasa.gov/history/rogersrep/v2appf.htm

#OTD #ScienceIsReal #Challenger #StandUpForScience

Why trust science? Thoughtful essay but I think you can boil it down further:
TLDNR:
- employs rigorous methods
- acknowledges failures — and adjusts
- is primarily incremental with strong foundations, not spur-of-the-moment or opinion based.
- breakthroughs are tested, not just accepted.
- it changes as knowledge accumulates. That's not a bad thing.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/05/opinion/science-trust.html?unlocked_article_code=1.CFA.tacX.ZqVoY6xoEakd&smid=url-share
#ScienceMatters #ScienceIsReal
Opinion | Science Keeps Changing. So Why Should We Trust It?

Naïve faith and wholesale pessimism are not your only options.

The New York Times
The Trump Administration’s Most Paralyzing Blow to Science

Cuts to research may have spoiled the country’s appetite for bold exploration.

The Atlantic

Using powers of 2 before there were numbers

Researchers think northern Mesopotamian pottery shards from over 7,000 years ago show evidence of geometry, symmetry, and spatial long division

https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/archaeology/a69801345/first-evidence-of-math/?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-us

#MathFTW #ScienceIsReal #pottery #archaeology

Archaeologists Uncovered the First Evidence of Math—Before Numbers Were Even Invented

Halafian culture arranged floral depictions on pottery with symmetry and numerical sequences, displaying one of the earliest pieces of mathematical thinking.

Popular Mechanics
@petergleick
One nation race to the bottom...
Return to the Dark Ages...
Self-inflicted disaster (Krugman)...
Self-inflicted wound (Altschuler and Wippman)...
Nightmare.
https://thehill.com/opinion/education/5489477-american-brain-drain-is-a-colossal-self-inflicted-wound
#ScienceMatters #ScienceIsReal #antiscience