Mastodawn

Rise Goes to Washington https://www.nasa.gov/image-detail/artemis-ii-crew-on-capitol-hill/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #ArtemisII #NASA #ZeroGravity #SpaceExploration #Astronauts

Rise Goes to Washington - NASA

“Rise,” the Artemis II zero gravity indicator, is seen sitting on the dais as the Artemis II astronauts speak with congressional staff, Tuesday, May 12, 2026, in Washington.

NASA

Gary Hall 3d ago

1/4 Tried to watch the Radical with Amol Rajan Today #Podcast for the #BBC. The episode on social mobility with Joe Seddon, founder of #zerogravity

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m002rgj9
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episodes/m002f1d0/radical-with-amol-rajan

Truly dreadful: in the sense of being both bad and frightening.

Apparently, there are some #universities just not worth attending and some #university degree courses not worth taking – because they fail to deliver sufficient economic benefit for both society and individual students-as-consumers, and can therefore be judged as being of ‘poor quality’. In many cases, it seems, doing an apprenticeship is preferable to attending a ‘less selective’ university.

What, exactly, is radical about this? Especially when one considers that, historically, it has been at such universities that many people from working- and lower-middle-class backgrounds have encountered radical economic and political ideas, often through fields such as media and #culturalstudies and #CulturalTheory

Radical with Amol Rajan - Social Mobility: How to Break the Link Between Background and Opportunity (Joe Seddon) - BBC Sounds

Regional inequality is holding people back, and Joe Seddon wants to do something about it.

BBC

cesium Apr 30

Switching from circular needles to DPNs or other non-circular needles must feel similar to what astronauts experience when they come back to a higher gravity environment.

With circulars, when I turn work and get to the last stitch, I'm used to just open the hand holding the needle tip (as it is attached to its cable and is hold by live stitches), so when the needle is non-circular it just falls down and I go "uhm I should know how gravity works"

#knitting #circularNeedles #zeroGravity

Vietmanijsc Apr 25

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