Christopher Overton

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The preliminary budget draft proposes the creation of a new agency called the “Administration for a Healthy America,” which would give RFK Jr even more power and resources to pursue quack treatments and conspiracy theories.

Global temperatures are once again near record highs over the last few days.

Graphic updated in near real-time at https://zacklabe.com/climate-change-indicators/

Climate change indicators

All data are referenced at My visualizations: Arctic Climate Seasonality and Variability Arctic Sea Ice Extent and Concentration Arctic Sea Ice Volume and Thickness Arctic Temperatures Antarctic Se…

Zachary Labe
I want to make sure people know that in the U.S. a Presidential executive order is not a law. It is an internal memo from the head of the Executive to others in that branch. The President has no constitutional authority to legislate or adjudicate the law. 1/

Seeing Serious People talk about Serious Issues while past-tensing Covid is like playing two truths and a lie.

It's impossible to trust people to deal with issues while they aggressively ignore how repeated, compounded, unimpeded Covid infections have a negative impact on literally all of the issues on this planet.

@Sfwmson @[email protected] I don’t have any easy answers. You are getting into more complex sociological analysis turf with this one.
@Sfwmson @[email protected] Well, why didn’t Biden win by +20% of the popular vote, and instead walk away with +4.5% of the popular vote over Trump? A lot of people were shocked at how close the election results were in 2020 knowing what we knew then about Trump and persistently being reminded daily about who Trump was. A lot were shocked when Clinton won the popular vote but lost the electoral vote given that Trump appeared to be shoe-in for Clinton.

Temperature anomalies over the last month (left), 3 months (center), and 12 months (right) in the Northern Hemisphere...

Data from @CopernicusECMWF ERA5 reanalysis at https://cds.climate.copernicus.eu/cdsapp#!/dataset/reanalysis-era5-single-levels-monthly-means?tab=overview

Copernicus Climate Data Store | Copernicus Climate Data Store

Grad student at CU Boulder looking to interview a data scientist on ethics in the field for a project. Would love to hear from you! Not sure if it’s a wild crew over here, but I thought I’d pitch this anyways!
I’ve already tried on Bluesky!
#DataScience #Ethics #InterviewRequest #GradStudent #DataEthics #ScienceCommunity

The zone of gravitational influence around a planet is called its "Hill sphere." The farther you go from the Sun, the bigger the zone gets -- which helps explain why Neptune can hold on to a satellite that's more than 100x as distant as the Moon is from Earth.

In the outer solar system, there's not much competition for attention...

https://astroblog.cosmobc.com/hill-sphere/ #science #physics #astronomy #space

Hill Sphere: Discover the Gravitational Realm of a Celestial Body

Explore the gravitational dynamics within and beyond the Hill sphere, revealing insights into practical applications and cosmic phenomena.

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