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rodin Sep 17, 2023

@waxbanks the world continues to surprise and delight in mostly positive ways ☺️

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rodin Sep 14, 2023

@waxbanks Hey, I think I remember the beginnings of that career 😊👋

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rodin Jul 19, 2023

@mcnees perhaps we're just in the middle of the research transient. This is recent news and may not have propagated everywhere. https://phys.org/news/2023-07-age-universe-billion-years-previously.html

New research puts age of universe at 26.7 billion years, nearly twice as old as previously believed

Our universe could be twice as old as current estimates, according to a new study that challenges the dominant cosmological model and sheds new light on the so-called "impossible early galaxy problem."

rodin Jun 13, 2023

Corey S Powell Jun 12, 2023

24 hours of Earth's rotation, with the camera locked to the sky instead of the ground. We're all hanging out on this spinning rock.
Brilliant video by Bartosz Wojczyński. https://artuniverse.eu/gallery/190705-rotation24h #nature #wonder #earth

Art Universe • Creative Astrophotography

rodin Feb 25, 2023

Erin Kissane Feb 24, 2023

This glorious visual history of SF as told through cover designs from @grahamsleight and Adam Roberts is SO CLOSE to funded via Unbound, and I suspect a ton of people here would like to own a copy.

Also: Graham is one of the great behind-the-scenes mensches of modern SFF and brings the exact opposite of the gee-whiz affect that would make so many versions of a project like this unbearable. It's going to be sharp as hell.

https://unbound.com/books/wonders-and-visions/

#ScienceFiction (I am TRYING with hashtags)

Wonders and Visions: A Visual History of Science Fiction

A sumptuous history of science fiction told through its iconic covers.

Unbound

rodin Feb 4, 2023

Dr. Michelle Fullwood Jan 17, 2023

I've been collecting interesting examples of information organisation in history, focusing on non-Western civilisations. I came across this example of an ancient Mesopotamian spreadsheet! It records wages paid to temple workers in 1295 BCE.

#History #AncientHistory #Cuneiform #Mesopotamia #CognitiveHistory

rodin Feb 4, 2023

Bob Blaskiewicz 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 🇬🇱Jan 30, 2023

So, we talked to chatgpt in class today. It wrote an awful paper about my dissertation topic with fake references and no examples, just platitudes. I asked it to rate the number 13 on a scale of 1 to 10, and it wouldn't. I asked it to rate 6 on a scale of 1 to 10 and, so help me god, it rated 6 as a 7. It had a hard time justifying why 6 could be rated and 13 could not. It won't let you give Michelin stars to a scale from 1 to 10, but it rated a scale from 1 to 10 a 10 on a scale from 1 to 10.

rodin Feb 4, 2023