Waxing #moon over Tossa De Mar.

#MeerMittwoch #photography #travelphotography #travel #nightphotography #Catalonia #Spain #mediterranean

This is genuinely interesting, but it is also a nightmare for someone who compulsively turns everything into a joke. I swear often articles like this are produced specifically so people will make stupid jokes and share them around. But not me. I'm above all that. Seaside slag makes things hard isn't going to get a rise out of me.

Industrial waste is turning into a new type of rock at 'unprecedented' speed, new study finds
https://www.livescience.com/planet-earth/geology/industrial-waste-is-turning-into-a-new-type-of-rock-at-unprecedented-speed-new-study-finds

There was a point to this story, but it has temporarily escaped the chronicler's mind.

#HitchhikersGuide #DouglasAdams #quotes #quote #bot

Having done such a marvelous job on the life of Agatha Christie, Lucy Worsley has turned her attention to Arthur Conan Doyle in her documentary, Killing Sherlock. It's a fascinating look at the man behind the much beloved detective character. Honestly, a somewhat sad tale really, of a man who wanted to matter. Very interesting seeing the evolution of both the author and the detective.

https://www.sbs.com.au/ondemand/tv-series/killing-sherlock-with-lucy-worsley
https://trakt.tv/movies/killing-sherlock-lucy-worsley-on-the-case-of-conan-doyle-2023
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt29291706/

#TV #documentary #SBSOnDemand #Sherlock #LucyWorsley

Seen among the Flipboard chum, this piece of #AISlop that gets worse the longer you look at it.

#BadMaps #ForTheLoveOfGodJustHireAnIllustrator

As a non-native English speaker from a not-so-popular language group, learning to read even casual science stuff was an uphill battle. First I had to learn English to a reasonable level. Then I realized that English-Romanian dictionaries hadn’t really kept up with science.

I eventually managed to get my hands on a fancy English-only dictionary (yes, a printed one, this was a while ago), but then I ran into another problem: I'd start from one definition, only to find another unfamiliar word in the explanation, then another one in that definition and so on, until I forgot where I had started. And even when I did understand a concept, I'd often be stuck with the English word and with a lot of frustration about trying to convey that in my own language.

Some of those struggles are outdated now. At least you no longer have to deal with a giant dictionary pressing into your ribs if you’re reading lying down. But the language gap in science communication still exists.

That’s why I’m launching a community project: The brain across languages.

We’re inviting students who speak more than one language to help us translate Neurofrontiers content into as many languages as possible.

If you’re interested (or know someone who might be), details here: https://neurofrontiers.blog/the-brain-across-languages/

Boosts are very much appreciated!

#neuroscience #SciComm #scienceOutreach #science #language #multilingual

I want to know what happened at the Tuggeranong weather station between 1:30 and 2am this morning

#Canberra