mckitterick

[mckitterick]

#astronauts #B movies

[mckitterick]

good read for teachers.

#laziness #procrastination #anxiety #executive dysfunction #the mind

[mckitterick]

Actual roman epitaph for a dog

#dogs #love #funerary poems #the human experience

[mckitterick]

Source

#foxes #wildlife photography

[mckitterick]

#april 25th #the perfect date #miss congeniality

[mckitterick]

SOUNDS OF THE UNIVERSE

Oppenheimer (2023) // Scientific American x // Britannica x // Saturn Sounds x // The Realm of Daphnis x // Youtube x // Scientific American x // Musica Universalis x

#astronomy #sonification #music of the spheres #everything sings #physics is magic

[mckitterick]

like to charge, reblog to cast

#headcanon accepted #misinformation #karma #we get to decide the truth says Muskrat #therefore I choose to believe #satire

[mckitterick]

I regret to inform you that Discord's new Terms of Service includes an arbitration clause. You can find it here https://discord.com/terms/#16. This clause includes an opt-out, which I have transcribed here:

You can decline this agreement to arbitrate by emailing an opt-out notice to [email protected] within 30 days of April 15, 2024 or when you first register your Discord account, whichever is later; otherwise, you shall be bound to arbitrate disputes in accordance with the terms of these paragraphs. If you opt out of these arbitration provisions, Discord also will not be bound by them.

These clauses are underhanded ways that corporations seek to deprive you of your right to participate in class-action lawsuits and your right to a jury trial. (This does only apply to us users ,other people still spread the word though )

#discord #PSA #signal boost #user agreements #enshittification

[mckitterick]

nobuddy feels like they have a sharp attention span these days, right? and we all just click “agree on terms of service” because its hard to love yourself sometimes, well

enter Terms of Service, Didn’t Read: a website and a browser addon that streamlines the terms of service of many popular web services to be read by the tech sunday drivers.

It’s graded from A (great) to E (awful) and if you have the addon you have access to the info about the website on your bar

#privacy #terms of service #browser extensions #PSA #signal boost #adding this to my browser ASAP

[mckitterick]

Scientists at UC Riverside have demonstrated a new, RNA-based vaccine strategy that is effective against any strain of a virus and can be used safely even by babies or the immunocompromised.  Every year, researchers try to predict the four influenza strains that are most likely to be prevalent during the upcoming flu season. And every year, people line up to get their updated vaccine, hoping the researchers formulated the shot correctly. The same is true of COVID vaccines, which have been reformulated to target sub-variants of the most prevalent strains circulating in the U.S. This new strategy would eliminate the need to create all these different shots, because it targets a part of the viral genome that is common to all strains of a virus. The vaccine, how it works, and a demonstration of its efficacy in mice is described in a paper published today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.  “What I want to emphasize about this vaccine strategy is that it is broad,” said UCR virologist and paper author Rong Hai. “It is broadly applicable to any number of viruses, broadly effective against any variant of a virus, and safe for a broad spectrum of people. This could be the universal vaccine that we have been looking for.”

Continue Reading.

#vaccines #public health #biotech #biotechnology #good news

[mckitterick]

Happy Earth Day from the Moon

comic by zen pencils: "Neil Armstrong: A giant among men"

"It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet Earth. I didn’t feel like a giant. I felt very, very small."

- Neil Armstrong

#the moon #earth #earth day #comics #quotes

[mckitterick]

Pardon the poor quality but the moment when Data realizes he’s gonna have to fight is chilling

#Data #star trek #st: tng #androids

[mckitterick]

"Much knowledge that was forgotten because it wasn't needed for many years has been recovered" sounds like something out of a fantasy novel, but it's actually from Voyager mission engineer Kareem Badaruddin wrt Voyager 1, and one of various awesome quotes in this article about the possible effective death of the Voyager 1 mission.

#voyager spacecraft #NASA knows how to build em right the first time #you might wanna take notes Muskrat #space exploration

[mckitterick]

Am I getting a good grade in tumblr mutual?

#you're getting A across the board #tumblr mutuals #getting a good grade is both achievable and reasonable

[mckitterick]

#birds #interspecies friendship #playing tag #you're never lonely living with a bird

[mckitterick]

#devil went down to georgia #folk music #classism #Americana #music videos

[mckitterick]

Happy Earth Day from the Moon

comic by zen pencils: "Neil Armstrong: A giant among men"

"It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet Earth. I didn’t feel like a giant. I felt very, very small."

- Neil Armstrong

#neil armstrong #quotes #earth from space #comics #apollo program #earth day