On February mornings, look for the celestial ducks returning to open water on the river of the Milky Way as the stars Shaula and Lesath make their appearance. Source: https://earthsky.org/astronomy-essentials/two-stars-in-scorpius-are-a-harbinger-of-spring…
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Are We Slowing Global Warming?
This week New York Magazine featured a new article by journalist David Wallace-Wells about the state of the fight against global warming. He warns that “Already, the planet is warmer, at just 1.2 degrees, than it has ever been…” But there’s also some good news:
Just a half-decade ago, it was widely believed that a “business as usual” emissions path would bring…
Repeating fast radio burst woke up again on schedule. Now what?
FRB 121102 is one of the few known repeating fast radio bursts, and astronomers are trying to use this new period of activity to understand it better. Some predict the current active phase should end sometime between August 31 and September 9. Will it? Source: https://earthsky.org/space/repeating-fast-radio-burst-frb-121102-wakes-up-chime…
Is Big Tech About to Take Over Higher Education?
“In 2017, Scott Galloway anticipated Amazon’s $13.7 billion purchase of Whole Foods a month before it was announced,” reports New York magazine (in an article shared by long-time Slashdot reader Faizdog). Galloway teaches marketing at NYU Stern School of Business, and he’s now predicting the pandemic “has greased the wheels for big tech’s entree into higher education.”
The post-pandemic future, he says,…
4 amazing astronomical discoveries from ancient Greece
The ancients made some jaw-dropping discoveries without modern technology. For example, the size of the moon. Source: https://earthsky.org/space/4-amazing-astronomical-discoveries-ancient-greece…
The Flat-Earth Conspiracy Continues To Spread Around the Globe
An anonymous reader shares a report: “I don’t want to be a flat Earther,” David Weiss says, his voice weary as he reflects on his personal awakening. “Would you wake up in the morning and want everyone to think you’re an idiot?” But Weiss is a flat Earther. Ever since he tried and failed to find proof of the Earth’s curve…
Come to know the Pleiades, or 7 Sisters
At this time of year, for all of us around the globe, the Pleiades star cluster culminates – reaches its highest point in the sky – around midnight. Source: https://earthsky.org/tonight/november-is-the-month-of-the-pleiades…
Astronomers observe the awakening of a Be/X-ray binary
Using ESA’s XMM-Newton space telescope, astronomers have spotted bright X-ray outbursts emitted by a Be/X-ray binary known as A0538−66. The discovery marks the ending of an over three-decade-long period of quiescence of this system. The finding is detailed in a paper published July 18 on arXiv.org. Source: https://phys.org/news/2019-07-astronomers-awakening-bex-ray-binary.html…
Why it Feels Like Time is Speeding Up
Melissa Dykes – Entire generations being born now are raised to be dependent on technology. Source: https://www.wakingtimes.com/2019/04/30/why-it-feels-like-time-is-speeding-up/…
A Scientist’s Spiritual Awakening
Jeff Warren – Could quietening the mind be possible in our faced-paced, Western lives? Source: https://www.wakingtimes.com/2019/04/29/a-scientists-spiritual-awakening/…