Woah. Using a telescope and a galaxy in between to enhance the image is a surprising way to see more detail around a black hole.
It's a cool "trick" of using the corona edge to refract light.
Sunday, September 14, 2025
Workplace harassment attorney sues Syracuse airport authority for refusing her advertisement
The height of absurdity is that this ad for sexual harassment was not allowed because
airport leadership told her they believed the ad might be viewed as "threatening" or "intimidating" to men and that "local politicians" might find it offensive.
Right. Better to let men just harass women - just like the guy at the top was convicted of doing.
How do you like that?
You may have seen this week that Jair Bolsonaro (former president of Brazil) was convicted of plotting a coup, and sentenced to prison.
What I find interesting about that is this is a modern story about a 1st world nation, where the former president plotted a means to regain control of the office. He hadn't actually taken many tangible steps, but there was enough to convict him and prevent him from going at it again.
While in our (supposed) 1st world nation here in the US, we had a former president actually stage a coup. It started to happen, but got thwarted. And yes, there was supporting evidence that this was all planned by him and he started it in motion. A coup. In the US. That people shrugged at.
But our government failed to actually do anything about it. He wasn't charged. He wasn't held accountable. And then, he managed to win another election and has now subverted the government, effectively finalizing the coup, after a 4 year gap.
Why in the world did the Biden administration do nothing about those actions?!
Once someone sets up a coup, they never stop coming. Until they are charged and arrested, or wind up dead.
And here we are.
Brazil was better at handling the situation than we were.
That's insane in my book.
Friday, September 12, 2025
From flatscreens to bioimaging: Putting sargassum seaweed to good use
Here's a story about a couple of scientists who are working on a method to heat sargassum and shaping it to use as light points on a flatscreen tv in place of other materials, like plastics.
Gotta love the innovative thinking!
Lawsuit says Musk's Tesla hires visa holders instead of Americans so it can pay less
In a shock to no one, Elon bends the rules to his liking.
Shell promises 10-minute EV charging with its magical battery fluid
This is a pretty remarkable breakthrough. Shell has developed a means to cut EV charging time down to 10 minutes, which would be much closer to the time to gas up a car.
Excellent. Hopefully they can prove this in the field.
Study links frequent, severe heat waves to pollution from major fossil fuel producers
Worth a minute of your time:
A new study has determined that 55 heat waves over the past quarter-century would not have happened without human-caused climate change
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