The key to happiness is not having expectations, unfortunately that is not always healthy. It’s like nature, evolution comes with just the right pressure. Life needs a little grit, unfortunately, but obviously not /waves arms at generally everything. Hoping for a Star Trek future where we can pursue becoming better people without the need to fight for our basic needs.
The magnificent medieval map that made cartography into a science (www.newscientist.com)
The Tree of Life: We are related to every living thing! (www.evogeneao.com)
Cats Kill a Staggering Number of Species across the World (www.scientificamerican.com)
NASA study finds life-sparking energy source and molecule at Enceladus (phys.org)
How Did the Romans Calculate? (cacm.acm.org)
‘Head-scratcher’: first look at asteroid dust brought to Earth offers surprises (www.nature.com)
Mojito Syngonium 😍😍 (mander.xyz)
Plus bonus cat because he’s in the background....
‘I’ve never seen anything like this’: Japan says reason behind 1,200 tonnes of fish washing ashore is unknown (www.theguardian.com)
James Webb Telescope Captures Image of Supernova That 'Absolutely Shattered' a Star (www.smithsonianmag.com)
There Once Was an [Austro-Hungarian] Empire (novum.substack.com)
What did the katydids do when picking up bat sounds? (phys.org)
Inspirational (lemmy.world)
Deep into the Kuiper Belt, New Horizons is still doing science (arstechnica.com)
The Viking origins of your Bluetooth devices (www.nationalgeographic.com)
A 'Void' Hurtling Through The Solar System Blew Up Mars' Atmosphere (www.sciencealert.com)
More Than 44,000 Species Now Threatened With Extinction (e360.yale.edu)
Threads accounts will be available on Mastodon and other services that use the ActivityPub protocol. (mander.xyz)
www.threads.net/
A striking and extremely rare half female, half male bird has been spotted by a University of Otago zoologist (www.otago.ac.nz)
Finding Food Security in Your Garden (worldsensorium.com)
Fighting for Wildlife in a Time of War | Hakai Magazine (hakaimagazine.com)
Cosmic nuclear fission seen for 1st time in 'incredibly profound' discovery (www.space.com)
NASA’s MAVEN Observes the Disappearing Solar Wind - NASA (www.nasa.gov)
The famous star Betelgeuse will briefly disappear tonight (www.astronomy.com)
Decreasing biodiversity may promote spread of viruses (phys.org)
Why was the Longbow so effective? - Medievalists.net (www.medievalists.net)
NASA’s Perseverance Rover Deciphers Ancient History of Martian Lake (www.jpl.nasa.gov)
Lady with an Ermine Meets Nazi Art Thief Hans Frank - JSTOR Daily (daily.jstor.org)
How The Gladius Became Ancient Rome's Most Iconic Weapon (www.thedrive.com)
Electing the Doge of Venice: analysis of a 13th Century protocol (www.hpl.hp.com)
Deep in the Wilderness, the World’s Largest Beaver Dam Endures (e360.yale.edu)
First tomato ever grown in space, lost 8 months ago, found by NASA astronauts (www.cbsnews.com)
NASA’s Webb Stuns With New High-Definition Look at Exploded Star - NASA (www.nasa.gov)
Herds of Mysterious ‘Glacier Mice’ Baffle Scientists (www.atlasobscura.com)
How Did Christianity Change the Roman Empire? | History Today (www.historytoday.com)
How Cabinets of Curiosities Laid the Foundation for Modern Museums (www.smithsonianmag.com)
Identify Birds with your Phone Mic: Behind the Scenes of Sound ID in Merlin (www.macaulaylibrary.org)
cabbage (feddit.de)
Grand Theft Auto VI Trailer 1 (www.youtube.com)
Grand Theft Auto VI Trailer 1 (www.youtube.com)
Tyrian purple: The lost ancient pigment that was more valuable than gold (www.bbc.com)
Shout-out-to-mods-posting (programming.dev)
I order takeaway to hide my shame. (mander.xyz)