Open thread 5/7/22
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The New Neo
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If you have trouble understanding the narrator’s accent, you can turn on closed captions:
In these scannilg electton microscope (SEM) images the colors are applied after the image is recorded. IIRC you first have to coat the object to be viewed with an electrically conductive layer, often gold, if the object isn’t intrinsicly conductive.
If you have an hour to kill, here’s a great update on the restoration of Notre Dame:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ctpx4MHpAfw
This is really great Rick Beato video about Tori Amos’ 1992 album ‘Little Earthquakes’ which is one of the most beautiful sounding albums ever.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jzJuA93DVJI
We’re literally surrounded by alien life forms! 🙂
Just like to congratulate all those who’ve recently (and not so recently) decided to make Florida their home….
“DeSantis signs largest tax cut in Florida history, saving taxpayers more than $1.2 billion”—
https://justthenews.com/nation/states/center-square/desantis-signs-largest-tax-relief-bill-florida-history-more-12-billion
Still have to watch out for the gators, the pythons, the hurricanes and the drivers, though…but ENJOY!
A passing note, in celebration of a minor human excellence today.
Against Cleveland (y’know, the Indians) in the fourth inning of his sixth start this season, with two out and none on Kevin Gausman reached his first count of 3-0 to a batter. After facing 136. His next pitch was also a ball (and wasn’t close), and again a milestone: he gives up his first walk of the year. Over against 45 Ks at that point. Pretty freakin’ good, man.
Gausman finished the game with a line of 6.1 innings, 6 hits, 1 run, 1 earned, 1 BB, 5 Ks, 0 HR, 104-69 (total pitches-strikes), and an ERA of 2.13. His record is now 3-1.
Oh, and by the way, that 0 HR? Oy! Gausman has yet to allow a homerun either.
And—thank Gaia and/or the powers that be—a grateful “Biden” looks like “he” has yet another crisis on “his” hands….
“…Anatomy of the American baby formula shortage;
“A president who promised competence was caught flat footed by agency failure, supply chain woes and inflation, and baby parents are now in a panic.”—
https://justthenews.com/government/white-house/bidens-bread-line-crisis-anatomy-american-baby-formula-shortage
But priorities….
“Biden: ‘So Many Muslims Are Targeted With Violence’ And ‘Oppressed For Their Religious Beliefs’”—
https://blazingcatfur.ca/2022/05/08/biden-so-many-muslims-are-targeted-with-violence-and-oppressed-for-their-religious-beliefs/
(Presumably “he”‘s referring to the Afghanis “he” abandoned so effortlessly….)
And we’re getting ready for “THE STEAL” v2.0
“Coronavirus wave this fall and winter could potentially infect 100 million, White House warns”—
https://www.wxii12.com/article/coronavirus-wave-this-fall-and-winter-could-potentially-infect-100-million/39934234?utm_campaign=snd-autopilot#
H/T Blazingcatfur blog.
Key word:
“potentially” (heh….)