TIL: Pakistan is home to more than 7,000 known glaciers, and therefore has more glacial ice than any other country (excluding the polar regions).
Johannes Max Brückner was a German geometer, best known for his amazing collection of polyhedral models which you can read in his book, Vielecke und Vielflache, Theorie und Geschichte (via Present & Correct, Colossal, and Sidebar)
Casimir Funk (born Kazimierz Funk) was a Polish biochemist best known for formulating the idea of vitamins and Google has honoured his 140th birthday with a Google Doodle today.
The Banff Wildlife Crossings Project
A great way to save some animals.
From Space.com: Humanity is slowly losing access to the night sky, and astronomers have invented a new term to describe the pain associated with this loss: ‘noctalgia,’ meaning ‘night grief.’
Stefan Baack on 'Common Crawl’s Impact on Generative AI'
‘Often it is claimed that Common Crawl contains the entire web, but that’s absolutely not true. Based on what I know about how many URLs exist, it’s very, very small.’
Quanta Magazine on ‘What Your Brain Is Doing When You’re Not Doing Anything’: When your mind is wandering, your brain’s “default mode” network is active. Its discovery 20 years ago inspired a raft of research into networks of brain regions and how they interact with each other.
How Spiro has put 10,000 e-bikes on African roads with mixed results
So much venture capital interest in eco-friendly causes is a red flag for me.
Happy birthday to Beth A. Brown who was born on this day in 1969. She was the first Black woman to earn a PhD in Astronomy from the University of Michigan in 1998, with her research focusing on X-ray emissions of faint elliptical galaxies, and black holes. She sadly passed away on 8th October 2008.
I found this on Bluesky today: exa – a modern replacement for ls. You list files hundreds of times a day. Why spend your time squinting at black and white text?
Shout out to James West, the inventor of the electret microphone
Mic check, 1-2!
soap.systems on the crappiness of smart TVs
Smart ARSE, more like!