ProfT @ProfT@social.cleverlibre.org

It's because cars have to be parked in off-street garages. Since 1962, you've need a shako shōmeisho ("garage certificate") before you're allowed to drive one off the lot. You're not allowed to warehouse private cars in public space, which is at a premium in dense cities. The parking laws lead to some interesting arrangements; cars squeezed into tiny garages (how do you open the door to get out?); car elevators; multi-storey lots where cars are stacked like battery hens.

“Why do the creators of ChatGPT call their chatbot an AI instead of a proper term like large language model? For the same reason that Disney World calls their employees "cast members," corporations use the term "right-sized" when they lay people off, and workers are given a "friendly reminder" right before a manager fires you. In short, all these are examples of corporate doublespeak, where language is used as "an agent of power and control.”” https://www.patreon.com/posts/genre-grapevine-85417093

Note from an overachiever...

Had to be done 🤷‍♂️

Two raisin cakes, both with the same number of raisins, but one twice the size & eight times the volume of the other.

The classic illustration of how spacetime expands & the galaxies move apart as it does.

As baked by my wife for the #ESAEuclid pre-launch press briefing at our European Space Operations Centre in Darmstadt today 🙂👍

#SciComm #SpaceScience #LetThemEatCake

Our universe is rippling with waves caused by massive events, such as merging black holes. Up until yesterday, we didn’t have any evidence of long-wavelength, ‘background’ #GravitationalWaves. But now @nanograv has announced a detection! A network of pulsars measured very carefully has revealed a faint hum in spacetime itself. Though luckily you don’t need pulsars to detect these cookies, a mouth works just fine 😉

#astronomy #astroart #scicomm #science

Während in Berlin 1 Parkplatz weniger bereits eine Zumutung ist, führt New York ab 2024 eine City-Maut von 17-23 $ ein, um Straße & Luft zu entlasten. 1 Mrd. € will die Stadt damit einnehmen und so den ÖPNV ausbauen. Die ganze Welt scheint es verstanden zu haben. Nur wir nicht!

Lots of NANOGrav folks are rightly making the news; I want to highlight Prof. Sarah Vigeland, who shies away from the limelight, but is the chair of the NG gravitational-wave Detection working group. It's meticulous scientists like Sarah who make sure the analysis is right!

Cosmic Webb, meet cosmic web 🤝

Galaxies gather in clusters and threads stretching across the universe, punctuated by vast voids. Now Webb has discovered an early strand of this cosmic web — 10 galaxies that existed 830 million years after the big bang: https://go.nasa.gov/433qCnk
#JamesWebb

The motion of black holes and other massive objects can cause ripples in space-time – gravitational waves. Scientists now see evidence of a universal background of gravitational waves, created by supermassive black hole pairs swirling in space. https://go.nasa.gov/3PwynPD
#NASAExoplanets

Amazing

Check out this new visualization from Universe of Learning — Stephan's Quintet: A Multi-wavelength Exploration.

Based on data from Hubble, Spitzer, Chandra, and JWST, take a 3D journey through the galaxies in Stephan's Quintet. See the stretched-out features from the gravitational interactions between the galaxies, the shocks created as they run into one another, and the secret supermassive black hole obscured by dust.

https://youtu.be/Qnr7HDcF3LQ
#Astronomy #Space #Hubble #Spitzer #Chandra #JWST

Scientists, teachers, amateur astronomers, informal educators:

Do you plan on giving a presentation about JWST? Did you know STScI has full slide decks available, geared towards a general audience, with extensive speaker notes and links to resources?

Check out the new slide deck celebrating one year of JWST science:
https://webbtelescope.org/resource-gallery#section-871d86a9-fef3-42de-b57f-e6ba881b074d

We’ve taken light data detected by four of our telescopes—@ChandraXray, @NASAWebb, @NASAHubble, and Spitzer Space Telescope—and turned them into sound. Hear what some galaxies and stars sound like: https://go.nasa.gov/3PjoNzt
#NASA

Outcry in Birmingham after four cyclists and pedestrians die in a month

#Cycling #RoadSafety
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/jun/19/outcry-in-birmingham-after-four-cyclists-and-pedestrians-die-in-a-month?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

Not long to wait now until the launch of our #EuclidMission 🚀

Euclid is a 1.2m diameter telescope with state-of-the-art optical & IR cameras that’ll take images & spectra of billions of galaxies over 36% of the sky & thus tease out the effects of dark matter & dark energy on the evolution of our universe 🔭

Here’s Robin McKie’s take – expect much more in the coming weeks 🙂👍

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/jun/18/scientists-hope-euclid-telescope-will-reveal-mysteries-of-dark-matter

🌳 Before Vs. After in Amsterdam🇳🇱

Ask your government for leadership and you will get a more livable, green and joyful city 👇👇