Dr Keith Walker @SteelFolk@social.cleverlibre.org
Steel industry metallurgical specialist.
Joined Nov 2022
@sciencebase The crossed hammers from The Wall artwork spring to mind as well, but I couldn't find an example which I could put here (all were some funny file types).
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In 2000, Elon Musk tried to rebrand PayPal as X.com, but was forced out by the board and replaced as CEO by Peter Thiel.
Now he’s doing the same to Twitter, but is surrounded by sycophants who can’t tell him it’s a bad idea.
Read more: https://www.disconnect.blog/p/elon-musk-wants-to-relive-his-start
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Ron DeSantis is spending time defending the benefits of slavery and investigating Bud Light instead of fixing the home insurance crisis and highest inflation in the country in his state of Florida.
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An inspiring story about rediscovering the pioneering work of Eunice Foote on the solar heating of #CO2, before anyone else! Being a woman and hence not admitted into science, she had to send an alibi male colleague to present her findings at a conference. Yet, she published the first paper on the topic.
#climatescience #historyofscience
@quietmarc And 'The Economy' when it suits them but in fact the same applies.
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It's not "The climate is changing"
It's "We are changing the climate with our actions."
Media use the active voice when talking about climate change challenge.
@sciencebase My arse! Next to him is Mr Haslam who was a French spy whom the girls found a bit creepy. He smoked Gitannes and his room smelt like The Metro.
@sciencebase Anyway, since I found it, Mr Watson in 1974 top left. His Super8 film of wasp grubs coming out of a live Small White larva seems to have been lost.
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There is a striking difference between land- and ocean-based #CDR.
Ocean CDR ideas like adding #alkalinity or artificial upwelling imply unprecedented intervention into ocean commons, with unknown impacts on ecosystems. #Monitoring, not to mention regulating, would be practicably challenging, because ocean waters move.
Land carbon cycle is already managed by agriculture, urbanization etc. Land CDR would be a mean of already ongoing carbon rebalancing.
@sciencebase Trying to learn more about this. They are not very bloody simple, are they? I wish I'd done an O level in Biology - I have to look up every other word.
@sciencebase I gather that bees have simple eyes so that they know where the Sun is without having to gawp at it and that they are so good that it matters not if it's cloudy. Just as well, or we might not get any in the UK.
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We don’t get to hear a lot about marine heat waves and how they affect ecosystem function.
Right now, as tourists enjoy the bathing season, the Mediterranean Sea is on its way to reaching highest temperature ever recorded.
#marineheatwaves #climatechange
@sciencebase I think it was that I came across,thanks!
@sciencebase 'I'm so sure I saw it somewhere. It seemed unlikely to me but that's it lost forever I think.
@sciencebase I read something about a similar thing which has a eye with a lens, we well as compound ones. I can't recall it nor find it now. Does it ring any bells with you?
@sciencebase This came out well. I think it's a Southern Darter. Look at its eyes.
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Medics working in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem are being supplied with helmets and bulletproof vests after attacks on healthcare workers and ambulances by Israeli forces & settlers
Melanie Ward, Medical Aid for Palestinians, said: “We have taken this unprecedented step in response to an urgent call from Palestinian health workers for protection from the violence they face in the line of duty. No health worker should have to risk their life to save others.”
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Over 1 million European citizens demand an end to pesticides in the 'Save Bees and Farmers' initiative.15 more years of glyphosate destruction in the EU? the European Commission is already moving forward a proposal of renewal, without restrictions. Fifteen more years of destructing biodiversity and harming health, Please use this tool to write to members of the EU Parliament. STOP BAYER/MONSANTO LOBBYISTS!!! #teamplanet #glyphosat #bees #insects #biodiversity #Eu #roundup https://www.pan-europe.info/help-reduce-pesticides-now
@sciencebase You can hear them snoring if it is very quiet. Ease to mistake it for a bee in the next garden. ;-)
@sciencebase That's my reading for today.
The stuff I've found so far doesn't mention grubs emerging from catterpillars' bodies like in Weirdo Watson's film (for it was he). Dozens of them writhing their way out of the 'sides' of a never-to-be Small White.
Steel industry metallurgical specialist.
Joined Nov 2022
