John Young @jsy1001@social.cleverlibre.org

This is genius Albert Einstein who refused to speak at white colleges and at the end of his life spoke exclusively at black universities.

He said: "The separation of races is not a disease of colored people but a disease of white people. I do not intend to be quiet about it."

#Einstein #Racism #Integrity #Equality
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@AriaaJaeger
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Ex-Amazon employees on the almost impressively cynical way Amazon smile started:

My wife Sarah firmly out on the picket line at the Christie Hospital in Manchester earlier today. 💪

She loves her work as a nurse so much, but she’s ruined after every 13+ hour shift being run ragged trying to care for more patients than is safe. With no breaks. Lucky if she gets to go to the toilet. It’s not on.

Oh and did anyone say, the pay is also pitiful. Small wonder they can’t recruit more nurses.

#RCNStrike #NurseStrikes #solidarity

Serenity.
Black and white photography emphasizes silence, loneliness, depth.
There is nothing superfluous here.
Just look at this photo.

Photographer: modopix
#photo #blackandwhitephoto #serenity #winter #photo #Sunday #loneliness

Finally on #arXiv: the UK #astronomy roadmap. Community consultation results collated by the #STFC Astronomy Advisory Panel. #Astrodon
https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.05457

Why worry about #BlueMonday – a pseudoscientific concept wrapped with b.s. "math" – when you can celebrate the much more uplifting World Croquette Day? (*)

Present in the cuisine of many countries, they're super popular in Spain. My favourite croquettes are the ham ones, and it's the dish I always order in a new restaurant to gauge how well they cook.

(*) look, I don't know how official this celebration is, but I'll take it over Blue Monday any day 😅 #cooking #food

📷 Juan Fernández

A recent exomoon detection method paper shows that by measuring the reflex motion of gas giant exoplanets you can detect exomoons orbiting them! Unfortunately the most promising exoplanet is Beta Pictoris b, which is not observable from Keck... but CRIRES+ and VLT can do it ;-) Ruffio+ (2023): "Detecting exomoons from radial velocity measurements of self-luminous planets: application to observations of HR 7672 B" https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.04206

Just #Wow. This #APOD long exposure #photography is revealing spiral #auroras over #Iceland. What else ?
Really #impressive #picture. I wish I took it.

#Astronomy

Spiral Aurora over Iceland
Image Credit & Copyright: Stefano Pellegrini

Read more: https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap230111.html

Stunning composite of 6 major meteor showers, 8 years in the making, by Petr Horálek.

#astrodon #astrophotography #astronomy #nightsky #space

So, just to avoid any confusion, when you run Windows 11, the product you are using is Windows 10. The Windows version is 2009 (which of course doesn't fall between versions 2008 and 2016, duh). So if you are using Windows Server 2022, the product is called 2022 but the version is 2009 because those two numbers seem like the same but they aren't.

The "Windows Current Version" for Windows 11 is 6.3. But don't use that number because Windows 8.1 and Windows 10 were also version 6.3. Windows 8 was 6.2.

Or if you want, just use build number 22621, also known as 22H2. The version 22H2 update is also called the "Windows 11 2022 update" because there never was a 22H1. But at least they changed their naming scheme and didn't call it Fall update because it was spring in half the world when it came out, heh.

Facts are facts.

If you’re at the right place at the right time, with the right equipment, this is possible.

Last night, with guidance from https://transit-finder.com/, I positioned myself along the narrow line where the International #SpaceStation would pass between me and the nearly full moon.

I used a Fujifilm X-T4 shooting 4K video through a Celestron 8” SCT to capture the pass. Then, back at the computer this morning, put together these views with PIPP, Registax, and GIMP.

Quite pleased. My best yet.

Australians may be known for a laconic, easygoing, laidback attitude; but then we also have Australian Standard AS/NZS 2007.1-2005, which prescribes how we should stack our dishwashers

$ curl duck

“‘Disruptive’ science has declined — and no one knows why.”

LOL. I know why. Academia increasingly values publications/productivity…or at least that’s the stuff that gets you a job. Oh, and money. You don’t need to change the world…

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-04577-5

#Space #PacMan

This #APOD #picture is revealing the lucky alignement (as seen from the #Earth) of a background #galaxy with a foreground #star forming region (here a #globule) mimicking a famous character from old-times video games.

Maybe it's time to play Pac-Man again ?

#Astronomy #photography

CG4: The Globule and the Galaxy
Image Credit & Copyright: Mike Selby & Mark Hanson

Read more: https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap230104.html

When we present #scientific discoveries to the public, we always highlight the scientific team leading the results. However, we often forget that, astronomical discoveries would not be possible without the tremendous work of brillant #technicians and #engineers building and maintaining complex instrumentations.

The #ESO #picture of this week focus on the 8.2m #VLT and its associated instrumentation.

#Astronomy #Space #Science

Credit:
Zdeněk Bardon/ESO

read more: https://www.eso.org/public/images/potw2301a/