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Born in 1914, Hedy Lamarr was a famous American actress who pioneered the technology that would lead to WiFi, GPS, cell phones & Bluetooth communication.

Lamarr was brilliant. Among many fascinating inventions, she developed a new communication system with composer George Antheil that used “frequency hopping” among radio waves.

Once called the “most beautiful woman in the world," Lamarr is now remembered as "the mother of Wi-Fi."

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/thank-world-war-ii-era-film-star-your-wi-fi-180971584/ #science #history #HistoryRemix

Jutro premierę ma #AtomicHeart - gra, którą tworzy studio wspierane przez władze rosyjskie, ma premierę blisko rocznicy ataku Rosji na Ukranię.

Jeśli wspierasz to studio, grając w ten tytuł, z GP albo wersję piracką: wspierasz wojnę, której nikt nie chce.

I nie, bycie apolitycznym nie zwalnia Cię z myślenia, grając w to jesteś po stronie Rosji - proste.

My first seedlings of 2023 are just popping this morning. Whether you have a yard or a windowsill, I can't recommend enough putting seeds in soil, adding water, and waiting. I don't have a lot of answers to any of the big questions and crises of the world, but this is the most simple, hopeful thing I know how to do. It helps.

#gardening #SeedStarting #SpringIsComing

Went around the house investigating hot spots with a FLIR thermal camera attachment on my phone. Weird shapes everywhere.

Obligatory cat picture.

#Thermal #FLIR #Cats #CatsOfMastodon

Moose!! We saw two healthy moose in downtown Anchorage, #Alaska this morning munching away on tree limbs.
#AlaskaWildlife #Moosetodon

Can you help support the National Museum of Computing?

They're raising money to fix the roof of one of their historic buildings, that houses some of their collection.

The museum is the home of such important historic computers as Colossus, the Enigma Bombe, and the Witch, plus a load of others.

Plus, they do a lot for the local community, including hosting and supporting lots of STEM groups and events.

Please donate if you can: https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/protect-the-origins-of-digital-computing---tnmoc-1

Today is the Day of Remembrance for the Japanese American community. 81 years ago today, when I was just a boy of four, FDR signed Executive Order 9066, setting in motion the evacuation of people of Japanese descent from the West Coast and our long years of internment inside ten barbed wire prison camps.

We must never let such a thing happen again in America, and and we must strive everywhere to prevent the forced relocation and mass incarceration of innocent people. #NeverForget #NeverAgain

The dead pine tree makes for a nice place to hang out ;-)

“On October 24 1975, the woman of Iceland went on strike for equal rights.

90% of women walked off their jobs and out of their homes, shutting down the country.
The men could barely cope.

The next year parliament passed a law guaranteeing equal pay. Five years later, Iceland, elected the worlds, first woman, president.

Now, Iceland has the highest gender equality in the world .

#landscape #landscapephotography #wetlands #photography

I have been revisiting the junk foods of my youth, and my impression is that the Little Debbie Oatmeal Crème Pie is definitely smaller (or is it just that I am bigger?) and a little more cloying in its sweetness. I also seem to remember the 90s version being darker in color as well. Is there a site where people are tracking these important cultural updates?

My brother in JFC...automated AI medical advice (via systems that are almost certainly collecting/creating invasive health surveillance data on behalf of insurers/employers) is still not helpful (even if it were accurate, which it's not) to people who can't afford to follow it

#silentsunday an der #Elbe im #Gegenlicht

I love that "sabotage" comes from when discontented peasants pitched their sabots (wooden shoes) into factory looms to protest against the appalling working conditions in the early Industrial Revolution.
It's time for some more clog-tossing.

Fun fact:
Some species of turtles* during their brumation (equivalent to hibernation in mammals) at the bottom of ponds/lakes switch to anaerobic respiration!

Which means that they use glucose without requiring oxygen. A big downside of this type of reapiration is a huge buildup of lactic acid in blood. It could make blood very acidic (and probably kill a turtle) if they didn't have shells. Why?

Well, shell acts by releasing magnesium carbonate and calcium carbonate to blood to neutralize lactic acid, thus blood pH!

Alsoo the same species make their heart beat only once in 5-10 minutes during brumation. Cool, they really mastered limiting metabolism.

Fun fact in fun fact: if oxygen level in water is enough high, turtles can "breathe through their butts". Also known as cloacal respiration. Some species also use this breathing method while swimming, which gives them around of 50% needed oxygen while doing that.

*only snapping #turtles and painted turtles I think

#biology

I just read on polish wikipedia that painted turtles are resistant to winter temperature drops - they can survive even when more than 50% of extracellular water in its body freezes. Ultra cool also