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New idea for a conlang? Euphony maxxing
Most conlangs give some thought to euphony, but what if that was the only thing you cared about?? That's the core thought of this post. ... read full post
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Getting started with Heltec v3
I just got these Heltec v3 sets for 29€ and plan to give one to a friend and keep the other for myself. ... read full post
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Why Texas Is Redesigning Its Worst Freeway
https://youtu.be/I0qOTBeLxQU-3
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Scientists Discovered the Human Brain Goes On Its Own Life-Long ‘Eras Tour’
https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/health/a69560492/scientists-discovered-the-human-brain-goes-on-its-own-life-long-eras-tour/60
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Why we have two nostrils instead of one big hole
https://www.popsci.com/science/why-we-have-nostrils/38
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New discovery of gold-decorated iron lances sacrificed at a sacred spring 2800 years ago
https://vestmuseum.dk/en/nyt-fund-af-gulddekorerede-jernlanser-ofret-ved-hellig-kilde-for-2800-aar-siden/19
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Meshtbank | A tiny off-grid payment node for Meshtastic, running a lightweight ledger for balances and transfers on low-power hardware.
https://hackaday.io/project/204555-meshtbankWith no guarantee that this project would ever be useful or even meaningful, I decided to develop a node called Meshtbank. ... read full post
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The Autocrats’ War on Universities - Why the far-right always targets academia and what academics can do about it
https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/autocrats-war-on-universities-no-accident-requires-strategic-resistance-by-jan-werner-mueller-2025-12A very important article. Everyone should read it.
The author is a respected scholar. Jan-Werner Mueller is probably the world's best expert on populism.
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Sometimes two elements don't go together
I just dodged a bullet – ... read full post
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60,000 African penguins starved to death after sardine numbers collapsed – study
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/dec/05/african-penguins-starve-to-death-south-africa-sardine-population-aoe19
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Flower [OC]
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Do We Change Personalities in Different Languages? | What Neuroscience Says
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=476pN21R61I41
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NASA completes Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope construction
https://phys.org/news/2025-12-nasa-nancy-grace-roman-space.htmlNASA's next big eye on the cosmos is now fully assembled. On Nov. 25, technicians joined the inner and outer portions of the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope in the largest clean room at the agency's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. ... read full post
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A new look at TRAPPIST-1e, an Earth-sized, habitable-zone exoplanet
https://phys.org/news/2025-12-trappist-1e-earth-sized-habitable.htmlOf the seven Earth-sized worlds orbiting the red dwarf star TRAPPIST-1, one planet in particular has attracted the attention of scientists. This planet orbits the star within the "Goldilocks zone"—a distance where water on its surface is theoretically possible, but only if the planet has an atmosphere. And where there is water, there might be life. ... read full post
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Soup
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Black holes may be hiding something that changes everything
https://aeon.co/essays/black-holes-may-be-hiding-something-that-changes-everything8
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How Recycling Is Done Matters—Lessons Learned from the Lead-Acid Battery
https://blog.ucs.org/jessica-dunn/how-recycling-is-done-matters-lessons-learned-from-the-lead-acid-battery/The atrocities of unregulated lead-acid battery recycling across Africa were recently investigated in a New York Times article. This account brought due attention to a pollution problem that has also resulted in a public health disaster here in the United States. Steps should be taken to clean up this industry, and lessons from this failure can help ensure better outcomes in other essential efforts, such as lithium-ion battery recycling. ... read full post
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Decades-old palm trees in Rio de Janeiro flower for the first — and only — time
https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2025/12/decades-old-palm-trees-in-rio-de-janeiro-flower-for-the-first-and-only-time/Towering talipot palms in a Rio de Janeiro park are flowering for the first and only time in their lives, decades after famed Brazilian landscape architect Roberto Burle Marx introduced them in the 1960s. ... read full post
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Wildfire burns climate-vulnerable Joshua trees in US national park
https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2025/12/wildfire-burns-climate-vulnerable-joshua-trees-in-us-national-park/A wildfire in California’s Joshua Tree National Park burned through some 29 hectares (72 acres) of land during the recent federal government shutdown in October and November. That’s a small fire by California standards, but firefighters estimate it scorched roughly 1,000 of the park’s iconic Joshua trees, according to The Los Angeles Times.
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Not sure if this is a science meme but politicalmemes hated it so I'll try here
https://media.piefed.social/posts/G4/S0/G4S09X9wNxnaHkJ.png
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Earth Just Got Slammed By a Surprise Solar Flare. Why Didn’t Scientists See It Coming?
https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/environment/a69520328/surprise-coronal-mass-ejection/3
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EU climate chief criticises China, India and Saudi pushback on carbon tax
https://www.ft.com/content/5675563c-b1d5-47b5-858b-69653248e852cross-posted from: https://mander.xyz/post/43026095 ... read full post
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I am such a good boi
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Just a reminder to use you phone wisely
cross-posted from: https://reddthat.com/post/55465882
Shut up science!!
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Cryonics community on Lemmy
I invite you to !cryonics@lemmy.world - the community for the "plan B", especially for those who themselves, or their close ones, will not make it to the LEV, Longevity Escape Velocity.