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Mini-satellite paves the way for quantum messaging anywhere on Earth
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-00581-7

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Is dark energy getting weaker? Fresh data bolster shock finding
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-00837-2

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Light pollution threatens fleet of world-class telescopes in Atacama Desert
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-00397-5

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Earth's oldest-known crater discovered in outback WA is 3.47 billion years old, study finds
https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2025-03-06/oldest-known-crater-pilbara-geology-3-47-billion-years-old/105019606

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Iguanas likely crossed the Pacific millions of years ago on a record-setting rafting trip
https://apnews.com/article/iguana-fiji-raft-float-journey-travel-9732d828c28a8374a6873fbc1b3d4af2

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Primordial surf: ‘microlightning’ in mist may have sparked life on Earth, study finds
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/mar/14/microlightning-strikes-sparked-life-on-earth-evolution-science

Keep, Measure, and Curate

If you’re not curating the wisdom, knowledge, information, and data sources, things will get sticky, messy, and ugly.

http://inaniludibrio.com/2025/03/18/keep-measure-and-curate/

A quotation from Jefferson [wist.info]

Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body & mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day. altho’ I do not, with some enthusiasts, believe that the human condition will ever advance to such a state of perfection as that there shall no longer be pain or vice in the world, yet I believe it susceptible of much improvement, and, most of all, in matters of government and religion; and that the diffusion of knolege among the people is to be the instrument by which it is to be effected.

Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) American political philosopher, polymath, statesman, US President (1801-09)
Letter (1816-04-24) to Pierre Samuel du Pont de Nemours

Sourcing, notes: wist.info/jefferson-thomas/757…

"The #internet is a living, breathing space - constantly growing, changing, and, unfortunately, disappearing. Important #articles get taken down. #Research papers become inaccessible. Historical records vanish. When content disappears, we lose pieces of our shared #knowledge. That’s where the Wayback Machine comes in. With the Wayback Machine’s Save Page Now tool, you have the power to help preserve the web in real time."

https://blog.archive.org/2025/03/13/want-to-help-preserve-the-web-save-page-now/

A quotation from William Feather [wist.info]

An education isn’t how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It’s being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don’t. It’s knowing where to go to find out what you need to know, and it’s knowing how to use the information once you get it.

William Feather (1889-1981) American publisher, author
(Attributed)

Sourcing, notes: wist.info/feather-william/1479…

John Locke argued all knowledge is derived from sensory experience. He believed the mind at birth is a tabula rasa (blank slate.)

"I think I may say that of all the men we meet with, nine parts of ten are what they are, good or evil, useful or not, by their education."

~ Locke

#knowledge #philosophy #education @edutooters

To all those warning of a coup in the US, it’s too late! What needs to be discussed is how to take back our government. And I don’t mean going back to the status quo of the pre trump era of politics. That is what got us here.

Just a few ideas to start the discussion.
1. Reign in the oligarchy.
2. Implement and enforce anti monopoly policies. Block the merger and acquisitions that lead to consolidation of industries.
3. Revise the tax code. End corporate loopholes, investor class loopholes and special interest groups loopholes including religious organizations.
4. Institute data privacy protections
5. Change the way the judicial branch operates. End life time appointments and change how judges are appointed.
6. Change the licensing process for media companies including so called social media.
7. Confront the distortions in society have created a permanent segregated society for large sections of society.
8. Confront the epidemic of poverty and homelessness nationwide.
9. Institutes a universal healthcare system. Take health care out of the hands of employers.
10. Institute a policy of research and development on a national scale. The US will not be able to compete, let alone win global competition with a population of ignorant religious fanatics. Expertise is what we should strive for.

Dear Fedi: please help me to help you. With all the clusterf*cks and fascist coup happening in the US: what data is important to preserve and keep spreading?

Already have been seeding the CDC dataset and Wikipedia dumps into oblivion (couple of hundreds of TBs of traffic) - but I'd like to do more.

If you know important projects that need this kind of help - preferably less than a TB in size - please share!

(boosts appreciated for visibility)

#knowledge : clear perception of fact, truth, or duty

- French: connaissance

- German: das Wissen

- Italian: conoscenza

- Portuguese: sabedoria

- Spanish: conocimiento

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A man was destined for early Alzheimer’s — these genes might explain his escape
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-00398-4