David GaladíEnríquez 🐀 @DGaladi@red.niboe.info

Guess what % of plastics have ever been #recycled? No prizes :(

And guess who knew about it all the time?
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/feb/15/recycling-plastics-producers-report

La homeopatía entra en crisis en el país que la inventó: el Gobierno alemán ya no cree en su eficacia

El ministro de Sanidad alemán, Karl Lauterbach, va a sacar a la homeopatía de los productos que paga el sistema de seguridad social por no estar demostrado su poder medicinal

“La base de nuestra política debe ser la evidencia científica”, repite estos días Lauterbach. En virtud de ese argumento, “la homeopatía no tiene sentido como prestación de los seguros médicos”.

https://www.infolibre.es/ciencia/homeopatia-entra-crisis-pais-invento_1_1710693.html

The names of our weekdays have a long history.

The days were named after the sun, the moon and five Germanic gods.

This system had been adapted from Latin, where it was based on a Hellenistic Greek system, which in turn was based on a Babylonian system.

Here's the whole story:

#2893 - Sphere Tastiness

We made a comic about fun facts.

Exxon Mobil predicting ~1.2° C warming by 2023 in ... wait for it .... 1982!

Actual warming: 1.1°C

HT @tsrandall

Ancient Aliens

Los océanos han establecido un nuevo récord global histórico de temperatura de 21,1°C el 31 de enero de 2024
🗞️📷 https://www.tiempo.com/ram/oceanos-tierra-nuevo-record-global-historico-de-temperatura.html

Makes you think.
https://patreon.com/lowqualityfacts

"Here it will be shown that the mass of the conductive particles left behind from worldwide distribution of re-entry satellites is already billions of times greater than the mass of the Van Allen Belts."

https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.09329

#SpaceEnvironment #SpaceSustainability #Geomagnetic #Ionosphere #Earth

Very impressive images of the International Space Station taken from the ground with a 0.8 metre telescope and a fast off-the-shelf CMOS camera.

Credit: Damien Peach & E. Enzmann

https://www.damianpeach.com/iss/iss_2024_01_29rgbeedp.jpg

H/T https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10161917230360934&set=a.483374755933

Art by Evgeny Korneev. "On the Way." 1988.

Korolev shakes Gagarin's hand shortly before the historic spaceflight.

Orion under #Starlink attack!
Satellites pass just above the shield, but are miraculously* stopped before they hit Orion's head.

In the coming days, there are #CitizenScience efforts to quantify #LightPollution, by counting the number of visible stars in this constellation.
Belgium: https://www.armandpien.be/saving-private-orion
Netherlands: https://www.rug.nl/news/2024/01/nationale-meetactie-sterren-tellen

*: by Earth's shadow, that is.

Bellas personas, este sábado de 12 a 20 estaré en #LaTietera, una feria de microedición, humor y cosas, con mis cómics y los de @Ehtio, firmando lo que se deje. ¡Buscad la mesa de Té con cerveza (o seguid el sonido del Earl Grey infusionando)!

Don't know the author, but (s)he is right to the point.

Just a reminder that you don't need to wait for me to randomly post interesting accounts. I have a website which lists all the suggestions so far organised into categories:

➡️ https://fedi.directory

You can click on an account to view its profile, and copy/paste an account's address into the search box on Mastodon etc to follow it.

Tinc un rellotge que em diu les hores en un català prou correcte, no?

És un #banglejs2 i això és tot el que he pogut programar. A l'app encara fallen coses, però de moment amb això ja vaig bé. Si algú em vol ajudar a millorar-la, és benvingut!

Gràcies pel regal, @pancake i @Mabel

my god... sorting the numbers 0-99 in german makes a low discrepancy sequence. wtf.
Thanks for the link @andrewhelmer47
https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/1adux6w/the_numbers_099_sorted_alphabetically_in/