July 12, 2023
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Together, dark matter and dark energy comprise 95% of the known universe, yet scientists don’t know what they are. The Euclid telescope, set to launch to space from Florida on Saturday, may help decipher them.
Here’s what you need to know about the world’s newest space telescope.
What is Euclid?
Euclid is a space telescope that will observe the universe at infrared wavelengths. Its primary goal is to map the geometry of the dark universe—hence its name, for the Greek astronomer who dreamt up the foundations of modern geometry in the 3rd century BCE.
Euclid’s wavelength range is 1.1 to 2 microns, firmly in the near-infrared realm. As a relevant aside, the Webb Space telescope also images at near-infrared wavelengths, but is looking for very different things.
The spacecraft has two scientific instruments: a visible light camera (or VIS) and its near-infrared camera and spectrometer (NISP). Its image quality will be at least four times sharper than ground-based surveys of the sky, according to a European Space Agency release.
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An artist’s impression of the Euclid spacecraft. Illustration: ESA/C. Carreau
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July 12, 2023
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To write with a broken pencil is pointless.
When fish are in schools, they sometimes take debate.
A thief who stole a calendar got twelve months.
When the smog lifts in Los Angeles, U.C.L.A.
The professor discovered that her theory of earthquakes was on shaky ground.
The batteries were given out free of charge.
A dentist and a manicurist married. They fought tooth and nail.
A will is a dead giveaway.
If you don’t pay your exorcist, you can get repossessed.
With her marriage, she got a new name and a dress.
Show me a piano falling down a mineshaft, and I’ll show you A-flat miner.
You are stuck with your debt if you can’t budge it.
Local Area Network in Australia: The LAN down under.
A boiled egg is hard to beat.
When you’ve seen one shopping center, you’ve seen a mall.
Police were called to a daycare where a three-year-old was resisting a rest.
Did you hear about the fellow whose whole left side was cut off? He’s all right now.
If you take a laptop computer for a run, you can jog your memory.
A bicycle can’t stand alone; it is too tired.
In a democracy it’s your vote that counts; in feudalism, it’s your Count that votes.
When a clock is hungry, it goes back four seconds.
The guy who fell onto an upholstery machine was fully recovered.
Those who get too big for their britches will be exposed in the end.
When she saw her first strands of gray hair, she thought she’d dye.
Acupuncture: a jab well done.
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July 12, 2023
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Four guys sitting around having drinks and one of the men had to use the restroom. The three others talked about their kids. The first guy said, “My son is my pride and joy, he started working at a company at the bottom. He studied business and began to climb the corporate ladder, became president of the company. He’s so rich, he gave his best friend a top-of-the-line Mercedes for Christmas.” The second guy said, “damn, that’s terrific! My son is also the pride-and-joy. He started working for a big airline and went to flight school to become a pilot. He became a partner, where he owns the majority of its assets. He is so rich that he gave his best friend a brand-new jet as a Christmas gift.” The third man said “Well that’s terrific1! My son studied in the best universities and became an engineer, started his own construction company, and is now a multimillionaire. He also gave an expensive Christmas gift to his best friend, a 30,000-square-foot mansion!” The three guys congratulated each other, just as the fourth guy returned from the restroom and asked, “What are all the congratulations for?” One of the three guys said, “We’re talking about the pride we feel for the successes of our sons…” What about your son?” they asked the fourth guy. The fourth man replied. “My son is gay and makes a living dancing as a stripper at a nightclub.” The three friends said, “That’s a shame… what a disappointment.” The fourth man replied. “Nah, I’m not ashamed, he’s my son, and I love him…and he hasn’t done too badly either. Just this Christmas alone, he received a beautiful 30,000-square-foot mansion, a brand-new jet, and a top-of-the-line Mercedes from his three boyfriends.
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July 12, 2023
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A man and woman were having a quiet, romantic dinner in a fine restaurant. They were gazing lovingly at each other and holding hands.
Their waitress, taking another order at a table a few steps away, suddenly noticed the man slowly sliding down his chair and under the table, but the woman acted unconcerned.
The waitress watched as the man slid all the way down his chair and out of sight under the table.
Still, the woman appeared calm and unruffled, apparently unaware her dining companion had disappeared.
The waitress went over to the table and said to the woman, “Pardon me, ma’am, but I think your husband just slid under the table.”
The woman calmly looked up at her and said, “No, he didn’t. He just walked in the door.”
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July 12, 2023
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A pig’s orgasm lasts 30 minutes. (WTF?!?!) A cockroach will live nine days without its head before it starves to death. (Weird, but I’m still not over the pig.) The male praying mantis cannot copulate while its head is attached to its body. The female initiates sex by ripping the male’s head off. (Honey, I’m Home… what the…?) The flea can jimp 350 times its body length. It’s like a human jumping the length of a football field. The catfish has over 27,000 taste buds. (What could be so tasty on the bottom of a pond?) Some lions mate over 50 times a day. (I still can’t believe that pig…quality over quantity.) Butterflies taste with their feet. Something I’ve always wanted to know. Elephants are the only animals that cannot jump. (Okay, so that would be a good thing.) A cat’s urine glows under a black light. (IL wonder how much the government paid to figure that out.) An Ostrich’s eye is bigger than its brain. (I know some people like that.) Starfish have no brains. (I know some people like that, too.) Polar bears are left handed. (Talk about a southpaw.) Humans and dolphins are the only species that have sex for pleasure. (What about that pig? Do the dolphins know about the pig?) LMAO. Now that you’ve smiled at least once: Have a great day!
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July 11, 2023
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In the forests of British Columbia, where recent wildfires have sent smoke across borders and dimmed blue summer skies, a series of studies from the past 30 years contends that large, old trees send resources and messages to the seedlings around them. The “mothering” could, hypothetically, help burned landscapes recover faster, boost the amount of carbon dioxide stores in soil, and improve the resiliency of natural systems overall.
The idea seems to borrow from bedtime tales about ancient trees and the enchanted forests they foster; to validate beliefs about all types of creatures nourish their young; to vouch for the inherent goodness of nature, where collaboration triumphs over competition.
But two papers have recently called into question the evidence supporting the “mother tree” explanation. Do these veterans of the forest act as guardians for newer generations, protecting them from drought, disease, and deforestation? Or is their relationship much more complicated?
What is a ‘mother tree’?
The term “mother tree” was coined in the 2000s by a Canadian scientist named Suzanne Simard, who grew up in a family of loggers in the Monashee Mountains in British Columbia. The old-growth forests on the range sustained a booming timber industry for more than a century.
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A couple tries to wrap their arms around a massive 800-year-old Douglas fir in British Columbia, Canada. Matthew Bailey/VWPics/Universal Images Group via Getty Images
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July 11, 2023
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Nearly 50 million Americans are set to face triple-digit temperature this week amid a sprawling dome of heat that will engulf most of the southern United States. Heat advisories are in effect in Florida, Texas, and New Mexico, while excessive heat watches and warnings blanket much of Arizona, Southern California, and Nevada.
In addition to its magnitude, which will be dangerous for some, the heat will be notable for its longevity. Phoenix, for example, on Monday logged its 11th day in a row at or above 110 degrees, and the forecast calls for highs in the 111-to-117-degree range until further notice. That could catapult the heat-prone city into its longest-ever streak above that level.
The heat will be dry yet punishing in the Southeast, while the south-central U.S. and southern Plains will contend with humidity drawn in from the Gulf of Mexico. That will overlap with the hot temperatures to push heat indexes — measures of how hot it feels, taking into account temperature and humidity — into hazardous territory.
What’s happening right now?
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A heat dome — or a ridge of high pressure bringing hot, dry, sinking air — is growing in size over New Mexico. In the coming days, it will reach from California and Mexico’s Baja Peninsula to the Deep South. That will force the jet stream, and any cooler or inclement weather, across Canada or the northern United States. Across the southern and central states, temperatures will bake.
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That heat dome will intensify into the weekend, with temperatures increasing each day.
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Jessie Fuentes walks along the Rio Grande under a warm sun on Thursday, July 6, 2023. Heat records are expected into the week ahead. (Eric Gay/AP)
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July 10, 2023
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On Oct. 15, 1991, Clarence Thomas secured his seat on the Supreme Court, a narrow victory after a bruising confirmation fight that left him isolated and disillusioned.
Within months, the new justice enjoyed a far-warmer acceptance to a second exclusive club: the Horatio Alger Association of Distinguished Americans, named for the Gilded Age author whose rags-to-riches novels represented an aspirational version of Justice Thomas’s own bootstraps origin story.
If Justice Thomas’s life had unfolded as he had envisioned, his Horatio Alger induction might have been a celebration of his triumphs as a prosperous lawyer instead of a judge. But as he tells it, after graduating from Yale Law School, he was turned down by a series of top law firms, rejections he attributes to a perception that he was a token beneficiary of affirmative action. So began his grudging path to a judicial career that brought him great prestige but only modest material wealth after decades of financial struggle.
When he joined the Horatio Alger Association, Justice Thomas entered a world whose defining ethos of meritocratic success — that anyone can achieve the American dream with hard work, pluck, and a little luck — was the embodiment of his own life philosophy, and a foundation of his jurisprudence. As he argued from the bench in his concurrence to the recent decision striking down affirmative action, the court should be “focusing on individuals as individuals,” rather than on the view that Americans are “all inexorably trapped in a fundamentally racist society.”
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From left, Joseph Neubauer, Justice Clarence Thomas, Paul Anthony Novelly, and David Sokol at the Horatio Alger awards in 2010, where the justice was honored.
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July 10, 2023
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President Biden said in an interview that aired on Sunday that Ukraine was not ready for membership in NATO and that it was “premature” to begin the process to allow Ukraine to join the alliance in the middle of a war.
In an interview with CNN’s Fareed Zakaria, Mr. Biden said that he did not “think there is unanimity in NATO about whether or not to bring Ukraine into the NATO family now,” and that the process could take place only after a peace agreement with Russia was in place.
“If the war is going on, then we’re all in war,” Mr. Biden said, referring to the alliance’s commitment to mutual defense. “We’re at war with Russia, if that were the case.” He added that there would be “other qualifications that need to be met, including democratization,” for Ukraine to be considered for membership.
The president began a trip to Europe on Sunday that will include attending a NATO summit in Lithuania, where Russia’s war in Ukraine — and a decision last week by the United States to supply Kyiv with weapons that are banned by most of its allies — will be a main focus.
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President Biden said that Ukraine would have to meet other qualifications, “including democratization.” Credit…Doug Mills/The New York Times
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July 9, 2023
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If the latest flurry of news around two dueling plans to fix New York’s Pennsylvania Station has left you scratching your head, you’re not alone. Various officials I have spoken with are also fuzzy on details.
The only thing everyone seems to know for certain is that nothing meaningful ever really happens to improve North America’s busiest and most miserable train hub, despite decades of demands and promises. Hope has long gone to die on the 6:50 to Secaucus.
But now may actually be different.
Why?
For starters, because a highly detailed and, at the moment, clearly superior but unofficial proposal has suddenly emerged to challenge the one that the Metropolitan Transportation Authority has been slowly pulling together. At the very least, the new proposal, from a private infrastructure developer called ASTM North America, may be the disruption needed to get Albany moving.
Outlined for public officials and widely reported last week, ASTM’s six-year, $6 billion plan would reconfigure the cramped, confounding station, which is owned by Amtrak, into a single concourse with high ceilings and a grid of wide corridors that lets daylight, dignity and circulatory logic replace the rat’s maze beneath Madison Square Garden. On the outside of the station, a new, porous stone facade with landscaped terraces and rows of columns would restore a measure of the architectural sensibility and civic symbolism that New York squandered in the 1960s when McKim, Mead & White’s original Penn Station was torn down.
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A rendering by a private developer called ASTM of what a new stone facade of Penn Station would look like from 33rd Street and Eighth Avenue, with the drum of Madison Square Garden also clad in light stone. Credit…via ASTM, PAU, and HOK
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