Tom Hannen

'clue-dough' and definitely never just 'clue' (see also 'pants')

Lucky I'm not a vet

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Antscan’s 3D Atlas Reveals Ant Anatomy Like Never Before How does a particle accelerator help us understand ants like never before?

What happens when you combine a particle accelerator with ant anatomy? Antscan reveals the unseen world of these tiny engineers.

Photo of an excellent Oxfam bookshop with curly wurly pink sign writing reading “Spring is the time of plans and projects”

Honestly thought it said “Spying is the time of plans and projects” which in some ways it is

Shareable link - first 300 views are free

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NHS official pushed to add patient data to Palantir platform while also advising company Matthew Swindells has been joint chair of four major hospital trusts in north west London since April 2022

This is really dirty. Palantir, Mandelson, Global Counsel. NHS. www.ft.com/content/6c54... NHS official pushed to add patient data to Palantir platform while also advising company

I was on IRC before I was on the web. Bringing ATproto to IRC is amazing.

The Theremini is the ultimate gateway drug! But it’s a bit of a nightmare to play. OpenTheremin v4 and Etherwave are much easier to get an unwavering note out of

Lol, just heard from a German friend who is calling the backup in the Straight of Hormuz right now the "fossil fuel dunkelflaute."

Niche humor.

This was all over Reddit number stations channels yesterday - new Farsi number station transmission theiceman.substack.com/p/a-new-spy-...

Space Oddity: the weird history of the Soviet ANS synthesizer The sound of Tarkovsky's Solaris, The Mirror and Stalker was generated by a strange machine that created sounds with drawings.

"Never in all of your reading, all of your listening, all of your Wikiholes and long benders on the YouTube algorithm will you come across a machine more mysterious than the Soviet-engineered ANS synthesizer."

Space Oddity — the weird history of the Soviet ANS synthesizer:

Exocast-80 b: Are giant planets friends or foes? With Dr Jonti Horner We sat around our virtual studio to chat with Queensland-based astronomer Jonti Horner, who works on planetary dynamics – both within our own solar system, and around others. As well as disco…

This is from The @exocast.bsky.social podcast episode 80b. Highly recommended

www.exocast.org/exocast-80b/

A fat groom at a wedding dance in the dark the bride has a light on her head…

The best analogy for measuring radial velocity to discover exoplanets you will ever hear

overcast.fm/+ABVwX3FPKHw...

My only interaction with Teams is via two secondary school children and let me tell you a) Teams is a catastrophe and b) “don’t ask again” is a LIE

Operation To The Moon What Iran means for British energy policy

What does the US attack on Iran mean for British energy policy? Do we finally have chaos with Ed Miliband? What happens if Trump turns off the taps? READ ON...

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Completely unable to read news like this without hearing it in the voice of @qntm.org describing Miguel Álvarez Acevedo

Fare dodgers targeted as train ticket refund rules are tightened In a bid to clamp down on ticket fraud that costs the railways millions each year, the government has quietly changed the rules on claiming refunds for unused train tickets.

DON'T BUY TRAIN TICKETS IN ADVANCE!
On 1 April, the government is quietly changing the rules.
Off-Peak & Anytime tickets become non-refundable after 23:59 the day BEFORE you travel.
If you wake up & find your event cancelled, NO REFUNDS, even on £100+ tickets.
www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/far...

I'd love to know how much perception of flicker varies in humans (as someone who can't watch DLP projectors and is driven mad by flickering LEDs on many things) theconversation.com/animals-perc...

Animals’ perception of time is linked to the pace of their life – new study For a starfish, most of life is literally a blur.

theconversation.com/animals-perc...

This is cool, it's possible to study an animal's perception of time by electroretinagrams, seeing how fast a flicker needs to be before they no longer see it as flickering.

I think about this Tony Benn speech much more than I used to

Lost 19th century film by Méliès discovered at the Library | Timeless Library conservators recently made a startling discovery in a batch of decaying film reels -- a long-lost 1897 film by early cinema icon George Méliès. The French magician-turned-filmmaker's

"The 45-second film, made around 1897, was the first appearance on film of what might be called a robot"

HELL. YES.

The Trump family’s media group is weighing plans to spin off the Truth Social social media platform that is extensively used by Donald Trump, as it seeks to reposition itself as a major player in nuclear energy.

You can have no idea where this sentence is going as.ft.com/r/4860d9c4-7...

Spectacular interview with Karl Turner on BBCR4. Unusual to hear a Labour MP so unscripted. 07:12 on BBC sounds

interesting picture selection in today's Times

It's so bizarre to wake up on the morning of an important (by) election, and look at the BBC: Farming Today on R4, someone on BBC News from Delhi simulcast with World, BBC1 twinned with News, 5Live telling us something about customers in Manchester. We're left with a single QR code

Greens’ victory in Labour stronghold is first ever in Westminster byelection and establishes party as credible anti-Reform alternative.

Will deepen Labour MPs concern that party is haemorrhaging voters on left to thwart rise of Reform & prompt further scrutiny of PM’s decision to block Andy Burnham

How Did Hendrix Turn His Guitar Into a Wave Synthesizer? How did Jimi Hendrix turn his guitar into a wave synthesizer? Dive into the engineering behind his iconic sound.

Jimi Hendrix as systems engineer:

spectrum.ieee.org/jimi-hendrix...

Evans apologized and said it was the kind of “genuine mistake that we can all make from time to time.”

Reform said it investigated, “considers it an honest mistake and will not be taking any action,” having accepted his version of events.

Shutter Story is a horror game where ghosts suddenly start appearing in a family's photographs.

You analyze and categorize these photos using a fictional software with an early 2000s frutiger-aero aesthetic. 🫧

Live now on Kickstarter!

#screenshotsaturday