Lego announces Smart Brick, the ‘most significant evolution’ in 50 years
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Lego announces Smart Brick, the ‘most significant evolution’ in 50 years
All stations cracked the top 10, a few records were broken. https://x.com/NWSBayArea/status/2007698905161707654
Update: very active weather week to come in CA! First, a persistent and very warm atmospheric river will remain draped over NorCal, continuing to generate rain--and snow levels in the Sierra will rise yet further, above 8k-9k feet. SoCal stays warm/dry through Tue. [Thread] #CAwx
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Sometimes, a simple "Pull" sign on a door is not enough! 🤣 (Seen on the door of www.amarathaicuisine.com in #Woodland #California )
"Why singing is surprisingly good for your health" via BBC Future 🌍😊🌏🤩🌎 www.bbc.co.uk/future/artic... -- #Singing
The bench in question.... 😊
"Call Your Mother" exhorts this park bench in the hummingbird grove at UC Davis 😊 "Nurture Life, Trust Your Gut, Stay Fierce, Call Your Mother" -- "In loving memory, Carolee Gish Ferguson, 1937-2015" 🌹 #UCDavis #ParkBench
Oddball USB flash drives: one with a bottle-opener, another with a wrench -- because, why not?!? 🤣 #USBFlashDrives
"Crispr Kreme - DNA Edits" 😂🤣😂 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CRISPR_... --- #CRISPR #GeneEditing #DNAediting #GeneticEngineering
Airports are in chaos as the holiday travel season approaches—and the railroad is looking pretty good by comparison, @kait.bsky.social writes.
In future, flexibly operated heat pumps and electric cars could reduce both electricity imports and electricity prices. That is according to a new study by a Swiss research consortium led by ETH Zurich. ethz.ch/en/news-and-...
"A Woman's Instructional Guide for Men" 😂🤣😂 #MaryMcHugh
🤣😂🤣 --- www.speedbump.com --- #SpeedBump #DaveCoverly #LeafBlowers
"Living on earth may be expensive, but it includes an annual free trip around the Sun." - Ashleigh Brilliant, 🤓 www.AshleighBrilliant.com , #PotShots #BrilliantThoughts #AshleighBrilliant
Over the last months, we’ve entirely rebuilt search on Our World in Data — we just launched it:
ourworldindata.org/introducing-...
Let me know what you think. Does it work for you?
I dropped off my ballot today at the "Food 4 Less" in #Woodland #California -- "Food 4 Less, Vote 4 Free" 🤣 (& "Vote 4 Freedom"!) Let's hope that Wisdom, Compassion, & Justice will one day prevail in this complex (& often bewildering) nation & world of ours.... 🌎🌞🌍🌈🌏 #Vote
One nice thing about working at a National Laboratory is that you are in the midst of the most advanced, cutting-edge technology.... 🤣 #EarthquakeDetectionTechnology
Auspicious Día de los Muertos to all! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Day_of_... - #DíaDeMuertos #DayOfTheDead
Better living through chemistry! 🤣
"Our inability to understand the exponential function is our biggest weakness" So says Prof. Albert Bartlett in this thoughtful video. www.youtube.com/watch?v=1bvw... (I actually think we have bigger weaknesses than this, but we can give the good professor some room for hyperbole here...) 🌎🤓🌍😊🌏
Sitting thru another meeting... 😂🤣😂 (Image courtesy of Emily Steiner ( www.facebook.com/emily.steine... ), Medievalist Extraordinaire! 🤩 )
For good, ill, neutral, or mixed, "Big Tech Makes Cal State Its A.I. Training Ground: Spurred by titans like Amazon and OpenAI, California State wants to become the nation’s 'largest A.I.-empowered' university..." 🤓 NY Times unlocked article: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/26/t... #AIinEducation #CalState
May blessings be with Green eyes 🥰
"University of California sets world record for Nobel Prizes in a single year" www.universityofcalifornia.edu/press-room/u... 🌎🤩🌍🤓🌏 CC #UnveristyOfCalifornia #UCBerkeley #UCLA #UCSantaBarbara #UCSanDiego - @berkeleylab.lbl.gov - @molecularfoundry.lbl.gov - @als.lbl.gov - #NobelPrize #NobelPrize2025
🎶 She's a Smoothie Operator🎵Smoooothie Operatorrrr 🎶 😂🤣😂 (Seen in #Davis #California 😊 ) -- #Sade #SmoothOperator #Operators #Smoothies #DavisCA
I came across this photo of my Dad, from a news clipping in the 1970s (I believe). He was a tough ol' Marine, most at home in the wilderness. Though life with Dad was complicated, I've always be thankful he was my father. Semper Fi, Dad! I'll never be able to thank you enough....
I asked Google Gemini (AI) two questions: "In what year did more than 50% of americans have internet service?" & "In what year did more than 50% of americans own a personal computer?" (An AI-response is only as good as the resources on which it is based! Easy to forget ....) #InternetHistory
From 1954: "How to dial your phone by Bell System" www.youtube.com/watch?v=PuYP... 🤓 #TechNostalgia #BlastFromThePast #TelephoneHistory #Telephony #The50s
