#informative reblogs

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This is really good, please watch it.

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Just saw this on Twitter:

Be careful, Dear Readers: there's misinformation out there EVERYWHERE right now, even from sources you might normally trust.

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Unrelated to anything at all but here's an article from the Australian Broadcasting Corporation Online about Long Covid in Children from 15 June 2024

And Here's An Article by Emily Oster in the Atlantic from 9 October 2020 about how it's totally safe to send kids back to school

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Came across This Reuters Article from 2022 yesterday and, while not surprising, it sure is infuriating: it's about how cops in Southern California(like cops throughout the US) spend most of their time just stopping and harassing random black people rather than responding to, you know, Crimes.

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Question Copyright - All Creative Work is Derivative

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Holy Shit!!!

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OK, So:

I'm watching this video essay from acollierastro(which is great, and you should watch it), and as you can see it's mainly about space elevators, but in the course of explaining the challenges with THAT she brings up a a point that I LOVE that NO SPACE TRAVEL FIC EVER Mentions, which is Interstellar(she calls it Galactic, which is Also a good name uwu) Navigation.

Like: stars move, and they don't move at the same rate, and they don't move in straight lines because gravity curves space. We tend to think of space travel as a straight path from point A to point B but NO! That's not what you have to do(coincidentally this is also one of the many, Many reasons why the dark forest hypothesis is bullshit)!! What you have to do is send a Leetle ship from One chaoticly moving object(the solar system), through an unknown and chaotically dynamic medium(Spess), to ANOTHER, Specific, chaoticly moving object(your destination), and you have to do that accurately, over numerous light-years, understanding that EVERY slowdown or course-change which occurs due to malfunction or for the safety of the leetle ship will DRASTICALLY change your needed course and resource requirements, oh and ALSO: the only idea you have for where the destination-star could be is where it was many MANY years(possibly centuries or millennia) in the past. Like: even if you choose a star you have a long history of observation for, and thus numerous datapoints for calculating its velocity and vector, it may not be where you expect it to be because some Event you haven't witnessed altered its trajectory, or simply because it moved through a star-dense area and all that gravity altered its course.

Interstellar navigation is SUCH a huge problem, such a COMPLEX problem Filled with unknowns and (due to the scale of the distances and speeds involved and the limitations of detection)unknowables, and so many people just ignore it! And I mean: that's fine for Star Trek and the like, it's a conceit that allows for cool stories, but when someone's trying to present themselves as talking about this IRL, or their SciFi as "Hard" and "Grounded", and they IGNORE the MASSIVE PROBLEM of navigation, I just find it really difficult to take them seriously.

And so I liked that she brought it up ^v^ ^v^ ^v^

Anyway: enough of my ranting :p :p

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a Kewl Video explaining antimatter, and also providing concrete examples of how math is an abstraction which doesn't always produce an accurate map of reality, regardless of how many times the math-mystics say we live in a computer-program uwu

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Hey! So I Wrote This RB back in 2013 about how the name Yeshua shifted to Jesus, and lately I've been watching videos from this biblical scholar named Dan McClellan and realized I was wrong about allot of it!

Here's A Good Video of his responding to someone with similar misunderstandings to mine, which I think explains the actl linguistic principles at play really well. Of particular interest to me is his discussion of how the aleph was pronounced(It's a glottal-stop not an 'ah' sound :D), and how the Galilean accent most likely operated. Tl;dr: it was probably pronounced something more like yea-shoo! Neat!!

Anyway, for me he shall Eternally Remain "Oily Josh" uwu uwu uwu

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Currently watching This Video Essay From acollierastro

and Did You Know that we designed an array of radio telescopes called The Event Horizon Telescope which 1)can take pictures of blackholes and 2)is the size of THE EARTH?!?!

cuz that's pretty fuckin sweet owo

Science is So Cool :3 :3

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J. Draper(professional London tour guide) made a cool little 20min video essay about the history of Theater that kinda touches on this awhile back.

One of my favourite bits of media history trivia is that back in the Elizabethan period, people used to publish unauthorised copies of plays by sending someone who was good with shorthand to discretely write down all of the play's dialogue while they watched it, then reconstructing the play by combining those notes with audience interviews to recover the stage directions; in some cases, these unauthorised copies are the only record of a given play that survives to the present day. It's one of my favourites for two reasons:

It demonstrates that piracy has always lay at the heart of media preservation; and

Imagine being the 1603 equivalent of the guy with the cell phone camera in the movie theatre, furtively scribbling down notes in a little book and hoping Shakespeare himself doesn't catch you.

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This is Supremely Grim

Plz watch it u_u u_u

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The Ballad of John and Yoko | 10-minute Teaser for Nebula

Like the caption says this is only the first 10mins of a larger work you need to have a Nebula account to see, but THAT video essays is an excellent and horrifying examination of Fame and how destructive it can be(spcl to women) through the lens of “who broke up The Beatles?” and the decades of vile, baseless hatred thrown Yoko Ono’s way on that subject.

It’s also just a really good corrective to allot of “common knowledge” misinformation about the individuals discussed. For instance, I’ve heard about The Beatles’s ~Crazy~ trip to India for most of my life but it wasn’t until watching THIS that I learned it was basically a trauma-response to their closeted gay manager, Brian Epstein, dying of an accidental overdose.

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This is a good video for those wondering who Mike Johnson is. Also: a nice little preview of the bonkers Christian Panopticon Republicans want to force us all into.

Also Rebecca Watson's been queer-friendly feminist and atheist for, like, 20 years now. If you're looking for short(this one's 9 1/2 minutes), empirical video-essays on science, politics, and current events, you could definitely do worse than giving her channel a sub.

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You also see this used the otherway all the time by Republican judges, ie, using even the most tenuous presence of ambiguity in the drafting of a law(or Constitutional Amendment) to argue it out of existence.

The Shirley Exception

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If you've ever wondered why meat-eating is so ideologically important to US Conservatives, watch this new essay by Atun-Shei films. Some truly wonderful research into the intellectual history of fascist carnivorism here, and much more besides.