Voyager 1 and emails

My cartoon for this week’s @newscientist pic.twitter.com/0aegB3NOyX

— Tom Gauld (@tomgauld) May 31, 2025

44 sec clip - "Wait, let me take a quick nap"

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— Your Typical Local Man (@LocalBateman) November 16, 2024

what is your greatest strength

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— Introvert comic (@deviladvocate.bsky.social) October 15, 2024 at 11:02 AM

correlation and causation

You can never post this too often!

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— Rich Attert0n (@escapeteacher.bsky.social) September 15, 2024 at 7:51 PM

26min clip - WWII CARTOON Private SNAFU Dr. Seuss / Chuck Jones WARNER BROS. ANIMATION

3min 5sec clip - A Brief Disagreement

found via laughingsquid text from youtube "A visual journey into mankind's favourite pastime throughout the ages."

1min 20sec clip - a #special offer

 

 found via a boingboing email

8min 27sec clip - #Top10 #BugsBunny Moments In Looney Tunes

 

 found via boingboing

1 min 30sec clip - #Bambi Meets #Godzilla Original (1969)

 

 found via a boingboing email

a short 5min 48sec #animated clip of what happens to old #cartoon characters

dark & some swearing - found via laughing squid

life #advice from 50 cartoon #characters

found via churchmag

#palebluedot

you may want to watch the original pale blue dot video 1st

cartoon found via changing worship

and originally from xkcd

the cameraman

people act different when they are behind a camera

via @soonguy

no robots

no robots from yunghanchang on vimeo.

higgs boson explained

the higgs boson explained from phd comics on vimeo.
via irtiqa in summary ......

- to make up everyday matter you only need an electron, an up quark and a down quark


- with the up and down quarks you can make a proton or a neutron


- electrons, protons and neutrons you can make any atom


- you only need these 3


- but they've discovered 12 particles


- why do we have them?


- how many are there 100, 1m, 12? - we don't know


- you can organise it like a periodic table - you can organise by characteristics - how they behave


- but why? because of a fundamental underlying structure


- we know its electron orbitals around nucleus


- so we have a periodic table of fundamental particles - and there are patterns that suggest there must be some sort of underlying structure we don't understand or have't seen yet


- there are 6 quarks - up, down (these interact with each other) charm, strange (these interact with each other) top, bottom (these interact with each other)


- and leptons - electron, muon, tau, electron neutrino, muon neutrino, tau neutrino - electron pairs with electron neutrino and so on


- are there more particles? what is the source of the patterns? - we're trying to figure out clues by seeing what other kind of particles exist


- the magic of a collider is you can make kinds of matter you don't have around - you take 2 kinds of particle and annihilate them - what comes out doesn't have to be a re-arrangement of what went in


- it like a quantum magic where it disappears into pure energy


- so you can make any sort of particle for which you have enough energy


- so every time you crank up the energy you could be exploring a new regime


- one of the things people predict is the higgs boson - the particle that is responsible for giving mass to other particles (mass isn't stuff - its probably a characteristic of a particle like charge)


- some particles have, some don't 


- think of mass as gravitational charge - when two particles have this charge they attract each other (interestingly you can have negative mass)


- so the higgs theory is - imagine a field that permeates the whole universe - and every particle feels this field and is affected by it in different ways - some are slowed down by it (large mass) others hardly feel it (small mass)


- so why do particles feel the higgs field differently?


- all kinds of reactions could make a higgs boson - but we can't see these reactions


- all we can see is the decay products from them


- so collision happens - build up data on how many collision happen for different energy levels


- predicted effect of higgs boson is tiny - so detecting difference between assuming it does of doesn't exist is hard - so need a huge amount of data - so run the collider all day all year - so data from the 40m collisions a second

discipling

this is discipling from the foursquare church on vimeo.


found via penelopepiscopal

cartoons

which are funny and thought provoking from jon birch's asbojesus.wordpress.com site