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· 2026-10-05T06:40:01+00:00It is extraordinary that India, still a relatively poor country, can achieve something as selfless as protecting other creatures. We explain how it became remarkably good at animal conservation
· 2026-10-05T14:45:41+00:00Game theory is a yuuuge scam, a field for bullshitters to write performative papers & cite one another. It doesn't generalize from "small world" models to "large world". @stephen_wolfram showed (#RWRI lecture) that when one uses automata "dominant strategies" s.a. tit-for-tat
AI visual note: A book cover of "The Art of Strategy: A Game Theorist's Guide to Success in Business and Life" by Avinash K. Dixit and Barry J. Nalebuff, featuring a rock, lined notepad, and scissors—objects that visually illustrate the classic "rock, paper, scissors" game, the quintessential game theory scenario whose limitations the caption critiques.
· 2026-10-05T15:36:26.246000+00:00TIL when Spitfire and Hurricane engines kept cutting out in dives during WW2, the fix was a simple washer in the fuel line designed by Beatrice Shilling, an engineer who also raced motorbikes at Brooklands at over 100mph. It became known as "Miss Shilling's orifice".
· 2026-10-05T15:21:34+00:00We listened to our viewers and stepped up our Starbase Window Experiment for Flight 14. Something different happened. Can you guess how it went? @elonmusk
AI visual note: A rocket ascends dramatically into the sky, leaving a plume of smoke and steam visible through a six-pane window as the sun sets brightly over a sandy landscape. The view captures SpaceX's Flight 14 from a unique window perspective at Starbase, showing the launch's fiery trail against the golden hour sky.
· 2026-10-05T15:38:45.153000+00:00Tanzania's first officially protected wildlife corridor is giving elephants a safer route between their historic habitats, with 529 already recorded using it. 368 landowners gave up land for the 14-km corridor, which is also being restored with 100,000 native trees.
· 2026-10-05T15:00:03+00:00IN IMAGES || The walkway rests on nothing: it is suspended from the cliff by anchors sealed into the rock. Each cantilever takes up the weight of the deck and transfers it into the massif.
· 2026-10-05T15:17:06+00:00NEW: A surprising chemical clue has broken open a Hubble cold case from 1999. Astronomers now suspect the mystery signatures in the data are from a second-generation planet that formed from gas and dust ejected by a dying star: news.stsci.edu/46WpciV
AI visual note: An 'Artist's Concept' illustration depicting a black hole in space with a glowing accretion disk, the starfield, and a cosmic jet or streak of light crossing the scene diagonally.
· 2026-10-05T15:39:42.218000+00:00We may have found the first direct evidence of a ninth major planet in the Solar System | "if this pair of faint pinpricks does in fact represent a single, slow-moving object in our Solar System, we may have just got our first observational evidence of Planet 9"
· 2026-10-05T13:45:06+00:00Cumhurbaşkanı Erdoğan: "Ay Araştırma Programımızın bir parçası olarak, geliştirdiğimiz ay uzay aracının üretimini, montajını ve entegrasyonunu tamamladık. Şimdi sistem düzeyinde çevresel testler gerçekleştiriyoruz."
· 2026-10-05T14:09:04+00:00Cumhurbaşkanımız Recep Tayyip Erdoğan: "Türk Milleti olarak, Gök Bilimlerinde fevkalade zengin bir birikimi tevarüs ediyoruz." 77. Uluslararası Uzay Kongresi (IAC 2026)
· 2026-10-05T14:48:45+00:00Scientists just discovered that old hearts become biologically younger inside younger bodies. A fascinating study from Harvard University suggests that the biological age of an organ is not set in stone, but rather a flexible state influenced by its surrounding environment. By
AI visual note: An X-ray image of a human heart with the text 'Old hearts become biologically younger when transplanted into younger people'.
· 2026-10-05T14:53:21+00:00How big is the Sun compared to Earth? [ thebrainmaze]
· 2026-10-05T15:40:00.298000+00:00ELI5: is there more water in ice or liquid Okay imagine i got like 2 litres of water in 2 containers, one of them i freeze into ice and the other is just liquid. Ice expands, idk why or how but it expands So if im thirsty will i get more water in my mouth using ice or liquid
· 2026-10-05T14:51:55+00:00Earth from Orbit in 8K
· 2026-10-05T15:42:31+00:00Fascinating! Elephants talk with deep rumbles, alone or overlapping like a choir, and this research found the sounds carry a rough clue about what's happening (meeting up, staying in touch, deciding to move), whether it's one elephant or many. In a chorus, each elephant uses
AI visual note: A scientific figure displays spectrograms comparing single rumbles versus chorused rumbles across six vocalization context types: Cadenced, Contact, Coo, Greeting, Let's-Go, and Little-Greeting.
· 2026-10-05T14:47:24+00:00Bugün başlayan IAC 2026, 108 ülkeden binlerce katılımcıyı Antalya’da bir araya getiriyor. Türkiye’nin Millî Uzay Programı kapsamında ortaya koyduğu hedefler, uzay alanındaki çalışmalar ve geleceğin teknolojileri dünyanın önde gelen uzmanları tarafından ele alınacak.
AI visual note: A Turkish infographic titled 'IAC 2026 ANTALYA SAHA ISTANBUL' explains the 'MİLLÎ UZAY PROGRAMI NEDİR?' (What is the National Space Program), featuring an astronaut illustration and logos from TUA and the Presidency of Communications.
· 2026-10-05T14:52:58+00:00Cumhurbaşkanımız Recep Tayyip Erdoğan: "Türkiye, kendi uydusunu tasarlayan, geliştiren, üreten, test eden ve uzayda işleten nadir ülkelerden biridir." 77. Uluslararası Uzay Kongresi (IAC 2026)
· 2026-10-05T15:39:44+00:00Replaying trajectories doesn't guarantee learning for robots
· 2026-10-05T15:40:00+00:00The Torus Field, Visualized [IG: soul_on_ice_]
