The @NASAInSight #MarsLanding in a single gif:

Visitor: "Your sheep are all stood along the wall. Every one of them, facing the same way." Farmer: "Rain's coming from the west. They've put their backs to it. Half an hour, I'd say." Visitor: "The forecast says dry till tonight." Farmer: "The forecast's in Exeter. The sheep are here." Visitor: "You trust them over the Met Office?" Farmer: "I trust them over my own knees. They came down off the top about two o'clock yesterday. The weather warning came through on my phone at five. Same storm. Three hours of notice, free, and nobody had to update the app." Visitor: "How do they know?" Farmer: "Pressure drops before the weather does. They feel it. The wind shifts a quarter and the whole flock turns like a weathervane that eats. A cow'll do the same. Backs to the weather, heads down, bunched into the hedge before you've felt a drop." Visitor: "I thought cows lying down meant rain." Farmer: "Cows lying down means cows are lying down. They do it fourteen hours a day. If that meant rain we'd have drowned. The tell's the wall, and the bunching, and the one old ewe who starts walking home when nothing's happened yet." Visitor: "Do they ever get it wrong?" Farmer: "They got the storm in October 1987 right. The Met Office famously didn't. My dad had the cattle in the low field by dinnertime. He never explained how, because he didn't need to. He'd watched them." Visitor: "Could you not just look at the sky?" Farmer: "I do. Then I look at what the sky's looking at. The sheep have been standing on this hill since before there were satellites, and every one that read the weather wrong got eaten or blown away. What's left is the ones that didn't. Natural selection's a decent forecaster." [The first drops arrived on the visitor's glasses. The sheep had not moved. They'd already finished.]

How normal deadlines feel irl after years of university deadlines.

🇯🇵⚡🌊 Le Japon a mis au point une nouvelle façon de produire de l’électricité… simplement en mélangeant de l’eau salée et de l’eau douce, et cette technologie est utilisée dans une centrale située à Fukuoka. Cette centrale unique n’a besoin ni de soleil, ni de vent, ni de carburant. Elle utilise ce qu’on appelle « l’énergie bleue ». Lorsque l’eau de mer rencontre l’eau d’un fleuve, la différence de salinité crée naturellement de l’énergie. À l’intérieur, d’extrêmement fines membranes séparent l’eau salée d’un côté et l’eau douce de l’autre. Les ions, ces minuscules particules issues du sel, traversent la membrane pour rejoindre l’eau douce. Leur mouvement génère de l’électricité, que la centrale récupère. Comme elle ne dépend que de l’eau de mer et de l’eau des rivières, l’installation fonctionne 24 h/24. Elle est silencieuse, ne nécessite aucune machine en mouvement et ne rejette aucune pollution dans l’air. Des milliers de membranes sont empilées les unes sur les autres, formant autant de petites « batteries ». Ensemble, elles produisent une énergie stable capable d’alimenter les communautés proches. C’est une technologie idéale pour les îles et les régions bordées de rivières : compacte, fiable par tous les temps et entièrement renouvelable. Deux eaux qui se rencontrent… et une électricité propre pour l’avenir. 💚

Now on @sciam: 5 weeks ago, OpenAI shocked the world by solving the "Navier-Stokes" math problem. Then two mathematicians said it had copied their work. Now it seems the AI-generated result is something stranger than either side had imagined. scientificamerican.com/artic…

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🚗 Volkswagen factory in Germany vs Portugal 💶 Labor cost per hour 🇩🇪 Emden: €74 🇵🇹 Palmela: €37 ⏱️ Annual working hours per worker 🇩🇪 Emden: 1,282 🇵🇹 Palmela: 1,419 🤒 Sick leave rate 🇩🇪 Emden: 10.5% 🇵🇹 Palmela: 4.1% 🚙 Cars built per employee per year 🇩🇪 Emden: 29 🇵🇹 Palmela: 39.9 🏭 Factory cost per vehicle 🇩🇪 Emden: €4,850 🇵🇹 Palmela: €2,385 ⚡ Electricity cost per kWh 🇩🇪 Emden: €0.15–0.23 🇵🇹 Palmela: €0.10–0.16 Source: BILD, Deutsche Welle (September 2026)

Idoso morre depois de lutar contra outro idoso por uma espreguiçadeira na Grécia rr.pt/noticia/mundo/2026/09/…

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