#OnThisDay NASA's #Discovery Program began as the NEAR #Shoemaker #Spacecraft lifts off (1996).
Happy Birthday Michael Jordan (1963) - considered as the #Greatest #Basketball player of all time.
Birth Anniversary of Michiaki Takahashi (1928) - inventor of the first #Chickenpox #Vaccine.
#StarTrek #Discovery spoilers
I really enjoyed Discovery! First season did kind of it's own thing and I didnt' hate it but it wasn't great Trek. After that, esp season 3 and on they really seemed to Get trek and tbh fixed a lot of horseshit that's been in the series since the beginning more or less.
The Zora plotline seems like "oops Picard S1 sucked let's fix that", they even fixed Daniels from Enterprise, impressive.
Picard is making me VERY tired of spinner and specifically how they remake the same plotlines with him and his characters (...which are all just Soong or clones of Soong)
Borg Queen is probably the biggest lore fuckup
You see Daniels and you just know it's gonna be a shit episode. (at least in ENT)
I can excuse a lot in #Discovery but I HATE mirror Georgiou and everything involved. And I LIKED their S1 Mirrror shit.
I'm kind of in awe of #StarTrek #Discovery rn, Tilly is doing an endurance race for Bullshit Prewarp Civilization Rituals but it was established seasons ago she's a great runner in a fairly pointless side track. Impressive
#Startrek #Discovery made a good Time Travel episode
Disco is in my top 50% of trek as of season 5. Started poorly but what didn't. Wish it had more Wacky but eh it's a different kind of trek that's okay sometimes
Discovery on Bluesky is so good that I’ve discovered myself.
Attending #FAIRFEST2025 next week? Don't miss our CTO @paolomanghi talk about RDGraph & #PIDs and the following Panel discussion on the future of PID-enabled findability in #discovery during the Thursday sessions!
See the agenda here https://fair-impact.eu/fairfest-programme
"This project explores the possibilities for better #search and #discovery on the Fediverse in the form of an optional, pluggable service. This service should be decentralized, independent of any one specific Fediverse service and respect user choice and privacy.
We will build a reference discovery provider and protocols (and an example consumer implementation, inside of Mastodon) to enable users to discover content across the rich diversity of #theFediverse."
Well, this is new.
Mastodon has a new "Who to follow" feature.
Pretty cool.
(Although it should be "WHOM to follow" not "WHO to follow".)
#sicilia #sicily #happyisland #isolafelice #italy
#KM3NeT #Neutrino #Energia #Sicilia #Astrofisica #Scientifica #RicercaScientifica #InnovazioneScientifica #Scoperta #CapoPassero #Energy #Astrophysics #Scientific #ScientificResearch #ScientificInnovation #Discovery
Scoperta rivoluzionaria in Sicilia: neutrino ad alta energia rilevato sott'acqua https://www.ilsole24ore.com/art/neutrino-record-rivela-nuovi-orizzonti-astrofisica-particelle-AGOpGPqC
Very emotional about Star Trek rn
#Discovery of the Most #Massive #Superstructure in the #Universe - YouTube
#SciComm and #Science by #WhatDaMath #AntonPetrov
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OthCJ2tI45s
Chat I love #starTrek ; ;
Watching Discovery season 4, join our discord if you want to gush (maybe watch parties??) with me https://zelda.zone/discord
"Never hide your hidden talents!" - Futurist Jim Carroll
I find innovation and creativity stories everywhere I look! (And I'm playing with my creativity - today's image was generated on MidJourney, and is used in my newest book, just released!)
Consider the piano intro for Free Bird, the anthemic song by the rock band Lynrd Skynrd.
I recently watched the documentary Muscle Shoals - it's the story about a small little community in Alabama that hosted two of the world's most iconic music studios, where a group of remarkable session musicians provided the foundation for a huge number of hit songs, and where a good swathe of rock royalty recorded their work. If you haven't seen it, I'd highly recommend it.
At one moment, it's telling the story of Lynyrd Skynyrd and the recording of the famous song - it seems as with all things, the band was struggling with piecing the song together. And yet, when they returned from lunch one day, they found one of their roadies noodling away on the studio piano, playing the part that would become the iconic opening to the song.
Their roadie!
The documentary goes on to note that few people realized that while he was responsible for moving crates and carrying equipment, he also had a hidden skill. "He was a concert pianist, and nobody knew about it," noted one of the members of the band. Watch this short clip - and in particular, at 1:31, where they tell the story of the discovery.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yg3fGhxytVk
Billy went on to become a full member of the band, touring with them for many years, and playing with them even beyond the plane crash that saw the loss of key members in the early years.
That got my creativity juices thinking: how many people around us have skills of which we are not aware? What hidden talents exist on our team that could bring us magic - that we have no clue about? What capabilities already exist in our orbit while we are busy searching for those very same skills?
Not only that: how many of us hold back from telling others of some of the unique skills that we might possess? What hidden talents are we holding back? We might not think they are important - but they could be revolutionary!
This got me thinking - many people might hold back from sharing their full range of skills. They might be able to do something unique that can help our team move forward, but they might be too shy, don't think the skills are relevant, or simply never think to tell us. The result is missed opportunities and discoveries.
For me, unique skills and talents are often the hidden key to innovation.
How often do we not learn about them until we discover that the next wave of innovation comes from unexpected sources?
The future belongs to those who dare to reveal their hidden capabilities.
**#Talent** **#Innovation** **#Discovery** **#Creativity** **#Skills** **#Potential** **#Growth** **#Opportunity** **#Success** **#Unique**
#Discovery of the Most Exciting #Habitable #Planet Near the Solar System - YouTube
#SciComm and #Science by #WhatDaMath #AntonPetrov
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9VTzVAbfPmg
Euclid discovers a stunning Einstein ring
The Einstein Ring, an extremely rare phenomenon, turned out to be hiding in plain sight in a galaxy not far away. The galaxy, called NGC 6505, is around 590 million light-years from Earth, a stone’s throw away in cosmic terms. But this is the first time that the ring of light surrounding its centre is detected, thanks to Euclid’s high-resolution instruments.
#PerseveranceRover spies incredible #BlueRocks on #Mars and makes incredible #discovery https://zorz.it/iakRl | #JeremyGray #NASA #Perseverance #rover #MarsLandscape #science #SuperCam #MastCamZ #space
1,000-year-old cache pit unearthed in Alaska reveals ancient Dene food s https://www.diningandcooking.com/?p=1888736 #alaska #Discovery #food #storage