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Caleb Moses @mathematiguy.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

The Avatar Aang movie includes this very cool nod to traditional polynesian navigation in this scene where Tagah uses airbending to navigate the ocean But how would an air bender translate their knowledge into navigation? Are there any examples of Indigenous people studying air currents?

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Robert "The Bobby Yaga" McNees @mcnees.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

(Sphere eversion is a mathematical construction where one turns a sphere inside out without introducing cuts or sharp creases. Here is a marvelous explainer by @rreusser.bsky.social. The animated procedure is carried out step-by-step as you scroll down the page.)

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Sphere Eversion

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Ben Dolphin 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿❄️⛰🌲 @countrysideben.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

It's @walkhighlands.co.uk time! And in my latest column I'm taking a closer look at the weirdness that is Fata Morgana. I've only seen this bizarre mirage a couple of times, and this particular sighting was on 27th December on Carn na Drochaide. My brain hurts after writing it though! 😆

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Fata Morgana: when Morgan le Fay comes out to play

At first it was subtle, barely enough to suggest anything was amiss - a long, flat-topped plateau in the distance, somewhere over towards Drumochter, and I was struggling to identify it. We do of c...

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Anita Heckman @anitaheckman.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

“Tightrope: Behind the Processor #5.” 2023, Elias Sime, SJ Museum of Art. “He’s transforming outmoded technology into … #poems to the present.” —James Cohan. More info=alt text. #Januarty #green #nail #woven #recycling #mixedmedia #abstract #contemporaryart #technology #Ewaste #art #sciart #tech

Detail: Where do our old computers go? Here is a large-scale abstract mixed-media wall art piece by artist Elias Sime. It’s a tapestry made of woven and layered reclaimed electrical wires that are tightly wound and braided, then nailed to a panel. Obsolete circuit boards make a border. Colors are mostly green with gold, purple, turquoise. Sime creates his work by recycling e-waste that he finds at the Menalesh Tera (translated as “what do have?”) open-air markets in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. He learned the braiding technique from local women, who then collaborated with him. See a fascinating video: “Elias Sime – Tightrope.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7Vm8JXYQ3E&list=PLg9bohYNTKk4kJwapygHlkIk-RW0Z-711&index=2

Full image: Where do our old computers go? Here is a large-scale abstract mixed-media wall art piece by artist Elias Sime. It’s a tapestry made of woven and layered reclaimed electrical wires that are tightly wound and braided, then nailed to a panel. Obsolete circuit boards make a border. Colors are mostly green with gold, purple, turquoise. Sime creates his work by recycling e-waste that he finds at the Menalesh Tera (translated as “what do have?”) open-air markets in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. He learned the braiding technique from local women, who then collaborated with him. See a fascinating video: “Elias Sime – Tightrope.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7Vm8JXYQ3E&list=PLg9bohYNTKk4kJwapygHlkIk-RW0Z-711&index=2

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Northwest Wind @keewatin.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

Nominated for an Oscar (1964), the NFB documentary about Kenojuak and the print “Arrival of the Sun” is a masterpiece and a great work of art (in any genre). Her declaration below is captivating and understated in my view!

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Eskimo Artist: Kenojuak

This documentary shows how an Inuit artist's drawings are transferred to stone, printed and sold. Kenojuak Ashevak became the first woman involved with the printmaking co-operative in Kinngait …

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Simon Cox @simonfrcox.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

Built 5,381 years ago - over a few days - in the heart of Somerset, the elevated Sweet Track walkway ran 2 km across marsh, connecting two Stone Age communities for 10-15 years.

Photo of reconstruction of the Sweet Track, oak or ash planks lying along the V of an X-shaped pair of staves fixed in the earth

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Leah Berman Williams @leahwrenn.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

wow, this is amazing SciComm. Really nice. Not so nice of a story for my colleagues in Juneau. But neat story scientifically.

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Dr Gary Fuller @drgaryfuller.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

Wonderful. The UK has ~40 years of air pollution data in paper reports that badly needs a rescue. Covers 1921 to the early sixties including miners' strikes, the great depression & the aftermath of the 1956 Clean Air Act. Would open the opportunity to study past exposure in today's older people.

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