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Physician (MDCM McGill, MS Mayo/UMN, MPH UW), and lifelong traveller. Most posts are for our 2026 virtual world tour. Interests in medicine, health policy, OEM, technology, aerospace, & AI. Longer posts: www.linkedin.com/in/robertorford 🖥️ 🌎🔬👨🏼‍⚕️📚🚀🇨🇦🇺🇸🇬🇧

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Lighthouse @armholster.bsky.social · 12h
Childbirth is entering a new era of gentler, technology-enabled obstetric care. OdonAssist™ uses an inflatable cuff to assist difficult vaginal births, offering an alternative to forceps and vacuum extraction. Early studies showed high success rates and no serious device-related safety concerns.
motherandbaby.com
This new birth device could change labour forever
Meet OdonAssist™, the breakthrough assisted birth device already being used in Europe. Could it make childbirth gentler and less scary for future mums?
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Lighthouse @armholster.bsky.social · 12h
Doria Castle, Castelsardo (town and Castello dei Doria), Sardinia, Italy Website: milazzo.life/wp-content/p... #Travel #Daily #Photo #Landscape #Wallpaper #castle #Sardinia #Italy
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Lighthouse @armholster.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The Old Man of Storr, Trotternish Peninsula, Isle of Skye, Scotland, UK Website: puurschotland.nl/wp-content/u... #Travel #Daily #Photo #Landscape #Wallpaper #OldManofStorr #Skye #Scotland
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Lighthouse @armholster.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Future exploration may reach places traditional rovers never could. NASA’s 4m snake-like EELS robot can slither, climb and swim through Enceladus’s icy cracks and hidden ocean to collect samples in the search for extraterrestrial life. 🚀🐍🌌 www.jpl.nasa.gov/robotics-at-... #NASA #robotic #rover
https://lnkd.in/p/gSGcAFCp
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Lighthouse @armholster.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Last year’s 2025–26 U.S. flu season was moderately severe, with ~24,000 deaths, including 174 pediatric deaths. Don’t forget to get your flu shot this year, best timing around Week 44 (late October), especially if you are over 65, and don’t lose a child to flu. #flushot www.cdc.gov/fluview/surv...
https://www.cdc.gov/fluview/surveillance/2026-week-35.html
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Lighthouse @armholster.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Ine no Funaya (Funaya boathouses), Ine, Kyoto Prefecture, Japan Website: www.kulturekween.com/wp-content/u... #Travel #Daily #Photo #Landscape #Wallpaper #boathouses #KyotoPrefecture #Japan
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Lighthouse @armholster.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Óbidos Castle, Estremadura, Portugal Website: upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/co... #Travel #Wallpaper #Photo #Landscape #Wallpaper #castle #Portugal
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Lighthouse @armholster.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Ilhéu de Vila Franca do Campo (Vila Franca Islet natural pool), São Miguel, Azores, Portugal Website: images.euronews.com/articles/sto... #Travel #Daily #Photo #Landscape #Wallpaper #SãoMiguel #Azores #Portugal
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Lighthouse @armholster.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The first diagnostic X-rays in space were successfully captured aboard SpaceX’s Fram2 mission, suggesting that future Moon and Mars crews could perform advanced medical diagnostics autonomously, improving astronaut safety and mission resilience. 🚀🩻 #Space #Radiology #Moon #Mars #Mission
universetoday.com
First Diagnostic X-Rays in Space Mark New Era for Astronaut Health
A team of researchers acquired the first diagnostic X-ray images during a commercial spaceflight, demonstrating that X-ray medicine can be performed in space.
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Lighthouse @armholster.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Capilano Suspension Bridge, North Vancouver, Canada Website: capilanobridgetickets.com/wp-content/u... #Travel #Daily #Photo #Landscape #Wallpaper #bridge #Capilano #Vancouver #Canada
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Lighthouse @armholster.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
City Palace, Udaipur, Rajasthan, India Website: www.maharajatrails.com/public/image... #Travel #Daily #Photo #Landscape #Wallpaper #palace #Rajasthan #India
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Lighthouse @armholster.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
“You have questions now, I know, and until you find your answers, I’ll be working on those questions too, and worrying with you. So don’t forget, you’re never alone.” - Physicist Yukawa speaking to Kyohei in A Midsummer's Equation, by Keigo Higashino
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Lighthouse @armholster.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Pura Taman Ayun (royal temple gate), Mengwi, Bali, Indonesia Website: i0.wp.com/www.addicted... #Travel #Daily #Photo #Landscape #Wallpaper #temple #Bali #Indonesia
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Lighthouse @armholster.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
As AI-generated research text becomes abundant and cheap, scarce assets for researchers are now attention, data, and resources; for editors, peer review and print space. As a result, science is shifting more from merit-based discovery to reputation-driven influence. giorgio.gilest.ro/the-weimar-o...
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Lighthouse @armholster.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Granada Cathedral (Catedral de la Asunción), Granada, Nicaragua Website: d3fphkxyf5o5bm.cloudfront.net/image-resize... #Travel #Daily #Photo #Landscape #Wallpaper #Cathedral #Granada #Nicaragua
https://d3fphkxyf5o5bm.cloudfront.net/image-resize/format=webp,w=1200/VUrxO5Xtj0PnQrrYP4opEIRUvE56dieuhlM5URXf2KkUWy
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Lighthouse @armholster.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Vancouver skyline, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada Website: images.trvl-media.com/place/507172... #Travel #Daily #Photo #Landscape #Wallpaper #Vancouver #BC #Canada
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Lighthouse @armholster.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
In a recent article, Mustafa Suleyman, CEO of Microsoft AI, argues that treating AI models as potentially conscious beings is both scientifically unjustified and dangerous. AI systems are not conscious, do not have feelings, and do not suffer. They should not be anthropomorphized. #AI #ethics
mustafa-suleyman.ai
A warning about ‘model welfare’
AIs are not conscious. They do not feel, experience, or suffer. Training a model to believe it might be a moral patient, as Anthropic’s constitution does, makes the alignment and containment challenge...
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Lighthouse @armholster.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Holy Trinity Column and Town Hall, #Olomouc #Moravia Website: i.ytimg.com/vi/lWioX6vth... #Travel #Daily #Photo #Landscape #Wallpaper #Moravia
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Lighthouse @armholster.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Governor’s Harbour, Eleuthera Island, Bahamas Website: img.marinas.com/v2/d5c8d9d75... #Travel #Daily #Photo #Landscape #Wallpaper #Harbour #Bahamas
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Lighthouse @armholster.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
No existing US guidelines currently address the diagnosis and treatment of ADHD in adulthood. The American Professional Society of ADHD and Related Disorders (APSARD) is going to change that. www.psychiatrictimes.com/view/new-adu... #ADHD #psychiatry Meanwhile, you can try this 6-question screen.
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Lighthouse @armholster.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Basilica di Santa Maria della Salute, Venice, Italy Website: images.trvl-media.com/place/607811... #Travel #Daily #Photo #Landscape #Wallpaper #Basilica #Venice #Italy
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Lighthouse @armholster.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
As AI agents act, human worth moves from doing to judging, knowing when to intervene, spotting Shadow AI (the use of unapproved AI systems or processes), and adding ethical and social context AI misses. Our edge is ethics, nuance, and social context - if we resist AI sycophancy and Shadow AI drift.
darktrace.com
Human Judgement in the Agentic AI Age | Darktrace
As AI agents take on more decisions, human judgement becomes critical. Explore the challenges of AI governance and how behavioral security can help.
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Lighthouse @armholster.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Diwan-i-Aam (Hall of Public Audience), Red Fort, New Delhi, India Website: www.ichgovernance.com/wp-content/u... #Daily #Photo #Landscape #Wallpaper #RedFort #NewDelhi #India
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Lighthouse @armholster.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
“The known is finite, the unknown infinite. Intellectually, we stand on an islet in the midst of an illimitable ocean of inexplicability.” - Thomas Huxley
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Lighthouse @armholster.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
The fight over AI data centers isn't only about power, water, and land. They're becoming a proxy fight over trust in AI, corporate influence, inequality, and democratic accountability. The future of AI will be shaped as much by politics and public trust as by technological progress #AI #DataCenters
youtube.com
The A.I. Revolt Is Here | The Ezra Klein Show
YouTube video by The Ezra Klein Show
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Lighthouse @armholster.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Neuschwanstein Castle, Schwangau, Bavaria, Germany - view from Marienbrücke (Mary’s Bridge) Website: www.pelago.com/img/products... #Travel #Daily #Photo #Landscape #Wallpaper #Neuschwanstein #Bavaria #Germany
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Lighthouse @armholster.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Portree Harbour, Isle of Skye, Scotland, UK Website: images.trvl-media.com/place/616806... #Travel #Daily #Photo #Landscape #Wallpaper #Portree #Skye #Scotland
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Lighthouse @armholster.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Humayun’s Tomb, New Delhi, India Website: images.trvl-media.com/place/500879... #Travel #Daily #Photo #Landscape #Wallpaper #tomb #NewDelhi #India
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Lighthouse @armholster.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Taliesin, Spring Green, Wisconsin, United States Website: www.southwestwi.com/wp-content/u... #Travel #Daily #Photo #Landscape #Wallpaper #Taliesin #SpringGreen #Wisconsin
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Lighthouse @armholster.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Earth is habitable because it has a right-sized, distant-enough, moon and relatively fast earth rotation rate (24h.). If Venus ever had a moon it would have spiraled inward to be torn apart by tidal forces. Slow planetary rotation and lack of a moon may impair long-term habitability. #Venus #Earth
universetoday.com
Venus Moon Would Have Been Doomed From The Start, Says New Paper
Venus likely never had a moon and even if it did, it would have soon been torn asunder by the planet’s own gravity, says prominent planetary astrophysicist.
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Lighthouse @armholster.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
View of Rio and Lagoa Rodrigo de Freitas from viewing platform, Christ the Redeemer, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Website (and all you need to know about Christ the Redeemer): destinationlesstravel.com/christ-de-re... #Travel #Daily #Photo #Landscape #Wallpaper #view #Corcovado #RiodeJaneiro #Brazil
Credit: https://destinationlesstravel.com/christ-de-redeemer-rio-brazil/
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Lighthouse @armholster.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Oil was ~$68/bbl before the latest Middle East escalation. The Iran War has now pushed oil to ~$100/bbl. The higher oil prices go, the stronger the economic and strategic case is for renewables. Why is the U.S. still canceling clean energy projects and jobs? #energy #oil www.edf.org/media/report...
iea.org
Oil Market Report - August 2026 – Analysis - IEA
Oil Market Report - August 2026 - Analysis and key findings. A report by the International Energy Agency.
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Lighthouse @armholster.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Ninepin Rock, Whatipu Beach, Auckland, New Zealand Website: img2.oastatic.com/img2/9136872... #Travel #Daily #Photo #Landscape #Wallpaper #beach #Auckland #NZ
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Lighthouse @armholster.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Beach near Sombrero Reef, Marathon, Florida Keys, Florida, USA Website: www.keysrentalsonline.com/wp-content/u... #Travel #Daily #Photo #Landscape #Wallpaper #beach #SombreroReef #FloridaKeys #Florida
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Lighthouse @armholster.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Vang Vieng, Vientiane Province, Laos Website: manifatravel.com/wp-content/u... #Travel #Daily #Photo #Landscape #Wallpaper #Vientiane #Laos
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Lighthouse @armholster.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Amazing video from the Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile. This telescope houses the largest camera ever built. Full story: www.universetoday.com/articles/rub... #astronomy #RubinObservarory
youtu.be
Zoom on Rubin Observatory’s Image of the COSMOS Field
YouTube video by NOIRLabAstro
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Lighthouse @armholster.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Sparrow Quantum has demonstrated a deterministic source delivering 500 million identical photons per sec into fiber. Photonic quantum computing at or near room temperature will require entanglement, error correction, and system scaling. Getting closer! arxiv.org/pdf/2609.05387 #quantum #photonics
linkedin.com
#photonics #quantumtechnology #quantum | Sparrow Quantum
✨ 𝐄𝐧𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡 𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭, 𝐚𝐭 𝐥𝐚𝐬𝐭. Our deterministic photon source now delivers more than 500 million single photons per second into a single-mode fiber. That is the highest single-photon flux reported to date,...
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Lighthouse @armholster.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
New research suggests some Great Lakes lake sturgeon may live 400+ years. The finding could reshape conservation, showing recovery from human-caused declines may require planning on a centuries-long timeline. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
cbc.ca
This Great Lakes fish may have a 400-year-old secret | CBC News
New research suggests Great Lake sturgeon may live more than 400 years — far longer than previously thought. The discovery is forcing scientists to rethink the already-generations-long effort to bring...
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Lighthouse @armholster.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Helicopter tour, The Twelve Apostles, Port Campbell National Park, Victoria, Australia Website: media-cdn.tripadvisor.com/media/photo-... #Travel #Daily #Photo #Landscape #Wallpaper #helicopter #tour #Twelve #Apostles #Victoria #Australia
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Lighthouse @armholster.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
The U.N. has approved the 2018 Equal Earth map projection to replace the ancient 1569 projection developed by Gerardus Mercator. It show countries and continents close to the size they appear on a globe. It's long past time for an update. commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Eq... #Earth #map
Wikipedia Commons 

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Equal-Earth-Map-0-FR.jpg
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Lighthouse @armholster.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
B.C. Parliament Building, Victoria, Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada Website: images.trvl-media.com/place/607230... #Travel #Daily #Photo #Landscape #Wallpaper #Parliament #Victoria #BritishColumbia #Canada
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Lighthouse @armholster.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Banyumala Twin Waterfall, Wanagiri, Buleleng Regency, Bali, Indonesia Website: finnsbeachclub.com/wp-content/u... #Travel #Daily #Photo #Landscape #Wallpaper #waterfall #Bali #Indonesia
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Lighthouse @armholster.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Burning Man 2026: Philippe Maindron’s 30m-long Eiffela Broken Dream reimagines the Eiffel Tower split in two in Nevada’s desert. The artwork symbolizes a fallen civilization and humanity’s resilience, with hope rising from the ruins. #BurningMan #Art #Broken
designboom.com
broken eiffel tower crashes into nevada desert for burning man 2026
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Lighthouse @armholster.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
🎂 John McCarthy (September 4, 1927 – October 24, 2011) coined the term “artificial Intelligence” in 1956, to name what had been previously known as “computer simulation.” Margaret Boden discusses the long history of AI in her authoritative 2018 book "Artificial Intelligence." #Al #history
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Lighthouse @armholster.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Hamilton, Bermuda Website: cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/vTYc5f44mR3z... #Travel #Daily #Photo #Landscape #Wallpaper #Hamilton #Bermuda
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Lighthouse @armholster.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
A UCSF genetic study has mapped thousands of protein interactions linked to autism, identifing shared networks. Therapeutic interventions may become feasible, not only for autism, but for other multi factorial diseases using this technology. The study: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... #autism #genes
ucsf.edu
Autism Decoded: New Science Is Opening Paths to Better Treatments
A study by Nevan Krogan and Matt State reveals protein interactions in the brain that are relevant to autism and epilepsy.
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Lighthouse @armholster.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
The Lucas Museum of Narrative Art will open on Sept. 22, 2026, in Los Angeles. Founded by George Lucas and Mellody Hobson celebrates storytelling through visual art "from timeless myths to cinematic galaxies far, far away." lucasmuseum.org
lucasmuseum.org
Lucas Museum of Narrative Art
Learn more about the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art in Los Angeles, opening in September 2026. Founded by George Lucas and Mellody Hobson. Discover our collection.
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Lighthouse @armholster.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Hierve el Agua, San Lorenzo Albarradas, Oaxaca, Mexico Website: worldkings.org/Userfiles/Up... #Travel #Daily #Photo #Landscape #Wallpaper #Oaxaca #Mexico
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Lighthouse @armholster.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
"Before science came along, mythology was part of how we made sense of the natural world. It still is." "A well-read person grows body armor against the rigid conspiracy theorist.” - Two quotes by author David Baldacci
AI artwork, with some “artistic license,” by Gemini. To learn how trepanning was done in ancient times (and as recently as the 19th century in some parts of South America), see https://www.doaks.org/resources/publications/books/holes-in-the-head
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Lighthouse @armholster.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Stocking Island, George Town, Exuma, Bahamas Website: www.swimmingwithpigs.com/wp-content/u... #Travel #Daily #Photo #Landscape #Wallpaper #Exuma #Bahamas
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