Tootfinder

The final (8th) #AAS247 presser #Lazuli, described in detail the paper #ArgusArray to the astronomical community: https://carolinastories.unc.edu/developing-the-worlds-largest-sky-survey-telescope/ and https://arstechnica.com/space/2026/01/eric-schmidt-will-massively-invest-in-private-telescopes-including-hubble-replacement/ and https://www.astronomy.com/science/eric-and-wendy-schmidt-to-fund-space-telescope-three-ground-based-observatories/ and https://www.space.com/space-exploration/former-ceo-of-google-spearheads-4-next-gen-telescopes-3-on-earth-and-1-in-space and https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/schmidt-sciences-announces-plan-for-lazuli-a-private-space-telescope/

"‘Doomsday Glacier’ is melting faster than we thought. Can a 150-metre wall stop it flooding Earth?"
#Glaciers #Climate #ClimateChange

Why scientists want to build a wall along the ‘Doomsday Glacier’
The ‘Doomsday Glacier’ already contributes four per cent of annual sea level rise, but can the consequences of climate change be barricaded off?

#Discworld #TerryPratchett #ShamelesslyStolenFromSomewhereElseOnTheInternetHonestlyICantKeepTrackOfThisStuffAnymore

If the only thing in an officer's mind between dialogue and deadly force is getting brushed to the side by a vehicle doing less than 5mph driven by a smiling mother in a red sweatshirt and pullover then I wonder about that officer's suitability for his job.
The new video from the murdering officer's phone makes it pretty damn clear there was no intent to harm and no risk of harm from anyone except the officer holding the camera and gun.
#Minneapolis #reneegood
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/09/ice-agent-minneapolis-bodycam-footage?CMP=oth_b-aplnews_d-1

Woman killed by ICE agent in Minneapolis was a mother of 3, poet and new to the city (Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/01/08/woman-killed-by-ice-agent-in-minneapolis-was-a-mother-of-3-poet-and-new-to-the-city-00715809
http://www.memeorandum.com/260108/p6#a260108p6

Searches for Light #DarkMatter and Evidence of Coherent Elastic Neutrino-Nucleus Scattering of Solar #Neutrinos with the #LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) Experiment: https://lz.lbl.gov/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2025/12/LZ_Paper_Preprint_WS2025_v6.0_20251208.pdf / New Results from the LZ Dark Matter Experiment (recording of a talk): https://sanfordlab.org/lz-2025-result -> LZ Sets a World’s Best in the Hunt for Galactic Dark Matter and Gets a New Look at Neutrinos from the Sun’s Core: https://newscenter.lbl.gov/2025/12/08/lz-sets-a-worlds-best-in-the-hunt-for-galactic-dark-matter/

This isn't a war on drugs; It's a war on oil!
#Venezuela #Maduro #Socialism

#Renee #Nicole #Good was an award-winning poet and a mother to three children who had only recently moved to the Twin Cities.  
She had just dropped her six-year-old son off at school in Minneapolis
before she was shot to death by…

Protesters Gather After ICE Shooting in Minneapolis
Protesters gathers around the nation after an ICE agent shot and killed Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis on Wednesday.

A man blinded by greed, drunk on oil, hungry for more, deaf to the cost.
#Venezuela

The 247th meeting of the American Astronomical Society #AAS247 is underway, coming with 8 press conferences - https://aas.org/meetings/aas247/press-kit#briefings - streaming on https://www.youtube.com/@AASPressOffice. There were already two yesterday:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2gAjRP1xLtQ about Galaxies Big and Small, covering e.g. https://public.nrao.edu/news/hidden-giants-of-the-early-universe/ / https://news.ucmerced.edu/news/2026/astronomers-reveal-hidden-activity-early-universe’s-most-massive-galaxies / https://keckobservatory.org/aas247-magaz3ne/ and https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ae1584 (The First RELHIC? Cloud-9 is a Starless Gas Cloud) -> https://science.nasa.gov/missions/hubble/nasas-hubble-examines-cloud-9-first-of-new-type-of-object/ / https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Cloud-9_a_new_celestial_object_found_by_Hubble / https://public.nrao.edu/news/starless-dark-matter-failed-galaxy-near-m94/.
And https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xvpDVq-7h6E about Stars and Their Behavior, covering e.g. https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.00470 (Betelgeuse: Detection of the Expanding Wake of the Companion Star) -> https://www.cfa.harvard.edu/news/cfa-scientists-detect-wake-betelgeuses-elusive-companion-star / https://science.nasa.gov/missions/hubble/nasa-hubble-helps-detect-wake-of-betelgeuses-elusive-companion-star/ and https://aas.org/sites/default/files/2026-01/Steven and Tyler AAS Press Release.pdf and https://public.nrao.edu/news/alma-devours-cosmic-hamburger-reveals-potential-for-giant-planet-formation/