Macquarie Group (bank) said 3+ degrees increase in global average temperatures is acceptable (SBS world news).

This comes ahead as CEO Shemara Wikramanayake, who has more than $800 million in shares and "earned" $26 million in income last year, announces her retirement for November this year.
What a waste of money and rubbish finance decisions－ Being rewarded for destroying the world‼️😡

#MacquarieGroup #MacquarieBank #ClimateChange #OutOfTouch #CognitiveDissonance #AusPol #Economics #SBSNews

What I'm seeing is companies are two-faced.
1) We can't pay taxes.
2) We can waste money on AI and buy and build new powerplants (just for themselves).
All this money could have been put back into the economy taxing 70% for very rich and high income businesses.
Those taxes can then be used for free Medicare, free education, publically owned electrical grid, government contracts to local and small businesses, social welfare, funding public research, and local and national projects. #Economics

Latest update PostmarketOS Edge lead to Pinephone Beta internal error.

Loading Failure.

Will likely need a reinstall.

#PostmarketOS #PMOS #Pine64 #PinephoneBeta #Pinephone #LinuxPhones #YearOfLinux

Poliovirus
The following is Prof. Gareth Williams at Gresham College, lecturing on the development of the Polio vaccine.

I've shared (pinned) Vincent Racanello's 3rd year virology course.
I've shared (pinned) Worobey's Influenza lecture.
I have a few other good lectures I have not shared. This is one of them.

https://youtu.be/n9bqfdFRzU4

#Polio #Poliovirus #TIL #Virology #PublicLectures #Vaccines #Racanello #Worobey #Williams #TWiV

TIL: Jean Pain and his OGL living methods

DDG: The Methods of Jean Pain for a free pdf

Overview:
Pain was a Frenchman who used compost to power his life 🛖

Decomposition of compost leads to thermal energy, used to heat water (60℃)🌡️

Decomposition releases methane used to fuel natural gas oven and car (90km) 🚗

Raking leads to less dead matter on forest floor, prevent forest fires 🐻

Once finished, the composed returns to the land to supply nutrients for new growth 🌲🪴

#OffGridLiving #OGL #Pain

I wish there was more Solar Car stuff on Mastodon.

I wonder if Veena Sahajwalla recycled materials were used in the construction of this machine.

#SolarCar #WorldSolarCarChallenge #UNSWINGRacing #UNSW #VeenaSahajwalla #Science #MaterialScience #Energy #CleanEnergy #Sustainability

Reminiscing on my former Astrophysics Professor, Orsola De Marco.

The Eistein Lecture 2014 - 'Pocket Astrophysics' with Orsola De Marco.

Everyone loves her ― please watch it for the love of astrophysics.

https://youtu.be/SJo6aqIBSc8

#StellarEvolution #Astrophysics #OrsolaDeMarco #PowerhouseMuseum #Physics

2) Write 2x 2500±10% word essays, each one on a separate virus. E.g., SARS-CoV-2 and HIV, or Novovirus and Influenza Virus, etc.

Use at minimum 15 peer-reviewed articles references.

Use appropriate scientific language and terminology. Generally passive and impersonal writing.

Absolutely write this without using AI/LLMs, Grammarly, or the like. Consider the use of AI/Grammarly/etc as automatic academic failure.

2/

#Viruses #Virology #VincentRacaniello

If you want to get an excellent understanding of viruses and infections, without needing to go through university, for your own enjoyment of growing and sharing knowledge.
This is my recommendation:

1) Complete the youtube university lecture series `Virology' by Vincent Racaniello. 25 lectures, he uploads to not only teach his class but teach the public for free.

https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLGhmZX2NKiNktEViriylQ3haM_a_kAfbk

Recommended prereq: 1000 level bio ― introduction to biology.

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#Viruses #Virology #VincentRacaniello

Professor Ian Durham gives the Year in Physics his review for 2025.

FQXi is the foundational questions institute. One of, if not, the **best** Physics podcast, I know.

If you want to keep up with interesting and unique physics (fundamental physics) this is the podcast you really want to listen to!

:clippy: Listen to their podcasts from their website directly or subscribe on their podcast channels on your respective podcast client.

https://forums.fqxi.org/d/4496-the-year-in-physics-review-2025

#FQXi #Physics #YearInReview2025