Matt Willemsen @Nonog@fedibird.com

@Mary625 @qurlyjoe @RickiTarr Never can get enough of that PowerPoint!

https://www.businessinsider.com/retirement-401k-savings-advice-grow-contribution-biden-increase-commissions-2023-10

Biden Threatens to Veto 'Poison Pill' Israel Aid Bill https://www.mediaite.com/politics/politicizing-aid-to-israel-biden-threatens-to-veto-poison-pill-republican-legislation-to-strip-irs-funding/

https://www.voanews.com/a/afghan-journalists-in-pakistan-concerned-as-deadline-for-deportation-looms/7335598.html

Interesting article but the author knows pumpkin pie just about as much as the Japanese. Kabocha is never spiced, so most kabocha dishes are bland. I've been using kabocha for pumpkin pie since forever - canned pumpkin is expensive and hard to get - and it's wonderful. Just remember to spice up that kabocha.

What’s Weird about Japanese Halloween
Happy Halloween! The Japanese bring their own twists to October 31
https://www.thedailybeast.com/whats-weird-about-japanese-halloween #Japan #Halloween #culture #Nonalog #pumpkin #kabocha

NASA captures image of eerie ‘ghost hand’ in space
NASA captures image of eerie ‘ghost hand’ in space
https://bgr.com/science/nasa-captures-image-of-eerie-ghost-hand-in-space/ #NASA #XRay #space #hand #nebula

Sex-obsessed site run by House Speaker's wife suddenly goes dark
A website run by the wife of House Speaker Mike Johnson disappeared yesterday.
https://boingboing.net/2023/10/31/sex-obsessed-site-run-by-house-speakers-wife-suddenly-goes-dark.html #MikeJohnson #speaker #wife #website

The Viral Threat Almost No One Is Thinking About
Flu viruses and coronavirus started the last few pandemics. Could the next one be a paramyxovirus?
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2023/10/paramyxovirus-next-pandemic-flu-covid/675785/
#pandemic #virus #flu #SARS #MERS #coronavirus #measles #Hendra #nipah #CanineDistemper #paramyxovirus

No Hurricane Has Been Known To Cross the Equator?
Snopes found evidence of this claim circulating online since at least 2003.
Claim: No hurricane has been known to cross the equator.
Rating: True
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/no-hurricane-known-to-cross-equator/ #hurricanes #equator #CoriolisEffect #sharpie

The Largest-Ever Simulation of The Universe Could Finally Reveal How We Got Here
How did the incomprehensibly immense everything of it all get to where it is now, from an unimaginable nothing, billions of years ago?
That's it, really, the question of questions. And, with the largest project of its kind to date, astronomers are attempting to find answers – by conducting computer simulations of the entire Universe.
https://www.sciencealert.com/the-largest-ever-simulation-of-the-universe-could-finally-reveal-how-we-got-here #universe #simulation #FLAMINGO #DiRAC #SWIFT #S8 tension

Microsoft Windows 95 Video Guide with Jennifer Aniston & Matthew Perry | (VHS) 1995
Whether you are a PC rookie or an experienced user looking to upgrade, this hilarious how-to readies you for Windows 95. Created with Microsoft, the Windows 95 Video Guide is your ticket to personal computing in the 21st century.
And who better to drive you than Jennifer Aniston and Matthew Perry, TV’s hottest comedy stars as they go interactive with a cast of wacky propeller heads.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ypXfodOu-s #video #Windows95 #Microsoft #JenniferAniston #MatthewPerry

Galápagos Giant Tortoises Are Ecosystem Engineers
A decades-long project shows how the reptiles are changing the island of Española
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/galapagos-giant-tortoises-are-ecosystem-engineers-180983101/ #Galápagos #GiantTortoises #Ecosystem #Engineers #WavedAlbatross #ecological #architects

AI Meets Its Match: The Butterfly Effect
Artificial intelligence algorithms fail to account for a key limitation in weather prediction.
https://eos.org/research-spotlights/ai-meets-its-match-the-butterfly-effect #AI #weather #prediction #butterfly #effect #tiny #perturbations

Minerals in ancient meteorites offer insights into the origin of most of the Earth's surface
Dr. Alice Stephant, an astrophysicist, is helping to solve a longstanding mystery about water on Earth: where it came from.
She has produced research that suggests the chemical components of water—hydrogen and oxygen—could have come from the giant cloud of dust and gas that gave rise to Earth's solar system.
https://phys.org/news/2023-10-minerals-ancient-meteorites-insights-earth.html #meteorites #Earth #surface #water #SolarSystem #Primitive #Achondrites

What is ‘fried rice syndrome’? A microbiologist explains this type of food poisoning – and how to avoid it
A condition dubbed “fried rice syndrome” has caused some panic online in recent days, after the case of a 20-year-old who died in 2008 was resurfaced on TikTok.
“Fried rice syndrome” refers to food poisoning from a bacterium called Bacillus cereus, which becomes a risk when cooked food is left at room temperature for too long.
https://theconversation.com/what-is-fried-rice-syndrome-a-microbiologist-explains-this-type-of-food-poisoning-and-how-to-avoid-it-216536 #FriedRiceSyndrome #FoodPoisoning #BacillusCereus #diarrhoea #vomiting

A chunk of the moon appears to be orbiting near Earth, new study suggests
The asteroid Kamo'oalewa may have been ejected by a massive impact on Earth's moon, a new simulation has revealed.
https://www.livescience.com/space/asteroids/a-chunk-of-the-moon-appears-to-be-orbiting-near-earth-new-study-suggests #asteroid #Kamooalewa #moon #earth #orbit #collision