Rachel ππ·οΈβ¬ Armstrong
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Professor of Regenerative Architecture, Department of Architecture, Campus Sint-Lucas, Ghent/Brussels, KU Leuven @livingarch π¦
Belgium
Joined July 2009
The church tried to co-opt it. The Soviets tried to ban it. Today, Ukraine's oldest New Year's celebration, Malanka, is making a comeback. It's a night when social scripts are flipped. Men dress up as women, the dead come to visit, and what's forbidden is allowed. And central
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This is what the night sky on Mars looks like. At night, Mars reveals a breathtaking sky filled with more visible stars than on Earth. Because the Martian atmosphere is extremely thin, the stars appear sharper, brighter, and more intense, with little distortion. Mars is also
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Happy New Year @alexisphero @anatarahes @asquins20021 wishing you a wonderful and very prosperous 2026 π€π€π₯
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After 48 years of travel, NASA 's Voyager 1 is nearing one light-day from Earth, almost 16 billion miles away. A proud milestone for humanity, and a humbling reminder of how small we are in an infinite universe.
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Japan develops spherical solar cells that capture light from all directions. Japan has highlighted a solar technology called Sphelar, developed by Kyosemi Corporation, that uses tiny spherical silicon solar cells instead of flat panels. Each cell is about 1-2 millimeters wide
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FΓ‘bio Gomes Trindade, a Brazilian street artist, is celebrated for blending street art with nature, incorporating branches and flowers as living parts of his murals https://t.co/TwS5Qvx1oI
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This is the original version of Hound Dog by Big Mama Thornton
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He sat in a mansion built for children who would never come, and he decided that silence would not be the end of the story. In 1909, in the company town of Hershey, Pennsylvania, Milton Hershey was forty-three years old and wildly successful. His chocolate company was thriving.
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πΊ Chinaβs Flying TV is here β and itβs mind-blowing. π€― I still canβt get over this. A drone-powered LED display that hovers mid-air, turning the sky into a living, moving screen. Not a drone. Not a billboard. Something entirely new. This is both β fused, intelligent, and
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Finland's underground data centers heat entire city blocks using server waste heat In Finland, several data-centres now feed their waste heat into municipal district-heating networks instead of simply dumping it into the air. For example, waste heat generated by data-centre
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Japan has successfully tested a system that generates electricity in space and transmits it wirelessly back to Earth. Solar panels placed in orbit collected energy and sent it to a ground station using microwave transmission. Once received on Earth, the microwave energy was
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Heaven! Hope you're both doing brilliantly - I hope you had an amazing Christmas and that your New Year is just > awesome π€π₯π
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Meanwhile ... in China π€
A student just sent a humanoid robot to collect his diploma β and I canβt stop thinking about it. In China, a teen built a robot that walked the stage, shook hands, and graduated for him. At first, it seemed funny. Then it felt like a wake-up call. Weβre still teaching students
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A student just sent a humanoid robot to collect his diploma β and I canβt stop thinking about it. In China, a teen built a robot that walked the stage, shook hands, and graduated for him. At first, it seemed funny. Then it felt like a wake-up call. Weβre still teaching students
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Neuroscientist Anil Seth says the idea that AI is on the path to consciousness is a reflection of our psychological biases, not fact We confuse intelligence (doing the right thing) with consciousness (having an experience) "they coexist in us, but not necessarily in machines"
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You gotta love it! Look at that perfect sync between the dancers and the music and these changes of scenery! π₯π₯π₯
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