Gary S

[Math Files @Math_files]

Ukrainian mathematician Maryna Viazovska solved a problem that had puzzled mathematicians for over 400 years. Even Johannes Kepler and Isaac Newton couldn’t crack it.

We live in a three-dimensional world, but Maryna solved a puzzle in an eight-dimensional space—something that’s very hard even to imagine.

She was born in Kyiv, studied at Taras Shevchenko University, worked in Bonn and Berlin, and at just 33 became a professor in Lausanne.

So what was the problem? It’s about how to pack identical spheres as tightly as possible in space. This question was first asked by Kepler back in 1611. Over time, scientists found answers for two and three dimensions—but not for eight.

Maryna proved that in eight dimensions, the densest packing is formed by a special mathematical structure called a lattice. What’s even more amazing is that she did it in just 23 pages, while earlier attempts took hundreds.

In 2022, she was awarded the Fields Medal, the most prestigious prize in mathematics. She became only the second woman in history to receive it.

Today, Maryna Viazovska works in Lausanne, supports Ukrainian mathematicians, and brings pride to Ukraine with her achievements.

[Mr PitBull Stories @MrPitbull07]

Remember Dan Price...that CEO who took a pay cut so he could pay all his employees a minimum annual wage of $70,000? Here’s what happened next:

“Six years later after the decision that others said would destroy his business, Dan reports that revenue has tripled, the customer base has doubled, 70% of his employees have paid down debt, many bought homes for the first time, 401(k) contributions grew by 155% and turnover dropped in half. His business is now a Harvard Business School case study.”

In his own words:
“6 years ago today I raised my company's min annual salary to $70k. Fox News called me a socialist whose employees would be on bread lines.

Since then our revenue tripled, we're a Harvard Business School case study & our employees had a 10x boom in homes bought.

Always invest in people.”

Courtesy of Craig Henley

[All day Astronomy @forallcurious]

Re-entry of Artemis II crew captured by the astronaut in International Space Station

[Curiosity @MAstronomers]

Not AI. That’s really us.

[Physics & Astronomy Zone @zone_astronomy]

The highest quality video of the moon was just released… this is so beautiful.

[visionaryvoid @Visionaryvoid]

In 1971, Soviet geologists drilling for natural gas in the Karakum Desert of Turkmenistan hit a massive underground pocket. The ground collapsed, forming a giant crater nearly 70 meters wide.

Fearing the poisonous methane would spread to nearby villages, they made a simple decision: they set the gas on fire, expecting it to burn out in just a few days.

More than fifty-five years later, the fire is still burning.

The Darvaza Gas Crater, now famous worldwide as the “Door to Hell”, glows with intense orange flames day and night in the middle of the empty desert

[Molly Ploofkins @Mollyploofkins]

Astronauts escape Trump’s orbit

[Garry Kasparov @Kasparov63]

"Ukrainians have a not-so-secret weapon the Russians cannot match: the determination of a democratic nation to stay free." Russians fight as invaders, as tools of a corrupt and brutal dictatorship. Ukrainians fight as free men, for their freedom. They will win. Slava Ukraini! 🇺🇦

[Kendall Baker @kendallbaker]

My cousin captured Artemis takeoff from his flight. So cool

📸: @radddd44

[Occupy Democrats @OccupyDemocrats]

BREAKING: Trump’s birthright citizenship scheme implodes after lawyer’s JAW-DROPPING courtroom blunder about Native Americans.

Donald Trump sent his top lawyer to the Supreme Court to argue that birthright citizenship should be stripped from hundreds of thousands of American-born babies. It went so badly that his own solicitor general nearly argued Native Americans aren't citizens either — and had to be rescued by a Trump-appointed justice.

In one of the most jaw-dropping exchanges of Wednesday's already disastrous hearing, Justice Neil Gorsuch — appointed by Trump himself — pressed Solicitor General D. John Sauer on the logical consequences of the administration's own legal theory. The exchange was as stunning as it was revealing.

Gorsuch asked a simple question: under the administration's proposed test for birthright citizenship, are Native Americans born today automatically citizens?

Sauer's answer was a slow-motion legal train wreck. First, he said yes — obviously. Then Gorsuch pushed him to set aside the statutes granting Native Americans citizenship and answer based purely on the administration's own constitutional theory. Sauer's answer changed: "No." Under the 1868 congressional debates, he explained, children of tribal Indians were not considered birthright citizens.

The courtroom went quiet.

Gorsuch pressed harder. But under your test — the domicile test you want this court to adopt today — are tribal Native Americans born on U.S. soil birthright citizens?

Sauer fumbled. "I think so... I have to think that through, but that's my reaction."

"I'll take the yes," Gorsuch replied — essentially throwing the solicitor general a life preserver before he could drown any further.

Let's be absolutely clear about what just happened. The Trump administration walked into the highest court in the land with a legal theory so sweeping, so poorly thought through, that when a justice applied it logically, the government's own lawyer couldn't guarantee that Native Americans — people whose nations existed on this continent thousands of years before the United States did — would qualify as birthright citizens.

This is the constitutional chaos that Trump's executive order invites. Once you start unraveling the 14th Amendment's guarantee that all persons born on American soil are citizens, there is no clean stopping point. The administration's own lawyer proved that in real time, in front of the entire nation, while Trump was still in the building — before he turned tail and fled.

The 14th Amendment was written to be clear precisely because America had already lived through the horror of deciding that some people born here weren't really citizens. The Supreme Court has upheld birthright citizenship for 157 years.

And Trump's lawyer just demonstrated, in spectacular fashion, exactly why those 157 years of precedent exist.

Please like and share this post if you believe the Constitution means what it says — for everyone born on American soil.

[Philippe T @brain_stimulus]

⚡ EXCEPTIONNEL !

🤩Le « Yosemite Firefall » se produit lorsque le soleil couchant illumine Horsetail Fall sur le bord est d'El Capitan, donnant l'impression qu'elle brille comme de la lave en fusion. Ce phénomène naturel dure environ 10 à 15 minutes, se produisant généralement pendant les deux dernières semaines de février, à condition que le ciel soit clair et que la fonte de la neige soit suffisante. 

L'effet se produit lorsque le soleil frappe la cascade sous l'angle parfait, créant une illusion brillante et rouge-orangée, semblable au feu. Comme il dépend de conditions météorologiques, d'eau et d'éclairage spécifiques, c'est un spectacle rare et fugace, bien qu'il se produise généralement autour du 21 février, comme indiqué dans les rapports de 2026. Février 2026 marque également le début de l'Année du Cheval de Feu!

[Pink Floyd 💎 @Just_pinkfloyd]

When you want to play your guitar but your dad is that guy from pink floyd 🎸🎸

[Katie @KatieShapiro1]

Central Park this afternoon. I couldn’t believe my luck!! ⁦@BirdCentralPark⁩ ⁦@fox5ny⁩

[Weather Monitor @WeatherMonitors]

Central Park in New York City today after the blizzard.

[Gary S @GaryBlueEyes]

@laparadadelcine Scanners...!

[Mr PitBull Stories @MrPitbull07]

I was in Tokyo recently on a business trip.

I accidentally left my brand new MacBook on a park bench in Tokyo. I realized it 3 hours later.
I sprinted back, panic mode fully engaged, assuming it was gone forever.
It wasn't there.
I asked a nearby shopkeeper. He pointed to the bench.
Someone had placed my laptop inside a plastic grocery bag and taped it to the bench so it wouldn't get wet in the drizzle.
They didn't take it. They protected it.
Culture is what you do when no one is watching.

What do you think would happen in your country if the same thing happened?