Throbbin Thicke

-- If you ain't dyin' - You ain't livin' --

[Throbbin Thicke @JesusCreest]

This looks fun.

[Interesting Engineering @IntEngineering]

A carbon dioxide blasting system is inserted into a drilled hole and triggered to release a controlled pressure burst that fractures rock from within — a safer, quieter, and more precise alternative to traditional explosive blasting used in quarries and construction sites.

🎥 peijieri / IG

[Throbbin Thicke @JesusCreest]

This is cool, but also made me sad for the tree.

Like, what if some robot grabbed you, picked you up, ripped all your limbs, then just tossed you aside in 3 seconds.

[Interesting Engineering @IntEngineering]

A forestry harvester clamps onto a full-grown tree, cuts it at the base, and strips every branch as it feeds the trunk through its head — reducing an entire tree to a clean log in one continuous motion.

🎥 metsatalous / IG

[World of Statistics @stats_feed]

🧠 Smarter people are better at ditching old habits for better ideas.

A new study found that individuals with higher intelligence are significantly more likely to switch to novel solutions, especially when those new approaches are superior to what they already know.

[Throbbin Thicke @JesusCreest]

Hell Yeah

[World of Gadgets @nerds_feed]

The most bad-ass water gun

[Throbbin Thicke @JesusCreest]

PineappCOOL

[Interesting Engineering @IntEngineering]

When a 1000°C iron ball touches pineapple skin the moisture vaporizes instantly forming a protective steam layer. This Leidenfrost effect lets the skin resist extreme heat without burning. Makes you wonder if pineapple skin could inspire future heat shields.

#LeidenfrostEffect #ThermalScience #PineapplePhysics #HeatResistance

[Throbbin Thicke @JesusCreest]

Tight

[Archaeo - Histories @archeohistories]

Captain Robert Knox was an English sea captain in the service of the British East India Company who became famous for his nineteen-year captivity on the island of Ceylon (modern-day Sri Lanka). After his ship, the Anne, was forced ashore during a storm in 1659, Knox and his crew were detained by Rajasinghe II, the King of Kandy.

While he lived under a form of loose house arrest, even establishing himself as a farmer and knitter, he spent nearly two decades observing the local culture, flora, and geography before successfully escaping to a Dutch fort in 1679.

Upon his return to London, Knox published An Historical Relation of the Island Ceylon in 1681, which remains one of the most significant early European accounts of the region. Within this work, he provided one of the first detailed English descriptions of the "strange intoxicating herb.”

He noted its medicinal and psychoactive properties, describing how it was used to alleviate pain and induce sleep. His observations caught the attention of the scientific community, most notably his friend Robert Hooke, who presented Knox’s samples and findings to the Royal Society, marking a pivotal moment in the Western botanical study of the plant.

#archaeohistories

[Throbbin Thicke @JesusCreest]

Wow. Ridiculous.

Completely destroying a $368 million deep sea data collection system meant to last another 10 years.

Seemingly only to be able to further deny the effects of climate change, and avoid the data it collects from harming the fossil fuel industry.

[Tara Blume @tcblume]

Science gasps for breath. They are removing all the ocean monitors to understand changes in currents and climate, and the excuse is a master class in obfuscation & double speak . (1/2) https://t.co/vs782YbcI3

[Throbbin Thicke @JesusCreest]

Smart

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

How different color combinations impact kitchen design with overlays.

[Throbbin Thicke @JesusCreest]

Beaut

[Black Hole @konstructivizm]

The Robin's Egg Nebula: A Star’s Beautiful Farewell
Behold NGC 1360, famously known as the Robin's Egg Nebula — one of the most striking planetary nebulae in the southern sky. This glowing cosmic jewel marks the final chapter in the life of a Sun-like star. As the star dies, it gently puffs off its outer layers of gas, creating a delicate, expanding shell that we see today as a luminous cloud. Located in the constellation Fornax, the nebula lies about 1,500 light-years from Earth and stretches roughly 3 light-years across — a perfect, oval-shaped masterpiece floating in https://t.co/GqJiMXCugh its heart sits an incredibly hot white dwarf star, blazing with intense ultraviolet radiation. This fierce energy ionizes the surrounding gas, making it glow in vivid shades of blue-green and soft pink, reminiscent of a delicate robin's egg.

[Throbbin Thicke @JesusCreest]

Woah

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Green acrylic on canvas.

[Throbbin Thicke @JesusCreest]

This kid reminds me a lot of myself

[Kevín @KevOnStage]

A 9 year old rapping about 9 year old things.

[Throbbin Thicke @JesusCreest]

Want

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Julian Voss-Andreae is a quantum physicist-turned-sculptor.

His work is heavily influenced by his background in science and his blending figurative sculptures can vanish in front of our eyes.

[Throbbin Thicke @JesusCreest]

Feels like he's planning on never leaving office, but its his actions limiting, restricting, and manipulating the free press that are scaring me the most.

The Nexstar-Tegnap Acquisition and Paramount's purchase of Warner Bros. Discovery including CNN.

Scary stuff.

[Chris Murphy 🟧 @ChrisMurphyCT]

These days I’m at a loss for words. The new corruption scandal is just bananas. Trump has been using inside information to trade stocks and make millions. And the scale of the trading is just mind blowing.

Here’s what we know.

[Throbbin Thicke @JesusCreest]

Cool

[Black Hole @konstructivizm]

James Webb Telescope Unveils a Cosmic Monster: A Black Hole Twice as Massive as Its Entire Galaxy's StarsImagine peering back to when the Universe was just a toddler—only 700 million years after the Big Bang—and finding a ravenous black hole that's already outweighing the stars around it. That's exactly what the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has done with its latest groundbreaking discovery.

The object, nicknamed Abell 2744-QSO1, belongs to a puzzling class of early-Universe enigmas known as "Little Red Dots". These tiny, intensely red objects have baffled astronomers since JWST first spotted them. They glow brightly in infrared light, hinting at something powerful hidden inside. Now, for the first time, scientists have directly measured the mass of the supermassive black hole lurking at the heart of one—and the results are rewriting the story of how the first galaxies and black holes formed.

A Perfect Cosmic Lens
This Little Red Dot sits so far away that its light has traveled over 13 billion years to reach us. Thanks to a gravitational assist from the massive galaxy cluster Abell 2744 (also called Pandora's Cluster), the distant object appears magnified and duplicated into three separate images. This natural "cosmic lens" gave astronomers an unprecedentedly clear view.Using JWST's powerful NIRSpec instrument, researchers mapped the swirling gas in the galaxy. The gas orbits the center in orderly Keplerian motion—like planets circling the Sun—revealing a hidden gravitational giant at its core.

The Shocking NumbersThe black hole clocks in at a staggering 50 million times the mass of our Sun. But here's the real jaw-dropper: this monster makes up about two-thirds of the total mass of its host system and is more than twice as heavy as all the stars in its galaxy https://t.co/Zg4kpr3tid today's mature galaxies, supermassive black holes are usually just a small fraction of the stellar mass. Here, in the infant Universe, the black hole seems to have grown first—and grown fast—while the surrounding stars lagged far behind. The entire compact galaxy spans only about 1,300 light-years, making it a dense, fiery nursery for cosmic evolution.
What This Means for the Early UniverseThis discovery suggests that some supermassive black holes may have formed before their host galaxies fully developed, gobbling up material at an extraordinary rate in the chaotic early cosmos. It challenges traditional models of galaxy formation and adds fuel to the debate about how these giants appeared so quickly after the Big https://t.co/B2QQfWW3GD JWST continues to probe more Little Red Dots, we may finally understand the birth of the first supermassive black holes and the structures that would eventually become the galaxies we see today.This isn't just another distant speck—it's a window into one of the Universe's most dramatic origin stories. The cosmos keeps surprising us, and Webb is only getting started.

[Rep. Mike Levin @RepMikeLevin]

Not enough people are talking about this.

A Florida airport was renamed after Donald Trump. He walked away with the trademark, the licensing rights, and a deal that lets him profit off every piece of merchandise sold there.

But the story of how he got it is even worse.

County staff told commissioners that rejecting the name change would put state transportation funding at risk. DeSantis has already removed state attorneys and school board members who dared to cross him. That is the reality the Democratic commissioner who cast the deciding vote was living in when she made her choice: hand Donald Trump control of a public airport or watch Florida Republicans strip funding from the very people she was elected to represent.

That is absolutely insane.

Florida Republicans handed Trump a money machine and called it a naming rights deal, and the people of Palm Beach County never got a say in any of it.
https://t.co/M2nm9qFXc8

[Throbbin Thicke @JesusCreest]

Same idea but with Maglev.

[Interesting Engineering @IntEngineering]

The CeiliX InfinityCranes by CeiliX Technology GmbH makes it simple and easy to move large items around an industrial space, without taking up floor space that could be used for other purposes.

[Throbbin Thicke @JesusCreest]

This is an amazing evolutionary trait, like, you stressed out...??

Feel like you picked the wrong career...??

Just turn back into a baby and do a Billy Madison.

[Earth @earthcurated]

The immortal jellyfish (Turritopsis dohrnii) can hit the reset button on its life. When stressed or aging, it shrinks back into a baby polyp stage and starts over. Biologically immortal.🪼

[Throbbin Thicke @JesusCreest]

Apparently agave is not used to make wigs.

Regardless, the robotics in this video are WILD

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Inside the factory: from spiky agave to luxury wigs

[Throbbin Thicke @JesusCreest]

Awesome.

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

A LEGO creator in Japan built a fully automated paper-airplane machine from scratch.

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Until March 2025, Saturn had 146 known moons, then astronomers discovered 139 new ones, bringing the ringed gas giant's total up to 285 moons, far beyond any other planet in our Solar System.

This is the coreography of their dance.

[🎞️ thebrainmaze]