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Kathy D farms, raises kids, cows, organic food, clean energy in Big Stone Co MN.

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@itsme_urstruly You mean laying in bed reading Nancy Drew mysteries and eating black jelly beans until I'm nauseous?

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@shagbark_hick @midwestern_ope I live 100 miles south of Fargo. I've been all over the world and if I never had to leave my prairie home, I'd never go anywhere else.

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@Elisabethmngirl @midwestern_ope Wait. Aren't we both from A? Oh..I get it. Misleading people so they don't all rush to A. 😏

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@midwestern_ope Yay! I'm from Clinton Minnesota!

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Hey!! I'm Clinton MN. Pop. 375! Great place!

[Midwest vs. The Rest @midwestern_ope]

A road trip to every “Clinton” in the Midwest

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My night skies are pristine and precious. May they remain so in the clean energy future .

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I’m always amazed at how few people seem to appreciate the sky. It’s literally a pleasure to watch the clouds, the ever changing colours of the horizon, the stars, the sun, and the moon.

[Michael F Ozaki MD @brontyman]

@ramblingsloa @ProudDoggieMom

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@ramblingsloa That's where I live out on the prairie. I have a Bobolink following and singing to me. 🥹💕

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That's today. Watering plants, coffee break with family, songbirds,.and the sound of the prairie breeze in the trees.

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I think one of the most underrated feelings in life is looking around and realizing:

“This ordinary day is actually a pretty good one.”

[Matt Stamper 🐍 @Sneketoshi]

I want to introduce you to Steve. He’s 83. His wife died a few months ago and he comes to this lodge in Spring Mill, Indiana and draws. He taught art in Terre Haute, IN his whole life. He also did courtroom sketches in court cases. In the comments I’ll share some pics from his sketchbook. He was excited when I said I was going to share his sketches with the world.

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20 years ago I met an elderly man here in Big Stone County. He cried as he recounted his family drawing straw on which boy would leave the house (not able to support them all). Hebrew the short straw at 13 years old and left with a loaf of bread to walk north. Kindness saved him.

[Science Magazine @ScienceMagazine]

A new Science study shows that bumble bees can position a ball underneath a fake “flower” to reach a reward, suggesting they can exhibit spontaneous problem-solving and challenging the notion that such advanced cognitive abilities are exclusive to large-brained vertebrates.

Learn more: https://t.co/T964qkIQzx

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First ever photograph of a newly hatched electrician (with the eggshell still on top of his head) 😂

[The Wild North @TheWildNorthTV]

A handsome bull moose having dinner in a marsh 🫎 Superior National Forest

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@itsme_urstruly All the time. I live on the remote prairie.

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Carb free all day, then... I stumbled upon the s'mores 🙄

[Dr David Unwin @lowcarbGP]

Yet another case of drug free T2 Diabetes remission🥳 He just stopped eating the foods that put up his blood sugar (yes carbs) Dramatic weight loss, no hunger as low carb stimulates NATURAL GLP-1 production Well done that guy!! @StevenBartlett @drchatterjeeuk

[Vincent Ledvina @Vincent_Ledvina]

You might see this picture and think "Okay so how far south will we see the aurora?" or "When will I see aurora in Alabama?" (Yes, I got a message about five seconds after the flare asking me exactly this question!)

While the event is still developing (this is literally a live image), first indications are that no significant CME (or really anything at all) was produced by this otherwise noteworthy M9.3 solar flare!

A solar flare is just light--the solar flare scale goes from A-B-C-M-X with each letter corresponding to a level of x-ray flux 10x higher than the last. An M1 is 10x stronger than a C1 and 100x stronger than a B1 flare. X-ray flux... sounds confusing, right?! What the heck even is that?

Well, x-rays are a form of light just like visible or infrared light, and solar flares release a lot of x-rays! They also release light in other wavelengths, too but they are strongly peaked in the x-ray range which is why we measure them to get the flare strength. Flux is just the amount of x-ray light passing through a given area. If you look at the units on the side of the GOES x-ray plot, it says watts / m^2 or power/area.

Why does this matter? At the most basic level, auroras are produced by particles from Earth's magnetic field, largely seeded by the solar wind, entering our atmosphere and reacting with upper-level gases to produce vislble light emissions in specific wavelengths (e.g., red, green, blue, etc.). If flares are light and auroras are produced by particles... flares can't produce aurora.

For a flare to even relate to the aurora, we need it to produce a coronal mass ejection, or CME. CME = Coronal Mass Ejection, or a large explosion of solar material (mass from the corona) into space. If a CME is a cannon ball, then a flare is like lighting the gunpowder, sending the cannon ball into the air (space), potentially at the Earth. In this case, no CME (or at least no major CME, there could be some minor dribble) was launched, so we don't expect any aurora from this strong solar flare!

So, when you see a large solar flare and SpaceWeatherLive and all your aurora apps are firing away, it's okay to get excited as long as you know literally nothing may have launched from the active region at Earth. Above around >X5, almost every flare *does* have a CME, though the direction and magnitude also can't be determined until you take a look at the imagery yourself or wait for CME modelers to step in. In this case, there is not even a CME to analyze, so we wait for the next solar flare and cross our fingers this active region has some juice in the tank to give us a solar storm to prepare for. For now, it's all bark and no bite!

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@midwestern_ope Two sticks in an interior cupboard (cannot be on an exterior wall in the winter - right?!), 4#'s in the fridge butter penthouse (yes, it fits 4#s), the remaining 20#s in the basement deep freeze. We buy butter by the case off the grocery store circular. And eat 1+ stick per day.

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@itsme_urstruly Yes! I have three orders of mammals in my house! Primates, felines, and canine!

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The mother otter proudly showing off her baby while the dad showed off a rock 🦦🪨