Gregg Easterbrook

"The Blue Age" in bookstores now. Starred review, Kirkus: "Outstanding." Suitably quirky All Predictions Wrong now at Substack. TMQ has returned in same place.

[Gregg Easterbrook @EasterbrookG]

Trump just called for a big commitment to U.S. shipbuilding. Yet another instance of ripped-from-the-pages-of-today’s-headlines for my 2021 book THE BLUE AGE.

[NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day @apod]

Over 1000 years ago, Persian astronomer Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi published humanity’s oldest known record of the Andromeda Galaxy in "The Book of Fixed Stars" (Bodleian Library MS. Marsh 144 p. 167).

800 years later, Andromeda became the 31st entry in Charles Messier’s "Catalogue of Nebulae and Star Clusters".

From “a small cloud” to “nebula” and now known to be our nearest major galaxy, Andromeda has remained a fundamental astronomical object.

Today’s image, taken over 202 hours, shows how far we have come in our ability to observe our neighbor. The diffuse red and blue clouds are mostly foreground ionized hydrogen and oxygen well within our Milky Way.

Pink-red clouds of hydrogen ionized by the energetic light of young stars trace the galaxy’s dusty spiral arms. M32 and M110 are satellite galaxies pictured orbiting the larger Andromeda.

Despite its long history of observation through ancient unaided eyes to modern telescopes, Andromeda still holds countless secrets that astronomers will continue to search for, including how galaxies merge and evolve, as well as the nature of the dark matter that galaxies reside in.

Image Credit & Copyright: Nick Fritz
Text: Keighley Rockcliffe (NASA GSFC, UMBC CSST, CRESST II)

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@DangeRussWilson @NFLonCBS @CBSSports @NFL @ciara it's nice to see a wealthy person express gratitude

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Bears fans saying "oh no"
https://t.co/GnmlAUaPU1

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@DavidScottAZ @deadlyweapns thanks!

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@NASASpaceAlerts @NASA third large meteor above North America in a week. No, I'm not worried...

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could this actually be a case of politicians having enough spine to say "no" to NFL subsidy demands?
https://t.co/4hHTYpSPcw

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Terrific new Atlantic piece from @imkahloon
https://t.co/LqWdaUGoST

Recalls terrific Atlantic piece on same topic by Michael Kinsley 2010

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Seems $225 million doesn’t buy what it used to
https://t.co/4RHjolJyV4

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@pensandpoison If I had to list threats to Western Civilization it would be:

1) Trump

2) the Iowa Writers Workshop

[Liza Libes @pensandpoison]

You want to know why kids aren’t reading books anymore? Here is an actual statement from the National Council of Teachers of English.

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3/3 more at https://t.co/zIfefYHVuK. If X throttles the link, google “Easterbrook All Predictions Wrong”

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1/3 AI is about to make book burning invisible

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2/3 will criticism of the powerful start disappearing from ebooks and online writing?

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Stalin thought medical science should be able to keep him alive indefinitely. The Doctors Plot persecutions were triggered by his anger that doctors could not reverse aging. https://t.co/bfsChLLRkx via @WSJ

[McKay Coppins @mckaycoppins]

Mitt Romney to Harvard Business School graduates: "There's more to a country than its economy. To be a great nation, it must also be a good nation. The world needs good men. It needs good women. Good leaders. Good parents raising good children. There is no national success that could compensate for failure to be a good and noble people."

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@wonderofscience More amazing: over 4.6 billion years, the Sun has burned only about 0.07% of its original mass.

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@JScripko more details of this on substack

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Musk’s mega-rocket had its 12th flight. Starship is a fascinating project but flight did not reach orbit.
Seems unlikely as NASA claims that 2027 will see an Artemis III mission in which a crew practices the rendezvous maneuver with a Starship in orbit.

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@TheCinesthetic great movie start to finish

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News flash – EVERY public school teacher or sports coach spends his or her own money to help students. Kudos to Teddy Bridgewater! https://t.co/4VDeC19KUh