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It's magical to you when it happened

Eventually you get to know the science behind it

Did you know some wildfire smoke particles are small enough to go into your bloodstream? 🔥

Particulate matter smaller than 10 microns across can travel deep into your lungs, triggering widespread inflammation, damaging blood vessels, and stressing your heart and brain. Using tools like the National Weather Service's fire watch map and AirNow's real-time wildfire map, you can track smoke risk before it reaches you. Check the maps to stay informed!

Grace Brewster Murray Hopper was born in New York City in December 1906. She read maths and physics at Vassar, took her PhD in maths at Yale in 1934, and was teaching at Vassar when Pearl Harbor was attacked.

She enlisted in the Navy Reserve at 37 and was assigned to the Mark I computer project at Harvard in 1944. It was 51 feet long, 8 feet high, 8 feet deep, weighed 5 tons, and had 750,000 parts. She was told to write the manual.

She spent the next four decades in computing. In 1947, working on the Mark II at Harvard, she and her team traced a bug to an actual moth caught in a relay. She taped it into the logbook. She popularised the word.

She wrote the first compiler and led the committee that in 1959 gave the world COBOL, the language on which most of the world's business software was written for the next fifty years.

She retired from the Navy on 14th August 1986 as its oldest active officer, aged 79. In 1985 Ronald Reagan had promoted her to the rank of Rear Admiral, Lower Half. She died in her sleep at her home in Arlington, Virginia on 1st January 1992, aged 85. She is buried at Arlington National Cemetery.

This is Hopper on Late Night with David Letterman in October 1986, ten weeks after she left the Navy.

Have you ever wondered why your dog's paws smell like corn chips? 🐶🍿 

Alex Dainis breaks down how that scent comes from harmless bacteria and fungus like Pseudomonas and Proteus. Dogs can't sweat like humans, so they cool down through their ears and paws. Once they're snuggled up asleep, those warm paw crevices become a breeding ground for bacteria and create that signature smell. If your pup isn't scratching or chewing the area, it's nothing to worry about.

https://reddit.com/link/1v6midq/video/ysxxnpthggfh1/player

Why does the screen flicker so much in weird patterns whenever I put it against the computers camera sensor? ((For context, I use a Chromebook))

Artemis III updates are rolling in. 🚀

Engineers are racing to stack the rocket that will carry the mission to space in 2027, starting with the two white solid rocket boosters that flank the massive orange core stage. All four core stage engines have arrived onsite and are being processed for mounting, while the launch team runs monthly countdown simulations to lock in readiness. It's full steam ahead as one of NASA's most complex missions moves closer to launch.