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How to add a cryptocurrency address to your Twitter profile
Bitcoin and Ethereum get top billing. Twitter gives cryptocurrency some prime real estate, so you might as well take advantage of it. The social media platform lets users add their Bitcoin and Ethereum cryptocurrency wallet addresses to their profile pages — making it easy for people to send them crypto payments. However, as users can…
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Researchers Discover Biggest Galaxy Ever
✖Researchers at Leiden University in The Netherlands are attributing a “stroke of luck” for helping discover the largest galaxy on record. A team led by university PhD student Martijn Oei managed to discover a radio galaxy at least 16 million lightyears long, or roughly 100 Milky Way galaxies lined up one after another.”The picture of…
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Imaging the Galaxy’s Centre in Unprecedented Detail Reveals More Mysterious Filaments
The inner 600 light years of our galaxy is a maelstrom of cosmic radiation, turbulent swirling gas clouds, intense star formation, supernovae, huge bubbles of radio energy, and of course a giant supermassive black hole. This bustling downtown of the Milky Way is a potential treasure trove of discovery but has been difficult to study…
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Can you solve it? An Oxford University admissions question
Hands on buzzersToday’s puzzle concerns contestants in a fictitious game show trying to win £1m. It was also once given to a different sort of contestant competing for a different sort of prize: candidates applying to study joint philosophy degrees at Oxford university.The teenagers were hoping to study PPE (politics, philosophy and economics), Maths and…
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Peace has led to more deforestation in Colombia
The consequences of peace and armed conflict for deforestation depend on the location, reports a new publication in Frontiers in Environmental Science. Using Colombia as a case study, this work presents one of the most comprehensive studies to date comparing forest loss to drivers such as coca cultivation and cattle farming during periods of peace…
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Famous billionaire investor says Bitcoin is ‘going to zero’
A billionaire legacy investor predicted that the price of Bitcoin is ‘going to zero’, and said the crypto market is a ‘disease’. Continue reading at TweakTown >Read original article here.
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Want to Arrest Inflation? There’s a Simple, Bipartisan Solution
It’s not if the inflation problem will be solved, but which political party will wake up to what is good economic policy, and by extension brilliant politics.Read original article here.Written by: John Tamny
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Some school systems pause diversity programs amid pushback
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) — Conservative takeovers of local school boards have already altered lessons on race and social injustice in many classrooms. Now some districts are finding their broader efforts on diversity, equity and inclusion are also being challenged. As her Colorado school district’s equity director, Alexis Knox-Miller thought the work she and a…
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Co-founder of San Francisco recall campaign says on CNN vote was about ‘incompetence’
Autumn Looijen, co-founder of the Recall SF School Board campaign, said Saturday on CNN’s “Smerconish” that the firing of three San Francisco school board members was over “incompetence,” while others have argued the vote was a condemnation of progressive politics.Read original article here.Written by: Hanna Panreck