First Sonifications of @NASAWebb Images

 Link to FB Reel

Unbanned

 The banned books are now universally available (link).

Powers of Ten, Revisited

Try it; you’ll like it! 

Gorgeous ‘57 Chevy, Restored

 

Weak Thunderheads Go Up South of Norman

 

The Phantom Galaxy in Infrared and Visible Light

 

Click for higher-resolution image.  

Webb photo: The rings are real!

The six-way cross is a JWST artifact, but those rings aren’t just photo artifacts; they’re real!

Lookin’ South from Dallas at Night

 

Link to Story

Vidi, Vidi, Vidi! (pun intended)

My new, much cheaper Cox Communications bundle came with a camera.  I may get another one or two! 

Vidi, Vidi, Vidi!

(Latin: I saw, I saw I saw, 👀

but pronounced “weedy, weedy, weedy” for the lawn gardeners in the group)

Renewables (Solar, Wind) Coming Up Fast

The Ignorant and the Fossilized Howl as Renewables Charge Ahead

Webb and Hubble, Even Better Together

 Article link

O.U., The State Megaversity Just Across Town

University of Oklahoma, Princeton Review Article

Click link above for more. 

Rice University: A Walk on the Wild Side

Rice U., Houston, Rated in Princeton Review 

Top 25 Schools Loved by Their Students

Click “Top 25 …” link above for more. 

Moving to Texas?

Advice for Those Moving to The Lone Star State

US Population: Pretty Sparse West of 100° West

US Population Density by County 

Screenshot

More Population Density Maps from Vividmaps

Here’s a sample …

Metal Asteroid Worth Ten Quintillion US Dollars

All-metal Asteroid Imaged by Hubble 

“16 Psyche,” a Massachusetts-size ball of iron and nickel orbiting between Mars and Jupiter, is a metals bonanza. 

DTDW (Darn Thing Doesn’t Work)

Humor from the Ground Crew 

2020 US Presidential Voting by County

US 2020 Presidential Election by County and Vote Share 

Here’s Your Chance to Join the MOB

 Been There, Done That

No More Over-100F / Over 38C, Please!

 

Some of my family came from SW Oklahoma and lived there long before central air conditioning.  O.O   Thank goodness for improvised swamp coolers, that is, wet bedsheets hung across open windows.  (Works pretty well in the dry, windy air of western Oklahoma.)

Crab Nebula Pulsar

 Big Start Went Boom!

^^ Here’s what’s left.  

Keeping the Chickasaw Language a Living Language

Geneva Holman, Storyteller and Chickasaw Language Speaker

Geneva Holman

Texan :^)

 Texan Definition

They're Movin’ in at OU

 Ahh yes, I remember it well!

January 1968 …

White and Happy in Florida

Poor Little Snowflakes 

Jupiter and Saturn in Broad Daylight

From a Terrestrial Telescope 

Mars Way Back When

Mars with Water 3.5 Billion Years Ago 

Betelgeuse: going, going …

 Betelgeuse is dying, but not yet dead

Aircraft Fuel Systems

 They’ve changed a bit in 50 years

Here’s what one of those fuel systems does for a living

Jet Engine Test:  Old Home Week!

(Big fun at 6:00 in the video)

As Good as It Gets, Lookin’ at Venus

 Clearest Pic of Venus that Exists

Wanna See Some * R E A L * Fireworks? Come Back in Three Billion Years.

Lotsa Pics of the Universe 

Aero. Engineers Eat Your Hearts Out!

Link to original posting 

Bonus

Waaaaaay-back Galaxy or Perhaps It’s Closer

The New Farthest-galaxy Candidate  

Nation-wide Teacher Shortage

Let’s see, low respect, even lower pay, “don’t say gay” rules?   What a surprise that no one wants the jobs!

Informal surveys of my lower-division college math students over a decade or so quickly convinced me that students were avoiding teacher education programs like the plague.   Smart students.  

Home Sweet Home

Spring 1983

That’s a 1980 Diesel Rabbit out front and a wooden shingle roof up top.  

August 2022 

Back Yard Water Oak Tree, Spring 1983

Same Tree after Moderate-to-Heavy Trimming, Summer 2022

When they tell you to leave a 25 foot / 8 m radius around that sapling you’re planting, believe it!

The Infamous Self-trimming Sweet Gum Tree, Spring 1983

Sweet Gum Tree, Summer 2022 after Major Trimming

There’s a Red-tailed Hawk Casing the Neighborhood This Morning

Red-tailed Hawk

They hang out in Cleveland County’s Ten Mile Flat, but I haven’t seen them up here away from the Canadian River floodplain all that often.   Maybe the rodent population needs thinning.   

West of Norman, OK, USA

James Webb Space Telescope is Amazing

Direct Comparison: Hubble to Webb 

Same patch of sky, Hubble’s image on left, Webb’s image on right   :^O

Just for fun, a terrestrial ‘scope image of our sister galaxy, Andromeda