#cosmology

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We really ♥️ this piece from John Hawks on humans looking at the stars, especially how he picks up African cosmologies on the link of the to 🩸

Right now I'm involved in one of the MOST important papers of my life with Hadza hunter-gatherer experts on Hadza beliefs and practice around menstruation, hunting and the moon.

The key here is no one understands Hadza --their moon-scheduled ritual for healing and good hunting--unless they also understand menstrual beliefs and practice.

https://www.johnhawks.net/p/when-did-our-ancestors-start-looking-up-to-the-stars

The Formula. Now, are you going to get yourself into the Fire? Who or what are you defeating? Are you getting revenge upon yourself? You are submitting to the Humiliation of Authority until Death losing Existence, which produces you Existential Anguish. This is the Fire you are fleeing from and towards which you run. As easy as eliminating Money in the entire Planet at once, going into Freedom (regarding Authority). Global Direct Democracy, chaotic, without Presidency. Everything is laid out and displayed on the reference website. Accept Life or commit suicide individually. Don't suicide me with you because Almightism belongs to Death, not to you, and your Cowardice would be Eternal. Hence your Infinite Rage. Isn't it that way? Well, forward it, because it is. www.nuevaera.info

The Road to Reality: A Complete Guide to the Laws of the Universe "The most important and ambitious work of science for a generation" Sale: $29 to $1.99 by Roger Penrose Rating: 4.6/5 (1,213 Reviews)

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Strong progenitor age bias in supernova – I. Robust and ubiquitous evidence from a larger sample of host galaxies in a broader redshift range / II. Alignment with DESI BAO and signs of a non-accelerating universe: https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article/538/4/3340/8098234 / https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article/544/1/975/8281988 -> Universe's expansion 'is now slowing, not speeding up': https://ras.ac.uk/news-and-press/research-highlights/universes-expansion-now-slowing-not-speeding (this has been claimed by the group since at least 2023 - http://vietnam.in2p3.fr/2023/windows/transparencies/02_tuesday/Astro_5/01_Son.pdf - and is rejected by the SN cosmology community as https://bsky.app/profile/astromarc.bsky.social/post/3m4xmikwfds26 explains).

Radical in Bethnal Green tonight
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We're doing a fun event, the day after 🌕 (Thur Nov 6) at Love Shack, on the in human origins and lunar

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/mind-full-presents-human-origins-under-the-sway-of-the-moon-tickets-1878902200059?aff=oddtdtcreator

[Dark matter really does exist!] Data acquired by the space mission reveals that the speed of stars in our galaxy, the Milky Way, decreases at great distances from the galactic center.

Two IRAP researchers have shown that only a model that includes dark matter can accurately reproduce the observed decrease. Gone is the MOND (MOdified Newtonian Dynamics) theory ...

More info : https://www.irap.omp.eu/en/2025/10/the-rotation-curve-of-the-milky-way-confirms-the-existence-of-dark-matter/

The rotation curve of the Milky Way confirms the existence of dark matter

@CampodeJuncos

This is very well said. I'm spreading the word. I want to know Freedom before I die. I'm not participating in collective suicide. You should commit suicide individually if you don't heed this.

@Supertramp

Spent the week trying to attend (or watch remotely) all or most of our internal talks by students:
a total of 37 (!!) for the PhD course in and in our Department...and only considering the students of year 1 and 2 (i.e. not the final year ones).

https://phd.unibo.it/astrophysics/en/research-and-training/2025-cycle-39-40-annual-talks

Time demanding, but also a nice way to explore what's boiling in all open research fields in and know what are the challenges and the mysteries around!