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Is every snowflake actually unique? There have been sooo many of them. Surely it’s not crazy to think at least 2 have been the same?
Someone tries to convince me in the Clickables section…but I’m skeptical!
—Steve ❄️
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Dimorphos photo by NASA / Johns Hopkins APL
I’ve had a few sick days this week, so we’re looking back to our asteroid defense test and 2 casualSTEM podcasts! 👀
Space DARTs
NASA crashed a satellite into a moonlet on purpose. DART’s mission to alter Dimorphos’ orbit around Didymos will help us deflect future asteroid threats.
DART = Double Asteroid Redirection Test
Collided at 14k mph after a ~7 million mile journey
Provided first close up video of an asteroid surface
Both Hubble and Webb telescopes observed the impact, along with many more earthbound viewers. NASA will use the impact data to measure Dimorphos’ orbit and learn more about its composition and altered trajectory. Certainly a smashing success.
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Check out last week’s results in “Unnatural Selection” below
Chitchat GPT
Go back in time to when st3v was interviewed by ChatGPT…and this newsletter had a different name!
Genome Joggers
How about an actual casualSTEM podcast? Here’s what I made playing around with NotebookLM. Give the AI hosts a listen! (6 minutes)
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Clickables
❄️ The science behind snowflakes and why they’re allegedly unique
📸 Hold your breath for underwater photos of the year (1st pic 🤣)
🦜 Glow-in-the-dark birds are more common than we thought
Unnatural Selection
Butterflies are better at terrestrial navigation, but turtles have more fun en route.
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image by DALL·E and Steve Burgess
From Chitchat GPT’s podcast, before DALL·E was integrated into ChatGPT!
Based on its own writing, ChatGPT told DALL·E 2 to draw: A cartoon of a bee delivering a cup of coffee to ChatGPT in a podcast studio.
(I made light edits to clean up the image and add in logos)
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