#BackyardAstronomy #KeepLookingUp

The public is invited to a free Star Party at #UTC's Clarence T. Jones Observatory.
Look through Chattanooga’s historic 20.5″ telescope. View a show with the new planetarium projector.
Gates open at 5:30. Lecture and Planetarium show begin at 6:00. Telescope viewing until 8:00.
All times Eastern.

https://calendar.utc.edu/event/star-party-6683

#ScienceRules
#OverviewEffect
#ThereIsNoPlanetB
#FightLikeYourWorldDependsOnIt

"By joining our Revolutionary War #Veterans #Transcription Project, you’re not just transcribing documents; you’re helping to preserve and honor the legacy of African American soldiers.

You can ensure their stories, their sacrifice, and their dreams are not forgotten. Dive into history, transcribe with us, and help make the legacy of heroes...accessible for generations to come." #NationalArchives

https://www.archives.gov/citizen-archivist/missions/revolutionary-war-pension-files

#ScienceRules

"We’ve been doing this kind of farming way before the Europeans came, and that’s what our ancestors were known for,” says Nutlouis. “The work we do is looking back at ancestral wisdom, reclaiming and re-correcting knowledge, de-colonizing and re-Indigenizing.”

“Ecologies needs to be restored. Food systems need to be restored. This is an opportunity to begin developing localized food economies. There’s a lot of potential in that, but we got to do it right.”

https://e360.yale.edu/features/navajo-natural-infrastructure-dryland-streams

#WDEFWeather #News12Weather - Monitoring the Caribbean for the next possible tropical system. Could be a problem for the Gulf into next week? Time to be #WeatherAware; keep it tuned to @WDEFNews12.

https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/gtwo.php

#WDEFWeather #News12Weather - Thanks to @WDEFNews12 viewer Latisha Underwood of Dalton Georgia for a view of Squeakers the pup on the porch... Monday's @RuffCutsCleveland #DogWalkingForecast #PictureOfTheDay.

Submit your Pupper Pictures at wdef.com/dogwalk today

"This has never worked, and it never will. This closed loop can only be broken if we reject profit as the sole driver of our society. Until then, anything that threatens profit – whether it is human rights, the climate crisis, or any other inconvenient truth, will sooner or later be paved over and replaced with a new amusement park.
This is how global capital today continues to break both real democracy and social movements."
by George Tsakraklides

https://tsakraklides.com/2024/08/23/the-great-illusion-of-freedom-surely-this-must-be-a-democracy/

#WDEFWeather #News12Weather #BlipCast #VeteransDay Monday -- Beautiful start to the week. Many changes in store to our forecast for the next few days. (Hope you like variety.)
Details tonight on @WDEFNews12 at 5:30, 6, 7 & 11.

#CleanEnergyNow
#TheFutureIsClean
#ThereIsNoPlanetB

"Broussard says this is more than just a story about about one man taking pictures during World War II.

"As I flipped through the pages I realized, my God, it's all scenes of [Nazi] occupied Paris. And I knew I'd found a treasure," she says. "And then I read the little note in the front. 'If you find this album,' it said, 'take care of it and have the courage to look at it.' I thought, someone sent a message in a bottle and I just found it." @NPR

https://www.npr.org/2024/10/28/nx-s1-5157701/france-wwii-war-photos-mystery

@NWSNashville's online #Weather101 #weathereducation program continues tonight with the topic of #NorthAmericanMonsoons.

Sign up & information available here: https://www.weather.gov/ohx/weather101

“There is a #cultofignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of #antiintellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.”
― Isaac Asimov

#AndSoItGoes #ItsOKToBeSmart

#WDEFWeather #News12Weather @FoodCity @WDEFNews12 #FridayNightFootball forecast: mild with some clouds but otherwise light winds and dry for local prep games tonight.

Vote now in our @WDEFNews12 @Beltone #WeatherQuestion / #ScienceQuestion Of The Day at wdef.com/votenow.

Answer coming up on #PrimeNewsAt7

#WDEFWeather #News12Weather #BlipCast Friday Evening: Finishing the week with warm and dry conditions. Expecting more rain and some thunder into the weekend.
Details tonight on @WDEFNews12 at 5:30, 6, 7 & 11.

Thanks to @WDEFNews12 viewer Peter Whipple of #ChattanoogaTN for a view of #VogelStatePark in north Georgia around #BloodMountain... Friday's @LangleyRoofing #WeatherWindow #PictureOfTheDay.

Got #weatherpix to share? Go to wdef.com/weather

"Especially striking are some of the local records. Several major East Coast cities with century-plus climate data had the driest month ever recorded. Below are some of the locations where all-time driest months occurred in October, along with the periods of record (PORs), as compiled by weather historian Christopher Burt. A value of 0.00 inch means that not even a trace of precipitation (not a single raindrop or snowflake) was measured." - Yale Climate Connections

https://yaleclimateconnections.org/2024/11/october-turned-up-the-u-s-burners-and-turned-off-the-tap/

"Also representative of the prevailing ethos of that time was the memorable final scene from the post-apocalyptic 1968 film Planet of the Apes, written by the great Rod Serling....Upon discovering the shattered remains of the Statue of Liberty, and coming to this chilling realization, Taylor falls to his knees and pounds the ground: “They finally, really did it. You maniacs! You blew it up! Damn you! Oh, goddamn you all to hell!

I feel a lot like Taylor right now."

https://thebulletin.org/2024/11/welcome-to-the-american-petrostate/