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Molchat Doma with Volny (Waves). From their second studio album Etazhi (2018). Molchat Doma (Russian: Молчат Дома, lit. 'Houses...

Via Physics in History (X: @PhysInHistory): A brief history of Quantum computers 👇 1905: Albert Einstein explains the photoelectric eff...

Over at Space dot com, astrophysicist Paul M. Sutter has this interesting column on Sommerfeld's Fine Structure Constant , a universal ...

The Smiths with Well I wonder . Album Meat is Murder (1985). Possibly the best The Smiths song, Johnny Marr outdoing himself with wo...

🇨🇳CHINA’S NEW QUANTUM COMPUTER CRUSHES GOOGLE—BY A MILLION TIMES China just pulled ahead in the quantum race, unveiling Zuchongzhi-3—a 105...

Genesis with Hairless Heart . From the album The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway (1974). English rock band Genesis formed at Charterhouse...

NEW: Los Angeles is devastated by massive wildfires, as criticism of California’s leaders heats up. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced the s...

Like every year, DowneastBlog wishes its readers a Happy New Year!!! And of course a solid health. It's only when your health is ...

DowneastBlog wishes all its readers of good will a Merry Christmas! And while hopefully - I sincerely wish so - you are enjoying a he...

Prayers are asked for the victims of the Magdeburg islamic terror attack, in particular for André Gleissner : André 9 years old, innocent...

I cannot emphasize enough that imho, one of X's best art accounts is the one by Richard Morris . Even though the time frame from which h...

An immense amount of neutrino research is going on in the US, Japan and even Antarctica. On DowneastBlog, we've already mentioned severa...

The Thorium Fuel Cycle has been known for over 50 years and had staunch advocates, a.o. in The Netherlands, which in the 70s even boasted an...

Cults with Always Forever . From the album Static (2013). Cults is an American indie pop duo formed in New York City in 2010. Madeli...

Via my Twitter/X pal Kuruki (@Kuruki23882260), this new Lotuseaters episode: Have a nice weekend. MFBB.

Imho one of the best art accounts on Twitter/X (can't get used to the latter) is Richard Morris's, who focuses on non-mainstream, bu...

ABBA with SOS . From the album ABBA (1975). True, this is normally outside DowneastBlog's line of work, but I post it neverthele...

The steep descent of the UK towards a totalitarian 1984-like society is both astounding and frightening. Grandmothers and 11 year olds ar...

Did you ever hear about the Lavochkin-250 Anakonda? Well, I didn't - until this evening. Here is its story: It was quite a beas...

On X, formerly twitter, I discovered Fermilabs (very) short educational videos, all the more reason to follow Fermilab's account! Firs...