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@SolarEtherPunk @othingstodo_com A poodle doing the same

@othingstodo_com I see a gorilla smoking a blunt.

@ZachWeiner Or do we find super symmetric particles first? (Probably not)

What do you think comes first? 1) Commercial fusion energy on the grid 2) At least 10 human beings have walked on the surface of Mars

@JacquelynGill Between racism and fears of nuclear war, that car culture won seems so over-determined to me. However, we can absolutely imagine better and need to fight for it against entrenched politics

@Matt_Pinner “All gone”

What do you call these in your language?

@Matt_Pinner Anything less than E looks like what the Swiss call (or perhaps called) a renverse which I always understood to be “Would you like a little coffee with your milk?”

B for me. You?

Happy birthday to the inimitable @RonCarterBass--there's only one of those--who turns 87 today & continues to play at an insanely high level. I love his bass-piano-guitar trio he introduced on record in 1994 w/Kenny Barron & Herb Ellis. youtube.com/watch?v=Eg0z2H… #JazzFromDetroit

All you atomic physicists who are still here e.g., @orzelc @SpinVector I was minding my own business doing a six year old crossword puzzle and what do I find but a clue for a “pioneering Danish physicist!”

@Matt_Pinner Yosemite National Park, the Hagia Sofia, the Taj Mahal, Mont Blanc, and on and on. How would one even define what one meant by most beautiful?

What is the most beautiful country on Earth?

@ethan_iverson I like those international flights that leave at 10 pm or so. Though I don’t really enjoy closing the restaurants at Logan’s international terminal

I like waking up early and going to the airport for the first flight out

@curiouswavefn I love the cover. I had the boring red cover version and my father’s was solid blue

Books that moved me to tears: 1. Schindler's List 2. Angela's Ashes 3. Jackson's Classical Electrodynamics

@lpachter This wasn’t an Alpher-Bethe-Gamow thing where you just thought it would be fun to have co-fifth authors was it? en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpher–Be…

I'll see your co-third authors and raise you co-fifth authors (also on a 6-author paper).

@lpachter I was on set of papers where we had three levels of authors: first set of alphabetical authors were co-first and co-third authors; the second alphabetized list were people who had been closely involved; and the third were people who did a little and had to be co-authors

@dgonzales1990 As a soft money lieutenant I’ve seen this stage numerous times. Best of luck and keep a careful eye on things!

@curiouswavefn That Hans Bethe was still alive to comment on TMI feels like some crossing of the streams that the Ghost Busters should be warning us not to allow. (Have you told the alpha, beta, gamma story recently? If not, let this be an encouragement to do so.)

Why did the Three Mile Island accident happened? As this analysis by Hans Bethe shows, remarkably, more than anything else it was because of what we today would call a bad UI.

@xenocryptsite @IraRigaud @OneShoup My 83 year old mother was loving her read aloud group until very recently when driving became too much. Highly recommended for all of us shut-ins for whatever reason

@IraRigaud @OneShoup Friend of mine is in an "read a book by alternatingly reading paragraphs out loud" book club and I 100% endorse such.

I'm not so binary about it but I do find myself sort of having bursts where I read a lot of books one after the other, and I never...regret those periods.

@ShiriGurCohen @DrBrianKeating I feel like I should keep going: an amazing physicist whose name experts know: Hal Metcalfe. Great speaker who irritated big names by communicating science to young grad students and being excited by the strangeness of quantum mechanics. Well worth hearing.

@ShiriGurCohen @DrBrianKeating I have no idea if she was a good speaker or not, but yeah: it would be amazing to have heard her speak. I’m proud to have heard some famous people speak and have learned so much from teachers who are just doing the best they can and no one has heard of

If you could attend a lecture from any teacher, living or dead, who would it be? 🎓

.@Atrios I know it’s that fantastic newspaper again but really? Is this how Ashley Wu and her editors wish to present the political news of the day?

@nytimes And their style is definitely the most important thing. What their policies will do to the nation: who cares???

Our reporter Ashley Wu explains how the campaign styles of the top three Republican candidates differ despite similar policy stances. nyti.ms/426BdPr

@elliottkrista @anne_theriault I agree. I hate QR codes, but if that’s the game plan, please, please tell us. Don’t leave me sitting there wondering why no one is taking my order. (Yes I’ve spent 10+ minutes sitting waiting before an employee said “scan the QR code”)