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[Philosophy Of Physics @PhilosophyOfPhy]

This is probably the clearest example of an actual academic collapse.

Weiss entered MIT in 1950, initially studied electrical engineering and then transferred to physics. During his third year, a painful romantic breakup overwhelmed him.

In his own Nobel autobiography, he states plainly;

“I failed all my courses at MIT and had to leave as a student.”

He was no longer progressing toward a degree. He returned to MIT not as a student but as an hourly electronics technician in Jerrold Zacharias’s atomic-beam laboratory. He punched a time clock and worked alongside machinists and laboratory technicians.

That apparent demotion became his real education. Weiss learned machining, sheet-metal work, soldering, welding, electronic design and the improvisational craft of experimental physics.

Instead of merely solving prepared textbook problems, he helped graduate students construct the instruments required for their research and worked on an early caesium atomic clock. With Zacharias’s support, he eventually completed his undergraduate degree and entered graduate school.

Decades later, Weiss became the central experimental architect behind laser-interferometric gravitational-wave detection.

He shared the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics with Kip Thorne and Barry Barish for decisive contributions to LIGO and the observation of gravitational waves.

[Leo Siqueira @leosiqueirabr]

Hoje vocês viram mais uma hipocrisia da esquerda.

Eduardo Moreira, dono ICL Notícia e um pregador anticapitalista, defendia a taxação de dividendos e dos super-ricos.

Só que hoje veio à tona: o ICL antecipou R$ 25 milhões em dividendos só pra ele, justamente pra escapar da tributação que ele tanto prega.

Mas essa hipocrisia de Eduardo Moreira não é caso isolado. Vem comigo que eu conto. 🧵

[PhilosophiCat @Philosophi_Cat]

Instead of complaining about how much the Odyssey sucks and how Hollywood is subversive, you could be watching this instead.

Just saying! 😉

[Rosary Quotes @RosaryQuotes123]

This is the heart of St. Camillus de Lellis that was so full of charity. It remains intact even 412 years after his death.

[Paulo @pauloap]

Eu me senti um BOSTA assistindo isso aqui

Espero que um dia consiga ter a força dessa menininha

Que Deus esteja com ela sempre 🙏🏻

[The Scientific Lens @LensScientific]

If you understand these symbols, you understand half the language of physics.

α β γ Δ λ μ π σ φ ψ ω...

The Greek letters that appear everywhere from quantum mechanics to cosmology.

Save it before you need it.

[Taste of Cinema @davidcinema]

The 1970s were a huge decade for not just cinema, but cultural and social change. We present you 10 Great 1970s Thriller Movie Classics You Probably Haven’t Seen: https://t.co/NaIynXOHKC

[Carolyn Rockey @CarolynWRockey]

Jo Nagai was raising swallowtail butterflies at his home in Kobe, Japan, when he noticed something odd. The ones he had looked after as caterpillars seemed to recognize him. Wild butterflies fled. His didn't.
He was in second grade. He wrote a four-page letter to Dr. Martha Weiss, an entomologist at Georgetown University who had studied whether moths could retain memories through metamorphosis. He asked if she could help him design a version of her experiment for butterflies.
She said yes.
Using a muscle therapy device, Jo trained caterpillars to associate the scent of lavender with a mild vibration. When the caterpillars became butterflies, 70 per cent of them still avoided the lavender. Their brains had been completely rebuilt during metamorphosis. The memory survived anyway.
Then he bred them.
The offspring, which had never been trained, also avoided lavender. So did their grandchildren. Without ever experiencing the vibration, two generations of butterflies inherited an aversion to a scent their grandmother had been taught to fear.
Jo documented it all in a 33-page research paper and presented his findings at the International Congress of Entomology in Kobe in 2024. He was 10.
A second grader wrote a letter to a Georgetown professor, and together they found evidence that butterflies can pass memories down through generations.

-Wilderness Whisper

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Visual proof of (a+b)² = a² + b² + 2ab

[Saint Adaugoijele ✝️ @JustAdaugoijele]

Before leaving the door of your house, make the Sign of the cross, and say:
"I renounce you satan, your works and your service, and I am in Christ".
Never leave the house without these words. These will be for you a rod, a weapon an irresistible tower. Not only will people not be able to harm you, but not even the devil...
St. John Chrysostom

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Fast Fourier Analysis in action.

Any complex waveform, sound, or shape can be perfectly reconstructed as the sum of simple rotating circles (epicycles).

[Interesting things @awkwardgoogle]

This man trusted his life to physics. He was ejected at 80 km/h from a truck that was traveling at 80 km/h.

[James Lucas @JamesLucasIT]

This is a statue of the only man in Troy who saw the trap. He tried to warn everyone, and this is what the gods did to him because of it...

His name was Laocoön, a Trojan priest. When the Greek army vanished and left a giant wooden horse outside the city gates, all of Troy celebrated. Only Laocoön refused to believe it. He warned his people the horse was a trick and, to prove it was hollow, hurled his spear into its side.

In Virgil's telling, he spoke a line that has outlasted almost everything else about Troy: "I fear the Greeks, even when they bring gifts."

He was right. The horse was packed with soldiers, and Troy was hours from destruction.

This sculpture shows what he got for it. Two enormous sea serpents rise out of the sea and coil around him and his young sons, dragging all three down together. The father's whole body is knotted in the struggle, every muscle straining, his face locked in a scream. The gods wanted Troy to fall, and Laocoön was in the way.

The Trojans watched him die in agony and drew exactly the wrong conclusion: they decided the gods were punishing him for attacking a holy gift. So they pulled the horse inside their own walls, and that night, Troy burned...

The statue is called Laocoön and His Sons. It is the work of three Greek sculptors from the island of Rhodes, Agesander, Athenodoros, and Polydorus, and dates to the Hellenistic period, making it well over two thousand years old.

Buried for more than a thousand years, it was dug out of a Roman vineyard in 1506, and Michelangelo rushed across Rome to see it the day it was found.

It has been called the single greatest depiction of human suffering in the history of art, but it endures because of what it is really about: the man who sees the truth, says it out loud, and is destroyed for being right while the crowd watches...

It is one of the oldest patterns there is, and it has never stopped repeating.

There is nothing new under the sun.

[Saint Adaugoijele ✝️ @JustAdaugoijele]

POWERFUL HEALING PRAYER ATTRIBUTED TO SAINT PADRE PIO

Heavenly Father, I thank You for loving me. I thank You for sending Your Son, Our Lord Jesus Christ, to the world to save and to set me free. I trust in Your power and grace that sustain and restore me.

Loving Father, touch me now with Your healing hands, for I believe that Your will is for me to be well in mind, body, soul and spirit. Cover me with the most precious blood of Your Son, our Lord, Jesus Christ from the top of my head to the soles of my feet.

Cast out anything that should not be in me. Root out any unhealthy and abnormal cells. Open any blocked arteries or veins and rebuild and replenish any damaged areas. Remove all inflammation and cleanse any infection by the power of Jesus’ precious blood.

Let the fire of Your healing love pass through my entire body to heal and make new any diseased areas so that my body will function the way You created it to function. Touch also my mind and my emotion, even the deepest recesses of my heart.

Saturate my entire being with Your presence, love, joy and peace and draw me ever closer to You every moment of my life. And Father, fill me with Your Holy Spirit and empower me to do Your works so that my life will bring glory and honour to Your holy name.
I ask this in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ.

Amen.

[Teddy - PolyBackTest.com @Bitcoin_Teddy]

Richard Nixon's brutal truth on happiness that hits harder in 2026:

"The unhappiest people in the world are those in the watering places—south coast of France, Newport, Palm Springs, Palm Beach—parties every night, golf every afternoon, bridge, too much drinking, too much talking, too little thinking. Retired, no purpose."

He saw it decades ago: Endless leisure without struggle isn't paradise—it's a slow death of meaning.

"What makes life mean something is purpose, a goal, the battle, the struggle—even if you don't win it."

In an age of quiet quitting, early retirement dreams, and infinite scrolling... Nixon reminds us: The fight is what keeps the soul alive.

What keeps you in the "battle" right now—even when it's exhausting?

[Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald]

Not sure if Americans realize how much of the worst discourse tactics end up globally imported due to social media connectivity.

In Brazil, Lula's wife is facing criticisms for spending lavish sums on foreign travel to luxurious places. She claimed the criticisms are all due to "pure misogyny" -- at exactly the same time that a center-left AOC clone named @tabataamaralsp is pushing a censorship bill to "criminalize misogyny." That would make it a crime to question the First Lady's travel expenses or that Congresswoman's views (since they always claims it's due to misogyny).

Here was a debate on Brazil's Globo News network about why Kamala struggled to win over black voters. One of the network's extremely affluent commentators, @sandraacoutinho, argued that it was all due to sexism, and when a fellow male commentator on the panel disagreed with her, she accused him of "mansplaining": all copied and imported from the bowels of the lowest-level American social justice lexicon:👇

[The War on Beauty @thewaronbeauty]

The past is becoming a foreign language