@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 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?”
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. https://t.co/1O6WtPaljd #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?
@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
@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
@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.)
@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
@ShiriGurCohen@briankeating 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@briankeating 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
Our reporter Ashley Wu explains how the campaign styles of the top three Republican candidates differ despite similar policy stances. https://t.co/lzUt23AhZg
@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”)