Paul Chapman

Movie ratings: 3/5: worth seeing once. 4/5: worth seeing more than once. 5/5: worth seeing every year forever. 2/5: not worth seeing. 1/5: worst film ever made.

[Sarah Stankorb @sarahstankorb]

My kid asked: do caterpillars know they are going to become butterflies or do they just build themselves a coffin and wake up pleasantly surprised? 😳

[Andrew Côté @Andercot]

For those looking to catch up on the evolving LK-99 saga here is a quick summary of posts which I have written, all of which try to explain content in a way that is approachable for a general audience while including enough depth to be interesting to a technical audience.

Three recent replications of diamagnetism in LK-99, one property of superconductors but also a property of other materials:
https://t.co/8c1tv4V0ma

First claimed measurement of 'zero resistance' (authors words) in LK-99:
https://t.co/lvs4SO0RCj

Summary of 4 different research groups simulation of LK-99's crystal structure, with each explaining some of its quirks:
https://t.co/Rfozf6UKgc

Here's my from-the-hip market-sizing of applications of room-temperature superconductors based on their eventual engineering performance:
https://t.co/HHtv16wMwK

A deeper dive into technical applications:
https://t.co/4tetz1t2tc

My breakdown of the original paper that started it all:
https://t.co/MfreaiUXaO

And finally, why I was optimistic about the material science behind this a month before this news story broke the headlines:
https://t.co/60Vhc5uc4P

[Andrew McCalip @andrewmccalip]

Meissner effect or bust: Day 8.5

We made the rocks

[Paul Chapman @igblan]

I'm ashamed to say I know only one of his film scores. But the music in The French Lieutenant's Woman is irreplaceable, and is 50% of the reason it's in my top 20.

[TCM @tcm]

We're saddened to hear about the passing of legendary composer Carl Davis. With a prolific career spanning over 6 decades, Davis composed music for hundreds of TV programs, silent film scores, and concert works performed worldwide.

Our thoughts are with his friends and family.

[Paul Chapman @igblan]

Great wisdom here.

[Kenneth @Kenneth78569586]

@WonderW97800751 If you don't know where you are going any road will get you there. 🤣🤣🤣

[Paul Chapman @igblan]

@iroasmas @TomChivers I used packing tape. The photographic evidence was less convincing.

[Paul Chapman @igblan]

What an evocative photo.

[Jessica Pickens @HollywoodComet]

In addition to his acting career, Anthony Perkins also sang. He released four records between 1957 and 1964.
This is the cover to his 1958 album, "On a Rainy Afternoon."
#SummerUnderTheStars

[Paul Chapman @igblan]

'Sukbae Lee and Jihoon Kim originally found the material in 1999 – thus the label “LK-99”' - https://t.co/IZMAmF8W1e by @eirifu

[Paul Chapman @igblan]

@stianwestlake @TomChivers @StuartJRitchie Glad to see you've got a sponsor, anyway.

[Paul Chapman @igblan]

@domlewismx Watching High Castle for the second time, I have more opportunity to appreciate the music. It's so different from the lazy, repetitive stuff which usually accompanies series drama. You and Henry Jackman did a wonderful job. Thank you.

[Paul Chapman @igblan]

@cinematyler @HalldinAnton And for my next trick, I'll make an interesting video on how some of the images in the Dawn of Man sequence seem to be mirrored in Pee Wee's Big Adventure... Anything can be correlated to anything else if the match is vague enough. Frankly, this is just pictorial numerology.

[Paul Chapman @igblan]

@0xmmo @judofyr *English* grammar would insist on "chaos's name". Only the possessive of a plural ending in "s" takes a trailing apostophe, eg "countries' names". Americans' grammar rules are sometimes questionable. ;)

[Paul Chapman @igblan]

@0xmmo @judofyr An odd exception is the possessive singular of Jesus and of the saints, eg "St James' Palace" - although most English people get this wrong.

[Paul Chapman @igblan]

@0xmmo @judofyr *English* grammar would insist on "chaos's name". Only the possessive of a plural ending in "s" takes a trailing apostophe, eg "countries' names". Americans' grammar rules are sometimes questionable. ;)

[John Edwards @EuclidianBoxes]

Chekhov's cross

[Paul Chapman @igblan]

@TomChivers @KeithNHumphreys Semi-serious. Maybe I went looking for irony in the guidelines. I think my objection is arguable at least. Since becoming one of "the elderly", for example, I did start to find that term a little dehumanizing.

[Paul Chapman @igblan]

@KeithNHumphreys cc @TomChivers

[Paul Chapman @igblan]

@KeithNHumphreys Maybe I'm odd, but I find the use of "population" in these guidelines, rather than "people", dehumanizing, especially in the term "vulnerable populations". A "population" suggests a statistic, not actual people. It's like talking about "the elderly" instead of "elderly people".

[Jack Rusher @jackrusher]

"There’s a direct correlation between how skilled you are as a chess player, and how much time you spend falsifying your ideas [...] grandmasters spend longer falsifying their idea for a move than they do coming up with the move in the first place."
https://t.co/we3aPFluNJ