scott duda

CPA. graduate of THE ohio state university. I watch a lot of sports. opinions are my own, usually.

[scott duda @scottduda]

Amen.

[NC Museum of History @NCmuseumhistory]

Anyone: I think this sweet tea is a little "too sweet."
North Carolinians:

[Danny Cunningham @RealDCunningham]

JR Smith throwing a no-look lob in transition to LeBron in Game 6 of The Finals will be one of my favorite basketball plays as long as I am on this planet.

[Mor Edge Insight @MorEdge_Insight]

Classic 1980s debate moment.
A woman in hijab passionately challenges Rabbi Meir Kahane: “How can you have no compassion for the Arab people?” invoking Hitler and Palestinian suffering.

Kahane’s calm, piercing response cuts through:

“You had an opportunity for your own state in 1948. The UN proposed partition plan which would have created a Palestine and an Israel. You went to war. You killed 6,000 of our people. ’56, another war. ’67, another war. ’73, another war. I don’t trust you. I don’t believe you. When I’m attacked and I win and you lose, and you’re the one that started it, learn one thing… you take the consequences of your actions.”

Raw, unfiltered truth about repeated rejection of peace and the cost of starting wars.

No slogans. Just history.

Powerful then. Powerful now.

[scott duda @scottduda]

@TonyGerdeman Doss Smith Gamble Jenkins Hawk

[Baseball’s Greatest Moments @BBGreatMoments]

This list of Cleveland Spiders player names is unreal 😂

[Ken Carman @KenCarman]

Good Lord they found a way to top themselves.

[scott duda @scottduda]

@Stephen_Means People that say this kind of stuff don’t comprehend that rivalry. It’s debatable whether more of the fan base would prefer a W against ttun or a national title.

[Dante @DanteTheDon]

Was not ready for Eric Church to deliver the best commencement speech I’ve ever heard.

Six guitar strings. Six pillars of a life.

Faith. Family. Spouse. Ambition. Community. You.

Tune them when you’re whole, not just when you’re broken.

Watch the whole thing.

[Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand]

Probably the funniest graph ever published by the FT: our 3 possible futures are either 1) infinite wealth and abundance, 2) human extinction or 3) 0.2% faster GDP growth 🤣

[TheNewPhysics @CharlesMullins2]

🚨 Scientists just built a refrigerator with NO compressor and NO refrigerant gas.

Just electricity.

Using a multilayer ceramic capacitor, researchers created a solid-state cooling system that changes temperature when an electric field is applied.

The result:
• ~3–4.5 K cooling swings
• works across room temperature
• survives >10 MILLION cycles
• no moving parts
• projected 70–90% Carnot efficiency

This is electrocaloric cooling and it may become one of the biggest threats to conventional refrigeration in decades.

Older materials only worked ABOVE room temperature and needed a brutal 42-day annealing process.

This new PST–PMW material:
• cools down to ~230 K
• avoids the expensive anneal
• handles massive electric fields
• maintains strong entropy transitions

The physics is beautiful.

An electric field reorganizes the material’s internal dipole structure, reshaping entropy inside the lattice and producing a real temperature drop.

Not “cold generation.”
Controlled entropy engineering.

If this scales:
• silent refrigerators
• ultra-efficient chip cooling
• vibration-free scientific systems
• wearable thermal control
• next-gen EV cooling

We may be watching refrigeration evolve from mechanical compression…
to programmable matter.

Follow me if you want the future of physics before it hits mainstream.

[Jonatan Pallesen @jonatanpallesen]

Take the billionaire Taylor swift.

Her recent Era’s tour grossed over $2 billion. The customers are very happy, and most of them would gladly have paid more for their tickets. In the documentary they cover the dancers and some of the crew, who are all shown to be happy with their job, and to highly enjoy the experience. In the end of the tour, she gave out over $100 million in bonuses to everyone who worked on the tour.

In general, if you think its possible to earn $10 million, then its hypothetically possible to scale the same thing up 100x and earn $1 billion.

[Science girl @sciencegirl]

These were all released within 57 days of each other in 1991

[scott duda @scottduda]

@sciencegirl Cancer, and wolf…seems arbitrary 🤔

[scott duda @scottduda]

@TheGNRGiirl Down on the farm needs to get in here somewhere

[scott duda @scottduda]

@CoachDanCasey @KirkHerbstreit Both the Coach seeing this And the player being receptive.

[Ari Wasserman @AriWasserman]

I don’t think people realize how great LeBron had to be to break the curse of this pathetic sports city.

[scott duda @scottduda]

@zollyziglar @diirtyymartini @ericmmatheny Same.

[Nature is Amazing ☘️ @AMAZlNGNATURE]

Atmospheric re-entry of NASA’s Orion (Artemis 1) looks insane at 20x speed. Here is the entire 25-minute descent in just 1 minute 15 seconds.

Credit: NASA

[vittorio @IterIntellectus]

US fertility reached 1.57 last year, the lowest ever recorded, and the WSJ explanation is "uncertainty about finances, relationship stability, and the political climate"

my great grandma had eleven children during the second world war, in a country being bombed, in a house with no running water, on rations.
poor people have always had kids. the poorest people on earth right now still have kids and the financial excuse is a story we tell ourselves because it makes us feel good and the real one is unbearable

the real mechanism is that we got rich enough to redefine children as an expense instead of the point. somewhere in the last fifty years the cultural goal inverted and a child stopped being what life is for and became a line item competing with the lifestyle. once you frame it that way the math never works, because the math isnt supposed to work. that's the point

we are living in the richest moment in human history and we decided to use the surplus to buy ourselves out of the future. the most prosperous civilization that has ever existed is committing demographic suicide at the altar of personal optimization and comfort, and the official line is that we cant afford it

the birthrate is a lagging indicator of a civilization that forgot why it was alive