Explosion sound heard in Boston Cambridge MA registered as an impact on my dashcam. You can hear a double bang. #explosion#boston#cambridge not a scientist, but it sounds like a sonicboom to me. Leaves on the tree don't move at all. Might be a clue
Nietzsche was an ultra bookish intellectual who was chronically sick throughout his short life. He was brutally rejected by his crush prompting a misogynistic breakdown. Nietzsche ended his life as a vegetable tended to by his sister.
Genius philosopher but get real.
Wow! In tonight’s “Sprint Contest” at the American Crossword Puzzle Tournament, Paolo Pasco finished “The Spiral” in a little more than one minute. “How is that even possible?,” Will Shortz asked.
Mirabile dictu! An editor for Games World of Puzzles magazine spotted at this year’s American Crossword Puzzle Tournament. If you see him, stop by and say hello.
Will Shortz speaking to solvers at the opening of the 47th Annual American Crossword Puzzle Tournament. There are more than 900 solvers competing in person!
Wonkyu Lee, creator of https://t.co/JkoAOKEFW6, a new online word game. Just one of the many cool vendors here at this year’s American Crossword Puzzle Tournament Puzzle Tournament.
You get to meet some amazing folks at the American Crossword Puzzle Tournament, like David Kwong, who’s a magician & a cruciverbalist. He’ll be entertaining attendees on Sunday with selections from his show, “The Enigmatist.”
Most officials at the American Crossword Puzzle Tournament are serious puzzle lovers, like @jlieb19. In addition to pitching in at the ACPT, he organizes Boswords, a great summer tournament you should check out.
This evening at the American Crossword Puzzle Tournament, Will Shortz is presenting the Merl Reagle MEmoRiaL Award for lifetime achievement in crossword construction to Stan Newman, editor of the “Newsday” crossword, trivia maven, and the 1982 ACPT champ!
Director Patrick Creadon & producer Christine O’Malley are here tonight at the American Crossword Puzzle Tournament to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the filming of their wonderful documentary “Wordplay.”
The largest liquid ammonia storage tank in the Western Hemisphere is in the Port of Tampa and this is basically the nightmare scenario for an "off float" release if the surge is channeled into the bay. Cursed trajectory
Fannie Lou Hamer was born today. She was fired as a sharecropper for registering Black folks to vote. She started coops and political parties. She had a limp & blood clot behind her eye from being beaten by police in a Mississippi jail. Fannie was a freedom fighter.
As the shortest kid in school, I was a target for bullies. At age eight, I befriended a kind teenager who looked out for me.
Years later, I learned that the Klan murdered him and two others for registering Black voters in Mississippi. Their bodies were found 60 years ago today.
ALL instructors: PLEASE include your role as a mandatory reporter in your syllabus and state it explicitly on Day 1. You never know when someone’s lived experience could come up, and you do NOT want to be the person reporting it against their will.
#AcademicTwitter#PhDChat
Just stopped by the Passyunk Avenue bar in London, and the bartender said that 50% of the people who come here are from Philadelphia and the other 50% are lesbians on first dates. Never been more proud of our city! ❤️😂🏳️🌈🥂
@DOOR3 I don’t know how you got my number, but getting a text message at 1AM is not a good way to get clients.
I sure as shit will not use your company for anything at this point.