Stephen Prilliman, Ph.D.

Allegedly writing a book on teaching with particulate representations but mostly drinking coffee and starting off into space. #POGIL #DivCHED

[Stephen Prilliman, Ph.D. @SGPrilliman]

Wanted to share on the eve of the Gen Chem final

[Josiah Hawthorne @JosiahHawthorne]

I would like to shred AI and feed it to rare books, rather than the other way around.

[Tara Blume @tcblume]

ICYMI: The US has over 90,000 metric tons of spent nuclear fuel from commercial nuclear power plants. Yucca Mountain NV was built to take it but protests & earthquakes prevented it from going there. Now it might end up heading to Oklahoma which is actually competing with 4 other states to get it. (1/4) https://t.co/bhheZ0CGJ9

[james hawkins @james406]

someone should invent a version of Gmail that can search your inbox and return the emails that match the term you're looking for

[Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum]

This is an outrageous attack on the Smithsonian, on the professionals who work there and the millions of Americans who love it. Like the Bolsheviks destroying churches - a deliberate desecration of something people respect and admire https://t.co/DRmSPk3P2K

[derek guy @dieworkwear]

A very annoying thing that happens now is that people who know nothing about a subject will "consult" AI, get the wrong information, and then try to "correct" you on a subject you actually know something about. They treat AI like the Oracle of Delphi

[Stephen Prilliman, Ph.D. @SGPrilliman]

Abstract deadline is August 19 for @swrmacs

[Stephen Prilliman, Ph.D. @SGPrilliman]

Abstract submission is open the ACS Southwest Regional Meeting, https://t.co/LGxxo61sVQ. Abstracts due August. See y’all in Fort Worth! #swrmacs #swrmacs26

[Stephen Prilliman, Ph.D. @SGPrilliman]

Abstracts deadline August 19 for @swrmacs

[Stephen Prilliman, Ph.D. @SGPrilliman]

Abstract submission is open the ACS Southwest Regional Meeting, https://t.co/LGxxo61sVQ. Abstracts due August. See y’all in Fort Worth! #swrmacs #swrmacs26

[Stephen Prilliman, Ph.D. @SGPrilliman]

Abstract submission is open the ACS Southwest Regional Meeting, https://t.co/LGxxo61sVQ. Abstracts due August. See y’all in Fort Worth! #swrmacs #swrmacs26

[David Decosimo @DavidDecosimo]

University of Chicago Law School had decided to ban *not just AI* but laptops from the first year law classroom. This is the way!

[dandelion georgism 🔰🏗 @DandyGeorgism]

“And every four years when the World Cup comes around, we will say that we’d dominate if we had a stronger youth program.”

“And will we develop a stronger youth program?”

“We will not.”

[Stephen Prilliman, Ph.D. @SGPrilliman]

@kristenvdveen Congratulations!

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

The average national constitution lasts about 19 years. The United States has used the same one since 1789, which makes it the oldest working national constitution on Earth.

That gap is the anomaly the original post is talking about. Since 1789 the world has produced close to 800 national constitutions, and only about half of them lasted past 19 years. France is the sharpest contrast. It started at the same line as America, and since then it has gone through five separate republics, two empires, a couple of monarchies, and at least fourteen constitutions. It is on version five right now, written back in 1958. The next-oldest national constitution still in use belongs to Norway, and it only dates to 1814, a full 25 years behind.

Most attempts at a lasting written government fall apart inside a single generation. America's has held through a civil war, two world wars, a depression that put about a quarter of workers out of a job, and 27 amendments, without ever being thrown out and started over.

About 4% of humanity lives inside US borders, and they produce close to a quarter of the world's economic output measured at market prices. The American economy is bigger than the next three put together, China and Germany and Japan combined. Eight of the ten biggest public companies on the planet, ranked by market value, are American. US stock markets alone hold a little over 40% of all the equity value on Earth.

None of that was ever the default setting for human societies. For most of recorded history the normal ending was collapse, conquest, coup, or a slow decline into something you would not recognize. Stable money, peaceful handovers of power, and courts that last longer than the people who built them are the rare exception, not the normal starting point.

When a system runs this smoothly for this long, the stability starts to feel like gravity, like the normal way things are. The historical record says the opposite. What looks completely ordinary from inside America is one of the least likely things a large group of people has ever built and kept going.

[The Frontier @readfrontier]

We identified at least 114 injection wells in communities across Oklahoma that are located within a half-mile of a public water supply well. More than 300,000 Oklahomans live in communities that rely on these water wells, according to our analysis.

https://t.co/G4x8UXx223

[Stephen Prilliman, Ph.D. @SGPrilliman]

“Who, Bob?”

[James Martin, SJ @JamesMartinSJ]

A few hours after the conclave that elected Pope Leo XIV last year, I was standing in the courtyard of the Augustinianum, the headquarters of the Augustinian Order to which Robert Francis Prevost belongs, just a few feet from St. Peter's Basilica.

I had just finished helping out ABC News (we were, providentially, using the rooftop of the Augustinianum) and they wanted to interview me about the new pope "on the street." I was quite moved by his election and actually wept after we had finished up the coverage on the set.

It was around 9 PM, and people were already coming to the Augustinianum to snap photos of the "former home" of the new pope. One group of sisters posed by the sign affixed to the outside of the building.

Not surprisingly, in addition to many reporters, I was standing among several excited black-habited Augustinians in the courtyard.

I said to one, dressed in a clerical shirt, "Are you an Augustinian?" "Yes!" he said. "Congratulations!" I said.

An American, he was very friendly and very excited. We joked a bit about having a Jesuit pope and now an Augustinian pope.

Then I said, "Do you know him?"

He said, "Who, Bob?"

I laughed and said, "Yes, I guess: Bob."

"I've known him for 40 years," he said.

I said, "I know him a little from the Synod, and he seems wonderful, but what's he like?"

"Oh well," he said, "you know we elected him twice as Prior General: the first time because we really liked him; the second time because he had done a great job." (Being elected twice as superior general by your brothers in a religious order is some feat.)

"But what's he like?" he said, repeating my question. "Bob is smart, kind, humble, a hard worker, a great listener, quite reserved, close to the poor, and beloved by our men. Everyone loves Bob."

Then he paused.

"But he's no pushover."

I think we saw that today.

[Laurel Coons 🧬🧬🧬 @LaurelCoons]

Carl Sagan’s point lands hard — the media makes room for astrology, not science ... 📰

📹 via wonderofscience (X)

[Mich Kenney @MKenneyPR]

behind every published book is a typo that made it through 1.5 million rounds of edits

[Yannick Buccella MD @YannickBuccella]

There is no evidence sunscreen causes cancer. None. The link between unprotected sun exposure and skin cancer, all types, is one of the most well-established findings in oncology.

On the contrary: One of the largest randomized trials ever done on this found zero harmful effect from daily sunscreen use, and a real reduction in squamous cell carcinoma.
https://t.co/W07FVC69HS
Don't spread nonsense.

[Stephen Prilliman, Ph.D. @SGPrilliman]

https://t.co/AzUDuojYKT

[Stephen Prilliman, Ph.D. @SGPrilliman]

I was ballot 919 at my precinct in NW OKC at 2pm

[Stephen Prilliman, Ph.D. @SGPrilliman]

Democracy for the win!