Instrument Manager. Science Communicator. I try to raise awareness of science to the public through blogging.
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Joined September 2013
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John Michael Kaiser retweeted
The 2026 midterm elections didn’t just determine who controls Congress for the next two years—they also determine whether the United States, 250 years after its founding, remains a democracy, @anneapplebaum says. She explores what citizens and lawmakers can do next to strengthen the institutions and values that have been threatened in the Trump era:
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John Michael Kaiser retweeted
When a battery's terminals touch steel wool, the electrical current rapidly heats the wire; causing the iron to react with surrounding oxygen, sparking a chain reaction that creates iron oxide, which is heavier than the original wool.
John Michael Kaiser retweeted
"Not only the Universe is stranger than we think, it is stranger than we can think."
-- Werner Heisenberg (1901 - 1976)
John Michael Kaiser retweeted
If you haven’t watched this yet please do.
I don’t care if you are Republican or Democrat, if this doesn’t move you to vote against the current state of affairs nothing will.
Our grandchildren will watch this clip in history class, to better understand the political climate during Trumpism.
John Michael Kaiser retweeted
Nobel laureate @KarlDeisseroth came to neuroscience through words. His love of literature and writing drew him toward the human brain, and a required psychiatry rotation in medical school set him on the path to developing optogenetics. Here, he traces that journey.
John Michael Kaiser retweeted
How much do you know about the will and testament of Alfred Nobel?
On the 193rd anniversary of Nobel's birth, watch as Gustav Källstrand tells us about the man and the document that led to the establishment of the Nobel Prize.
Learn more about Nobel and his legacy: nobelprize.org/alfred-nobel
John Michael Kaiser retweeted
“We are taking our country back.
Not with anger. Not with fear, not with division. But with the hope that built this state.”
~@jamestalarico
One of the most powerful ads I’ve ever seen, with the added value of being true.
John Michael Kaiser retweeted
In China, rather than towing illegally parked vehicles, the valet robot, a compact, extendable cart with wheel grippers, re-parks them in the closest legal parking spot.
John Michael Kaiser retweeted
microsurgery robot stitches up a corn kernel
Showing millimeter-level precision
John Michael Kaiser retweeted
30 years ago today, I signed the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty. In the three decades since, the world has seen only 10 nuclear tests, compared with more than 2,000 in the five decades before. As AI gives us new capabilities we could only have imagined then, we should remember something we learned in the nuclear age: even when countries disagree, we can still work together to reduce the risks we all face. cfr.org/articles/bill-clinto…
John Michael Kaiser retweeted
Did you know the original Claude — the chatbot’s namesake, according to Anthropic lore — was a renowned MIT professor? Claude Shannon SM ’40, PhD ’40, who taught at MIT from 1956 until his retirement in 1978, was known to many as the father of information theory and of modern digital communications.
ALT At left, grayscale photo of an older Claude Shannon posing at a blackboard. At right, color photo of a bust of Shannon, pensive and looking down, in front of glass windows on a sunny day.
