Professor, physicist. Black holes, quantum gravity, cosmology. Tennessean. Rocky Top. Tar Heel. RTs are spooky action at a distance. Views mine, not employer's.
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Oh wow, if you like books maybe pick up a copy of my wife’s achingly beautiful novel about the love affair between Eleanor Roosevelt and Lorena Hickok?
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This terrible account posts screenshots of other people's tweets, instead of retweeting or quoting them. They don't even @ the poster. Sad and gross.
Can’t believe there are folks on here still making excuses for Elon. This is who he is. There is no alternate interpretation that makes it okay.
Reporter: Madame President, what's your favorite Hüsker Dü album?
Harris: What kind of question is --
[Walz grabs podium]
Walz: FLIP YOUR WIG
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🇨🇳🇺🇸Tsung-Dao (T. D.) Lee, a Chinese-American Nobel laureate in physics known for his work on parity violation and the Lee-Yang theorem, died on August 5, 2024, at the age of 95.
In 1957, Lee, at the age of 31, won the Nobel Prize in Physics. He became the youngest Nobel laureate in the United States when he acquired American citizenship in 1962.
Oppenheimer's famous quote ("..the destroyer of worlds") is something he came up with many years later. It's a colorful bit of revisionist history.
Bainbridge's quote is something he actually said at the time. He had no illusions about what they'd done and their culpability.
Physicist Kenneth Bainbridge was born #OTD in 1904. He used mass spectrometetry to verify Einstein’s mass-energy equivalence, built Harvard’s cyclotron, and directed the Manhattan Project’s Trinity Test.
After the blast, he said to #Oppenheimer “Now we are all sons of bitches.”
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Rosalind Franklin was born #OTD in 1920. Her X-ray diffraction work was critical for establishing the helical nature of DNA.
Image: Vittorio Luzzati / Jewish Women’s Archive
When I tried to follow the Harris campaign yesterday, I got a “limit reached” error. Other follows didn’t produce that error. But you can’t point out the obvious without angry Elon fans flipping out.
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These are two wonderful people who are trying to do what’s right and you can support their campaigns at jontester.com and monicatranel.com
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This strange tweet got >25k retweets. The author sounds confident, and he uses lots of hex and jargon. There are red flags though... like what's up with the DEI stuff, and who says "stack trace dump"? Let's take a closer look... 🧵1/n
It’s fine, I’m sure they’ve got things under control. We can trust [checks notes] … Microsoft? Wait what
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What would happen if a black hole wandered into our solar system? trib.al/hzBid6Q
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Just found out that Taylor & Francis has sold access to all @routledgebooks data to Microsoft to train their AI. This includes my publications. I get no payment for using my research labour, never mind the bigger problems of this energy-intensive extractivism...
I did this for @FieldNotesBrand back in 2014 but no one ever claimed the pen, which afaik is still available.
