@orzelc

I'm a physicist, professor, blogger, and author of popular science books. Also at https://xitter.cf/t.co/uj07yLySyZ and https://xitter.cf/t.co/eQtx4wtixn

 Niskayuna, NY
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Joined July 2009
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What's my new book A BRIEF HISTORY OF TIMEKEEPING about? I hope the title's self-explanatory, but I went into more detail for The Big Idea: whatever.scalzi.com/2022/01/…

The Big Idea: Chad Orzel

Chad Orzel is one of my favorite explainers of scientific concepts, and in his new book A Brief History of Timekeeping, he covers one of my favorite topics: Time. But the story of time isn’t …

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This is like the epigraph for the entire Trump 2.0 presidency: ‘’I don’t give a damn. We’re making a fortune’
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TRUMP on HIGH GAS PRICES: We’re making money like we’ve never made before. They’ll say: President Trump is bragging about all the money they're making while people are suffering at the pump. I don’t give a damn. We’re making a freaking fortune.
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Mouse and Top Hat, by Takeuchi Seiho, 1937
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We're visiting SteelyKid at college, staying in a chain hotel, and the TV in the room doesn't have a Fox affiliate on the cable, so I can't watch the World Series. Somebody needs to be sent to Guantanamo Bay for this...
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They've got Fox News if I wanted crazy people yelling at me, and FS1 running a college football game, but no regular Fox with the World fucking Series. Why does the Marriott company hate America?
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Time once again to spin the Mad Libs Headline Wheel 🎰 Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders 🎰 Ignite Legal War 🎰 With My Chemical Romance 🎰 Over Fake Uniforms
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@TMZOct 24
Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders Ignite Legal War With My Chemical Romance Over Fake Uniforms tmz.com/2026/10/23/dallas-co…

Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders Ignite Legal War With My Chemical Romance Over Fake Uniforms

My Chemical Romance better not mess with Texas ... because the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders are dragging them to court ... and it's all because the rock band is trotting out dancers who are dressed...

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John H. Boyer
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Happy to announce I built a Greek/English reader site with all the surviving plays of Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, & Aristophanes. Multiple translations for each play; click to parse & define for any Greek word; full Greek & English search. greekdrama.johnhboyer.com

The Greek Drama Reader — Greek tragedy and comedy, Greek and English side by side

Read the Greek plays in the original Greek with a facing English translation, side by side — with click-to-parse morphology, dictionary lookup, citation, and full-text search across the corpus.

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Tisya Mavuram@tmavuramOct 23
you just do it. I know everyone hates to hear that but there’s no secret. pick a book you’ll enjoy and put your phone in another room and do it even when it seems hard. and then do it as often as you can.
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@meadandjuniperOct 22
People who read books for fun in the big 26, genuinely how do you do it. I salute you your brain is made of sterner stuff than mine
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Zena Hitz@zenahitzOct 23
It has to come from faculty. Education begins with scholars and teachers. That doesn't mean it *will* come from them. Just this: if there will be successful reform, it can only come from faculty.
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David Shaw@truereddevil99Oct 22
Sad news today. After 5 years of medical training, one of my mates has been struck off due to a minor discretion. He slept with one of his patients and can no longer do the job he loves. What a waste of time and money. Genuinely a great guy and a brilliant vet
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If you mean two total, The Pip. If you mean two guests in addition to me, The Pip and my dad. (I'm super boring, I know...)
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@CodifyBaseballOct 23
If you had two World Series tickets and knew whoever you invited to go with you would accept, who would you ask?
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A reminder about Tampa's offense as we get this series started and the broadcast starts laying it on thick with the clichés:
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Today in "Awww, damnit...": lkb.fr/en/laboratoire/presen…

Claude Cohen-Tannoudji has passed away - Laboratoire Kastler Brossel

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Sam Vecenie
@Sam_VecenieOct 23
I mean, just an all-time TV segment. Making Chuck do Who He Play For multiple times in a row with the same players is a brilliant idea and I was legit crying laughing by the end, my god.
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David Chapman
@MeaningnessOct 23
The main difficulty in writing is deciding what to leave out, in order to create the functional but misleading illusion that there exist clear and distinct ideas.
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Who can make this real???? I’d buy it in a heartbeat
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I would display this precious moment in my living room if it were real. 
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Current status: Anticipating the small consolation of saying "I told you so."
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I don't think people understand how much entertainment of the past was just going to your friend's house. Like play some cards. Have a beer. Sing some songs. Maybe dance. All for free (besides $1 for the beer). But that's not good enough for anyone anymore
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We CANNOT even afford hobbies. We CANNOT afford to go out with friends. We CANNOT afford to exist anywhere outside our homes. They then call it a mental health crisis. It's not. It's an affordability crisis.
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Jennifer A. Frey@jennfreyOct 23
Thanks, I think we are speaking past one another a bit. The problem isn't an imperative for research. The problem is that this imperative has crowded out any real attention and concern for undergrad education, especially Gen Ed.
David Porter@huwaliyasuntobOct 23
Replying to @huwaliyasuntob
I'm sympathetic to the possibility that things are different in fields like literature and philosophy and that new research is of less fundamental importance to how they work as disciplines, but they're not my field so I'm reluctant to push that idea too forcefully
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Presentation on AI for science, Q&A: Me: This helps with idea generation, but isn't the real bottleneck the need to do experiments? Presenter: Yes, but a bunch of companies are automating wet labs, which is easy. Me: I know a bunch of chemists who would disagree with that...
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A Personal History in Quantum Foundations: an Oral History Interview Guy Hetzroni, Yakir Aharonov arxiv.org/abs/2610.30998

A Personal History in Quantum Foundations: an Oral History Interview

This oral history interview provides Yakir Aharonov's personal and conceptual recollections from the 1950s to the 2000s, focusing on his academic trajectory, some of his major contributions to...

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