#OTD 1961: Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first human to go into space. President Kennedy wrote to congratulate Soviet Chairman Nikita Khrushchev. The only way to ensure peace is to reach out even to your enemies while making it clear where you stand (JFK Presidential Library)

Econs and others are amazed when Econ doesn’t work !!! Attached paragraph is from my book Models.Behaving.Badly in 2011. If you ever modeled anything you know how hard it is and how social science is different.

This was so much fun! Thanks for having me.

Three editions of the “Sourcebook”, with glowing testimonials from three AEC chairmen: Gordon Dean, Lewis Strauss and - my favorite - Glenn Seaborg.

This week, my great-grandma, Lily Ebert, a 100-year-old Auschwitz survivor, became a great-great-grandma.

'I never expected to survive the Holocaust. Now I have five beautiful generations. The Nazis did not win!'

From near-death at Auschwitz to five generations of Jewish life.

Looking forward to Jim Baggott's new book which I preordered. amazon.co.uk/dp/B0CWKQXW8M/…

In honor of #NationalLibraryWeek , meet the Manhattan Project's librarian and the Lab's first female Group Leader: Charlotte Serber. 📚 Today her work lives on in our National Security Research Center, the Lab's classified library. 👇 ow.ly/aMB950RaLUY

#OTD 1925: 'The Great Gatsby' was published in New York by Charles Scribner's Sons. The book was a commercial disappointment and Fitzgerald considered it a failure, but after his death it became recognized as one of the greatest American novels of all time.

Scott Aaronson on Avi Wigderson's Turing Award announcement: 'He’s had a greater influence on my career than all but a tiny number of people, and I’m far from the only one who can say that.' scottaaronson.blog/?p=7936&fbclid…

Preparing to write a post on the remarkable Samuel Glasstone. Perhaps the most versatile, most effective technical writer I’ve ever encountered.

For chemists: the sulfur compounds that are responsible for the smell of onions and garlic do not pre-exist but are created by enzymatic reactions when the bulbs are cut. The tear-inducing compound in onion is created by the rearrangement of one of these molecules (Clayden et al.

Since the 1950s, SCOTUS has rejected attempts to censor books, phone calls, cable TV, and the internet. “In all of those cases, the Supreme Court kept returning to one simple idea: You can’t unduly burden adult access to information in the name of protecting children” Greg Lukianoff

It's interesting to contrast the publicity French got with the publicity JFK got for a similar feat one year later.

Blast from the physics past: Steven Weinberg and Willy Fowler in 1977. Fowler is holding up a copy of Weinberg's 'First Three Minutes' which was published that year.