As someone who has worked at both Brown and Columbia, I much prefer this to the cops...

nytimes.com/2024/04/30/us/…

The interesting thing here is that I am sure that @ericcrampton would have said the same thing, whether or not he was paid.

The problem is whether the NZI would have hired him if he didn't want to say what he said.

Any remember the first Bill and Ted, when they bring So-crates back from the past for their class project? They were stupid but loveable. This is just stupid.

Wow. Just wow. The only way this guy should be in a lab is if he is holding a mop.

Richard Easther Don Pettit International Space Station From memory almost the whole thing was manufactured in NZ back then. This is all I can find right now. So many publications yet to be digitized from back in the day.
A man of drive and humour
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Profiles Ray Crutcher (Delphi Industries).
New electronics, Mar 1987; p. 9

This actually reminds me of modified gravity alternatives to dark matter that have to be engineered so you can't tell the difference between them and dark matter on large scales.

Richard Easther critical thinking at its finest.

Who knew we had such rich heritage as a space faring nation?

Is it just me that hates the phrase 'research outputs' -- 'outputs' always reminds of the charts you have to keep with very new babies.

I know we use it to cover a huge range of activities, but no-one ever goes home and says 'Good news, I had an output accepted today'

Very excited to be attending the Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings later this year!

As a particle cosmologist I celebrate this on the same day as World Speed of Light Day -Jan 1st. IYKYK #oneone en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Qua…

Ben Rose works for Binance, which makes money out of this pointless Ponzi scheme.

Don't do much punditry here, but anyone wittering about the terrible and heinous violation of the Iranian Embassy and the deep respect of the Iranian government for diplomatic norms was probably not reading the newspaper in 1979.

Burns unit? Serious case incoming...

Reading 'The Star Builders' on efforts to develop fusion power. Great title but it refers to people working on fusion as 'star builders' throughout. E.g. 'The star builders have an unusual plan...'

Losing my will to live, or at least to get past Chapter Three.

It's Thursday, time to watch the latest Cosmology Talk!

This one has Russell Boey talking about dynamical friction, supermassive blackholes and ultralight dark matter.

Can it solve the final parsec problem?

Find out inside the video (or next Tweet).

youtu.be/hyf6VtbZ6-c

Talk also featuring Richard Easther and Y. Frank Wang.

Main paper: arxiv.org/abs/2403.09038
Earlier paper: arxiv.org/abs/2110.03428

Frankly, a big day for Good Dogs everywhere. WeRateDogs

Another AI fail. (IYKYK)

If you see 'idea generation' as 'grunt work' then your ideas are probably crap.