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Tom Overton

@thomas_overton

Science writer/editor, energy buff, lawyer, tech geek, novelist, nuclear Navy vet, grower of ghost peppers.

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I'm obsessed with the graffiti found on the walls of Pompeii. Vico d' Eumachia, brothel: "Gaius Valerius Venustus, soldier of the 1st praetorian cohort, in the century of Rufus, screwer of women." Guys, you haven't changed a bit.

sara david (@saraqdavid) 's Twitter Profile Photo

me forcing my cat to look at the screen while we watch alien (1979): do you see how ripley is able to save jonesy from the alien because he lets her pick him up and put him in a carrier?

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Dr Chris Fall, Director of the DOE Office of Science, toured the DIII-D National Fusion Facility today to learn more about the important work fusion researchers are doing there with DOE support U.S. Department of Energy DOE Office of Science

Dr Chris Fall, Director of the DOE Office of Science, toured the DIII-D National Fusion Facility today to learn more about the important work fusion researchers are doing there with DOE support

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Chris Kohler (@kobunheat) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Around this time of year, people who strung their Christmas lights the wrong way start wandering into hardware stores looking for what they later find out is often called a "suicide cable."

Around this time of year, people who strung their Christmas lights the wrong way start wandering into hardware stores looking for what they later find out is often called a "suicide cable."
Tom Overton (@thomas_overton) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Surely it's possible to have an intelligent discussion about the influence Twitter, Facebook and Amazon have on our lives without needing to make comparisons to the Holocaust

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Hi, can science reporters please find someone besides Ed Lyman to use as the "well, actually" guy in every article about #fusion energy? Thanks. sciencemag.org/news/2021/02/r…