53 years ago, we embarked on a journey of immeasurable magnitude and promise, when Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins and I launched on #Apollo11. There was risk and uncertainty, but we had the best ground support, and as a team, we successfully launched and we’re headed to the moon

This remains one of my favorite quotes. And it’s so useful as a lecture opener too…! So why did I end up so focused on the bond market after I worked in DC? Well, let’s start here…

Definitely this. Did I mention the time that a clearly very clever undergrad walked into class, in headphones, singing “just like the white winged dooooove!” She knew exactly what she was doing there.

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Favorite tweet thread of day. Someone already mentioned Primer and Dark City. But so many on this list that I’ve seen multiple times…

You must watch this.

And...one #Fed mandate is prior to the other. Not saying I disagree with that, just that I didn't expect to hear that so openly.

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Sharing because this question is wonderful and the thread that follows is pretty good too. Though I thought of Leonardo before I read on…what does that say about my thinking…

I present to you, some images that Midjourney created from some scientific paper titles. I think maybe this should be required with every paper submission to a journal. Let's see some of your favorites!

This thread.

“Regular and predictable.” Read.

When I arrived up here 3.5 years ago I made this pronunciation adjustment rather immediately, having spent a lot of time in a California city called Sackamenna as a child. Yes, that's how you pronounce it.

Tom Jones and Janis Joplin are the duet I never knew I needed to see.

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See entire thread. And thank you Jeanna Smialek for your great work!

See 🧵. Thanks Professor Eva Vivalt