Chad Orzel
@orzelc
I'm a physicist, professor, blogger, and author of popular science books. Also at http://mastodon.world/@orzelc and https://bsky.app/profile/orzelc.bsky.social
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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/2022/01/27/the…
The core fallacy of the “blame Obama left” is not acknowledging that Barack Obama was very popular in the fall of 2016 and would’ve beaten Trump handily.
Everyone says Michael Jordan was bad at baseball, but after not playing baseball since high school he went straight to AA (skipping like 5 minor league levels) where he faced future MLB pitchers and hit .202 with 50 walks Michael Jordan was amazing at baseball
everyone has “I wonder what would happen if” thoughts, but toddlers actually do the shit. I respect that.
Bill Lee, at age 75 with beer in hand, walks straight out of the stands to strike out some young joker with an eephus pitch. There will never be another Spaceman.
Ultracold atoms in a multimode cavity form an equilibrium spin glass go.aps.org/3W7FJeo
The consequences of HHS firings:
In my many lectures on where data comes from, I start with: "The CDC estimates the obesity rate in the US is 41.6%. How do they know?" People have all kinds of ideas, but you quickly realize that to know this in a reliable way you need to weigh a random sample of Americans (1/2)
The Pittsburgh Pirates win the 1925 World Series, defeating the Washington Senators 9-7 in Game 7 at Forbes Field in Pittsburgh. Much of the game is overshadowed by a bizarre event in which officials attempted to dry the wet field by dousing the infield in gasoline and lighting…
PSA: Take pictures of your loved ones. If you notice that there is someone in your family who is always taking pictures of everyone else, make sure you take a few pictures of them at every big gathering. This is really important.
Tired: Black-Scholes Wired: Deutsch-Jozsa
This week in "Music That Is So Specifically My Thing That I'm Surprised It Gets Released": youtube.com/watch?v=-TpQiw…
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St. Paul & The Broken Bones - Ooo-Wee (Official Visualizer)
The 1970s were a different vibe, man...
On this day in 1893, Lillian Gish was born in Springfield, OH. In 1988, I wrote to her asking if they had scripts and dialogue to memorize in silent films, or if the director just gave them a sense of what was being said. This was her astonishingly informative reply. Classy lady.
The pan to the scoreboard killed me 💀
A classic finding from behavioral economics games goes like this: You pair two people, Alfred and Bob. Bob receives $10 and decides how much to offer Alfred. If Alfred accepts, they both keep the money. If he rejects, neither gets anything. In most cases, Bob has to offer at…
most people i know gain like 20 iq when advising their friends lives and lose 20 iq when doing strategy for their own lives
Is there a hitting coach out there who can teach a juggernaut offense how to hit in the playoffs lol
Yankees hitting coach James Rowson will interview for the Twins managerial position.
amidst a string of battery failures, there's a new sodium-ion chemistry on the market. @AlsymEnergy - spun out of MIT 10 years ago - is planning to deploy its batteries for grid-scale energy storage beginning next year heatmap.news/climate-tech/a…
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