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…
This, like "The truth is, these are not very bright guys and things got out of hand," is a fabulous all-purpose comment for basically every kerfuffle of the Internet era.
the real black pill is recognizing that everybody involved thought it was a really good essay. that’s why they posted it.
This season is the NBA's 80th season The midpoint of NBA history is 1986 MJ's era is as far removed from us today as the 40s was to MJ's era. Can you imagine 40s/50s era players saying they were a better era than the 80s? Thats literally MJ stans logic
don't really follow Stranger Things but i like that one of the white teenagers looks like a burnt-out middle-aged Japanese detective for some reason
Gone but not forgotten
Choosing to believe this is an elegant staging of this tweet
Thinking about Lou Gehrig’s final years always gets me in the feels. He was so big and strong, so durable and talented, and he might have finished his career with the greatest numbers in MLB history. In another timeline, maybe he is even more highly regarded than Babe Ruth.…
It was beyond incredible. It was miraculous. Lou Gehrig’s final season was an all-time year for most people: he batted .295 with 29 HR, 114 RBI, drew 107 walks, and posted a .932 OPS. He didn’t miss a single game and won the World Series. He was already dying of ALS.
Is it too much to ask for a single shot of Vincent Hanna (Al Pacino) snorting coke in Heat, so some of this might actually make sense?
No, you don't ask for a refund. You acknowledge that you willingly decided to fly on a plane with other people, and some of those other people may have babies that will cry. Then you learn an important lesson about bringing noise canceling headphones. If you don't want to risk…
That no-kick animation needs to get put in Madden in midseason like the Saquon reverse hurdle last year. Football things we didn't even know were possible.
Doing my bit to uphold the reputation of American tourists by being the only person who didn't dress up to go to the breakfast buffet in the hotel lobby.
Aaron Rodgers looks like he tried to rob Kevin McCallister’s house
I don’t understand ppl who close their windows on planes, especially like if it’s mid-afternoon and not a red eye flight like bro you are hurtling 30000 ft above land and can see for hundreds of miles, this is an insane feat and you should want to gaze upon it
If we're talking worst special teams performances of all time, you're DAMN RIGHT we're talking about the New York football Giants. A decade plus of incompetence on special teams.
this has to be one of the worst special team performances of all time: allowed a punt return TD FG botch fumbled kickoff all in one half
I chose the green door ninety-three days ago. At the time, it seemed obviously correct. Not even a close call. The red door offered two billion dollars immediately—a sum so large it would solve every material problem I'd ever face, fund any project I could imagine, and still…
If you write 10,000 words, they don't read it. If you write 3,000 words and include some links to a bunch of posts you wrote before, they also don't read it. Basic lesson: They don't read it.
I didn't "touch on it". I have written many posts about it, analyzing it in great depth, and in this post I linked to those others and summarized their arguments. Did you overlook that part? Did you just decide not to click on any of the posts?
This is the most probability question of all the probability questions I’ve ever come across
Another nice feature of being in Norway: This Site is giving me trending topics in the sidebar that I assume are rage-bait, but I can't understand any of them.
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