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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…


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MUSIC: Agorawave Band "Wrong Answers Only" Releases Hit New Single "Thus I Refute Thee" Consisting Entirely of Scatological Insults in Koine Greek


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Absolutely begging people to not over interpret shifts in exit polling, a thing which is reliably wrong and especially wrong about demographic shifts like this. Chill out and wait for voter files.

I would love to read more about the young-dude swing to the left yesterday. One possibility: This cohort is blowing right and left in the wind. Except the wind is “incumbent anger about affordability.” Another possibility: It was an off-year election, which probably means the…



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My Enemy Totoro by Carl Schmitt


Incredibly, this is only the SECOND hardest "No!" in my Inbox today:

orzelc's tweet image. Incredibly, this is only the SECOND hardest "No!" in my Inbox today:

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I love quantum computing (& quantum information science, even more), don't get me wrong -- but we have to acknowledge how much of the so-called "ecosystem" this captures:

QuantumAephraim's tweet image. I love quantum computing (& quantum information science, even more), don't get me wrong --
but we have to acknowledge how much of the so-called "ecosystem" this captures:

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OMinazzoli's tweet image.

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I teach history in Australia. We teach WW2 but mostly focus on ourselves. I used to think some silly things about Poland in the war, like: -They used cavalry against tanks. -They lost easily. -After 1939 they're out of the war. Now I know: -They lost because the Soviets also…

Clint_Davey1's tweet image. I teach history in Australia. We teach WW2 but mostly focus on ourselves. 

I used to think some silly things about Poland in the war, like:
-They used cavalry against tanks. 
-They lost easily.
-After 1939 they're out of the war.

Now I know:
-They lost because the Soviets also…

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A fundamental problem with academia is that it trains more people in highly specialised roles than either the academic or industrial job markets can absorb. Logically, this imbalance could be addressed in two ways: either the government could significantly increase funding to…

Yes you’re 💯 right . The post has bitterness because I’m witnessing unfairness and I don’t have enogh power to do anything.. . I know I have choices. And overall I am proud of the group I built and we are doing great work. But the system has gone way off track and it’s…



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What a pass from Jokic. 😳

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Since Jaxson Dart took over as the starter: Dart: 15 TDs, 4 TOS Daniel Jones: 14 TDs , 8 TOS


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Can anyone recommend a therapist who has studied Bell’s theorem and can help me cope with its implications?


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Now that baseball has gained back the nation’s affection I say eliminate inter league play. I don’t need to see the Red Sox playing the Rockies in August. Bring back the AL/NL mystique.


The beauty of matrix multiplication:

Good sign

MathMatize's tweet image. Good sign


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ESPN's highest-paid employee pushing Solitaire gambling with an AI ad. Everything about this stinks

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Feynman’s second wife, Mary Louise Bell, divorced him because she could not stand his obsession with calculus and physics. She claimed that he was constantly working on mathematical problems in his head, even while driving, sitting, or lying in bed. She also said that he was…

PhysInHistory's tweet image. Feynman’s second wife, Mary Louise Bell, divorced him because she could not stand his obsession with calculus and physics. She claimed that he was constantly working on mathematical problems in his head, even while driving, sitting, or lying in bed. She also said that he was…

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You may not have agreed with his policies but you have to admit he was one of the top 2 sitting vice presidents to shoot someone in the face. All due respect to Aaron Burr.

JUST IN - Dick Cheney, the 46th vice president of U.S. has died aged 84.

disclosetv's tweet image. JUST IN - Dick Cheney, the 46th vice president of U.S. has died aged 84.


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Maybe the lesson is not "Democrats should run moderates" or "Democrats should run socialists" but "Democrats should run candidates who are likable and have politics that are appealing in the specific places they are running."


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this image depicts two pole-mounted energy storage systems

first pole-mounted energy storage system in the US interesting...

duncan__c's tweet image. first pole-mounted energy storage system in the US

interesting...


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The noncommutativity of matrix multiplication is beautiful. Without it all atoms would be unstable.

The article also slanders non-commutative algebra.

boazbaraktcs's tweet image. The article also slanders non-commutative algebra.


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But getting dressed in the morning, to which our civilization is now devoting so many of its marginal resources, is possessed of neither beauty nor symmetry. Indeed, putting one’s socks on before one’s shoes is quite different from putting on one’s shoes before one’s socks.


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