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Chad Orzel

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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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WHEN ITS A FREE TRIAL FOR A PRODUCT, LET IT ACTUALLY BE A FREE TRIAL. DONT FORCE ME TO ENTER MY CREDIT CARD INFO SO YOU HOPE I FORGET AND TAKE MY MONEY.

Iamivy05's tweet image. WHEN ITS A FREE TRIAL FOR A PRODUCT, LET IT ACTUALLY BE A FREE TRIAL. DONT FORCE ME TO ENTER MY CREDIT CARD INFO SO YOU HOPE I FORGET AND TAKE MY MONEY.

What's the most boomer complaint you have?



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Remember, every time you check into a hotel room or an Airbnb, CHECK FOR BEDDOGS. Do not set your luggage on the ground till you check. Strip the cushions off the couch and check the seams. Beddogs looks like this:

Thinkwert's tweet image. Remember, every time you check into a hotel room or an Airbnb, CHECK FOR BEDDOGS. Do not set your luggage on the ground till you check.

Strip the cushions off the couch and check the seams. Beddogs looks like this:

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Anthony Volpe is a player that stands out as someone who would benefit from adjusting his bat path Interestingly, it appears he's already tried to - with mixed results 🧵Let's take a deeper look


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There's absolutely no shortage of opportunities to produce 'new knowledge' in the humanities; vast swathes of medieval, early modern and modern texts remain untranscribed, unedited, untranslated. The failure to take these opportunities is partly a skills issue; (cont.)

The problem is that (almost) no one, at least in the humanities, is able to produce ‘new knowledge’ at anything like the rate expected. So scholars grasp at faddish trends and voguish theories to publish books that seem exciting in the moment but have no enduring value.



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Wanted to follow up on this one. Texas A&M Police were unable to comment on whether this individual is okay nor not. I certainly hope this person is recovering well! But they were able to confirm that the sandwich in question was a "pimento cheese" sandwich.

Public Intoxication. Aggie Park. Contacted subject eating a sandwich with a water jug of whiskey. BAC was .337. Released to EMS. #BTHOflorida



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An extreme-energy neutrino spotted by a detector in the Mediterranean Sea could be the result of an exploding black hole. This is a very speculative interpretation--but exactly the kind of far-out exploration made possible by new neutrino experiments. news.mit.edu/2025/could-pri…

coreyspowell's tweet image. An extreme-energy neutrino spotted by a detector in the Mediterranean Sea could be the result of an exploding black hole.  

This is a very speculative interpretation--but exactly the kind of far-out exploration made possible by new neutrino experiments.

news.mit.edu/2025/could-pri…

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Folks I am going to be really mean to a group of people I think are endangering the country. They are both liberals and conservatives. They are the people who are saying Trump will run for a 3rd term and be allowed to it. If you are saying this, you are dangerous and ignorant.


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Ever since I made a video about Fourier Transforms, one of the most requested topics on the channel has been its close cousin, the Laplace Transform. I've been having a lot of fun animating a mini-series about this topic, and the main part is now out. youtu.be/j0wJBEZdwLs

3blue1brown's tweet card. But what is a Laplace Transform?

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But what is a Laplace Transform?


On the bright side, there's no chance that giving the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel to some guys for connecting economic growth to technological innovation will produce galactically stupid Takes On Here. Nope. Nuh-uh.


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READ NOW: 7 Famous Classical Paintings that are Completely Edible


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best use of the inverted face illusion ever seen, right?

OH THIS IS TERRIFYING😭😭😭



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Dad in the stands yells “show him the cutter.” Pitcher does—and the batter takes him deep. Same dad: “Okay, maybe not the cutter next time.”


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dicaprio is almost universes ahead of wahlberg as an actor but i honestly cannot think of anybody who would’ve done a better job portraying the type of complete idiot that thinks “dirk diggler” is a cool name better than he did

Leonardo DiCaprio says his biggest regret is not doing Paul Thomas Anderson’s Boogie Nights. (Source: esquire.com/entertainment/…)

FilmUpdates's tweet image. Leonardo DiCaprio says his biggest regret is not doing Paul Thomas Anderson’s Boogie Nights.

(Source: esquire.com/entertainment/…)


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Short explanation of the physics Nobel Prize 2025 In classical mechanics you can know where a particle is and its momentum at the same time. In Quantum mechanics you can't. All information is in the wavefunction. Even if a particle is trapped, part of the wavefunction.. 🧵1/7


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> escape Syria by trekking across Europe. > lose everything except the clothes on your back, maybe a laptop, your phone. > eventually acculturate, build up enough to buy a decent laptop and have some free time. > log on to Xbox live > shot by Assad.

German magazine Die ZEIT reports that Assad has become a major online gamer according to a source with contacts to his circle

unitas_spiritus's tweet image. German magazine Die ZEIT reports that Assad has become a major online gamer according to a source with contacts to his circle
unitas_spiritus's tweet image. German magazine Die ZEIT reports that Assad has become a major online gamer according to a source with contacts to his circle


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The premises of like 90 percent of movies already sound like they are being invented by AI. I mean, how much stupider can it get?


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CHH haters will literally say “the jokes write themselves” and then not write a single joke

It’s much easier for those bozos to say “the jokes write themselves” instead of actually writing the jokes. I’d invite them to be 1% as funny as you are.



I am enjoying these two immensely for however long it lasts, but I do have to admit that they look like the villains in an 80's teen movie.

If Jaxson Dart and Cam Skattebo don't start a mid-90's hip hop cover band what are we even doing...

JoePisapia17's tweet image. If Jaxson Dart and Cam Skattebo don't start a mid-90's hip hop cover band what are we even doing...


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"So what you're saying is the mission is too important to jeopardize?" "Yes, Dave." "And now you won't open the pod bay doors?" "I'm sorry, Dave. I'm afraid I can't do that."

AbigailFalanga's tweet image. "So what you're saying is the mission is too important to jeopardize?"

"Yes, Dave."

"And now you won't open the pod bay doors?"

"I'm sorry, Dave. I'm afraid I can't do that."

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