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Plastics - materials processing - measurements - sustainability Professor @PennState Executive Editor at ACS Applied Polymer Materials Opinions are my own and commonly completely wrong

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President Dwight D. Eisenhower's Farewell Address (1961) EnlargeDownload Link Citation: Farewell address by President Dwight D. Eisenhower, January 17, 1961; Final TV Talk 1/17/61 (1), Box 38, Speech Series, Papers of Dwight D.

Listening to Eisenhower would have saved so much suffering...
www.archives.gov/milestone-do...

07.03.2026 04:02 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

root: tar / split

07.03.2026 03:57 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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And then you could move these files between computers using these things. The ZIP drives were great so you could get large files on a single disk... breaking a file into parts to fit to volume was always fun until you lost one of the 7 disks that were used to hold one file.

06.03.2026 16:36 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Trump Administration Live Updates: President Ousts Noem as Homeland Security Secretary

Firing is first step... I bet that charging Noem with civil rights violations and host of other crimes would be an effective way to minimize media coverage of the next drop of Epstein files...
www.nytimes.com/live/2026/03...

05.03.2026 19:16 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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It was also free wireless - that big metal stick captures EMF radiation that is broadcast and you do not need to pay for high speed data to watch the video. However, the screen capture device is an add-on...

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Evil Dead Star Bruce Campbell Shares Cancer Diagnosis | E! News
Evil Dead Star Bruce Campbell Shares Cancer Diagnosis | E! News YouTube video by E! News

This was also a shock to me. Shop smart, shop S-mart.

03.03.2026 15:20 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
The Internet Was Weeks Away From Disaster and No One Knew
The Internet Was Weeks Away From Disaster and No One Knew YouTube video by Veritasium

Interesting how close the internet was to being completely compromised

03.03.2026 15:04 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Greensky Bluegrass - Into the Mystic - Northwest String Summit
Greensky Bluegrass - Into the Mystic - Northwest String Summit YouTube video by JamGrass TV

#MusicChallenge
#WrongDisneySong

▢️ Day 28
🎞️ Soul

www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jjw...

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7 U.S. Presidents Who Had Money Problems Here is every past POTUS that couldn't float us with easy personal loans because they experienced their fair share of money problems during their lifetime.

Presidents have had a history of money problems and bankruptcies... however, these occurred after leaving office in many cases. However the current POTUS is still WINNING big for the number of bankruptcies...

27.02.2026 18:53 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Don't Worry About the Government
Don't Worry About the Government YouTube video by Talking Heads - Topic

#MusicChallenge
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Day 26 - Zootopia

This fits the Mayor well...

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John Frusciante - This Cold
John Frusciante - This Cold YouTube video by Frusciante World

#MusicChallenge
#WrongDisneySong

Day 25- Frozen

www.youtube.com/watch?v=xF9D...

25.02.2026 20:57 πŸ‘ 8 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Former Fox News host is demanding guardrails removed from AI for military applications. What could go wrong?

25.02.2026 20:46 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Can we get a time machine and have AI replace Jack Welch so GE can still be an american powerhouse?

25.02.2026 03:40 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

If asked to maintain value for perpetuity while trying to maximize quarterly profits, it would be better than all of the CEOs that are under the thumb of venture capital at a bare minimum.

25.02.2026 03:39 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Pentagon threatens to make Anthropic a pariah if it refuses to drop AI guardrails | CNN Business Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth gave Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei a Friday deadline to comply with demands to peel back safeguards on its AI model or risk losing a Pentagon contract.

I think I will be paying for Claude next week if they stay the course... maybe I can get Claude to fit the scattering data that has not been fit by students in 2+ years.

25.02.2026 03:37 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Residents will not need to worry about higher energy prices as the data center will pump out all of the ground water to make Pine Island inhabitable before the energy costs increase...

24.02.2026 21:23 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I listen to this and I think that Dr. Who has the logical end game when humanity and compassion is removed and only cold rational decisions are made.

24.02.2026 14:21 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Black Randy And The Metrosquad - I Slept In An Arcade
Black Randy And The Metrosquad - I Slept In An Arcade YouTube video by Taktwo2

#MusicChallenge
#WrongDisneySong

▢️ Day 24
🎞️ Wreck-it Ralph

www.youtube.com/watch?v=PsNt...

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You just need to figure out how to use the sound to promote some chemistry in dilute ethanol solutions... πŸ˜€

23.02.2026 16:43 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Bob Dylan - Tangled Up In Blue (Official HD Video)
Bob Dylan - Tangled Up In Blue (Official HD Video) YouTube video by BobDylanVEVO

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Day 23 - Tangled

Had to get at least one Dylan song into this challenge.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=YwSZ...

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I long for the days where reading the Cliff Notes was considered a high crime for cheating...

23.02.2026 16:31 πŸ‘ 34 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I was getting frustrated with trying to make all documents accessible to put on canvas - I've gone to more chalkboard lectures without posting notes. Guess I was ahead of the curve on this as this AI Homework agent is going to be bad news. I am guessing that this is only the beginning...

23.02.2026 16:29 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I didn't know that RFKj had a influence on the lunches in Europe... cholera for every child, no child left behind.

23.02.2026 14:47 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

alchemy at its best...

22.02.2026 21:14 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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'It's time for change,' nurses call for removal of Wexner, Landon names at OSUMC The Ohio Nurses Association is calling for Wexner's name to be removed from all medical buildings.

Ohio State has a Epstein problem... hopefully they don't sweep under the roof like they let Jim Jordan do with the wrestling team.

22.02.2026 19:26 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Interplay between Cross-Linker Nucleophilicity and Diffusion in Polystyrene Vitrimer Dynamics Over the past decade, imine chemistry has emerged as a critical tool in the design of vitrimers – polymer networks featuring dynamic associative cross-links. Imine-based vitrimers offer significant ut...

Very interesting work from Ralm Ricarte on vitrimers demonstrating that the dynamics can be tuned by nucleophilicity in model vitrimer system has been recently published in @pubs.acs.org ACS Applied Polymer Materials.

doi.org/10.1021/acsa...

22.02.2026 15:02 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Takedown: Helmuth at Slate rips into racist, sexist remarks by Nobel laureate James Watson. - Knight Science Journalism @MIT James Watson and Francis Crick did not discover DNA. β€œNuclein,” as DNA was initially called, was discovered in 1869 by a Swiss chemist named Friedrich Miescher. And they did not […]

It is amazing that they couldn't say anything definitive since it is so easy to find direct quotes. This is a bad slippery slope... what's next PNAS stating that vaccines *might* significantly reduce childhood mortality???

22.02.2026 14:54 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Yellow Journalism: The β€œFake News” of the 19th Century Peddling lies in public goes back to antiquity, but it is the with the Tabloid Wars of the 19th-century when it first reached the widespread outcry and fever pitch of scandal familiar today.

I think Bezos is trying to be William Randolph Hearst with his thumb on the reporting of the Washington Post... except the point is not to just sell more papers.

22.02.2026 14:45 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Time Travel | The Experts | The Red Green Show
Time Travel | The Experts | The Red Green Show Has this ever happened to you? And if so, did you choose time travel? Clip from S10E05 "Man Of The Year" – Watch the full episode here: https://youtu.be/gnNnwK0ZJdw?si=QHYgEn1Fgl1o22J8 Welcome to P...

Discussion of time travel...
www.youtube.com/shorts/rhsHL...

21.02.2026 21:28 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Epstein UNREDACTED: Musk, Gates, Trump & Clinton
Epstein UNREDACTED: Musk, Gates, Trump & Clinton YouTube video by Andrew Bustamante

This is an interesting take on the Epstein files and their release...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=qu4q...

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