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Theoretical physicist and bibliophile

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My first thought was satellite or rocket upper stage reentering the atmosphere, but that would pretty much never be going east to west. My best guess (based on color and tail) is slightly larger than usual meteor, still nothing that made it to the ground before vaporizing.

16.02.2026 03:41 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

And it looked too high up for fireworks?

16.02.2026 02:10 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

What direction was it traveling?

16.02.2026 00:53 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Hillsboro, OR

09.11.2025 10:10 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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The Typical College Student Is Not Who You Think

Anytime I talk with someone over the age of about 30 about the lives of college students, they make a whole bunch of wildly incorrect assumptions. Here’s a useful (partial) corrective.

26.08.2025 00:37 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I’ll ask and get back to you offline.

17.08.2025 22:41 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

My brother in law is an academic specializing in intersections of literature and early film, and he says β€œhe was no Rudolph Valentino but maybe some women were into that.”

16.08.2025 19:58 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Certainly it’s hard to tell when the ones with the megaphone are doing her own projection and when they’re playing on that of their audience.

15.02.2025 20:55 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

When you look below surface, right-wingers’ judgments of other people are projection all the way down.

15.02.2025 19:24 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

In my experience, everyone above the department chair level at US universities is a careerist who believes that the mission of the university is to make them important and wealthy.

15.02.2025 18:52 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

This is a badly researched article for not mentioning the Indian Citizenship Act of 1924 or anything that happened after it.

24.01.2025 20:55 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0