Steve Desch

Do you know what the “B.” in “Benoit B. Mandelbrot” stands for?
“Benoit B. Mandelbrot”.

To me it looked like a large boulder the size of a small boulder?

Luke.

a man with blonde hair is making a surprised face in a room . Alt: Devin from SNL’s The Californians, nodding. “I said AROUND Colorado, Stuart!”

I said Earth-LIKE, Eric!

ME: pack a bag, we’re flying to kansas

MY WAYWARD SON: what kind of bag

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In this viral clip from Cosmos Ep.1, Carl Sagan explains how Eratosthenes (276–194 BC) calculated Earth's circumference. 🔭 🧪 ⚛️

His estimate: 250,000 stadia ≈ 25,000 miles (~40,000 km).

Crazy accurate for 2200+ years ago!

#histsci #science

I nearly overlapped with Jensen Huang. 😕

Steve quietly closing this thread and tiptoeing away…

Point of clarification: Are we getting chowder at the drive-thru, or driving through chowder? ‘Cuz these days it already feels like we’re driving through chowder. But convenient soup would be nice.

Why do curling stones slide across ice the way they do? After a century of study, physicists have theories — but they’re still not 100% sure.

Watching the Olympic curling finals this weekend? Physicists still aren't 100% sure why the big granite stones 'curl' the way they do.

go.nature.com/4rTOAOw

Now I have “Rock Me Amadeus” in my head, thanks.

I also swore off octopus, 20 years ago! Same reason. Well, not specifically tiny piano-based. But yeah they are too intelligent for me to eat.

I’m sure there’s a form for that, too, Elizabeth. 😒

This is not the quality of pseudoscience infotainment to which I have grown accustomed Teasing the public with fraudulent or self-deluded promises of aliens used to mean something. It took work. It meant slapping together…

Couldn’t agree more!

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Did dinosaurs climb trees?!
I have to make some adjustments to my time machine…

Fun fact: the plural of unison is bison.

True. To this teenager in the Reagan era, Jesse Jackson seemed impossibly idealistic, an electoral non-starter. But it’s obvious now he was right about who we are, and his agenda is what America needs today. And he laid groundwork for such a future.
He seems to’ve had an invisible touch?

Wow.

Steve walks warily down the street…

In a couple of years they have built a little pink house

I remember that day!

Unfortunate Agreement is our band name.

My understanding is that this is businesses’ response to the K-shaped economy: still technically provide a product for the peons, make your profit selling decent products to the upper middle class. Solving the enshittification problem may require solving inequality. I’m not holding my breath.

#tempestrong

It’s chopped.

I coulda sworn it was Primus.

Howard the Duck (1986)

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Reposting this thread on #KatherineJohnson —perfect timing for the International Day of Women & Girls in Science on #Februar11, and right in the heart of #BlackHistoryMonth.

Her story just blows me away every time, showing how one person's grit ...

#WomenInSTEM #HistSci #WomenInScience 🧪 🔭 ⚛️

Bootsy Collins feat. Fantaazma - Hip Hop Lollipop YouTube video by Bootsy Collins

Thanks! I mostly wanted to work in the pun, but I am truly amazed to learn about his influence. Even after 50 years he’s still fresh. I’m loving this recent song:
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