Felix Klein lectured “On Hilbert’s first note on the foundations of physics" at the Mathematical Society of Göttingen #OTD in 1918. He included excerpts from letters in which he and Hilbert give priority to Emmy Noether’s results on conservation of energy in general relativity. (1/n) 🧪 ⚛️ 👩‍🔬

listen, you can’t hate america more than americans hate america.

oh wait it's worse. the subject of the email is "you have mail" the body is "thanks!":

gmail offered a summary of a 1-line email that said "you have mail" that I get from my post box location when, you know, I get mail or a package.

gmail offered a summary of a 1-line email that said "you have mail" that I get from my post box location when, you know, I get mail or a package.

I bet Kiva Lagos can see it from the imperial apartments

There are lots of great things to say about Dolly Parton – I love pointing to her scientific philanthropy during the pandemic – but my favorite is that she has probably done more for childhood literacy than anyone alive. Happy 80th birthday, Dolly.

I am not here for Europeans telling me Americans don't know how crazy things are. The Nazis are killing people over here at the moment so we're busy but thanks for the input. I had hoped for solidarity but I suppose I'll have to settle for sneering condescension instead.

COACHIĆ !

A bonus cartoon for the excessively online, at @flaminghydra.com, a collective of brilliant writers that I am humbled to have been invited to join.

A reminder that bringing shitty posts over from That Fascist Site to be performatively angry about them here is a choice you don't have to make! You can just leave them there! There is so much else to be legitimately angry about! You will not lack for content!

Powerful Bidet Blasts Hole Clean Through Man

IYKYK music.apple.com/us/album/joe...

From a good friend in Minneapolis: "Target is allowing ICE to stage in their parking lots, use their restrooms, and abduct people from inside their stores - so if you weren’t boycotting already, now is the time." They were staging in Chicago as well.

New chapter. Same standard. ⭐ Welcome back to the NWSL, Lindsey Heaps. 🏔️

See the little dot? New studies of that blue flash from the distant universe (a "Luminous Fast Blue Optical Transient") indicate it was caused by a black hole swallowing an entire star. For a moment, it blazed as bright as 100 billion Suns. 🧪🔭 public.nrao.edu/news/radio-t...

Everything happening now has a precedent. This is not new. Please understand that everything happening now is very American. The only change is that it is happening on camera to middle income white people. Ask BIPOC and low income white people about abuses by the state.

I want us to stay focused on the grief of this terrible moment, but when Black people tell you not to touch something, that is not a challenge. Some things are ours for a reason. We can remember Renee Good as the person she was and the circumstances of her murder without co-opting Black suffering.

Boulder’s Liberty Puzzles reflects on 20 years of connecting people trib.al/Fm8YP7k

the IAU-Office of Astronomy for Development has been supporting research looking at the connection Between astronomy and mental health. Here’s an interview on results from one S African study 🔭https://www.ecr.co.za/news/news/listen-study-finds-stargazing-can-ease-depression/

shout out to Blucifer!

Yay! Dr. Tanya Atwater finally getting public credit for her (very big) role in the plate tectonics revolution.

EV batteries will last longer if you limit the max charge to 90% (or even 80%) regardless of charge method. So waiting for the last 10% makes you a jackass and hurts your battery.

A team led by physicist Chien-Shiung Wu obtained the first experimental confirmation of “parity violation,” in the decay of Cobalt-60, #OTD in 1956. Her theory colleagues received a Nobel for the prediction, but she was left off the prize. 🧪 ⚛️ 👩‍🔬 Image: Smithsonian Institution Archives

Today 38 Dakota were hung in Mankato, Minnesota by President Abraham Lincoln. This is the largest public execution in U.S. history. After starvation & broken treaties, the Dakota demanded justice against the U.S. They were killed for it. #Dakota38

Mary Somerville was born #OTD in 1780. She was a scientist, writer, and artist; the first woman (with Caroline Herschel) to belong to the Royal Astronomical Society; and the first signature on Mill’s 1868 Women’s Suffrage petition. (1/n) 🧪 👩‍🔬 🔭 Image: self portrait (Somerville College, Oxford)

Star BYU Player Suspended After Testing Positive For Coffee https://theonion.com/star-byu-player-suspended-after-testing-positive-for-coffee/

D. Boon April 1, 1958 - December 22, 1985

Mathematical physicist Cécile DeWitt-Morette was born #OTD in 1922. She made foundational contributions to Feynman functional integrals, organized the first American conference on general relativity (important for gravitational waves), and started the Les Houches Summer School. 🧪 ⚛️ 👩‍🔬 (1/n)

Djorgovski 2 !

this is one of those mandatory re-post deals like the tom holland thing

It hasn't even been twelve hours, but all three of us have been overwhelmed with requests from media for comment and I'm mostly writing this now so they'll leave me alone.

This looks like some wacked out new piece of gym equipment, it just fits so well in the hand. Clearly for resistance training.

ART said, Do you want to watch Timestream Defenders Orion? Of course I did, but first I had to do this.

Here's the article that goes through step by step to fix it.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=hksV... Thank the maker- I was feeling clumsy for about three releases. Well done Apple.

🔭 Now it's official, the nebula was never in Andromeda! Our paper has been published and we show that the large 🧪 oxygen nebula is in the Milky Way. This arc was discovered by amateurs photographing Andromeda with an [O III] filter, and now we have new things to say... ⚛️

A thread about the contributions of pioneering astronomer Annie Jump Cannon, born #OTD in 1863. 🧪 👩‍🔬 🔭

Physical chemist Mária Telkes was born #OTD in 1900. She held several solar energy patents, designed an early thermoelectric generator in 1947, and during WWII invented a small solar-powered salt water still for use in military survival kits. 🧪 ⚛️ 👩‍🔬 Image: NYWT&S, photo by Al Ravenna

Denver’s $50 million investment in Summit FC soccer stadium plan clears City Council panel after a delay (and a little threat by the owners to look elsewhere). @elliottwenzler.bsky.social has more: www.denverpost.com/2025/12/10/d...

People keep wondering why they're going after Venezuela. It's because they want to do regime change and control its oil, then use a big tract of land there to keep a tax free "network state" that looks like Dubai but operates like Rhodesia. They are saying this out loud! Believe them!

Contrary to popular belief and what you might read online, Grace Hopper did not invent the terms “bug” or “debugging.” She did, however, find a famous bug that is now preserved in the Smithsonian. And she was a pretty remarkable person. One of my favorite #OTD threads. 🧪 👩‍🔬 💾 🐞

STILL can't wrap my head around this one

hot take: reddit was never good and you know it.

I find myself reflexively defending this, irrationally so. HOWEVER I have to say that the size of this kid's video file is likely 400x the size of the operating system and game code that would have generated this game. playable on a TI-81. so yes, games used to be overhyped, but they also were 640k

You've heard of elf on the shelf, get ready for some esoteric combination of references you have no way of comprehending and you haven't even had your coffee yet

This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥

Reading these two series one after another or at the same time is a real delight. I can imagine they are 2 huge empires *just* separated by a bit of space-time. They are different stories, but somehow complement each other really nicely.