The Eisenhower administration dismissed the director of the National Bureau of Standards (the predecessor of NIST) in 1953. As Joseph D. Martin writes, scientists suspected political interference with the agency’s research, fought back, and won. #histSTM #longread

I'm gonna open an NFL bar in London. The Drop Back and Pint.

I support efforts to restrict social media access for youth. Access to technology in an individual child's development should recapitulate the development of technology through human history. That's why, a soon as they can crawl, I start my kids off with fire.

Imagine the world that might have been had Peter, Paul, or Mary thought to nip into a hardware store.

Cooper pairs

cricket, or, as I like to call it, tea-ball

A jigsaw puzzle blog called piecenik.

I misread this headline in exactly the way you would expect. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

CfP: How Sciences End Oxford, 11-13 July 2025 Deadline: 31 January 2025 Submit 250-word abstracts to [email protected] [I'm broadcasting this on behalf of Joe Martin, Michelle Aroney & Alex Aylward, none of whom AFAIK are on this site yet]

This is not the #future we were promised.

Hey!… Uhh, fuck you too, brochure on the history of measurement!

Can you believe we made it out of the Cold War alive?