New video, on mechanisms that illustrate the duality between the cube and the octahedron! Here's one of them: a linkage with fabric panels designed by Sabetta Matsumoto. Full video at youtu.be/T9BNMLFHXUw

“AI doesn’t just distract children: it actively interferes with the developmental work they need to do.” www.yahoo.com/news/article...

Physics bachelors programs at Bowling Green, Kent State, Ohio U, and Wright State will be eliminated! ⚛️🧪🔭

Conways game of life on a Torus www.desmos.com/3d/uco3hn1e9w

not many people know this, but Barilla has a line of 3D printed pasta it sells mostly to the fine dining industry. I don't want the pasta. I want the pasta printer

A parabola rolls along a flat surface. What path does its focus (the red point) trace? Another parabola? Or something else? #iTeachMath #math #maths #mathgif #mathgifs #mathsgif #mathsgifs

ChatGPT is a website. Claude is a website. I will never respect a website. You cannot convince me to treat LLMs as anything different to any other technology. If a website only gets things right sometimes, it's a bad website. I will not be told otherwise. www.wheresyoured.at/i-will-never...

#iTeachPhysics: Small update to this simple harmonic motion sim, graphs are now big and on top of each other instead of tiny and stacked. That is all :) afreeparticle.com/shm.html

anyone who says people opposing data centers are just nimbys need to stop echoing industry propaganda and see what it’s actually like to live near one

this is why there’s been mass revolt and opposition to data centers being built in communities. it is genuinely a health hazard to live this close to something emitting this much sound. these need to stop being built

i firmly believe that kennedy wants preventable diseases to rip through american communities since, in his warped mind, those who survive without vaccines will have proven themselves “healthy.”

The new @mariabamford.bsky.social documentary, Paralyzed By Hope, is just wonderful. The filmmakers' intent really seems to be: everyone should know about Maria because she is one of the all-time greatest comedians so here's a movie to watch about her. This is a fine goal and well accomplished.

What are your favorite toys for kids that help teach them about mental health and self-care?

I can't stop laughing at this post. It's perfect.

The DNC Resolutions Committee has passed my resolution to hold Trump Administration officials legally accountable for their crimes. Assuming the whole packet passes on Friday, it will become the official position of the national Democratic Party.

And the College Board just lost what legitimacy it had left. All students and families should know about this.

#iTeachPhysics: Thinking about modeling what happens in the transition from slipping to rolling. I showed this to students today because that’s sort of what happens in my brain (not clear if it was helpful) Anyone do something similar?

Small drone attacks are killing more civilians around the world than ever before. I made a map about it:

“I have discovered fire! Surely this will be a useful technology!” “Wonderful! Let’s burn things down.”

uhhhhhh is anyone else seeing this www.youtube.com/live/6RwfNBt...

Great example of bad science policy communication 👇🏽 This post does not communicate that they don’t propose cuts to the Artemis program. In fact it proposes an increase to their budget. The cut is to the science programs: the curiosity and saving planet earth programs. 🔭🧪 #scicomm

Mr Gorbachev, open the fucking strait you crazy bastard

Daughter: What do you call a female Viking? Me: skjaldmær? Daughter: No, mommy (*rolls eyes*). A Viqueen. Me: Ah, I shall add this to my lecture notes. I stand corrected.

Going beyond the spherical cow approximation. The paper we all needed. 🎢 ⚛️ 🧪 ♾️ 🐄

I’m not sure whether it’s the current moment or the general fact of an empty, uncaring universe, but the so much of the latest issue of @theonion.com is hitting me right. You deserve more subscribers than the Washington Post, @bencollins.bsky.social.

More context on this #Artemis II image: * This is the night side, lit by moonlight. You can see city lights in Spain & Portugal, & a sliver of day at lower right * The Sun is entirely behind Earth, which makes it a kind of solar eclipse, but w/ Earth doing the eclipsing instead of the Moon: ☀️🌍🚀🌕

The first four of the smaller paintings are in the shop. Originals, one of each #sciart

Here's a fun #vpython #python #physics animation showing polarization at brewster's angle #physics

This is so, so well-articulated.

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If all goes according to plan, in a few hours, a crew of astronauts will begin a journey that will take them on a loop around the moon. Here's a video that NASA put together to help people visualize the journey through space, first orbiting the earth before looping around the moon and flying home 🔭

the tortoise lives, as per helena horton at the guardian

www.microsoft.com/en-us/micros... is it good to build an entire economy and software infrastructure on this

The Supreme Court's "conversion therapy" decision today is indefensible on its own terms. A ton of medical regulations restrict speech on the basis of "viewpoint." Nobody thinks they're unconstitutional. This court just subjects pro-LGBTQ protections to special hostility. slate.com/news-and-pol...

BREAKING: Judge Leon finds Trump likely lacks the authority to build the ballroom, blocks Trump admin from building unless Congress actually gives that authority. "[N]o statute comes close to giving the President the authority he claims to have." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

by far the worst tendency on this platform is its tendency to interpret a description of something that happened or is happening as an endorsement of that thing I have been reading Mark on conversion therapy cases for years and he has always been very clear about how awful it is

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It brings me great pleasure to inform you the word "blurb" is named after a made-up woman named Belinda Blurb whose job is to tell everyone how great a book is

I think we need to celebrate the death of Sora a bit more. This is a technology that, just MONTHS AGO, we were being told was going to literally destroy Hollywood and Disney was going to give them a BILLION DOLLARS and NONE OF THAT EVEN REMOTELY HAPPENED

Roses are red A shrimp fried this rice

TIL that the community fridge on Station St in Brookline is named Jennifer Coolfridge

New Puzzle: Daily Desmos #3 Can you recreate this? -> https://dailydesmos.com/home/daily-desmos-3

The Trump regime got rid of 10,109 PhDs in science and related fields, representing 14% of the total number of PhD scientists in the federal workforce.

🧵 New preprint led by @bingbrunton.bsky.social, @elliottabe.bsky.social, @lawrencehu.bsky.social We gave a worm brain control of a fly body and it walked What did we learn? Nothing, other than deep reinforcement learning is effective We call it the digital sphinx www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Oberlin Luddites 😍