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Imma go reprint “Romeo and Juliet” with “A terrific reimagining of ‘West Side Story’ in medieval Italy!” — [my name]

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Hey math dorks, possibly ill-posed question: So, we can talk about space having any number of dimensions we want. It gets harder to conceive of as you get higher, but the math works fine. Are there other non-space sets of things that work like space?

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In some major personal news, I recently found out there are woolly pigs. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mangali...

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Suspending boulet For a goofy joke is stupid. Please fix @bsky.app

idk about princesses per se, but I do think "there's an interesting female character but 2/3 of the way through the story she runs out of interesting things to do and just kind of exists in peril while the hero does things" is not uncommon enough yet.

Locality and causality! Very important ideas in physics, but not things that usually get the podcast treatment. I hop on @danielwhiteson.bsky.social and @weinersmith.bsky.social's Extraordinary Universe to do something different.

Offhand thought: Have you noticed this thing where authors my age (elder millennial) keep writing books where the twist is that the princess doesn't need to be rescued. And then other millennials read it and say "finally a story where the princess doesn't need to rescued."

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Does physics have to be causal and local? Daniel and Kelly talk to @seanmcarroll.bsky.social about where some of the basic assumptions we make about the Universe come from, and whether we need them. www.iheart.com/podcast/105-...

Whenever I write a book I have a theme song I play for it when I get good news. So, here we go. www.youtube.com/watch?v=kUSt...

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I’m not sure why Whitaker would try to draw some distinction between Einstein’s hoped-for “real parameters” (existing between preparation and measurement) and “hidden variables”. They're the same thing! Bell thought of them in the same way, at least, and called them “local beables”.

Just heard a podcast say the only constant in Hollywood is change, but actually ray-tracing methods for CGI use π and e. Wish they'd clarified that.

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Mildly funny: So I've been getting into fruit trees lately, and the genus for quince is Cydonia, from the region of Greece. It's also the name of the area of the "face on Mars" so the word "Cydonia" shows up in a lot of pulpy sci fi. But, all I can think is they're talking about fruit.

Moderately interesting physics history: I'm reading Whitaker's biography of John Stewart Bell, and he says most people (including Bell) believed that Einstein was a straightforward defender of hidden variables in quantum mechanics. Citing several historians, he says it's more complex.

Yesterday, sitting in bed next to 11 year old. She sees a book by the bed. Her: You're learning linear algebra? Me: A little. Her: ...I bet I could learn it faster than you. Me: Oh? Her: Yeah. With my abilities.

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Daniel and Kelly talk about the science behind the "zombie ants". www.iheart.com/podcast/105-...

Hey econs, weird question: So, something like 2/3 of Americans own stock in some form, which is way up from even a few decades ago. How does this affect inflation? Meaning, like, stocks are fairly responsive to inflation, so e.g. 10% inflation kills your shopping budget but helps your IRA.

Doesn't He have that covered with Proverbs and the Song of Songs?

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Mildly interesting: one under-remarked US/Britain culture difference I've noticed from reading memoirs is that Americans will refer to jittery or having a lot of energy due to drinking coffee, but tea is almost exclusively referred to as relaxing.

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Hahaha, a comic of mine was apparently a partial inspiration for this: www.youtube.com/watch?v=JHmX...

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This is the Britishest looking man I‘ve ever seen.

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Always calculate your expected utils in everything you do, including if one should click the random button again.

Link Wray's self-titled ablum is one of the most underrated of all time, in particular the song Black River Swamp. But every time I listen, there's this song, Crowbar, that makes me laugh because it's clearly supposed to be a blues sex song, but makes no sense at all.

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Reading Keegan's excellent book "The Face of Battle." One of the most striking parts is when he talks about how, in general, it's hard to get people to kill each other, even in a combat setting. Especially true in the modern regular soldier era where looting and kidnapping are illegal.

You know my views on this stuff, but I worry I encounter a lot of people who are doing a kind of horseshoe, where they wind up opposing space exploration in general. At least so far, space exploration ideas, even space settlement ideas, are not in tension with funding good stuff on Earth.

I don't know why we're avoiding the simplest solution. Spin the moon fast enough that you can live on moon cave ceilings at 1G.

Personally would say the opposite. Mars provides at least SOME protection. And O’Neill cylinders are a much trickier engineering challenge than living in caves. Agree that both are unlikely.

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Hey, tree dorks. So, I'm reading a book that says to plant grafted medlars so that the graft union is just below the soil line. This is wrong, right? Like, opposite of best practice?

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