I can’t believe I’m just finding out they aren’t made of those compostable packing peanuts.

Did anyone think Cheetos were made from vegetables?

I’m telling my kids this was UFC Freedom 250.

Bill Bertozzi is a legend in my field of nuclear physics, so at first glance, I naturally assumed he was the namesake of Bertozzi Road on the campus of Lawrence Berkeley Lab. But no, it’s Carolyn Bertozzi (his daughter), 2022 Nobel laureate in Chemistry, of the Berkeley scientific pantheon.

June 6 is D-day, probably ANTIFA's most heroic moment.

I was today years old when I learned that the Beatles’ Abbey Road album cover has a fifth Beatle.

I admit, I occasionally dabble in the devil’s celery, and by that I mean make a rhubarb pie.

What even is architecture anyway?

One of the best named experiments I’ve worked on is CaFe, where we studied isotopes of calcium and iron. Our first results are out in Nature today; www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Ah yes, a Stanley Cup final of Raleigh versus Las Vegas. Surely we have turned against God and must repent.

Today's Daily Cartoon for @newyorker.com by Kevin Maher and me.

I'm sorry, what? In writing my first monograph, I spent six weeks trying to track down a citation in TWO languages I didn't know. And good thing too, because the citation was wrong. That's scholarship. That's research. You know, the thing we're trained to do?!?

Genie: I can grant you one and only one superpower. Choose wisely. Me: I’ll take… when writing an email where I say I’m going to attach a file, I always remember to attach the file.

If I were Quentin Tarantino, I would feel quite validated as a writer if people kept accidentally using my fake bible verse.

I am honestly surprised and tickled by the Christian backlash to the “Trump as Jesus” meme. It seems like such small potatoes compared to the cruelty, the denigration of fallen soldiers, the mocking the disabled, the serial infidelity, oh, and the adjudicated rape!

I’m dying! 🤣 This is right up there with him thinking that asylum seekers come from insane asylums.

I spotted this t-shirt at a big name clothing store, and I was immediately curious to read the international maritime flags. So many fun possibilities, but this shirt just says, “NDCIFK.” Lame

If the Pope weren’t so weak on crime he’d get in that Popemobile and start pullin’ folks over.

THE DALAI LAMA IS WEAK ON MONETARY POLICY.

Sorry, what? Is it the pope’s job to be tough on crime? Have I misunderstood my whole life?

And I hear they drive on the left in Australia!

My students diffracted sunlight this afternoon and confirmed the sun is indeed very woke. Next step: improving their spectrometer’s resolution to identify the Fraunhofer lines.

Feels like the best role in the next administration for Gavin Newsom would be Secretary of Trolling. I think I prefer that to alternatives.

This is one of the toroid magnets that will be part of the upcoming MOLLER experiment at Jefferson Lab. Finally got to see it with my own eyes. It’s not my research; this is just an admiration post.

I love it! I’m going to start using “woman down!”

Happy Pi Day, everyone!

I read this delightful bit in The Wind and Willows and I wanted to share: "The mole drew his arm through Toad's, led him out into the open air, shoved him into a wicker chair, and made him tell him all his adventures from beginning to end, which Toad was only too willing to do. The mole was a good..

I’d support Robert Kraft getting inducted to the “Orchids of Asia” Hall-of-Fame.

The priority of dissolving ICE is an absolute must for any federal politician that wants my support. This agency isn’t even old. Billie Eilish is older than ICE.

Say what you want about the culture wars, but I haven’t seen too many drag queens shoot unarmed people in the head through their side window.

When Renee Good said "I'm not mad at you" what the ICE goon heard was "I'm not scared of you." That's what enraged him. The populace wasn't fully terrorized and cowed into submission yet, so he acted to make that happen.

his name is Jonathan Ross and he shouldn't get a good night's sleep for the rest of his life www.startribune.com/ice-agent-wh...

Great. Pam Bondi managing the prosecution of Maduro. Just what I would hope for. 🙄

Happy St. Stephen’s Day to all who celebrate!

About time!

For anyone in Boston: we saw the Commonwealth Shakespeare Company’s production of A Christmas Carol today, and I thought it was superb, particularly the traditional carols used throughout. The cast was excellent, Marley was terrifying. Highly recommend! commshakes.org/production/s...

Sure, doubles and triples are down, but this was one of the most exciting baseball seasons in my recent memory. I would rather MLB not punish innovation. By analogy, take soccer. Could you imagine how stupid it would be if FIFA outlawed the 4-3-3? Or keepers playing out with their feet.

Job interviewer: what would you say is your greatest weakness? Me: whenever Run-Around by Blues Traveller comes on, I have to sing along at full volume, chorus, verses, even the harmonica part. I can’t stop it.

What a night! Penguins top the Blue Jackets and Pitt gives Ohio State its first loss in men’s basketball. Take that, Columbus!

Why does the NYTimes think I want to watch a video of the journalist reading their story? Like, dude, I have no idea who you are, just lemme read it myself.

Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea

If you need a quick pick-me-up, I saw a flyer today in DC that referred to the current administration as the “turd reich.”

I bet "Surgery Technology International" would be excited to receive my latest paper on quasi-elastic electron scattering from light nuclei.

Kahless tells us time is the one enemy no warrior can defeat. In the end, it is how you spent your that time matters most. Spend it being honorable, strong, and kind. Do this and time will not be your enemy, but your gift to those who will be glad to have known you.

this is objectively hilarious

Today’s mood: “Here, peeping among the cloud-wrack above a dark tor high up in the mountains, Sam saw a white star twinkle for a while. The beauty of it smote his heart, as he looked up out of the forsaken land, and hope returned to him.” - J.R.R. Tolkien, Return of the King