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Notices by Stephen Sekula (steve@chirp.cooleysekula.net), page 18
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A lovely dinner of homemade sushi and pot stickers. These plates have been with us since we bought the set, piece by piece, over the time we were postdocs near San Francisco. https://chirp.cooleysekula.net/attachment/e3949d0f82e359388c9339e1d9a4864e3aa1e4ff5d765d273649168036a4abcb/view
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From beaveinflow@mstdn.ca on Mastodon: Does anyone else think it’s weird that people do surveys on social media?
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From APoD@botsin.space on Mastodon: Monster Solar Prominence Image Credit
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It is an absolutely glorious morning in # Sudbury . Blue skies, birdsong, and # coffee . https://chirp.cooleysekula.net/attachment/847a7938d77fdafea0402fc67a9f2b9582babce0314fc6eacaba95e4ba05fc6d/view
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From MastodonEngineering@mastodon.social on Mastodon: We've released the patches 4.1.6, 4.0.8 and 3.5.12 today, fixing some stability issues. There are no security fixes in these updates but you are encouraged to upgrade unless you're already on one of the latest nightlies!
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It has been one year since @ jodi and I moved from the U.S. to Canada and started this new phase of our lives at # SNOLAB and # QueensUniversity . While there have been challenges here and there (international moves are always hard), it has been a wonderful experience. # SNOLAB is an especially excellent environment, driven entirely by the people who work or conduct research at the lab. This is a great people-driven, and people-supported, science place. https://chirp.cooleysekula.net/attachment/bbb0c83e351ef14492707f4e02ed4807eec4b3d609a73c80c07b262f447dee72/view
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From StellaLunaObs@mastodon.online on Mastodon: In case you're considering travel to another planet in our Solar System this summer -- we hear Mars is nice -- here's a handy guide to what passes for air there... https://www. compoundchem.com/2014/07/25/pl anetatmospheres/
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From telescoper@mastodon.social on Mastodon: Euclid has arrived… Here's a little video update to accompany the news that, as of yesterday (28th July), the European Space Agency's Euclid spacecraft has reached its orbit around L2, the second Lagrange Point of the Earth-Sun system: More news is on the way. Commissioning of the instruments is now complete and the telescope is in focus. On Monday 31st July, ESA will release the first images from the Euclid mission! Stay tuned here. http:// telescoper.blog/2023/07/29/euc lid-has-arrived/
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Recovering from seeing # Oppenheimer with a nice NA beer in my # SUSY2014 glass. First, the movie made me miss teaching about the legacy of the # ManhattanProject at the # Taos Cultural Institute. Second, a raft of incredible performances, both beautiful, savage, and tragic. Third, glorious storytelling devices to weave pre-bomb, bomb, and post-bomb eras. Fourth... it is hard to watch a person destroyed from within and without. But # physicists are people, and they rise and fall. https://chirp.cooleysekula.net/attachment/2978ecba4fcc2863fc2fcce7aabbba639e341b016eb0a9d8b62782320914a163/view
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From my high school # English and # Latin # teacher , Mr. Phil Devlin: "Harvard Classmates: J. Robert Oppenheimer and Dr. Ettore Carniglia" https:// hk-now.com/harvard-classmates- j-robert-oppenheimer-and-dr-ettore-carniglia/
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From the latest # AIP FYI funding bulletin: "Nuclear Physics. Funding for NP is poised to remain near-flat ... The program is currently awaiting delivery of a new long-range plan from the Nuclear Science Advisory Committee, which will weigh in on priorities currently on the back burner, such as a large-scale experiment to try to establish the existence of the hypothesized neutrinoless double beta decay process." https:// us17.campaign-archive.com/?e=4 1dff20f78
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Having a lovely relaxing evening on the back patio, enjoying the weather and view and peace. https://chirp.cooleysekula.net/attachment/4e938be4120cf8e6e32523a94224de9e257a82b2fda6556bd5018b8c7da3f923/view
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Listen to: Major automakers are teaming up to launch a new EV charging network in North America - https:// one.npr.org/i/1190824492:11908 24493
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From jay@macaw.social on Mastodon: Was reminded in a work meeting today about this amazing game: https:// spaceteam.ca/ # SpaceTeam
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From JamesGleick@zirk.us on Mastodon: Invisibility and Transparency. An accidental pair of wonderful books about not being seen. https://www. nybooks.com/articles/2023/08/1 7/nothing-to-see-here-invisibility-gregory-j-gbur/?utm_source=Twitter
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From Gargron@mastodon.social on Mastodon: Going to share a few more up-close shots of the new Mastodon merch! I'm happy that we got to incorporate some Mastodon history in the designs. Mind you there's only going to be 250 of each at launch!
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From mcnees@mastodon.social on Mastodon: Happy Rotating Black Hole Day! Roy Kerr submitted his breakthrough paper describing the spacetime around a rotating black hole # OTD in 1963. Physicists had been searching for decades for this solution to the field equations of Einstein's theory of general relativity. https:// journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/ 10.1103/PhysRevLett.11.237
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From arstechnica@mastodon.social on Mastodon: Seven major automakers to build EV charging network with 30,000 chargers The chargers will support both CCS1 and NACS, with deployment starting in 2024. https:// arstechnica.com/cars/2023/07/s even-major-automakers-to-build-ev-charging-network-with-30000-chargers/?utm_brand=arstechnica
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From mcnees@mastodon.social on Mastodon: Rosalind Franklin was born # OTD in 1920. Her X-ray diffraction work was critical for establishing the helical nature of DNA. Image: Vittorio Luzzati / Jewish Women’s Archive
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From vcaston@zirk.us on Mastodon: I started an account at BlueSky because so many other academic # philosophers had signed up, but there is even less activity than here. I'm especially interested in # GreekPhilosophy but also # philosophyofmind and # metaphysics . Any others out there?
Stephen Sekula
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