literally every history question has been asked in there and thoroughly, *comprehensively* answered already
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High School Physics Teacher. Desmos Fellow. He/him. #iTeachPhysics #EduSky www.afreeparticle.com
I work at a public library. People who want to use AI seem to have no trouble doing so. People who don't want to use AI have a harder time. I crowdsourced and then finalized this document "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI" and then gave it a short URL: notoai.org Please pass along if it's useful
Today's copy edit dilemma: a plum pudding is, to a modern American reader, not a pudding. Also it does not contain plums. But if I tried to call it a fruitcake I would most assuredly be haunted by the ghost of J. J. Thomson.
Full story here: www.politico.com/news/2026/07...
Judge declines to block strict work rule for sick patients on Medicaid
The case challenging Mehmet Oz's "faithfulness to Congressional intent” will continue.
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Alice Miranda Ollstein@alicemiranda.bsky.social · 7d agoOVERNIGHT BREAKING NEWS: A federal judge has DECLINED to stop the Trump admin from requiring that chronically ill Medicaid patients prove that they are physically unable to work in order to keep their insurance. The underlying case could still block the policy before the Jan. 1 implementation date.
Increasingly, Soylent Green serves as one of the best metaphors for AI -- it's taking all that we are, as people, chumming it up, and feeding the slurry back to us. We're told that we need it, it's nutritious, it'll save the world, even as it damns it and us.
#iTeachPhysics: Lots of fun scaling law examples here:
Why does every mammal get 1 billion heartbeats in their life?
YouTube video by Veritasium
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#iTeachPhysics: Nice new video from Minute Physics
The Bizarre Way Strings Actually Vibrate
YouTube video by minutephysics
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The sea coloring in Nolan's The Odyssey have been criticized for being on the blue end of the spectrum rather than "wine-dark." This skips around the alternative hypothesis, that a third type of wine, a Blue to go with the Reds and White, was lost in the bronze age collapse and never rediscovered.
I'm on the cover of a Magazine!!! My paper "An educational opportunity: Acoustics in an empty room" is featured on the front cover of the July 2026 issue of the Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. doi.org/10.1121/10.0...
On July 20, Claude Fable and Levent Alpöge found a counterexample to the Jacobian conjecture: a polynomial mapping ℝ³→ℝ³ with constant Jacobian determinant -2 that does 𝒏𝒐𝒕 have a polynomial inverse. But what does that look like? See for yourself! 🧮 kyleormsby.github.io/jacobian-cou...
NWS Bay Area Bot@nwsbayareabot.bsky.social · 2w agoSneaker waves happen when two or more wave groups have constructive interference resulting in a much larger wave that travels further up the beach than expected. With multiple southerly swell groups, the conditions are ideal for sneaker waves ov... https://x.com/NWSBayArea/status/2080633413942276474
Eating bottomless pasta is a business promotion, but eating pasta bottomless is a fundamental human right
What's the first thing you want to see when you walk into a building? Is it this?
Local plumbers two steps ahead of every university administrator in america 👏
Metin Seven (Moon Child's dad 🌝)@seven.eurosky.social · 3w ago
I'm super excited to share that I have finally assembled my online resources for the new IB Physics SL curriculum! passionatelycurioussci.weebly.com/ib-physics.h... #ITeachPhysics
Guy who eats no fruits or vegetables whatsoever: "well, well, well, look whose dietary choices have FINALLY been vindicated"
WIRED@wired.com · 3w agoThe US’s explosive diarrhea problem is worse than you think—and it's about to get even messier.
just muttering "Poindexter's own manliness credentials are fully in order." to myself over and over
Jared Yates Sexton@jysexton.bsky.social · 3w agoI'm going to become the Joker
This video clip of a swan landing on a lake is best enjoyed with AUDIO ON. Mute swans (Cygnus olor) are among the heaviest flying birds & require a long runway, which means we get the majestic approach, a few furious moments of webbed feet slapping on water, then the majestic splashdown.
You're going to get left behind if you don't use Al." Leave me then. Leave me with my critical thinking skills, my ability to read and write long- form, and books without needing Al summaries.
ProZD has an entire oeuvre of bangers, with water subreddit being one of the best youtu.be/4ZK8Z8hulFg?...
before and after you discover the subreddit for a hobby
YouTube video by ProZD
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Conservation of Angular Momentum video for #iTeachPhysics
The Arm Spin That Stops a Fall
YouTube video by Steve Mould
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The brown huntsman timed as the fastest spider at a top speed of 3.59 m/s – video
The brown huntsman timed as the fastest spider at a top speed of 3.59 m/s – video
The study includes research supervised by Dr Christofer Clemente, an evolutionary biomechanist at the University of the Sunshine Coast in Queensland
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#iTeachPhysics I thought of a potentially interesting method of getting data on how HS physics students are getting help (with GenAI etc) early in the year. Suvat is an acronym for kinematics equations used in a lot of places, but less often where I am. Suvat is also a name (Turkish origin) 1/3
Shoutout to the dude who got a 55 and a 59 on the midterm and final respectively. Bet you didn't think you were going to come out at the top of the class.