“Ooh, and now I can take the bishop after a discovered ch—OH GOD NO!” Thankfully, black did not find the best move in this blitz game (he played 42…Rxd5???). But I bet you can! Black to play and win. #chesspunks lichess.org/ZQSFKUu4/white
Michael Evans
@mevans86.bsky.social
Dad. Director of First-year Chemistry at Georgia Tech. Organic chemistry "expert"; armchair biochemist and photochemist. “He started out great, but by the end of the term I’d tuned him out.”
The CSB does really good explainer videos on refinery explosions and why they happened: m.youtube.com/watch?v=JplA... Ongoing maintenance is super crucial for refining (and solar cannot come fast enough).
Animation of 2015 Explosion at ExxonMobil Refinery in Torrance, CA
YouTube video by USCSB
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Finally finished my Fundamentals of Chemistry open course. 😮💨 Hoping this is a useful resource for students nervous about starting a college chemistry course for majors or engineers! github.com/mevans86/ope...
GitHub - mevans86/open-funds-chem: Materials for Fundamentals of Chemistry, an open course developed for the Open Course Project at Georgia Tech.
Materials for Fundamentals of Chemistry, an open course developed for the Open Course Project at Georgia Tech. - mevans86/open-funds-chem
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Pharmaceutical Ad Urges Viewers To Fight Doctors Who Say Drug Not Right For Them https://theonion.com/pharmaceutical-ad-urges-viewers-to-fight-doctors-who-say-drug-not-right-for-them/
60-second Safety Science! At @ulresearchinst.bsky.social, our specialized exposure chambers measure chemical emissions so we can understand potential hazards from materials and technologies in our everyday environment 🧪 www.youtube.com/watch?v=kdSe...
Using exposure chamber technology to measure chemical emissions
YouTube video by UL Research Institutes
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Alice Lee is STILL rocking that periodic table in the background! Legend! #chesspunks www.youtube.com/live/6hAFPFv...
Women's Speed Chess Championship 2026: Hou Yifan v. Muzychuk In QF & Alice Lee v. Avramidou In SF
YouTube video by Chess.com
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Old School is one of my favorite comedies of all time. A lot of classics brought up in this one. “You’re crazy, man. You’re crazy.” youtu.be/5W4CgU6N13U?...
Will Ferrell & Luke Wilson Play ‘Was I In This Movie?’
YouTube video by GQ
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Whoa. There is a generalization of “chess distance” in geometry called Chebyshev distance: the greatest difference between two points along any coordinate dimension. Cool! #chesspunks lichess.org/@/ruylopez10...
The History of Chess Geometry
The Wonderland of the Impossible.
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Hilarious! 😂 Though one could argue that a strong acid is easier to “break”… 😂
One for the chemists… 😄
This paper is fantastic. It blows my mind that we’re still making fundamental discoveries about charge carriers in organic semiconductors. The potential of chemist research is limitless! www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1...
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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...
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Mom nailed this year's birthday t-shirt. 😂 Ten years a dad...wow. What a ride it's been.
Trading card games can be a good use case for large-language models. As a novice in the "domain" of Magic: The Gathering, I sort of get the appeal for students. Still a zillion caveats in high-stakes domains like law, though. moleculeworld.wordpress.com/2026/07/20/m...
Musings on AI 4: Language, the Large Modeling
The opening of a comics and games store a few minutes down the road from my house has rekindled my interest in Magic: The Gathering. The basic goals of Magic are simple: play lands, generate mana, …
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At the end of it all, all I have to say is… John Strong, lay off the cocaine. Get help, man. ⚽️😂
France-don’t-be-an-international-embarrassment-two-games-in-a-row challenge…FAILED! ⚽️🇫🇷 Ya know, I was going to lay off the whole “we don’t want to play the third-place game” narrative because it was fairly obvious media ragebaiting, but what the hell.
Enlicitide is a highly non-natural macrocyclic peptide that just got approved for treatment of high cholesterol. Really cool story here! Love the “optimizing entropy instead of enthalpy“ bit—that’s very thought provoking. overcast.fm/+AAwSTdeh_pY
SE5:E2: The Macrocyclic Mullet: The Story of Enlicitide — Pharm to Table
What happens when the textbook SAR playbook stops working? On this episode of Pharm to Table, Rob Garbaccio joins Dani and LC to share the discovery story behind enlicitide (MK-0616), a journey filled...
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Strong keeps saying England's in the semifinal for "just" the fourth time, but the World Cup has only happened 24 times—in a world of 200+ countries, that's kind of insane.
And the Oscar goes to... France versus Spain, World Cup Semifinals 2026
Soccer Player's Exaggerated Fake Injury
ALT: Soccer Player's Exaggerated Fake Injury
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“Chemistry presentations should be less serious.” YES!
Trying to decide between [it's_a_trap.star_wars.gif] and [that's_bait.mad_max.gif]
Tried out Duolingo chess tonight and I must say it’s one of the chess apps of all time. 😂
Chess in the Soviet Union. Basketball here. Soccer in Europe. Societies and governments subsidize the games and sports they admire in a million different ways. The ones they don’t wind up like this. www.reddit.com/r/usmnt/comm...
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"XANTOBI works by loosening the chemical and physical bonds of existence, allowing patients to gradually transition to the astral plane, where they can choose an alternate universe to exist in: one without combustion engines, for example, or Stephen Miller."
Novel GLP-1 Receptor Agonist Delivers Transition to Astral Plane
“XANTOBI works by loosening the chemical and physical bonds of existence, allowing patients to gradually transition to the astral plane, where they can choos...
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Worst part of this is the idea of losing one of the two most iconic jingles on the airwaves today! O O O…O’Reilly…Auto Parts and NAPA KNOW-HOW! Yes, I’m an old man who still listens to baseball on the radio. www.thedrive.com/news/the-10-...
The $10 Billion Takeover That Could Turn the Auto Parts Business Upside Down, Explained
O'Reilly might buy NAPA, which would affect the aftermarket parts business in more ways than you might realize.
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Quite a run for the USMNT. I feel pride seeing that we were knocked out the same round as Portugal, Brazil, and Mexico. That’s good company. The collective “we the people” will never want a soccer system to be built here for int’l. success from the grassroots up. And that’s okay. 🇺🇸⚽️
Freese deserves death threats for the way he backed off that cross. Defense has been beyond abysmal.
Tryna be strong for my kids, but every neuron is screaming that this game is over. US has not shown up. 🇺🇸🇧🇪⚽️