Chad Orzel
@orzelc.bsky.social
Physicist, professor, author of books about science for non-scientists. Longer-form stuff at https://chadorzel.substack.com/
There's a contractor working on one of our dog walk routes whose truck has a decal on the back window that says in cursive script "Nazir & [woman's name]" and I spent a long time looking at that first word...
Amusingly, the lengthy list of prohibited items for our upcoming cruise includes "bicycles." Now I'm imagining someone doing laps of the top deck jogging track on a road bike...
All-timer of an anthem performance at the first WPBL game last night. Never heard anything like it. Just when you think you’ve figured out what type of Bad Anthem Performance you’re watching she switches it up
Théo@tlpavlich.gay · 4d agoOkay I went back and recorded the WPBL anthem. I haven't seen a clip of it yet and....it needs to never be forgotten.
The Simpsons is a show that started in the 1980s based on the creators own childhood in the 1950s that continues into the 2020s; fortunately future cultural historians will be able to refer to it simply as taking place in the 'late Washington dynasty'
On This Day in Simpsons History@dailysimpsons.bsky.social · 4d agoLisa Simpson’s wedding, which took place 15 years in the future at the time it aired, now takes place 16 years in the past. #TheSimpsons
Perhaps the real Sea Peoples were the friends we made along the way.
There's a very nerdy secret history story to be written that turns on the specific identity of the woman Erwin Schrodinger was shacked up with on the ski holiday where he invented his wave equation.
G. Willow Wilson@gwillow.me · 6d agoWhat's your personal great white whale of an unsolved mystery? The thing you desperately hope is solved before you die because you need to know the answer? Mine is the Isabella Stewart Gardener Museum heist. Where the hell are the Rembrandts. I need the full story
Watched the "third season" (one two-hour episode) of GOOD OMENS and, um, that was terrible. I mean I wasn't thrilled with season two, but, yeesh...
If you were going to be at loose ends in Copenhagen for, say, two hours before lunchtime on a weekday, what would you recommend doing?
Good news England has selected a new national anthem and it’s the Planet of the Bass guy’s English rap
Rodger Sherman@rodger.bsky.social · 5d agoSee I told you
It is really remarkable how many business now operate in a model where the only plausible way to interact with them is via webpages/apps and yet their webpages/apps are bug-ridden to the point of being nearly useless.
What do tape, maple syrup, and cat lasers all have in common? They're all materials used in this week's #FunPhysicsFriday! In this activity, students will build an analog simulator of a photonic quantum computer ⚛️. Join in on the fun here🔗: https://ow.ly/VwsB50ZusSU #quantumphysics #physicseducation
My music library includes a whole bunch of stuff bought from Apple when iTunes was the only legit way to get digital files, and every month or so iTunes forgets it's authorized to play those, probably because the current version is a steaming pile of garbage.
a sort of stupid but maybe politically effective policy would be freely issuing H1B visas, but every organization applying for them had to create and fill two US-citizen only job postings for every one that they received. like I could definitely see them treating that as genius if Trump suggested it
Short but great look at waves on strings from Minute Physics. #physics youtu.be/sYdXa_yp0fc?...
Strings Don't Vibrate The Way You Think
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The Pip's baseball (school team and then travel) has taken up so much of my time and energy since March that I could hardly be expected to NOT write about the end of the season: open.substack.com/pub/chadorze...
The End of Baseball
(For now...)
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Me: you have so little time to get so much done today, I’m gonna need you to focus and lock in here Brain: you ever think about how the bass player behind the greatest single line ever played it flat on his back with one finger because he was very drunk youtu.be/H-kA3UtBj4M?... 
Marvin Gaye - What's Going On
YouTube video by SuperWhoopass
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I do actually believe if you dropped a Bronze Age Mycenaean into the modern day rap music would be one of the more legible things about popular culture
90% of the social media comments about Nolan’s Odysseus are total fucking twaddle the remaining 10% are batshit insane
That thing where I have a blog and use it to think out loud about potential future projects: open.substack.com/pub/chadorze...
Notes Toward "Quantum Computing for Dogs"
Maybe the start of something to work on
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Basically just that treating critical reviews of something you like as though it’s a personal attack has been the mode for as long as I remember
the average American says that a quarter of all Americans are native! But I do not think they actually *believe* that, I think they're just really bad at numbers.
Post a perfect album from the 90s that isn't Nirvana, Soundgarden, Pearl Jam or Alice In Chains.
Ray Radlein@radlein.bsky.social · last wk.Post a perfect album from the 90s that isn't Nirvana, Soundgarden, Pearl Jam or Alice In Chains.
look, the terms of the Bargain are that if more than one in every seventy-seven living human beings becomes aware of any Apple TV show, the whole thing will vanish, only ruins left in our memories
@countanton.bsky.social · 2w agoThere’s so much great stuff on Apple, why do they keep it secret? I have personally elevator-pitched For All Mankind to at least five people, apparently Apple can’t be bothered.