Chad Orzel
@orzelc.bsky.social
Physicist, professor, author of books about science for non-scientists. Longer-form stuff at https://chadorzel.substack.com/
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Me tracking which movie is on which streaming service
November 25, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Me tracking which movie is on which streaming service
Some thoughts on how negative stereotypes are actually mostly a plane-with-red-dots-dot-jpeg situation:
open.substack.com/pub/chadorze...
open.substack.com/pub/chadorze...
Awkward Nerds and Dumb Jocks Are Notable Because They're Unusual
On the persistence of unflattering stereotypes
open.substack.com
November 25, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Some thoughts on how negative stereotypes are actually mostly a plane-with-red-dots-dot-jpeg situation:
open.substack.com/pub/chadorze...
open.substack.com/pub/chadorze...
Charlie the pupper is bemused by me doing the thing where I go through a draft talk and say all the words to an otherwise empty room.
Also, he isn't completely convinced by my presentation of the Everett Interpretation of quantum mechanics.
Also, he isn't completely convinced by my presentation of the Everett Interpretation of quantum mechanics.
November 25, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Charlie the pupper is bemused by me doing the thing where I go through a draft talk and say all the words to an otherwise empty room.
Also, he isn't completely convinced by my presentation of the Everett Interpretation of quantum mechanics.
Also, he isn't completely convinced by my presentation of the Everett Interpretation of quantum mechanics.
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Movie premise.
Nine Russian “volunteers” killed their escort after deciding not to go fight in Ukraine. Taken straight from prison to the front under contract, they murdered the convoy driver en route and are now on the run in Leningrad region. Russian police are actively searching the outskirts of Kudrovo.
November 25, 2025 at 12:33 AM
Movie premise.
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Definitive Stars Wars ranking:
1. Yojimbo
2. The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
3. Metropolis
4. Casablanca
5. Spaceballs
1. Yojimbo
2. The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
3. Metropolis
4. Casablanca
5. Spaceballs
November 24, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Definitive Stars Wars ranking:
1. Yojimbo
2. The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
3. Metropolis
4. Casablanca
5. Spaceballs
1. Yojimbo
2. The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
3. Metropolis
4. Casablanca
5. Spaceballs
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my haters have become my waiters at the table of success. I'm receiving terrible service, they're spitting in everything.
November 24, 2025 at 9:59 PM
my haters have become my waiters at the table of success. I'm receiving terrible service, they're spitting in everything.
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If the Yankees weren't profitable (lol), the Steinbrenner family would immediately sell the team for several billion dollars. Never believe anything any owner says about money ever.
November 24, 2025 at 7:20 PM
If the Yankees weren't profitable (lol), the Steinbrenner family would immediately sell the team for several billion dollars. Never believe anything any owner says about money ever.
It really just feels Not Right to be getting "Black Friday" subscription sales from UK-based magazines.
November 24, 2025 at 10:49 AM
It really just feels Not Right to be getting "Black Friday" subscription sales from UK-based magazines.
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Really important to stress that the Crown Jewels of the US higher education system were never the Ivies or elite SLACs (other countries have equivalents of these) but the well-funded, large, cheap, and excellently staffed public state university systems bringing high quality education to the masses.
One of the bragging rights that the US ed system had in the 20th century is that we didn't have education tracks. Essentially, any kid could go to a CC or state school & major in whatever they wanted to (obviously an oversimplification). I fear this aspect of the American dream is dying.
November 23, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Really important to stress that the Crown Jewels of the US higher education system were never the Ivies or elite SLACs (other countries have equivalents of these) but the well-funded, large, cheap, and excellently staffed public state university systems bringing high quality education to the masses.
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maybe the best hitting pitcher in baseball history
November 23, 2025 at 4:01 PM
maybe the best hitting pitcher in baseball history
It's dark beer season, MFers:
November 22, 2025 at 10:06 PM
It's dark beer season, MFers:
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INCARNATE WORD HAS THE BEST TD CELEBRATIONS
November 22, 2025 at 8:45 PM
INCARNATE WORD HAS THE BEST TD CELEBRATIONS
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These days, kids have to learn about lanthanides and actinides on the street. This wasn't always true.
November 22, 2025 at 5:12 AM
These days, kids have to learn about lanthanides and actinides on the street. This wasn't always true.
Evergreen tweet.
These people are all awful.
November 22, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Evergreen tweet.
This is an amazing sentence: "The Peekskill Meteorite Car ("PMC"), a 1980 red Chevy Malibu, is one of the two most famous objects struck by a meteorite (the other, Ms. Ann Hodges, died in 1972). "
meteoritecar.com
meteoritecar.com
The Peekskill Meteorite Car Official Website
The official website of the Peekskill Meteorite Car, the most famous object to ever be struck by a meteorite.
meteoritecar.com
November 22, 2025 at 2:39 PM
This is an amazing sentence: "The Peekskill Meteorite Car ("PMC"), a 1980 red Chevy Malibu, is one of the two most famous objects struck by a meteorite (the other, Ms. Ann Hodges, died in 1972). "
meteoritecar.com
meteoritecar.com
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This is a really good overview of asteroid-impact risk (and what we as humans have been doing to mitigate it).
OK, so. Below a certain size, the atmosphere takes care of the problem--objects below 10 meters in size, say, are going to give a great showy fireball but not do any damage on the ground unless you're really personally unlucky, like the teenager who owned this car.
meteoritecar.com
meteoritecar.com
The Peekskill Meteorite Car Official Website
The official website of the Peekskill Meteorite Car, the most famous object to ever be struck by a meteorite.
meteoritecar.com
November 22, 2025 at 2:23 PM
This is a really good overview of asteroid-impact risk (and what we as humans have been doing to mitigate it).
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Look! A planet! It has clouds made of xenon. What a good land.
November 22, 2025 at 11:37 AM
Look! A planet! It has clouds made of xenon. What a good land.
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JD Vance Cries In Bathroom After Trump Uses ‘Piggy’ Nickname On Someone Else https://theonion.com/jd-vance-cries-in-bathroom-after-trump-uses-piggy-nickname-on-someone-else/
November 21, 2025 at 7:00 PM
JD Vance Cries In Bathroom After Trump Uses ‘Piggy’ Nickname On Someone Else https://theonion.com/jd-vance-cries-in-bathroom-after-trump-uses-piggy-nickname-on-someone-else/
It's been a banner week for people yelling about educational reforms, mostly because they disagree at the level of not-clearly-stated fundamental premises: open.substack.com/pub/chadorze...
Educational Reform Standoff
This week in smart people arguing past one another
open.substack.com
November 21, 2025 at 5:26 PM
It's been a banner week for people yelling about educational reforms, mostly because they disagree at the level of not-clearly-stated fundamental premises: open.substack.com/pub/chadorze...
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The only hypothetical trade for Anthony Davis that actually makes sense to me is Paul George and change for AD. You can't count on Embiid or AD to stay healthy, but if you have BOTH of them, you can essentially bank on always having *one* great center who can play. It's brilliant.
November 21, 2025 at 3:12 AM
The only hypothetical trade for Anthony Davis that actually makes sense to me is Paul George and change for AD. You can't count on Embiid or AD to stay healthy, but if you have BOTH of them, you can essentially bank on always having *one* great center who can play. It's brilliant.
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Jacob Rees-Mogg & his nanny look like the villain & his sidekick in a Bond movie directed by Wes Anderson
November 20, 2025 at 11:24 PM
Jacob Rees-Mogg & his nanny look like the villain & his sidekick in a Bond movie directed by Wes Anderson
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I want a hard target search of Jason Bourne’s pants
Another day in the damn Jason Bourne Response Suite. I'm wearing a blue dress shirt and a headset and just absolutely getting reamed out by a veteran character actor re: him "needing eyes" or whatever. No sense of when or if we're ordering lunch. I tried to get a coffee and Joan Allen glared at me.
November 20, 2025 at 11:25 PM
I want a hard target search of Jason Bourne’s pants
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Truth hurts.
scottaaronson.blog?p=9344
scottaaronson.blog?p=9344
November 20, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Truth hurts.
scottaaronson.blog?p=9344
scottaaronson.blog?p=9344
We used to have proper mascot fights in this country: www.sfgate.com/collegesport...
What really happened the night Oski beat up the Stanford Tree
"I must've been 18 beers deep at that point. I was in big trouble."
www.sfgate.com
November 20, 2025 at 5:03 PM
We used to have proper mascot fights in this country: www.sfgate.com/collegesport...