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Cosmology Researcher Talks database https://jrdmb.netlify.app/crt.html and other DBs of cosmology resource materials. Enjoy dog/animal stories, human interest stories, tech stuff, SF Bay Area outdoors. Same handle on twitter and scicomm.xyz (Mastodon)
Thanks! Appreciate the slides. Your 2501.08374 paper of that same title was also a helpful paper when reading up on this topic recently. Hope there's some discussion about this here, may have a follow-up later.
January 30, 2026 at 3:33 AM
Thanks! Appreciate the slides. Your 2501.08374 paper of that same title was also a helpful paper when reading up on this topic recently. Hope there's some discussion about this here, may have a follow-up later.
Your Dec 2025 Neutrinos from Home talk beginning at youtu.be/OxjUAne79M4?... for the next 5+ minutes helped me understand better your point after first reading this paper and a couple others on cosmology and neutrino masses. Appreciated talk comments on ways to sort this out, e.g., with DUNE, JUNO.
Peter Denton - Neutrino Oscillations in the Three Flavor Paradigm
YouTube video by Research Talks (from Home)
youtu.be
January 30, 2026 at 1:35 AM
Your Dec 2025 Neutrinos from Home talk beginning at youtu.be/OxjUAne79M4?... for the next 5+ minutes helped me understand better your point after first reading this paper and a couple others on cosmology and neutrino masses. Appreciated talk comments on ways to sort this out, e.g., with DUNE, JUNO.
Yeah, agree it's unfair to say he "did without" humor, though much of it may be sardonic. This Walden quote made me LOL:
“Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.”
There was even this Literary Hub article about it: Thoreau Was Actually Funny as Hell
“Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.”
There was even this Literary Hub article about it: Thoreau Was Actually Funny as Hell
Thoreau Was Actually Funny as Hell
When I was 14 my mother, exasperated by the onset of my teenage angst, handed me a Penguin paperback of Thoreau’s Walden and said, “Read this. The guy who wrote it was a rebel like you.” For some r…
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January 15, 2026 at 8:14 PM
Yeah, agree it's unfair to say he "did without" humor, though much of it may be sardonic. This Walden quote made me LOL:
“Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.”
There was even this Literary Hub article about it: Thoreau Was Actually Funny as Hell
“Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.”
There was even this Literary Hub article about it: Thoreau Was Actually Funny as Hell
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A few quotes from the article in attached image
I enjoyed reading Walden, though in the American Transcendentalist literary movement, I'd consider Emerson as the more central figure.
The Thoreau Farm organization took issue with Schulz's article at thoreaufarm.org/2015/10/a-re...
A few quotes from the article in attached image
I enjoyed reading Walden, though in the American Transcendentalist literary movement, I'd consider Emerson as the more central figure.
The Thoreau Farm organization took issue with Schulz's article at thoreaufarm.org/2015/10/a-re...
January 3, 2026 at 12:22 AM
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A few quotes from the article in attached image
I enjoyed reading Walden, though in the American Transcendentalist literary movement, I'd consider Emerson as the more central figure.
The Thoreau Farm organization took issue with Schulz's article at thoreaufarm.org/2015/10/a-re...
A few quotes from the article in attached image
I enjoyed reading Walden, though in the American Transcendentalist literary movement, I'd consider Emerson as the more central figure.
The Thoreau Farm organization took issue with Schulz's article at thoreaufarm.org/2015/10/a-re...
Pulitzer Prize winner Kathryn Schulz dared to redress the Walden mystique, joking she needed a witness protection program for safety. Her critique was called a "wildly intelligent, biting, and hilarious reconsideration" of Thoreau
I suggest Mark Twain as more essential Americana reading
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I suggest Mark Twain as more essential Americana reading
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Why Do We Love Henry David Thoreau?
An examination of the writer’s moral sensibility and how “Walden” fits into our national conscience.
www.newyorker.com
January 3, 2026 at 12:21 AM
Pulitzer Prize winner Kathryn Schulz dared to redress the Walden mystique, joking she needed a witness protection program for safety. Her critique was called a "wildly intelligent, biting, and hilarious reconsideration" of Thoreau
I suggest Mark Twain as more essential Americana reading
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I suggest Mark Twain as more essential Americana reading
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A picture of the family dog paints a thousand bonded joys 🐶🧡
December 29, 2025 at 9:52 PM
A picture of the family dog paints a thousand bonded joys 🐶🧡
Domain walls in the cosmological context of the early universe, e.g. as discussed e.g. in Simone Blasi's talk, are a different topic than domain walls in magnetic materials. See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain_...
Domain wall - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
November 21, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Domain walls in the cosmological context of the early universe, e.g. as discussed e.g. in Simone Blasi's talk, are a different topic than domain walls in magnetic materials. See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain_...
Dogs too? An anecdote:
"Here's your regular Sunday morning treat" (msg: we're going out to breakfast and you're not coming)
A Sunday first: "We're taking you with us today"
Following Sunday: "Here's your treat"
Dog rejects treat, knows he's not going if he takes it, eyes & posture say let's go
"Here's your regular Sunday morning treat" (msg: we're going out to breakfast and you're not coming)
A Sunday first: "We're taking you with us today"
Following Sunday: "Here's your treat"
Dog rejects treat, knows he's not going if he takes it, eyes & posture say let's go
October 30, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Dogs too? An anecdote:
"Here's your regular Sunday morning treat" (msg: we're going out to breakfast and you're not coming)
A Sunday first: "We're taking you with us today"
Following Sunday: "Here's your treat"
Dog rejects treat, knows he's not going if he takes it, eyes & posture say let's go
"Here's your regular Sunday morning treat" (msg: we're going out to breakfast and you're not coming)
A Sunday first: "We're taking you with us today"
Following Sunday: "Here's your treat"
Dog rejects treat, knows he's not going if he takes it, eyes & posture say let's go
A quick mention that Dillon Brout gave the first public talk on this new paper and the H0 Distance Network today at the CfA ITC luncheon
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nzV...
@styrofoamplates.bsky.social - as one of the authors, if you give a public talk on it or know of others, please post
#cosmology
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nzV...
@styrofoamplates.bsky.social - as one of the authors, if you give a public talk on it or know of others, please post
#cosmology
October 30, 2025 at 9:10 PM
A quick mention that Dillon Brout gave the first public talk on this new paper and the H0 Distance Network today at the CfA ITC luncheon
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nzV...
@styrofoamplates.bsky.social - as one of the authors, if you give a public talk on it or know of others, please post
#cosmology
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nzV...
@styrofoamplates.bsky.social - as one of the authors, if you give a public talk on it or know of others, please post
#cosmology
A favorite for its colors, composition, and calming effect
October 25, 2025 at 3:33 PM
A favorite for its colors, composition, and calming effect