Ruben Agin
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"And when Alexander saw the breadth of his domain, he wept, for there were many more worlds to conquer."
Benefits of a quantum education.
Benefits of a quantum education.
RIP Honorary Special Stationmaster Nitama
Say hi to Rocky et al. for me.
Say hi to Rocky et al. for me.
Beloved Train Stationmaster Cat Dies at 15, Over 500 Attend Feline's Funeral
Cat lovers in Japan are in mourning after the death of a beloved feline train stationmaster. Nitama was a calico kitty who worked as the second-ever feline train stationmaster at Wakayama Electric Rai...
people.com
December 16, 2025 at 7:09 AM
RIP Honorary Special Stationmaster Nitama
Say hi to Rocky et al. for me.
Say hi to Rocky et al. for me.
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The Soulless Train
December 14, 2025 at 9:37 PM
The Soulless Train
Physics After Dark. Noted scientific journal, Playboy, just published an article on Deutsch's theory of everything, known as constructor theory. In particular, how it provides a possible explanation for the arrow of time in terms of building irreversibility directly into its foundations. Nice read😉
What if We've Been Thinking About Time All Wrong? - Playboy
Physicists still don't know what time is. A radical new theory might finally explain it.
www.playboy.com
December 12, 2025 at 3:52 AM
Physics After Dark. Noted scientific journal, Playboy, just published an article on Deutsch's theory of everything, known as constructor theory. In particular, how it provides a possible explanation for the arrow of time in terms of building irreversibility directly into its foundations. Nice read😉
Speaking of meaningless BS prizes, FIFA (Fizzix of Information and Finite Automata) has announced that they will be expanding on the Peace Prize by also giving out an inaugural award for Best Physicist. It's the only physics award based not just on contributions but also celebrity status.
December 9, 2025 at 3:16 AM
Speaking of meaningless BS prizes, FIFA (Fizzix of Information and Finite Automata) has announced that they will be expanding on the Peace Prize by also giving out an inaugural award for Best Physicist. It's the only physics award based not just on contributions but also celebrity status.
Ha ha! Reminds me of a joke I just thought up about 10 seconds ago. Chuck Norris can measure both the exact position & momentum of a particle simultaneously. Another one: When Schrodinger's cat is in the box, it is no in a superposition of alive & dead states; it is in the state Chuck Norris thinks.
November 22, 2025 at 5:25 AM
Ha ha! Reminds me of a joke I just thought up about 10 seconds ago. Chuck Norris can measure both the exact position & momentum of a particle simultaneously. Another one: When Schrodinger's cat is in the box, it is no in a superposition of alive & dead states; it is in the state Chuck Norris thinks.
Street sign installed in memory of 'well-loved' cat, George, in Nottingham via @bbc on MSN. For some reason, Bluesky does not do preview pics for MSN links, so I provide the link below with preview pics from the article:
www.msn.com/en-us/news/w...
www.msn.com/en-us/news/w...
November 17, 2025 at 11:11 AM
Street sign installed in memory of 'well-loved' cat, George, in Nottingham via @bbc on MSN. For some reason, Bluesky does not do preview pics for MSN links, so I provide the link below with preview pics from the article:
www.msn.com/en-us/news/w...
www.msn.com/en-us/news/w...
Wow, he has 1,009,852 on last look (h-index 252). Only French philosopher Michel Foucault (h-index 311) has more (1,396,344). George Hinton (h-index 192) is closing in with about 980K. For reference, Tao (h-index 117) has 105K altogether. Several of their papers have that number or more alone.
A.I. Pioneer Yoshua Bengio Becomes 1st Living Scientist With 1M Google Scholar Citations
Deep learning pioneer Yoshua Bengio hits one million Google Scholar citations, marking a milestone in A.I. research impact.
observer.com
November 15, 2025 at 2:46 AM
Wow, he has 1,009,852 on last look (h-index 252). Only French philosopher Michel Foucault (h-index 311) has more (1,396,344). George Hinton (h-index 192) is closing in with about 980K. For reference, Tao (h-index 117) has 105K altogether. Several of their papers have that number or more alone.
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♪ The song I sing will tell the tale of a cold and wintry day; / when evil fled, and brave men bled, the Dark One came to stay... ♫
November 13, 2025 at 12:05 AM
♪ The song I sing will tell the tale of a cold and wintry day; / when evil fled, and brave men bled, the Dark One came to stay... ♫
In my day, it was 69.
So, I guess 789?
So, I guess 789?
More than a year into its online ubiquity, something about these two numbers seems to have the world in a chokehold.
Why Won't the '6, 7' Meme Go Away?
bit.ly
November 12, 2025 at 6:34 AM
In my day, it was 69.
So, I guess 789?
So, I guess 789?
How can I ask The Nod for a favor?
November 9, 2025 at 1:23 AM
How can I ask The Nod for a favor?
Had no idea Trump was even planning a new project here.
A medieval tower partially collapsed in the heart of Rome during renovations. One worker was injured and another was trapped in the Torre dei Conti near the Colosseum.
November 4, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Had no idea Trump was even planning a new project here.
Dick Cheney is dead, and Dick Tator is alive at the same time.
It's Schrodinger's Dick.
It's Schrodinger's Dick.
November 4, 2025 at 11:44 AM
Dick Cheney is dead, and Dick Tator is alive at the same time.
It's Schrodinger's Dick.
It's Schrodinger's Dick.
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I liked the show, Breaking Bad, but it always bugged me that his character's nickname was Heisenberg. He was a chemist and the show featured the Periodic Table prominently, so they really should have called him Pauli or Pauling or, uhhh, I don't know any other famous chemists...
'Breaking Bad' creator Vince Gilligan talks about his new AppleTV+ series 'Pluribus,' starring Rhea Seehorn, and fears about how tech harms creativity.
Interview ↓
Interview ↓
'I Was Nervous About Leaving the Heisenberg Universe': Vince Gilligan on 'Pluribus'
bit.ly
November 4, 2025 at 1:33 AM
I liked the show, Breaking Bad, but it always bugged me that his character's nickname was Heisenberg. He was a chemist and the show featured the Periodic Table prominently, so they really should have called him Pauli or Pauling or, uhhh, I don't know any other famous chemists...
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Karyo broke out in French film with memorable roles in The Bear and La Femme Nikita, before becoming a go-to Hollywood bad guy of the 1990s.
www.avclub.com/tcheky-karyo...
www.avclub.com/tcheky-karyo...
R.I.P. Tchéky Karyo, from Bad Boys and The Missing
R.I.P. Tchéky Karyo, from Bad Boys and The Missing
www.avclub.com
November 1, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Karyo broke out in French film with memorable roles in The Bear and La Femme Nikita, before becoming a go-to Hollywood bad guy of the 1990s.
www.avclub.com/tcheky-karyo...
www.avclub.com/tcheky-karyo...
So who is he referring to? Luis Alvarez for his work on resonant states in particle physics? George Smoot for his work on the Colour Me Badd detector? Or one of the dudes from this year for the quantum tunneling stuff. If the latter, then I also deserve one for working on it back in the 90s at TI.
November 1, 2025 at 5:37 AM
So who is he referring to? Luis Alvarez for his work on resonant states in particle physics? George Smoot for his work on the Colour Me Badd detector? Or one of the dudes from this year for the quantum tunneling stuff. If the latter, then I also deserve one for working on it back in the 90s at TI.
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On this Halloween, a reminder that a sculptor included a Xenomorph gargoyle during the 1990s restoration of Paisley Abbey
October 31, 2025 at 11:07 AM
On this Halloween, a reminder that a sculptor included a Xenomorph gargoyle during the 1990s restoration of Paisley Abbey
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Among the many humiliations of being American in the current moment is this: Members of the tech right and the conservative ruling class continually fetishize objects of nerd culture while also displaying a willful inability to grasp the very basic messages those objects are sending.
The right is obsessed with The Lord of the Rings. But they don’t understand it.
The bizarre conservative misunderstanding of The Lord of the Rings, explained.
www.vox.com
October 31, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Among the many humiliations of being American in the current moment is this: Members of the tech right and the conservative ruling class continually fetishize objects of nerd culture while also displaying a willful inability to grasp the very basic messages those objects are sending.
Love it or Leavitt. Me thinks the lady doth makest a fair jest. Brilliant!! I'm in love...😍
HuffPost Seized on Karoline Leavitt’s Viral ‘Your Mom’ Diss at Reporter — It Paid Off Big
After White House comms tried to mock a HuffPost reporter with a “your mom” diss his employer spun the punchline into profit boosting memberships by 66 percent.
www.mediaite.com
November 1, 2025 at 1:15 AM
Love it or Leavitt. Me thinks the lady doth makest a fair jest. Brilliant!! I'm in love...😍
You will never convince me that the best series didn't come from the 80s: Miami Vice, Knight Rider, The A-Team, etc. Perhaps the best of them was a little-known gem on cable TV known as "Robin of Sherwood", an edgy retelling of the medieval legend with an eclectic soundtrack by Irish group Clannad.
Robin of Sherwood : Sherwood Forest and beyond...
YouTube video by David Ireland
youtu.be
October 27, 2025 at 12:14 AM
You will never convince me that the best series didn't come from the 80s: Miami Vice, Knight Rider, The A-Team, etc. Perhaps the best of them was a little-known gem on cable TV known as "Robin of Sherwood", an edgy retelling of the medieval legend with an eclectic soundtrack by Irish group Clannad.
Congratulations to Ms. Connolly on being elected Ireland's 10th President and the 3rd woman to hold the post.
Left-wing independent Catherine Connolly wins Ireland's presidential election
Catherine Connolly is set to become Ireland's next president after her rival conceded defeat in the presidential election.
www.latimes.com
October 26, 2025 at 2:33 AM
Congratulations to Ms. Connolly on being elected Ireland's 10th President and the 3rd woman to hold the post.
So cool! Turns out frogs can escape from boxes if they find the resonant frequency - the so-called doorway state - at which they can leapfrog beyond an expectation value. It sounds similar to the tunneling phenomena in resonant tunneling devices.
Now if we could just observe the darn frog doing it.
Now if we could just observe the darn frog doing it.
October 23, 2025 at 1:33 AM
So cool! Turns out frogs can escape from boxes if they find the resonant frequency - the so-called doorway state - at which they can leapfrog beyond an expectation value. It sounds similar to the tunneling phenomena in resonant tunneling devices.
Now if we could just observe the darn frog doing it.
Now if we could just observe the darn frog doing it.
LOL I'm half expecting Oblivious Neutron Bomb to drop in and start singing "Xanadu!"
October 18, 2025 at 5:42 AM
LOL I'm half expecting Oblivious Neutron Bomb to drop in and start singing "Xanadu!"
