Oh yeah, this is why we didn’t want to give him credit for that whole “Korean Peace” thing.
www.nytimes.com: Trump Cancels Meeting With Kim, Citing ‘Open Hostility’
Planck continues to rack up the awards: High-Frequency Instrument PI J-L Puget has won the 2018 Shaw Prize in Astronomy.
The Planck Satellite team has won the 2018 Gruber Cosmology Prize!
Hayakawa et al, Sunspot Drawings by Japanese Official Astronomers in 1749-1750 — better figures than most papers on the arXiv! https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.08614
Sri Lankan hoppers for brunch courtesy Weligama at The Pear Tree Café, Battersea Park.
Academic friends: when you post about a paper on the arXiv, please link to the web page for the abstract, not the pdf download.
The illusion of time: “Andrew Jaffe probes Carlo Rovelli’s study arguing that physics deconstructs our sense of time.”
I saw Facebook’s “Protecting Your Information” top-post today, which I think means that Cambridge Analytica didn’t use my data to overhype their lame data science and amoral political consulting.
This morning, my 2 1/2-year old daughter asked me about telescopes. Beaming.