How wonderful and moving for the headlines to be about astronomy instead of, well, any of the other possibilities.
Most of my students choose Imperial for research or a lucrative job, but he came from Queens just to win at University Challenge.
(Somehow I didn’t know anything about this story.)
I’ve successfully transferred this site to a new (more modern and less expensive!) host, and converted all of the content to a new blog engine. Check it out, and let me know if everything works.
Maybe I’ll even start writing again.
Test after moving both my hosting provider and blogging engine…
Shabbat shalom. (And check out our new bread experiment.)
Last classroom lecture of the calendar — and academic — year! (50 minutes on gravitational lensing.)
Wintry, misty morning on the Thames.
Today’s reshuffle showing the deep pool of talent the Tories are able to draw from.
Has anyone else started seeing errors like this (& other stuff) when restarting/restoring sessions in Apple Terminal.app?
date: illegal time format
usage: date [-jnRu] [-I[date|hours|minutes|seconds]] [-f input_fmt]
[-r filename|seconds] [-v[+|-]val[y|m|w|d|H|M|S]]
[[[[mm]dd]HH]MM[[cc]yy][.SS] | new_date] [+output_fmt]
-bash: Saving: command not found
See also this: it’s coming from weird interactions in /etc/bashrc_Apple_Terminal (& similar for zsh). Is this widespread or rare?
Project: rye.
Unexpected Silver Jews tribute beer, courtesy Verdant Brewery in Cornwall.
Sconehenge.
Twins? Or octuplets?
This is the good stuff.
With “mascara” and “dial”, I was hoping for “Songs from the Replacements’ ‘Tim'”. (On purpose, I hope…)
Connections
Puzzle #123
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Sorry, I can’t take your paper seriously if it uses LaTeX equation formatting for italics in text.
The good news is that The Mekons* sold out their London show tonight. The bad news is that they sold out before I remembered to get tickets…
(*Well, it’s only about 20% of the Mekons, but any fraction is good.)
20 years ago, I wrote a paper with the late, great Don Backer, making quantitative predictions of a background of gravitational waves from binary supermassive black holes. Today, it looks like that background has been detected by the NANOGrav collaboration.
Introduced my kids to Star Trek via “The Trouble With Tribbles”.
(Having turned out to be a professional astrophysicist, I can’t overstate how important the original series of Trek was to me growing up in the 70s.)
It is the summer solstice so time for my annual reminiscence of seeing Sun Ra and Don Cherry celebrate the rising sun from Battery Park in Manhattan with @disquiet@post.lurk.org in 1989.
This year, my partner decided to celebrate with a 4:45am swim in the Thames which is even more Druidic.
Devastated to hear of the death of Nick Kaiser: collaborator, friend, mentor. He helped bring me to CITA in 1994 and we worked on two of my favourite papers, minor works in his influential oeuvre. Simultaneously one of the smartest & nicest people I’ve had the privilege to work with. RIP.
Is anyone else seeing a blank iOS @NYTimes widget like this? (It’s been this way about a week.) Even a handful of responses that it is still working for you would be useful…
Update: I’ve had a response from “NY Times Customer Care”:
We have reported this issue to our developers. They are working on a fix for this and we hope to get a fix out soon. Please keep an eye out for an update.
Update 2: … and now seems to be fixed as of this evening’s update…
At London’s Bush Hall for the wonderful Lloyd/Bean show, I was honoured to be able to chat for a few minutes with one of my rock’n’roll heroes, Jon Langford, about Chicago’s New City News, the Mekons, and express my thanks for many years of life-changing music.
Thanks to Lloyd/Bean (Robert/Janet) for their beautiful/chaotic set @BushHallMusic tonight.
I made scones for a picnic yesterday, cut into triangles from the dough before baking. I was told by my (English, otherwise complimentary) friends that they obviously couldn’t be scones because they weren’t round.
I assume the correct answer to “Do you want to get recognition for this review on Publons?“ is no? (Especially since it’s owned by the company that calculates the infamous “Impact Factor”…)
It’s hard to believe that the launch of @Planck from ESA’s Kourou Spaceport was 14 years ago. Good luck @ESA_JUICE!
RIP Harry Lorayne, expert at magic & memory. In my sordid youth as an aficionado of magic (Magic Camp!) Lorayne’s sleight-of-hand was my favorite. Best was “Triumph!” involving shuffling cards upside-down & rightside-up & yet pulling order (& the chosen card) out of chaos.
Sunak: Northern Ireland is ‘world’s most exciting economic zone’ by being in EU and UK.
Imagine what it would be like if the whole of the UK could have the benefits of being in the EU!