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UMN ChemProf Emeritus. Army vet. MOOC vet. Cancer vet. Dad of 3(human)/2(feline). Chicagoan. Armed with a keyboard and eerily immune to shame! NOT speaking for UL Research Institutes here.
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Minnesota, too. I feel for my former colleagues. My incredibly talented AVP for Sponsored Projects announced last fall she would retire in Feb. She's agreed to stay through March and I'm sure never imagined she'd end her time not celebrating, but trying instead to keep the ship from sinking...
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people think of endowments like checking accounts. alas, so not true. essentially every dollar is already dedicated by a giving agreement with zero flexibility. Most large R1s with a Med School (like Pitt) would see a $100+M hole from NIH IDC cut to 15%. Unimaginable.
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superior talent always welcome!!
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my former boss in now Chancellor at Pitt. I know she would not have frozen admissions if the situation were not dire (which a $100+M budget hole certainly is). terrible times.
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tongue pretty good too, imo. agreed that I might be willing to give much of the rest back to the earth from whence it sprung...
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Interesting you bring that up. Got to have a BBQ dinner curated by Daniel Vaughn in Austin this week at a place having 1 Michelin star. Cheeks are in the pic below, but he mentioned some places WILL smoke the whole head, so you can enjoy palate, lips, eyes, etc. Culinary adventures for the bold...
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I had a dinner once in Lyon where I got a beef pot pie. Except, the beef was kidney, spinal cord, testicle, and a few words I could not readily translate (and decided perhaps that was best for all involved...)
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#Truth
It is about this time every year that I fall to my knees and give thanks that at least February IS the shortest month
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of course, I'm also a huge fan of Spanish morcilla...
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and you got all that for only 6 liters of water!
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a tough question that I think many of us are struggling with. assume that at SOME point (alas, perhaps many years away), the fever breaks, and we’ll need an improved foundation upon which to rebuild?
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definitely sublimated (the water component, that is). same reason snow levels reduce over time even during a period where the temperature never goes above freezing. in the case of the pee, less volatile organics likely remain, of course...
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"cannon fodder"
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gold leaf, smoke, and chartreuse #ftw!
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how interesting! my wife is Bolognese, so tortellini en brodo is essentially holy, but I've not seen it in a different soup environment. is that a regional specialty, somewhere?
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um... is it pure coincidence that this was an answer in today's NYT crossword puzzle?
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there is a wonderful joke about an Italian prisoner of war who was able to avoid divulging a critical secret even under horrible torture. when asked how, they replied, "I was ready to talk, but they wouldn't untie my hands!"
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my memory was imperfect. 3 pubs in Latin, 2 in the 1960s, 1 in 1970. and, the one I was remembering was not about a basis set but a method for computing eigenvectors. full details at the TCA wikipedia page: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theoret...
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alas, I deleted all my TCA files several years ago, so I don't have the exact timing handy, but I'm guessing around 2004 or so.
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Latin is... interesting. While I was EIC for Theoretical Chemistry Accounts (originally Theoretica Chimica Acta) we finally eliminated the option to publish in Latin -- which had only been exercised once, to the best of my knowledge, for a basis set paper, of all things...
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excellent point -- I'd forgotten that trial balloon!
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how interesting! mine was the last Ph.D. class (1983) at Illinois Chemistry that had to pass a language test (I did German).
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It's essentially a recreation of Mao's Cultural Revolution except that those being fired aren't being sent to work in the fields. (But maybe soon to Amazon warehouses?)
The stupid is so blinding it burns.
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my mistake is obviously getting started too early in the morning!