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I totally agree with this. I often think acronyms are a way of keeping people out, or at least rasing the bar of participation 🧪 acsess.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

submitted 14 days ago • 2 comments

My first co-authorship of a patent. It is about using autocatylitic chemical waves 🧪 to measure, transmit, amplify, and detect system changes. Jason has been championing this concept for several years now. Nice to see patent approved. www.freepatentsonline.com/12196729.html

submitted 34 days ago • 2 comments

Been driving our new Leaf electric car for almost a month now. Love it, and it still amazes me we charge it with power from our solar panels. Why isn’t this the norm?

submitted 42 days ago • 1 comment

Benedict Cumberbatch reads Kurt Vonnegut's letter to the future. youtu.be/KhhTr8wH2P4?... #planetaryCrisis

submitted 43 days ago • 1 comment

macOS or OS X #unix user will understand this one ...

submitted 47 days ago • 10 comments

Texas is building more solar than any state. It also leads the country in electricity emissions and pollution. So what lessons should the rest of the country learn from Texas about decarbonization? My latest newsletter 👇 www.distilled.earth/p/be-careful...

submitted 71 days ago • 4 comments

Maybe you've seen an "iodine clock" reaction in a chemistry class or science video. But has anyone ever explained how it works? With stirring, this variant, called the Briggs-Rauscher oscillation reaction, can go through 16-20 color change cycles before being exhausted. (this is a looped gif 😉)

submitted 130 days ago • 4 comments

Squeaked one more paper at Langmuir into 2024 (posted yesterday, that makes 11). Co-authored an MD modeling paper on halite, this time looking at tensile failure and crystal vacancies leading to rough surfaces from annealed damage. Great job, Jessica! doi.org/10.1021/acs....

submitted 53 days ago • 0 comments

2024 was a good year for 🧪publications. 10 journal papers and a book chapter. Mostly due to DECOVALEX-2023 task led and the BATS salt heater experiments at WIPP. I suppose I’ve peaked 😆 Hopefully 2025 doesn’t zero out my current funding

submitted 53 days ago • 1 comment

physicist defining a werewolf: “a werewolf is something that transforms like a werewolf”

submitted 53 days ago • 6 comments

Coming up to that time of year when all of the trees on earth add another ring.

submitted 56 days ago • 6 comments

While not everyone becomes a sociopath behind the wheel, driving doesn't make anyone a better person.

submitted 56 days ago • 5 comments

We finished reading aloud Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s a Study in Scarlet, tonight. Kids loved it. A great story with a southwestern US twist.

submitted 57 days ago • 0 comments

This seems obvious, but it is nice to read in a reputable journal. Too many incremental papers. It is easy to say this as an established researcher, but new researchers just do what they have to do to get ahead. No easy solution? library.seg.org/doi/full/10....

submitted 57 days ago • 0 comments

Commentary: As other nations, including Germany's neighbors, invest in nuclear energy, there is growing pressure for Germany to reconsider its stance.

submitted 58 days ago • 5 comments

At grocery store, kids noticed “have you seen B.O.B.” signs at checkout (bottom of basket, I believe). They ask. Cashier deadpans “we would have found him, if he was a CEO; you know a nationwide manhunt” ouch

submitted 58 days ago • 0 comments

Solar research into falling particle receivers results in first spin-off – FPR Energy https://www.solarpaces.org/falling-particle-receiver-solar-research-spin-off-fpr-energy/ #CSP #solar #thermal #concentrated

submitted 58 days ago • 0 comments

This German meme was just brought to my attention and I feel obligated to reshare it here Frohe Weihnachten

submitted 60 days ago • 99 comments

Just a little fun water fact for Xmas. 97% of the world's #water is salty (the oceans). Of the 3% freshwater, the vast majority is locked up in ice caps, glaciers, & deep groundwater. Only a tiny fraction of 1% is accessible in rivers, lakes, groundwater, & rain. Use it carefully.

submitted 59 days ago • 6 comments

The number pi has an evil twin! It's a number called ϖ with many properties similar to π. There are even mutant trig functions connected to this number, called sl and cl. So maybe while you were studying trig in high school, some kid in another galaxy was […] [Original post on mathstodon.xyz]

submitted 61 days ago • 2 comments

Pie Town, New Mexico Population: 93 Photos from Google Places API Link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pie_Town,_New_Mexico

submitted 63 days ago • 2 comments

New 🧪🧂💧paper in ACS Earth and Space Chemistry on stable water isotopes for inferring brine origins in BATS field test (Brine Availability Test in Salt) at Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP). Salt fluid inclusions end up being only a small contribution. Great work Daniel! doi.org/10.1021/acse...

submitted 63 days ago • 0 comments

I was approached re: the Finnish decision to downgrade MDPI & Frontiers journals in 🇫🇮 rankings (THE article). This decision was based on broad patterns, including in our recent study "The strain on scientific publishing" (link: direct.mit.edu/qss/article/...) A quick 🧵 1/n #SciPub #AcademicChatter

submitted 65 days ago • 10 comments