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Latest book Steeped: The Chemistry of Tea https://books.rsc.org/books/monograph/2162/SteepedThe-Chemistry-of-Tea Professor of Chemistry, Bryn Mawr College & Adjunct Scholar, Vatican Observatory.
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Elon Musk posted a table on X claiming that enormous numbers of social security payments are being made fraudulently, as much as 83%. That seemed...excessive. I tried a Fermi approach to check his numbers. 🧵

submitted 5 days ago • 2 comments

The political is personal for me. Lasagna, droopy bunny ears and the NIH cuts. quantumtheology.blogspot.com/2025/02/real...

submitted 6 days ago • 2 comments

And TIL this comes from the Latin "Ne supra crepidam" - don't go past the sole of the shoe (from a story in Pliny's Natural History about a shoemaker who found an error in the depiction of shoe in a painting, but then felt empowered to critique the whole thing).

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

The article calls measles "rare" which it is in the US, but globally there are more than 10 million cases of measles and more than 100,000 people died of the disease every year.

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

I have opinions about the NIH and the Philadelphia Inquirer published them. Last July I was diagnosed with a progressive, incurable neurodegenerative disease. Writing an equation on the blackboard had become impossible, tying my shoes a challenge. 1/ 3 🧵

submitted 9 days ago • 6 comments

Writing while distracted. Gadgets from the 1920s. Hugo of the Hugo Awards. quantumtheology.blogspot.com/2025/02/writ...

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

One window, 39 tabs open. What was I thinking? #writing

submitted 12 days ago • 1 comment

So excited to see friends in here!

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