András Gáspár

That's the way ...

In Europe we blink our hazards once. Could be misunderstood as breaking in the U.S. if you don't have yellow blinkers.

YouTube video by PBS NewsHour Top researchers consider leaving U.S. amid funding cuts: 'The science world is ending'

A poll from the journal Nature found that 75% of researchers in the U.S. are considering leaving the country. That includes a man who’s been dubbed the "Mozart of Math." (This PBS story on the scientific brain drain is heartbreaking & ominous for medicine, imo.) www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLvO...

I am glad I got everyone doing some depressing maths.

László Rátz - Wikipedia

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I think they would have all agreed that he was the brightest in the group. Many of them had the same math teacher in high school.

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It would be nice to chat with one of the Hungarian martians: Von Neumann, Wigner, Szilárd, Teller, Hevesy, von Kármán ... etc. I am sure there were some interesting conversations during the Manhattan project.

Well, apparently Fermi and Rutherford are my academic grandparents. That's all I got.

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Lots of history that was never written down just passed along.

Sorry. At least not civil war territory.

For you it is the Spanish-American war that's the nearest example.

Lol.

It is exactly in a decade. 😭

I just realized that my birth year is closer to the end of WW2 than it is to today and I don't know how to process this fact.

“President Trump has done the most broad set of illegal budget actions of any president in U.S. history,” said Bobby Kogan, a former Office of Management and Budget official under President Joe Biden who is now the senior director of federal budget policy at the Center for American Progress, a liberal nonprofit. “This is his most illegal budgetary action by a mile — by a parsec.”

Gotta appreciate the astro term. And he didn't even say lightyear ... he said parsec!

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Every single bad thing that has happened was a result of our institutions not holding.

Fantastic analysis by Robert Reich.

A picture of the garden in front of the east wing of the White House. A mix of colorful flowers and small trees

NEW: NBC News confirms that the Jacqueline Kennedy Garden, on the east side of the White House, has been destroyed as part of the demolition of the East Wing.

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Well, NOW I know that Reagan had a speech on free trade.

Note: The JSC already has the Enterprise Shuttle orbiter on display. They just want one that was actually in orbit. They look the same and the JSC is actually mounted on a 747 and both can be toured.

Is the new ballroom going to share a wall with the residence building or is there going to be a new corridor built? Please tell me he is not adding on to the existing residence.

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Obama running with Bo in the East wing colonnade.

It looks like the colonnade is also gone.

Is the colonnade also gone??

Today, Hungarians protest again. And a traveler captured an image of the crowd, snaking up Andrassy Boulevard to Heroes Square, from their RyanAir flight. Who needs drones?

A great article ... do read if you have 5 minutes.

Ya think?

"I was just following orders"

US PhD admissions shrink as fears over Trump’s cuts take hold Some doctoral programmes are admitting no students at all amid uncertainty about federal science funding.

Fewer grad students means less science, but many STEM PhD programs in the US are cutting back on admissions this year due to federal funding uncertainties. Words by me for @nature.com:

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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