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UC Berkeley’s Omar Yaghi shares 2025 Nobel Prize in chemistry Yaghi created a field called reticular chemistry, which involves stitching together molecular building blocks to form porous structures — metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) — with myriad applications.

Congratulations to @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social professor Omar M. Yaghi for winning the Nobel Prize in chemistry for his groundbreaking work, which has already shown promise in yielding drinkable water from desert air. 💙 💛 🏅 www.universityofcalifornia.edu/news/uc-berk...

4-panel Comic. (1) STUDENT: If the wavefunction only collapses when I observe it, does that mean my consciousness affects the universe? (2) [Bad:] PROFESSOR: Yes, quantum entanglement proves that we all have souls. (3) [Good:] PROFESSOR: No, consciousness plays no role here. It’s just physical measurement. (4) [Chaotic:] PROFESSOR: No. The wavefunction collapses when *I* look at it because I’m a full professor. It won’t collapse for an undergraduate.

Wavefunction Collapse

xkcd.com/3134/

Berserkers to bigfoot: Computational folklore explained in 101 seconds - Berkeley News By using computational methods to study folklore, UC Berkeley professor Tim Tangherlini is untangling the spread of conspiracies online, tracking pop music's meaning in Korea and more.

By using computational methods to study folklore, UC Berkeley professor Tim Tangherlini is untangling the spread of conspiracies online. news.berkeley.edu/2025/08/07/b...

If you feel the weather in your bones, this might be why Meteoropathy is an emerging field that studies physiological reactions to environmental changes, especially barometric shifts.

Some people feel the weather in their bones. A storm rolls in and so do headaches.

For years, this phenomenon was dismissed as imagination or coincidence.

Now, with sharper tools and more data, researchers are taking weather-related symptoms seriously.

Does using ChatGPT change your brain activity? Study sparks debate Scientists warn against reading too much into the small experiment getting lots of buzz.

The brains of people writing an essay with ChatGPT are less engaged than those of people blocked from using any online tools for the task

https://go.nature.com/44yqUXb

Did they not see the new study out of MIT this week showing people’s use of gen AI is associated with less neural connectivity? Sure, we can use AI more if we desire to lose our own cognitive capacities. Who benefits from this other than big tech?

Yes. I am right. I am seeing how Chat GPT is ruining students critical thinking and writing skills in real time. It is not the future. It is a tool designed to render the populace helpless, to make people doubt their innate intelligence, and to foster overreliance on technology.

go to Mexico City

It was when those planes were in midair, that judge said they should turn back, and they did not. That's my proposed start date. What's yours?

“Votaron más de los que votan por PRI o PAN”: Sheinbaum dice que participación en elección judicial fue “maravillosa”

🗳️ La presidenta Claudia Sheinbaum calificó la participación en elección judicial como "maravillosa" y dijo que fue un “gran ejercicio ciudadano”.

Señaló que votaron más de 13 millones de personas, más que los votos obtenidos por PAN, PRI o MC en 2024.

loss of power, at least 2 dead

just finished "The Divided Mind" by John Sarno, about to start "Mating in Captivity" by Esther Perel, waiting on Solnit's latest from my local library!

Could only read the first half, open w/o registration. What did you find terrific about it?

YouTube video by UC Berkeley School of Law Why does due process apply to everyone in the United States, not just citizens?

Why does due process apply to everyone in the United States, not just citizens? In this episode of It’s the Law, Dean Erwin Chemerinsky breaks down how the Fifth and 14th Amendments guarantee basic procedural fairness to all people, not just U.S. citizens.
youtube.com/shorts/VehfD...

“Science has no passport, no gender, no ethnicity, no political party.”

EC President Ursula von der Leyen, announcing a €500M initiative to attract top global talent.

In a fractured world, science remains a unifying force – rooted in diversity, driven by curiosity, and shared by all humanity.

Awesome! Do you know if there will be recorded videos of the talks online?

Captive-bred axolotls thrive in Mexican wetlands, researchers find The cartoonish-looking salamanders have faced an uncertain future in the wild. But researchers hope that breeding axolotls in captivity and releasing them in the wild can help their numbers.

The cartoonish-looking salamanders have faced an uncertain future in the wild. But researchers hope that breeding axolotls in captivity and releasing them in the wild can help their numbers.

Trump orders end to federal funding for NPR and PBS In an executive order, President Trump directs the Corporation for Public Broadcasting to stop funding NPR and PBS, the nation's primary public broadcasters.

In an executive order, President Trump directs the Corporation for Public Broadcasting to stop funding NPR and PBS, the nation's primary public broadcasters.

what do you mean by 'topological' in this context?

www.quantamagazine.org/the-mysterio...

boom! just got the audiobook! 🫡

The Wind that Shakes the Barley (2006) ⭐ 7.5 | Drama, War 2h 7m | Not Rated

Here's a film I earnestly recommend, topical for this week: m.imdb.com/title/tt0460...

YouTube video by UC Santa Barbara A Pi(e) Full of Numbers

Happy #PiDay 🥧 UCSB Assistant Professor of Math Katy Craig discusses how math and 3.14 show up in our everyday life 👀 youtu.be/D2Kz5Ig8Dv4?...

Starfleet Eliminating All Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Programs To all Starfleet personnel, It is with great enthusiasm that we announce Starfleet’s commitment to moving beyond so-called diversity, equity, and i...

"It is with great enthusiasm that we announce Starfleet’s commitment to moving beyond so-called diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives and embracing a post-bias future where everything is fine and no one needs to think too hard about it."

Purple flowers, growing on an outside wall, on a sidewalk.

Wandering through Mexico City, listening to "A field guide to getting lost", came across this.

Pretty Much, I Hate You Episodio de podcast · Here Comes The Guillotine · 03/02/2025 · 46 min

Good morning, fellow holograms!! podcasts.apple.com/mx/podcast/h...

Stand fast,
We have as many friends as enemies.

a delicious cup of mexican hot chocolate, white ceramic cup on a white plate, frothy bubbles invite you to want one now

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