Bryan J. Field

Goodbye, Superman…

a man wearing a suit and tie is making a funny face ALT: a man wearing a suit and tie is making a funny face

“Whoa. I’m telling you. It’s small!”

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People often overlook Arvix...

This is Aki. He just realized how to unify Einstein's general relativity theory with quantum mechanics to solve the black hole information paradox, but then remembered he's supposed to be a dog. 13/10 (TT: katelyvxxn)

Damn

Weathering budget cuts: Lessons from NASA The current uncertainty and cuts to science funding affect universities, research facilities, and laboratories across the United States, but this situation is not unprecedented. Under pressure to fund...

My first editorial in @science.org was published today: what to do (and, importantly, what NOT to do) when your grants are suddenly cut or research funding is uncertain. Please read and share!

#AcademicSky #Science #Astronomy

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Aldrich Ames, most damaging CIA traitor in agency history, dies at 84 Spying for Moscow, he reportedly caused the deaths of at least 10 recruited CIA or allied intelligence agents.

I never cheer when anyone dies, but … www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2...

Poor guy. He’ll never be able to sit and relax by the pool…

You've just opened up a Star Trek themed restaurant.

What are you calling it?

"The Ferengi Laundry"

Bitter fight over 2020 Microsoft quantum paper both resolved and unresolved --The Register, 31 Jul 2025

2025 Headline of the Year nominee (July)

Someone is making Phoenix walk the plank...

Some of these redactions are almost like modern art

Scene from OFFICE SPACE with Michael Bolton replying to Samir Nagheenanajar: “No way. Why should I change? He's the one who sucks.”

when someone tells me not to use em dashes because AI uses em dashes

Oh, no.

Mistletoe Held Above Meatball Sub

Mistletoe Held Above Meatball Sub

SKULL OF THOMAS AQUINAS: TAKE A LEFT NOW
PRIEST: No, the GPS says we have to keep going—
SKULL: I KNOW A SHORTCUT
PRIEST: Do you remember the last ti—
SKULL: FOR THOSE WITH FAITH, NO EVIDENCE IS NECESSARY; FOR THOSE WITHOUT IT, NO EVIDENCE WILL SUFFICE

Bronze plaque saying "A Letter to the Future. Ok is the first Icelandic glacier to lose its status as a glacier. In the next 200 years all our glaciers are expected to follow the same path. This monument is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it. August 2019. 415ppm CO2"

TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque:
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".

“Ayuh” *clicks OK*

Cartoon of a person stumbling out of a time machine and saying to another person: "I went back to warn them, but they already knew and didn't seem to care.”

ha yeah

In retrospect, it was a pretty obvious solution...

You could also trade ptollhouse cookies...

Tom Stoppard, playwright of dazzling wit and playful erudition, dies aged 88 A theatrical sensation since the 1960s, whose dramas included Arcadia, The Real Thing and Leopoldstadt, Stoppard also had huge success as a screenwriter The playwright Tom Stoppard, whose playful erudition dazzled the theatregoing world for decades, has died aged 88. One of a select band of writers from any discipline to earn his own adjective – “Stoppardian” – in the Oxford English Dictionary, he delighted in the most improbable juxtapositions: philosophy and gymnastics in Jumpers (1972); early 19th-century landscape gardening and chaos theory in Arcadia (1993); rock music, dissident Czech academics and the love poetry of Sappho in Rock ’n’ Roll (2006). Continue reading...

Tom Stoppard, playwright of dazzling wit and playful erudition, dies aged 88

Feel better!

Peter: Sean, what do you *really* think of time varying dark energy?

Sean: Well, what do *you* think about it?