Marnie Chesterton

I’m not trying to be a shill for Big Pottery, but these Darwin mugs are in the sale right now. Reduced from crazy pricey to still-more-than-you’d-want-to-pay. But so joyful. Happy belated #darwinday

think I'm correct in saying that constitutionally you can't change prime minister during a Winter Olympics

Ad astra Challenger crew.

40 years.

Same!!!

This is stunning work. Thank you for writing it.

Can anyone vouch for this? Whose placenta goes in it?

I’m lucky enough to be heading off to Hobart to see Devils and big trees. Any advice on where to go, or any of your must-sees, mammal-wise?

I’m on hols. & these are khai. Tiny Thai bananas. Which are 1. Delicious and 2. Remind me of a scientist I interviewed, whose job I really wanted. She travelled the world looking for local bananas, to breed resilience into the monocrop most of us eat in supermarkets. Banana Hunter = cool job.

Mammals have evolved into ant eaters 12 times since the dinosaur age, study finds Mammals have developed some unusual eating habits over the past 100 million years, but a new study has uncovered the surprising lengths to which some have gone to satisfy one of the more peculiar—a ta...

Tired: Everything evolves to be a crab.

Wired: Everything evolves to eat ants.

Some really interesting details in here: changes to the vaccine schedule for US kids, appeals to reason with ‘bringing it in line with Denmark’ plus various holes in that rational, and problems with the launch of this change.

Thank you!

This person went on a buying spree over the past 24 hours. Fresh wallet. Only existed since Dec 27th and has only bet on Venezuela-related markets.

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This is just such a damned disgrace. A crime against knowledge and humanity itself.

Thank you so much! And may I say thank you for the chocolate column - you’ve introduced me to a world of ways to spend my salary.

BBC Radio 4 - What Is Quantum? Marnie Chesterton travels to the birthplace of quantum theory armed with just one question

My mate Marnie @amsterdammed.bsky.social Chesterton doing Quantum in Helgoland (Heligoland for the purists).

Absolutely sublime wireless-output! :-) <3

And you lot moaned about the lack of Wizard of Oz this year!?

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Stones. On an asteroid. The view is distorted because of the camera lens. The bright splotch at the top is the Sun. Honestly this looks like a riverbed.

This is a photo of the surface of an asteroid

It was taken from the *surface*I of that asteroid

By a *bouncing rover* the size of a lunchbox

(1/2)

Tomorrow, 9.30am, you know what you need? Half an hour of me trying to understand why Quantum is so hard to understand. Includes Carlo Rovelli, Elise Crull and @philipcball.bsky.social being brilliant. Solutions? less clear

Episode 92: Oliver Sacks Listen now | The man who mistook his diary for a case file

Ever since the Oliver Sacks article in the New Yorker, I've been mulling why he embellished his stories of his patients. The lure of a good story over truth. Pleasingly, so have Tom Chivers and Stuart Ritchie in their excellent podcast. sciencefictionspod.substack.com/p/episode-92...

Strong work. Meanwhile, I will buy some and not get around to sending them. Then consign them to the cupboard of no return

Dear maths people: How would you say this equation in words? X.sum()%2 (friend of mine narrating a book wants to know)

I picked out the chickpeas and had an okay curry

Thank you- this is it exactly

Help! Does anyone know what this is? I bought it at my local south Asian veg store because they didn’t have any spinach. The guy said it was something that sounds like “hosu hosu” but I clearly misheard. Anyway, I tried a bit of stem and it felt like I’d put a nettle in my mouth.

Arrived in Brooklyn just in time for Mamdani’s victory. Hilarious scenes as the cars slow down to shout at the cheering crowds. Car1: “I love socialism” Car2: “Fuck you, commies”

For 61 years the #BBCWorldService has been broadcasting the latest in science via its weekly Science in Action programme. That dies in the next half hour, with this final edition, reflecting on the fall in trust in expertise driven by malign interests over recent years.

Minority representation on TV causes outrage

From the new Private Eye, in shops now.

Huuuuge discussions about this , because we corrected last week, and someone corrected our correction, and answering that has taken us to a medieval town called Troyes, and some books in the British Museum’s archives. And some maps of whether that bit of France was in the English realm at the time.

Penguin and Club bars can no longer be described as chocolate The rising cost of cocoa has led to the manufacturers changing their recipe.

It's a very interesting development because i know many in the industry expected to see chocolate substitutes / alternatives come in more gradually / subtly than this.

But taking the "🎵if you like a lot of chocolate on your biscuit join our club!🎵" bar is a surprise.

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I'm recording a World Service show with a guest in Bengaluru.... and Diwali has kicked off big time - every time he talks, it sounds like there's a war zone in the back ground! 🎆

Just about to do Inside Science on Radio 4, featuring @pennysarchet.bsky.social talking fit mice, the moon & Shackleton; comedian @josielong.bsky.social on Megafauna and @philipcball.bsky.social unpicks the quantum in the Nobel Prize for Physics