Martin J. Levy

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YouTube video by Shank Mods What Happened to the World's Largest Tube TV?

Massive (pun intended) Sony Trinitron love from @shankmods.bsky.social on YouTube. This is the coolest story ever from the age of real tube televisions. Worth a watch … youtu.be/JfZxOuc9Qwk #Trinitron

The sweet smell of democracy! We early voted at the Santa Cruz County Building. You can to! See votescount.com for more info.

Should have done it during the meteor show last weekend. Always a fun pic!

House of Representatives, April 15:
• H.R. 6192 Hands Off Our Home Appliances Act
• H.R. 7673 Liberty in Laundry Act
• H.R. 7645 Clothes Dryers Reliability Act
• H.R. 7637 Refrigerator Freedom Act
• H.R. 7626 Affordable Air Conditioning Act
• H.R. 7700 Stop Unaffordable Dishwasher Standards Act

🇮🇳 Indian Seafood Heaven in Mangalore: https://youtu.be/2T5wIxfF89U👕 T-shirts: https://store.migrationology.com/ BENGALURU, INDIA - Welcome to Bengaluru ... Indian Street Food in Bangalore!! 🫑 5 UNIQUE FOODS You Have to Try!

Required watching. Indian street food in Bengaluru. It will make you damn hungry! youtu.be/rvJPQam-NYM

Michigan, 1963. Kellogg's and Post, sworn cereal rivals, race to create a pastry that will change the face of breakfast. A tale of ambition, betrayal, sugar,... Unfrosted | Official Trailer | Netflix

Possibly the most important thing to happen on May 3’rd. UNFROSTED. youtu.be/2lqRPUhPfho

This never gets old! Not the routing protocol #BGP - it’s Buddy Griggs Plumbing of Santa Cruz. Excellent folks - used them a few times.

By law – it shouldn’t be Easter this weekend Each year, people check their calendars to find out when Easter will take place because it changes every year -- but nearly a century ago, the UK passed a law fixing the date. It's just that the law h...

Here’s some great British shenanigans regarding trying to nail down the date of Easter. www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/by-...

2001: A Space Odyssey is free to own on digital 4K 55 years later, Stanley Kubrick’s vision of technology, space travel, and AI remains prescient.

Free movie! Do not delay, buy for $0 now! Then find the biggest screen you can and watch. This is the movie from my youth (my dad took me to the Leicester Square Odeon when it came out). No-one understands the ending; but that’s irrelevant … www.polygon.com/deals/241135...

I need to go see an eclipse. August 2027 in Tangier Gibraltar Luxor Jeddah - but which? - all will be hot - timeanddate.com/eclipse/map/20... - I say all this because we have a kick-ass eclipse here in the US on April 8 and I’ve decided not to travel to see it.

🤦‍♂️ It's astronomical, not astrological.

The Vernal Equinox in the Northern Hemisphere is on Tuesday, March 19 8:05pm in California (or Wednesday, March 20 at 03:06 UTC for those that like timezone independent information).

Use code GATEKEEP50 to get 50% OFF First Box and free wellness shots for life with any active subscription at https://bit.ly/3IJRP6t!Edited by: https://www.... How Dropshipping Ruined Online Shopping

Ok. So I watched this video about Temu and drop-shipping and it turns out it covers much more. It gets a tad slow in the middle; but picks up and delivers again pretty quickly. It explains so much about Amazon etc. Botton line: shopping online is hard (and Etsy fraud is real)! youtu.be/Xb0k6v9GLQA

Elle Cordova on Instagram: "A Big Bang showdown - Matter vs Antimatter #bigbang #cosmology #physics #antimatter" 19K likes, 481 comments - ellecordova on March 16, 2024: "A Big Bang showdown - Matter vs Antimatter #bigbang #cosmology #physics #antimatter"

The Universe’s creation (well kinda): www.instagram.com/reel/C4lIJuZ...

Nope … it’s impossible for anyone to ever fully explain!

Back into Brazil this evening. TIL: Type J and Type N sockets aren’t the same and require a different plug! Who’s in charge if these things? I have so many questions!

Today we are in Ciudad del Este, Paraguay and it looks pretty-much-the-same, telecom wise, as other places we’ve visited.

Central Computer in Sunnyvale has one Nvidia H100 in stock $29,999.

I asked if there’s a discount for cash! 🤣

I’m at the Santa Cruz County listening to the supervisors meeting. Being a good civic citizen this morning.

Appliances sometimes need debugging. This wasn’t a pretty process!

In this video, we'll take on a unique challenge: fitting an entire week's worth of clothing and essentials into a carry-on suitcase using a 150 ton hydraulic... Packing a Suitcase with a 150-Ton Hydraulic Press

This isn’t my secret way to pack for travel. Honest! youtu.be/VUAph2vR208

The Tokenizer is a necessary and pervasive component of Large Language Models (LLMs), where it translates between strings and tokens (text chunks). Tokenizer... Let's build the GPT Tokenizer

Andrey Karpathy is teaching the world again. Yippee! youtu.be/zduSFxRajkE

‎Jewish Care On Air on Apple Podcasts ‎Society & Culture · 2024

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Care and support after the Holocaust. Rebecca discusses Rachel's experience with SJ and Moshe. - Jewish Care On Air The 27th of January is Holocaust Memorial Day. To commemorate the event, Rebecca discusses with Rachel the events from the Holocaust, Rachel's experience, how it has affected her long-term health and ...

Mum (a 14 - 15 yr old) managed to survive the Holocaust with her brother; however, not for the rest of her family. The podcast episode is about those that look after survivors like my mother and how that resonates with those survivors. Please listen. www.buzzsprout.com/2231413/1435... 2/3

My mother, Rachel Levy, is a survivor of the Holocaust (liberated from Belsen camp) after being death-marched for 30 days from Auschwitz by the German guards, as the liberators were closing on Auschwitz. 1/3

Nature healing itself

The taste test: Earl Grey tea Peter Bazalgette’s panel found a wide variety of flavours and quality. But which tea came out on top?

Earl Grey tea with milk is not a crime. www.ft.com/content/ff00...?

I do believe Taylor Swift is airborne and heading towards LAX on her way to Las Vegas for the SuperBowl. It’s gone midnight Saturday night in Tokyo and her concert finished a handful of hours ago. She will make it with plenty of time to spare. flightaware.com/live/flight/...

The blue LED was supposed to be impossible—until a young engineer proposed a moonshot idea. Head to https://brilliant.org/veritasium to start your free 30-day trial, and the first 200 people get 20% off an annual premium subscription. If you’re looking for a molecular modeling kit, try Snatoms, a kit I invented where the atoms snap together magnetically - https://ve42.co/SnatomsV Huge thanks to the UC Santa Barbara Materials Dept for taking us around, and to Álvaro Bermejillo Seco for reviewing the science. These sources were also especially helpful: Nobel Prize Biography - Shuji Nakamura - https://ve42.co/NakamuraNobel Johnstone, B. (2015). Brilliant!. Prometheus Books. - https://ve42.co/Johnstone2015 Nakamura, S., Pearton, S., & Fasol, G. (2010). The Blue Laser Diode: The Complete Story. Springer. - https://ve42.co/Nakamura2010 ▀▀▀ References: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O8M2z2hIbag https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TGUteH93xNo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=idwKHQEw78g https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yoTALRhAqWc Touchstone, L. A. (2022). Nick Holonyak Jr. University of Illinois. - https://ve42.co/Touchstone2022 Perry, T. S. (1995). The Unsung Inventor. IEEE Spectrum. - https://ve42.co/Perry1995 Chabay, R. & Sherwood, B. (2011). Matter & interactions (4th ed.), S2: Semiconductors. Wiley. - https://ve42.co/ChabaySherwood How MOCVD Works via Aixtron - https://ve42.co/MOCVD Vangala, S. R., et al. (2019). Epitaxial growth of ZnSe on GaAs. Journal of Crystal Growth. - https://ve42.co/Vangala2019 Nakamura, S. (1991). GaN Growth Using GaN Buffer Layer. JJAP. - https://ve42.co/Nakamura3rd1991 Amano, H., et al. (1989). P-Type Conduction in Mg-Doped GaN w/ LEEBI. JJAP. - https://ve42.co/Amano1989 Huang, M., et al. (2021). Defects in Mg–H‐Codoped GaN. Physica Status Solidi. - https://ve42.co/Huang2021 Schubert, E. F. (2006). Light Emitting Diodes, Ch 4: LED basics. Cambridge University Press. - https://ve42.co/RPI-LEDs Kitada, C. (2001). Blue About Japan. Japan Inc. - https://ve42.co/Kitada2001 Whitaker, T. (2002). Nakamura loses Nichia patent battle. Optics.org. - https://ve42.co/NichiaSales3 Pirates Osaka. (2014). Nakamura awarded Nobel Prize in Physics. Hatena Blog. - https://ve42.co/NichiaSales1 Growth Bozu via Twitter. - https://ve42.co/NichiaSales2 Rose, J. (2014). Blue LEDs – Filling the world with new light. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. - https://ve42.co/Rose2014 Pattison, P. M., et al. (2017). LED lighting efficacy. Comptes Rendus Physique. - https://ve42.co/Pattison2017 Electricity pricing via EIA - https://ve42.co/ElectricityPricing Lane, K., et al. (2023). Lighting. IEA. - https://ve42.co/LightingIEA LED Footprint via The Climate Group - https://ve42.co/ClimateGroupLED Nichia’s History via Nichia - https://ve42.co/NichiaHistory Shuji Nakamura via Wikipedia - https://ve42.co/NakamuraWiki Images & Video: Lighting the World via UCTVInsight on YouTube - https://ve42.co/UCTVep2 & https://ve42.co/UCTVep3 Palo Alto Times 1971 Article via Newspapers.com - https://ve42.co/Newspapers Nick Holonyak, Jr. and the LED via UIUC on YouTube - https://ve42.co/HolonyakIllinois The Original Blue LED via Science History Institute on YouTube - https://ve42.co/OGBlueLED Maxfield, M. (2022). Compound Semiconductors. EE Journal. - https://ve42.co/Maxfield2022 M. Stutzmann, et al. (2001). Playing with Polarity. pss (b). - https://ve42.co/Stutzman2001 Isamu Akasaki in 1995 via Andrey Nikolaev on YouTube - https://ve42.co/AsakiNikolaev Pioneer TX-610 Stereo Tuner via Ian Marino on YouTube - https://ve42.co/StereoMarino Shuji Nakamura via EPO on YouTube - https://ve42.co/NakamuraEPO Nichia Campus via Nichia on LinkedIn - https://ve42.co/NichiaHQ Nichia via TDElektronik on YouTube - https://ve42.co/NichiaTDE Violeds Sterilization of COVID-19 via Seoul Viosys - https://ve42.co/SterilizationUV ▀▀▀ Special thanks to our Patreon supporters: Chris Harper, Max Paladino, Balkrishna Heroor, Adam Foreman, Orlando Bassotto, Tj Steyn, meg noah, KeyWestr, TTST, John H. Austin, Jr., john kiehl, Anton Ragin, Diffbot, Gnare, Dave Kircher, Burt Humburg, Blake Byers, Evgeny Skvortsov, Meekay, Bill Linder, Paul Peijzel, Josh Hibschman, Juan Benet, David Johnston, Ubiquity Ventures, Richard Sundvall, Lee Redden, Stephen Wilcox, Marinus Kuivenhoven, Michael Krugman, Sam Lutfi ▀▀▀ Directed by Emily Zhang Written by Emily Zhang, Ricky Nathvani, and Derek Muller Edited by Trenton Oliver Illustrated by Jakub Misiek Animated by Fabio Albertelli, Mike Radjabov, David Szakaly, Ivy Tello, and Alondra Vitae Filmed by Derek Muller, Raquel Nuno, and Trenton Oliver Additional research by Gregor Čavlović Produced by Emily Zhang, Han Evans, Gregor Čavlović, and Derek Muller Thumbnail by Ren Hurley Additional video/photos supplied by Getty Images and Pond5 Music from Epidemic Sound Why It Was Almost Impossible to Make the Blue LED

You know those annoying blue LEDs on devices in your bedroom that are too bright to go to sleep too. Here’s the history of the hard to design blue LED … youtu.be/AF8d72mA41M