Dr Grace Peng

X has changed their policy and now you can see where the accounts are based.

Here’s an “influencer from Texas”

My house is 1344 square feet and every single one of them is usable space. We rented out our house for a bit to our kids and lived in an 1800 sq ft townhouse, but 500 sq ft of it was stairs. This is why I now want to help promote single stair buildings... stairs are a waste of space.

I didn't know that it's still possible to visit. I am not surprised a lot changed from the late 1970s to today.

My dad took me along for that tour when he was sent by LLNL back in the 1970s.

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“Why doesn’t X part of the city have bike lanes?”

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That’s an interesting way to frame it.

H/t @yourfriendpiper.bsky.social

Physical protection from cars for merchandise but not for cyclists or pedestrians.

Oh

Former Finnish PM Sanna Marin put it bluntly: “To end the conflict, Russia must leave Ukrainian territory.”

Just one point. Nothing more to discuss.

Before the midterms of 1866, President Andrew Johnson called his congressional opponents traitors and said they should be hanged.

Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.

If you want, I can bring a laptop and zoom from the bookstore if you want to join the conversation

fire and smoke season is year round. Wildfires, controlled burns, agricultural burns

My husband loved the CIA Book Club so much after he read a free electronic review copy. It's this month's selection for the book club he leads. He got a copy from the library. Then he went to {pages} and bought another copy. Dec 3, 2025, 7pm. In person in MB
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still thinking about this event, and not just because 10 different people have contacted me about it 😭

Yes. I read a an essay about this by a political scientist 15 years ago and it’s lived rent free in my brain ever since.

In a nutshell, he said, the more unstable and out of control the world seems, the more people are willing to cede power to authoritarian leaders.

Small Rain gauge in a messy flower bed with water all the way to the top. 1.25"

Another 1.25+" Thursday afternoon to Friday morning. The weeds are loving it

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I don't follow Toronto weather. But check your local radiosonde profiles. Is there an unusually low temperature inversion keeping the pollution close to the ground? Was there a fire blowing smoke towards Toronto?

It is mind boggling to me that anyone would think it makes sense to dig up and burn fossil fuels only to try to regather and and rebury the carbon dioxide molecules once they've flitted throughout the atmosphere. Fossil fuel companies are obviously lying about DAC, but a lot of people believe it. 🔌💡

late afternoon photo showing a downtown streetscape with people, bikes and a streetcar, and a tangle of overhead wires. the city skyline looms in the background, with the cn tower

toronto looking magical this afternoon

This is a good paper that @jensvb.bsky.social and @lausterna.bsky.social did all the work on, and I’m pleased to have a teeny weeny bit of stolen glory in saying it’s in a forthcoming journal issue I edited. The approach they use could be straightforwardly replicated in other countries.

Wow. No wonder it is more expensive at the grocery store (but cheaper than buying regular milk + lactase tablets).
We are a soymilk and 2% lactose-free cow milk family

If you're wondering why a large chunk of ostensibly left-of-center pundits are waging war on environmental protections in the form of an "abundance agenda," it's because Silicon Valley has quietly developed a culture of rampant pollution.

The Viral Milk That Helped Set Off America's Protein Boom Podcast Episode · Odd Lots · 11/08/2025 · 43m

TIL that lactose free milk is made with reverse osmosis. My husband and I had assumed it was done with enzymes (lactase).
How do they separate out the lactase? Is it a 2-step/membrane process to isolate molecules of exactly 1 size?
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It’s all workshopped on Black communities first. We told you to end qualified immunity. But you were all too scared to look like you weren’t “backing the blue.”

And here we are.

Not that he cares about facts, but 92% of Medicaid recipients are working or fall within an exempt category, and thanks to the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act (🤮), immigrants generally have to wait 5 years to enroll in Medicaid.

RFK Jr. is making shit up.

I caught Mitch McConnell earlier today and tried to ask him about the CDC promoting the lie that vaccines cause autism.

He voted against RFK Jr.'s confirmation.

But as is always the case, McConnell, a polio survivor, refused to answer questions.

Would you believe he had a book on just hydrogen bonds?
And that I did some hydrogen bonds modeling in grad school.

Anyway, the guy had good advice.
And I did meet my friend group there.

3a) You will meet your college friend group in honors chem
3b) You will have to do independent research in Cal honors chem so we're going to start now
3c) While the rest of the class practices for the AP test, you can read anything in my chemistry library & write a synopsis of what you learned 2/

My AP Chem professor helped me decide between Cal & Stanford (he attended Stanford UG, Cal grad).
1) Don't take out student loans to go to Stanford
2) Cal has a more rigorous chem program
3) Don't take the AP Chem test, take the accelerated Honors Chem sequence at Cal
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