Jason Sterlace

Update: A colleague down the hall notes that if we went with "meter newtons" it would abbreviate exactly like "millinewtons", and I am devastated to recognize that he is right.

Well, I can break a convention with impunity!

I'd really like to find a way to let Joules be less alluring. It's like we're trying to trick them.

I hadn't thought about the kilogram primacy. I'm curious how big a deal that is to us.

Every textbook or other lesson warns them not to equate newton*meters to Joules, despite the fact that a Joule is defined as a newton times a meter. It's confusing for students.

The imperial system goes with foot-pounds, which sounds like an MMA move but also at least gets the order right.

Okay, #iteachphysics crowd, torque is defined as the cross product of the (lever arm) displacement vector and the force vector.

Shouldn't that give us units of meter-newtons?

So why do we use newton-meters?

Too many treat loss of public education as unfortunate collateral damage. But there is no greater democratic institution than the one responsible for renewing faith in and principles of democracy for each generation.

Wow, that guy at the park in the Vineyard Vines T-shirt DID NOT like it when I told him I like his Fudgie the Whale shirt.

But there's... more than one?

"Get rid of the insurance companies" is not something I thought would come from a Republican POTUS...

Of all the living Nobel laureates, which is the worst person?

I really regret that we missed the opportunity to have them visit us a couple of years ago.

YouTube video by Super Ravel Pee-wee's Big Adventure (Biker Bar Fun Scene)

The best movie dance sene ever made:
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It's just embarrassing as hell that anybody platforms his buffoonery. It's one of many reasons why the New York Times is of no use in this day and age. I can't even wrap fish in it, now that it's primarily digital.

Ross Douthat coming in HOT with this one, straight from the worst part of the year 1954!

I see we are now to the "no, you can't fly" part of making the USA great once more.

Who would drive him there?

That must have been incredible!

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Steinbeck and Springsteen for The People!

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Turns out: No.

Free baseball!

You paid for 9 innings but you’re going to get more!

Biggest HBP ever?

Jon.

Donald the Dove

Ross Douthat’s columns should only ever be printed under "fiction".

Chihuahua wearing a sweater the colors of a candy corn, and the sweater says "BOO" on it.

It's not a costume so much as it is a Halloween-themed sweater. But still.

My Dunkin installed ordering kiosks so I guess I’m not going there anymore.

Do we want to speculate on whether he read the books vs just got someone to tell him about the premise? Because that would explain a lot of it afaiac.

This type of messaging, please. Not snark or vague “deep concern”.

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