Gieljan de Vries

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Thanks! I chatted with some fusioneers a while ago, who had sketched out what a tokamak running 3He would look like. Mindbogglingly huge and high-temp, I remember. Was wondering if there was a new dark horse in the field.

Did any serious fusion project ever advocate using 3He as fuel? It keeps getting brought up. Never a reference to who specifically wants it.

So, You Want To Test A Nuclear Weapon? - Funranium Labs I dedicate the following rant to my Lovely Assistant, who can probably recite this by heart now, and Meredith Yayanos who hit boggleface about halfway through an in person version and asked “PLEASE, W...

I have just been sending this to people. You know, from the last time he pulled this shit www.funraniumlabs.com/2017/03/want...

You just have to love the talent Dutch voters have for driving political scientists insane

Closeup photo of a white right hand, holding a blue 20-sided die.

25 partijen (!) op het stembiljet. Sta je dan met je d20 🤷🏻‍♂️
#stemmen

Spare a thought for the crews who adjusted Stonehenge the other night when we set the clocks back. It’s cold hard work

Does anyone know what this strange prismatic cloud effect is called? 🌈🌤️
Spotted this morning in the sky above Christchurch Meadows in #Reading this morning.

both beautiful and terrifying

you couldn't pay me enough to fly into a hurricane and guess what--the crew of this aircraft isn't getting paid at all because of the shutdown

What we should be talking about after watching Bigelow's 'A House of Dynamite' nuclear thriller Kathryn Bigelow's latest film, A House of Dynamite, is a welcome and useful reminder that the dangers of nuclear weapons never went away—and an invitation to discuss how to deal with them.

Former senior scientist at the US State Department, Mark Goodman, breaks down @netflix.com 's A House of Dynamite

"Police focus on ladder placed against the side of the Louvre"

I spend a year plotting a mystery novel and then this happens.

…and that special hell is the stiltecoupé?

“Suspends sharing” suggests a full stop - that’s not what the original piece says at all. More like not sharing everything anymore.

A-ma-zing ride. 12/10 would apocalypse again.

See also: yeet (verb)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems... SIMON: What? SHAPIRO: ...Or saying... SIMON: You imagine that? SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over. SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level. SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this. SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

Heel fijn dat ik bij Haagse Zaken mocht aanschuiven om iets langer over extreem en radicaal rechts en hun normalisering te spreken

Oh yeah, getting closer to the finale! I’ve paused at the start of the Beirut chapter so I could binge the second half of the campaign. Sooo fun and inspiring. Looking forward to running Borellus for my own group.

Bonuspunten als het ding heelhuids terugkomt bij Ivo en Nikhef, vermoed ik. But I like your enthusiasm.

Exact :)

Da’s testbaar. Met stevige afscherming (boring) of oldschool in een luchtballon (meer kosmische straling op hoogte, waar je minder afscherming hebt door de atmosfeer).

Crowdfundje om Ivo omhoog te sturen? 😁

Bunk off and celebrate!

www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/...

The 'kin' of ‘napkin’ means "little."

‘Nap’ comes from ‘nape,' which means “tablecloth.”

So a napkin is a little tablecloth.

10/10, no notes.

Wow we should base our entire economy on this technology

Ugh, hopelijk alleen een blauwe plek? (Visoenen van Van Baal in een full-body cast, één hand vrij voor de telefoon)

En toch ff he. Je leest de hele tijd dat de polarisatie toeneemt. Maar hoe weten we dat eigenlijk? Hoe meet je dat? Iemand enig idee?

Cue the atheism != religion reel.

Echt een ontzettend leuke boekpresentatie gisteren (van een dito boek) van @brunchik.bsky.social op het @nikhef.bsky.social

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Ja, dat gok ik ook. Niet gegarandeerd natuurlijk. Maar het massaverschil is in dit geval wel pittig. He, nu wil ik in de onderliggende natuurkunde duiken om te zien of die trend er ook echt is...