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Director and senior producer at Science Friday, a public radio science program. Ask your doctor if SciFri might be right for you. Restrictions apply.

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“Yes,” said Arthur, “yes I did. It was on display in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying ‘Beware of the Leopard.

08.10.2025 01:57 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

“On display? I eventually had to go down to the cellar to find them.”
“That’s the display department.”
“With a flashlight.”
“Ah, well, the lights had probably gone.”
“So had the stairs.”
“But look, you found the notice, didn’t you?”

08.10.2025 01:56 — 👍 6    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

Personally I feel the sweet chariot should not swing low, instead it should just be patient and wait for its pitch. Make them throw strikes, sweet chariot

07.10.2025 22:25 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
As screenshot of a Google News panel labeled 'robotics.'  Stories include a woman stripping to a bikini in a school board meeting, a baseball score, and a story about Scott Bessent's phone.

As screenshot of a Google News panel labeled 'robotics.' Stories include a woman stripping to a bikini in a school board meeting, a baseball score, and a story about Scott Bessent's phone.

Dear Google News, thank you for this timely selection of stories in the field of Robotics

06.10.2025 13:34 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Public radio pillow fort is best pillow fort

05.10.2025 14:15 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Also, someone else in Trondheim, Norway --- the plumber was unable to give a fixed price for this assignment because a lot of preparatory work must be done to find out where the pipes will go.

04.10.2025 13:47 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0

Today in misdirected emails -- if you happen to know anyone in Alaska with a last name sort of like mine, their car registration (first letters JVC) is expiring soon, please remind them

04.10.2025 13:45 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Reunite Pangaea! One continent, not seven!

03.10.2025 10:49 — 👍 6    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Jane Goodall on Instinct | Blank on Blank
YouTube video by Blank on Blank Jane Goodall on Instinct | Blank on Blank

With Jane Goodall's passing, I was reminded of this great Blank on Blank animation using @scifri.bsky.social audio from 2002. youtu.be/3y4ZT0aj7OE?...

03.10.2025 01:39 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Am I having a sudden mental issue

Have I slipped into an alternate timeline where everything is just *off*

Oh no it's that my phone installed an update and now all the fonts are slightly different, aaaaa

02.10.2025 15:23 — 👍 6    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

They say that we must meet the moment.

Ok, but I think we should meet in a very public, well-lit place with lots of people around, because I certainly don't trust the moment

30.09.2025 23:13 — 👍 8    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

They say that we must meet the moment.

Ok, but I think we should meet in a very public, well-lit place with lots of people around, because I certainly don't trust the moment

30.09.2025 23:13 — 👍 8    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

This meeting could have been an email.

But even better would have been an email that stayed in the drafts folder.

30.09.2025 22:32 — 👍 7    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Screenshot of a portion of Verge article on 'vibe working.' the highlighted quote is 'Agent mode in Excel has an accuracy rate of 57.2 percent '

Screenshot of a portion of Verge article on 'vibe working.' the highlighted quote is 'Agent mode in Excel has an accuracy rate of 57.2 percent '

"Try our great new thing to help you make that Big Important Presentation! It is correct slightly over half the time!!!!"

Microsoft launches ‘vibe working’ in Excel and Word www.theverge.com/news/787076/...

29.09.2025 16:47 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

Flawless victory.

29.09.2025 22:19 — 👍 48    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Screenshot of a portion of Verge article on 'vibe working.' the highlighted quote is 'Agent mode in Excel has an accuracy rate of 57.2 percent '

Screenshot of a portion of Verge article on 'vibe working.' the highlighted quote is 'Agent mode in Excel has an accuracy rate of 57.2 percent '

"Try our great new thing to help you make that Big Important Presentation! It is correct slightly over half the time!!!!"

Microsoft launches ‘vibe working’ in Excel and Word www.theverge.com/news/787076/...

29.09.2025 16:47 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

My memory of war-torn Portland involves my almost fainting on the light rail to the airport and having a big biker dude help me with my bag and a grandma-type with a cat in a backpack offer me her lemonade

27.09.2025 16:48 — 👍 109    🔁 12    💬 5    📌 1

I hereby am ordering the full and unconditional release of the 'Where's Waldo's files. At long last we will bring his stripy hat into the light of justice. Thank you for your attention to this matter

27.09.2025 18:34 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Are you saying people should Seize the Day

27.09.2025 16:52 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

My memory of war-torn Portland involves my almost fainting on the light rail to the airport and having a big biker dude help me with my bag and a grandma-type with a cat in a backpack offer me her lemonade

27.09.2025 16:48 — 👍 109    🔁 12    💬 5    📌 1

Somebody in the government now has a chance to do the funniest thing

"Oh, did you say EARHART files? My bad..."

26.09.2025 22:16 — 👍 6    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

The program I work for, @scifri.bsky.social, is one of the programs that WNYC Studios is offering free to affected stations. Heads up, station friends!

24.09.2025 23:42 — 👍 38    🔁 15    💬 0    📌 0

The program I work for, @scifri.bsky.social, is one of the programs that WNYC Studios is offering free to affected stations. Heads up, station friends!

24.09.2025 23:42 — 👍 38    🔁 15    💬 0    📌 0

Please...my son. He's very liquid

23.09.2025 01:21 — 👍 6    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Look, some of you have not had to deal with the tragedy of an overly diluted baby and it shows

22.09.2025 23:30 — 👍 52    🔁 8    💬 1    📌 1

Amelia Bedilia, that is not what I meant by gyro meat

21.09.2025 19:35 — 👍 12    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Just remember that soup exists as a physical reality

21.09.2025 15:27 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Mr. Shipman, the people from Seven Days in May are holding on line three

20.09.2025 23:53 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0

Will note that they get bonus points for the actual title of the journal paper:

Blood, sweat, and beers: investigating mosquito biting preferences amidst noise and intoxication in a cross-sectional cohort study at a large music festival

20.09.2025 21:04 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
Preview
A Trailblazing Geneticist Reflects On Her Life And Work | Science Friday | WNYC Studios It’s common knowledge that many diseases and conditions have some kind of genetic link. But that wasn't always the case. In 1990, long before the Human Genome Project tied so many hea...

Pretty proud to have been involved in making this @scifri.bsky.social conversation between Flora Lichtman and cancer geneticist Mary-Claire King. Do listen -- so much there.

www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/sci...

16.09.2025 11:04 — 👍 23    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

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