To be fair, academics are mostly obsessed with flagellating their colleagues, not their actual selves.

Ashmeet Singh on a Quantum-First Approach to Space, Time, Gravity, and Cosmology YouTube video by The Knowmads Podcast

Episode 26 | Ashmeet Singh on a Quantum-First Approach to Space, Time, Gravity, and Cosmology.
Ashmeet is a theoretical physicist who completed his PhD at Caltech under @seanmcarroll.bsky.social .
He is now a professor of physics at IIT Delhi.
@prachigarella.bsky.social

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I went to Villanova and I'm rooting against them.

Zero chance Pope Leo would be a Knicks fan.

Finally, a pasta sauce company that meets my need for a device designed to record family conversations around the table and save them for all time.

Joining the side of the info.

Not even one tech company names itself after Samwise Gamgee or Goldberry.

Events: Department of Physics and Astronomy - Northwestern University

Hello Chicagoland! I'm visiting Northwestern this week to give three lectures: physics colloquia on the arrow of time (Weds) and emergent spacetime (Thurs), public lecture on quantum mechanics (Fri).

physics.northwestern.edu/events/

This generation of snowflakes is going to have to retreat to their safe spaces when they hear about the Banach-Tarski paradox.

We’re defending Western Civilization by kicking Plato and Shakespeare out of university classes.

351 | Peter Singer on Maximizing Good for All Sentient Creatures

Audio player via Spotify:

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Peter and philosopher Kasia de Lazari Radek are hosts of their own podcast, "Lives Well Lived."

www.petersinger.info/podcast

Title card for Mindscape podcast episode with Peter Singer.

Mindscape 351 | Peter Singer @petersinger.info on Maximizing Good for All Sentient Creatures. #MindscapePodcast

www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2026...

It's surely getting better and I'm undoubtedly getting worse.

Well it certainly can shoot free throws better than me. But I think if I don't foul him I would win pretty easily.

Cartoonish evil will always be with us. But we must change things so that people like this are typing whiny manifestos to each other, not running the world.

We live in a country where the two most dynamic, charismatic, eloquent politicians of this century have the first names Barack and Zohran. This is what bothers the white supremacists so much.

This science experiment has been running almost my entire lifetime. Only experiment I can think of running long is that blob of tar that the rheologists have been studying for 120 years.

Perhaps not surprising that the substantive issue that opened the door to this dramatic shift was an attempt to mitigate climate change.

The Supreme Court needs to be dramatically reformed. This is the origin story for how SCOTUS began to create entirely different sets of rules for administrations depending on whether they are Democratic or Republican.

“It’s a couple of things that work beautifully in concert. First: no music. Audiences are so sophisticated, but what they’re not accustomed to is not being told how to feel,” Wyle says. “You take all that out and it forces a level of engagement where you’re now looking for clues within the frame of the screen, which forces you to look up from your phone. And I think that is extremely engaging, especially to young viewers who aren’t accustomed to being asked to participate in a nonpassive way in the viewing experience.

“Second point, shooting it with almost exclusively 50-millimeter or 65-millimeter lenses, which is the most comparable to the human eye—and only shooting from the point of view of a human being that’s present in this space. There are no cameras on gurney wheels going in the hallway. There’s no cameras on the ceiling looking down from a God point of view. You are limited to the perspective of a participant. You can look away, but you can’t leave, and it becomes an endurance test for you to stay on your feet as long as we’re on our feet. Which [brings me to my] third point: real time. Real time has an aggregate sense of tension that you don’t get in any other form of storytelling. What happened before is happening now, and these two things are going to add up to the next thing. And if we throw more ingredients into this cooker and keep ratcheting it up, it’s going to pop.”

Wyle makes eye contact for his next point, delivering it with a Robby-esque matter-of-factness. “Fourth point: The election went the other way,” he says with a shrug. “We could have been a really good show with a lot of nice things to say in a perfectly normal Kamala Harris universe. And instead we became almost a beacon of hope and humanity in an alternative universe. But in the midst of that, fifth point—this is essentially competence porn. You’re watching really smart, dedicated people do what only they know how to do at a level that you don’t know how to do it, and you’re so fucking glad that they’re there doing it, and compartmentalizing their own stuff to put your broken pieces back together. You’re so reassured by knowing that there are people out there that laugh and joke and have the ability to lock in like that.”

this is fucking unreal stuff from Noah Wyle on the magic of The Pitt. www.gq.com/story/noah-w...

Crossroads Democracy — A Panel Discussion YouTube video by Santa Fe Institute

Catch up on SFI’s first Community Lecture for 2026, Crossroads Democracy Panel.

The panel featured Jenna Bednar, Samuel Bowles, Hahrie Han, Katrin Schmelz, and David Krakauer as moderator. It explored the history, economics, psychology, and politics of democracy.

Watch on SFI’s YouTube channel:

Or my book Quanta and Fields if you want some math!

Probably the best fit is The Quantum Universe by Cox & Forshaw, as far as my knowledge goes.

New jump scare just dropped. Can’t wait for the first horror movie to drop it in.

I can see the vision. Scrappy, undermanned Sixers squad manages to win their home games against the hated Celtics, setting up Game 7. Joel Embiid makes an early comeback from appendectomy surgery, scoring 40 points to seal the win. Sixers cruise through the rest of the playoffs to the championship.

Two Lessons from Hungary for 2026 and 2028 Unity and accountability.

I think there are two key takeaways for Americans from Peter Magyar’s ouster of Orbán:

1. We must rally overwhelmingly behind the 2028 Dem nominee
2. We have to be ready to send people to prison if we win

My latest for @liberalcurrents.com www.liberalcurrents.com/two-lessons-...

There are many of us.

Too easy!

Come on that’s automatic by now