When I worked in UK academia I recall hearing of a Japanese man who was baffled at how Britain had decided to run its universities like firms. “Why? Your universities are excellent and your firms are terrible.”

Quantum interference observed in state-resolved molecule-surface scattering Although the dynamics of collisions between a molecule and a solid surface are ultimately quantum mechanical, decohering effects owing to the large number of interacting degrees of freedom typically o...

Also in @science.org this week, Christopher Reilly and co-workers showcase quantum interference in methane scattering from a gold surface

chemsky 🧪

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

The anticipatory swiftness with which certain organizations go along with attacks on diversity and rewritings of history suggests that maybe some of the folks in power think that these are genuinely good changes.

An if so big it's actually an iff.

'Putrid' and 'turpid' are both anagrams and synonyms (taken in the sense of 'morally depraved'). Very satisfying!

Not visible photons, anyway.

It's crazy that for ebooks and papers piracy usually beats the proper way of getting things on UX instead of just price

Here are the most appalling clichés of modern political economy writing, that it's possible to read everywhere all the time.

1. Inequality is always getting worse and we never talk about it 1/