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John Huth

@johnhuth1.bsky.social

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Physicist at Harvard, doing experimental particle physics. My first book is on navigation, "The Lost Art of Finding Our Way", my second book, "A Sense of Space" is due out this fall.

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John Huth @johnhuth1.bsky.social · 10h

Thanks!

John Huth @johnhuth1.bsky.social · 12h

Thank you!!

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Cheryl Blanchard @cheribliss.bsky.social · 12h

"Taking us across the eons from the myth of a flat earth to the mysteries of the multiverse, A Sense of Space is an energetic, thoughtful guide to how we orient ourselves in our world—and beyond." 🔭

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John Huth @johnhuth1.bsky.social · 1d

My new book arrived

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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 2d

This from the great @sulliview.bsky.social on the media's anemic (or non-) coverage of the massive No Kings movement is such a great point

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John Huth @johnhuth1.bsky.social · 9d

Roll out of my new book "A Sense of Space" at the Harvard Science Center, November 18th at 6 PM.

www.harvard.com/event/john-e...

@UChicagoPress

John Huth @johnhuth1.bsky.social · Sep 16

This is a test: “Brandenburg versus Ohio”. This is only a test. In a real emergency….

John Huth @johnhuth1.bsky.social · Sep 14

Doing well, thanks. It's the start of the semester.

John Huth @johnhuth1.bsky.social · Sep 11

Fun! I have that photo in some of my course materials

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John Huth @johnhuth1.bsky.social · Sep 1

A CERN release on the work graduate student Gustavs Kehris did on the lepton and photon content of the proton. atlas.cern/Updates/Brie...

Turning the LHC into a Lepton-Proton Collider in the search for leptoquarks

All matter in the universe is made up of just two fundamental building blocks: quarks and leptons. Intriguingly, both have three distinct families or “generations”. For example, the electron and its a...

atlas.cern

John Huth @johnhuth1.bsky.social · Aug 31

An interesting article, but it has some issues with why Giordano Bruno was burnt at the stake, and also the attitude toward a geocentric universe in the Catholic Church. But these are common misconceptions.

John Huth @johnhuth1.bsky.social · Aug 31

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/s...

Historians See Autocratic Playbook in Trump’s Attacks on Science

www.nytimes.com

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John Huth @johnhuth1.bsky.social · Aug 18

This tree turns color early every year. Aug 18 (and earlier) on Rt. 124 in Harwich

John Huth @johnhuth1.bsky.social · Jul 26

Working on my rolls

John Huth @johnhuth1.bsky.social · Jul 24

In the mail today

John Huth @johnhuth1.bsky.social · Jul 23

Award of the Lifetime Achievement Award by US ATLAS

John Huth @johnhuth1.bsky.social · Jul 17

Folks in Building 40 at CERN are fond of throwing paper airplanes.

John Huth @johnhuth1.bsky.social · Jul 17

It will be interesting to see if this keeps up when the VRO is churning out a large number of observations of interstellar objects per year. Fun that he managed to slide in a reference to the Three Body Problem.

John Huth @johnhuth1.bsky.social · Jul 13

Our Doc Huth and the Uncouth Youth set at Friends Fest party this weekend - us playing and people dancing to the music

John Huth @johnhuth1.bsky.social · Jul 8

Harbor scene

John Huth @johnhuth1.bsky.social · Jun 29

I don’t understand at all. Respect the vote, and I’m a more centrist older guy. There’s a need for the next generation to step up. Here’s the chance

John Huth @johnhuth1.bsky.social · Jun 26

It would also quiet down the Ackman-type donors. I can't guarantee that this is the case, but it would make sense to leak it like this if this were the strategy.

John Huth @johnhuth1.bsky.social · Jun 26

It's difficult to know what's going on behind the scenes. It could just be a kind of rope-a-dope to keep the focus off Harvard while the lawsuits proceed.

John Huth @johnhuth1.bsky.social · Jun 25

Schooner seen from Butter Island Maine

John Huth @johnhuth1.bsky.social · Jun 25

Solstice sunset from Butter Island, Maine