@deinstein.bsky.social
Also, one of his coworkers somewhat famously said “Unless they told me he had a heart attack, I never would have known he had a heart”. That is keeping your day job separate from your life.
November 26, 2025 at 1:43 AM
This is like "The nine billion names of God" but with the universe ending not because humanity succeeded with its assigned task but because they failed so miserably at it.
November 15, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Show him Threads, he will likely be less bemused.
October 24, 2025 at 4:05 AM
Why were they firing live rounds? The training rounds are cheaper and immune to accidents like this.
October 19, 2025 at 9:38 PM
The surprising fact, considering his experience, is that he is wrong. One of the many lessons of @dsquareddigest.bsky.social s "Lying for Money" is that the skills needed to commit fraud are pretty much the same ones needed to run a legitimate business.
October 6, 2025 at 8:03 PM
But they use it wisely.
October 6, 2025 at 2:08 AM
Do you have any recommendations for references on the early years of political/ financial support of science?
e.g.
Why did Frederick II support Tycho Brahe so extravagantly?
Why did Charles II grant the Royal Society a charter?
What convinced Parliament to fund the longitude prize?
September 4, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Genuine frontier gibberish.
August 27, 2025 at 1:58 AM
Convince him to read americanliterature.com/author/mark-... while maybe not completely accurate historically it predates Hearst by a good bit, and is a good description of the relation between journalism and politics in the U.S.
Journalism In Tennessee
Journalism In Tennessee by Mark Twain
americanliterature.com
August 5, 2025 at 12:46 AM
I would be surprised if noone had attempted to tell it.
July 30, 2025 at 10:27 PM
He unfortunately does not go into the origins of the laboratories, just their effect in amplifying economic acceleration.

I suspect that there is a story that starts around the Longitude rewards, goes through the 19th and 20th century and ends with the system currently being dismantled.
July 30, 2025 at 10:27 PM
A) My pleasure. I am embarrassed to admit that I read a library copy. Ironically, I blew my book budget buying a microscope.

B) I mentioned 1870 because that was @delong.social 's beginning of the long 20th century, and the research lab was one of his defining attributes of the century.
July 30, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Does there exist a good history of this? I was reading "So Very Small" by @tomlevenson.bsky.social‬, and was struck by how everything before 1870 or so was done by single scientists, but after that Pasteur and Koch got laboratories to direct.
July 30, 2025 at 8:53 PM
No, Rwanda.
June 5, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Though it is kind of ironic that Lehrer got sued for the "Und I'm learning Chinese" line.
May 30, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Who cares where they come down?
May 30, 2025 at 3:16 PM
I wonder if this is a generational thing. I absolutely think better working with paper, and this has been true since before the internet. Computers win handily at search/replace and cut/paste which are invaluable polishing tools.

Things seem different for the genX and millenials I know.
May 28, 2025 at 10:12 PM
How vulnerable is openRxiv to political vandalism?
May 24, 2025 at 12:39 AM
Tyranny
May 23, 2025 at 1:38 AM
This is killing the goose that laid the golden egg, not out of greed or curiosity, but because they just don't like geese.
May 22, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Hooray! Now if they just hire Phillip Bump I'll stop missing the WP.
May 12, 2025 at 9:40 PM
I read Hiroshima by John Hersey when I was 9. The school librarian wouldn't let me borrow it, so I had my mom borrow it from the main library.
The copy I have says "should be read by everyone that can read".
May 12, 2025 at 6:12 PM
That is the most succinct piece of good advice that I've heard in quite a while.
May 11, 2025 at 3:48 AM
Thank you
May 10, 2025 at 3:30 AM