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Gerald Fink, Director of hte Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research at MIT:

there are two kinds of biology, grind and find or stare and compare

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I think this video is either misleading or being mis read
if you follow the science, it is the AMOC that might shut down; the much larger Gulf stream won't

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nice
but I must be missing something: why is Intel not shown ?

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my kid is a lawyer

Me: I"m pretty shocked about Sotomayor

Him: Dad, how many times do I have to tell you, they are just 9 politicians who make stuff up and call it legal argument

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I live in Newton, MA, population ~ 90,000
so tiny compared to Chicago
but our town library does a lot of similar stuff !!

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I have lymphoma (I'm ok, so no worries)
Thalidomide is, for lymphoma, a miracle drug; it just nukes the cancer

but when you are on this drug, EVERY MONTH you have to talk to a nurse who asks you a whole bunch of sex questions, to make sure you understand, NO PREGNANCIES while you are on this drug, and if you do get a woman pregnant, you need to talk to a doctor RIGHT AWAY

god alone knows what will happen in the fascist forced birther states: maybe a surge of flipper baby births ?

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Given that Bell Labs, like PARC was driven by de facto monopoly profits, do you think in 20 years we will talk about Google or Meta labs the same way ?

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Friends
I have a request
Please put the hashtag #musk in all these tweets, so my filter will block them
I am Jewish and with my own two eyes, I have seen people with numbers tattooed on their arms

When Musk welcomed a holocaust denier back to twitter, I was done

yours

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Dear Prof McNees
you should tell the kids about the story of how PE f*cked up the mirror, and an old time telescope maker built a test unit from tape and sealing wax and said you have spherical aberration and PE laughed at the old guy

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I'm not a physicist, but love this supposed MP quote
It isn't that old scientists learn new things; it is that old scientists die off and young ones are not taught the errors of the past