Working on a crossword puzzle:
Clue: four letters, “they might cause stars to explode”
Me: *thinks through the various supernova physical processes*
Answer: “egos”
Me: 😑🙄

Hollands et al. have discovered an ultra-massive white dwarf that seems to break models of single-star evolution. We could be looking at the result of a WD-WD merger. nature.com/articles/s4155…

660 young scientists from about 100 countries experience their first Lindau Moment today: They are invited to the 70th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting. Congratulations! They will meet around 70 Nobel Laureates at #LINO70 ow.ly/xK7P50yA5Qh

When fortune cookies get too real:

The final panel discussion of #LINO19 : “How Can Science Change the World for the Better?” Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings

Day 6 of #LINO19 begins on Mainau Island with a conversation with Tawakkol Karman. Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings

Martin Hellman gives the Heidelberg Lecture of #LINO19 on “The Technological Imperative for Ethical Evolution”. Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings

The second panel discussion of #LINO19 focuses on “Student, Postdoc, and Then? — Aiming for a Career in Science”. Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings

David Gross discusses his thoughts on “The Future of Fundamental Physics”. #LINO19 Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings

Carlo Rubbia talks about “Further Searches of the Higgs Scalar Sector”. #LINO19 Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings

The first panel discussion of #LINO19 : “The Dark Side of the Universe”. Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings

Adam Reiss now talks about “The Expansion of the Universe, Faster than We Thought”. #LINO19 Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings

Rainer Weiss follows up the story on the tortuous path with his talk on “Gravitational-Wave Astronomy”. #LINO19 Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings

Joseph Taylor talks about “The Long, Tortuous Path to Gravitational Waves”. #LINO19 Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings

John Mather and George Smoot give an Agora Talk, “From the Big Bang to Intelligent Life”. #LINO19 Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings