Right-wing men: women will not stay with us voluntarily, because we are emotionally illiterate, violent assholes, so as a society we must force them.

Long-durational thermal storage is coming.

The world's largest thermal storage project is underway in Finland with a capacity of 90 GWh, enough to meet the heating demands of a medium-sized city for up to a year.

Vantaan Energia Vantaan kaupunki
newatlas.com/energy/varanto…

Glad to see this story getting more coverage. 'Community resistance' to wind & solar is the result of a coordinated, well-funded propaganda campaign. Wild to me how often this is ignored. kalw.org/show/your-call…

The search for #GravitationalWaves resumes this morning (April 10, 2024) at 8am PDT, when the LIGO/Virgo/KAGRA Observing Run #4 Part B (O4b) BEGINS!
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#O4b will run until Feb 2025.
More info here:
ligo.caltech.edu/news/ligo20240…
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#ObservingRun4 #LIGOVirgoKAGRA #Observations #spacetime

'Trump's Republican Party treats Ukraine as the enemy and Russia as a friend. Defining that stance as isolationist is lazy and wrong. It is actively pro-Russian.' My column on America's moment of truth in Ukraine. ft.com/content/98f37c…

Anyone who spends 15 minutes talking with Avi Wigderson will be tempted to drop everything and become a theoretical computer scientist
nature.com/articles/d4158…

‘Elusive’ by Frank Close is the closest thing to a biography of Higgs we’ll get. My review of ‘Elusive’ from 2022, exactly ten years after the discovery of the particle named after him amp.theguardian.com/books/2022/jul…

Members of the Congressional Jan. 6 Committee are starting to think seriously about how to protect themselves if Trump wins, given that he's promised to arrest & jail his enemies, specifically these folks.

Healthy democracy.

latimes.com/politics/story…

NEW: We have the University of Rochester's 124-page investigation report. A committee of external reviewers made an unequivocal finding: Dias falsified and fabricated data, and he committed serial plagiarism—including in his 2020 NSF proposal.
nature.com/articles/d4158…

These are, basically, all the things that Gene Roddenberry warned us about

Scientists have designed a liquid that behaves as both a solid and a fluid owing to the presence of tiny gas-filled capsules go.nature.com/3xn4yKg

Before everyone freaks out, keep in mind: it is pretty easy to be 4x a growth rate of ~0%...

The average annual US electricity sector demand growth was 0.04%/year from 2006-2022. We haven't seen nothin' yet, and data centers are NOT the biggest drivers of demand growth ahead...

A new survey finds that Tesla's reputation is declining & the number of people considering buying one is shrinking, almost certainly due to Musk's transformation into the world's most prominent juvenile edgelord.

Doesn't this bother Tesla stockholders?
reuters.com/business/autos…

Swinging in a hammock at age four, Claudia de Rham experienced the intuition of free fall. Since then, she's never stopped thinking about gravity.
I got to interview her in her office Imperial College London about her new book, The Beauty of Falling.
nature.com/articles/d4158…

“Words are like harpoons. Once they go in, they are very hard to pull out'

Astronomer Fred Hoyle supposedly coined the catchy term 'the Big Bang' to ridicule the theory of the Universe’s origins — 75 years on, it’s time to set the record straight go.nature.com/4a8L8Y2

Early in cosmic history, the Milky Way grew by absorbing other, smaller galaxies. Remarkably, we can still distinguish two of them (named Shakti and Shiva) more than 12 billion years later.
esa.int/Science_Explor…

New heat pumps easily fit over window sills, meaning they could replace clunky apartment air-conditioning units. trib.al/MIkz18T

Almost everything in statistics is about integrating functions over probability distributions. You can't really do statistics (or engineering, or most sciences) without calculus. You can make a 'Data Literacy 101' course that papers over that, but.

It was my huge pleasure to present the Nature Pod & Video this week, featuring a fascinating find that memories are formed by breaking & fixing DNA, as well as my own piece on how global warming is affecting how we keep time on Earth. Yes, TIME nature.com/articles/d4158…