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Thursday Throughput: Nuclear Explosion Edition nuclear

Thursday Throughput: Nuclear Explosion Edition

Michael Siegel November 7, 2019

So if you are standing next to a nuclear bomb, you will experience conditions similar to the...

Thursday Throughput for July 18, 2019 gamma-ray bursts

Thursday Throughput for July 18, 2019

Michael Siegel July 18, 2019

People talk about American Greatness. Well, astrophysics, if I do say so myself, is one the...

Comment Rescue: Cultural Merits of Abortion 6201312642_3eb96ebabc_abortion-demonstration

Comment Rescue: Cultural Merits of Abortion

Burt Likko July 15, 2015

I've never done this before -- promoted my own comment, that is. But I think I got...

Zora Neale Hurston: An American Story

Burt Likko January 7, 2014

A collaborative post by Chris and Burt Likko, telling the story of Zora Neale Hurston, an American...

David TC in reply to Dark Matter on Gender Critical: Legally Defining SexThat’s your spin on their spin on an amendment that won’t pass. NOW is one of the strongest supporte…
Jaybird in reply to LeeEsq on Open Mic for the Week of 5/12/2025The right has plenty of anti-Semitism of it’s own that it hides up. They force universities to deal…
Saul Degraw on Open Mic for the Week of 5/12/2025https://www.sfgate.com/tech/article/elizabeth-holmes-partner-brazen-business-20321733.php Theranos 2…
LeeEsq in reply to Dark Matter on Open Mic for the Week of 5/12/2025The right has plenty of anti-Semitism of it's own that it hides up. They force universities to deal…
Saul Degraw on From New York Magazine’s Intelligencer: Everyone Is Cheating Their Way Through CollegeI suppose the solution is to go back to blue book exams.
CJColucci in reply to DensityDuck on From New York Magazine’s Intelligencer: Everyone Is Cheating Their Way Through College"Some" is not quite right, but otherwise that's accurate.
Jaybird in reply to Saul Degraw on Open Mic for the Week of 5/12/2025I'm not entirely sure that you want to mix the whole "antisemitism" thing with the "antiapartheid" t…
Dark Matter in reply to LeeEsq on Open Mic for the Week of 5/12/2025The right and the left can’t make any positive arguments... The Right wants to support Israel to pre…
Saul Degraw in reply to DensityDuck on Open Mic for the Week of 5/12/2025In this case I am referring to Elon but thanks for trolling. “Never believe that anti-Semites are co…
Jaybird in reply to DensityDuck on From New York Magazine’s Intelligencer: Everyone Is Cheating Their Way Through CollegeWe can always look at the Lego test. Surely that's something that we can't imagine having significan…