The The New York Times reminds us that Canal Street used to be….. an actual canal #nyc

San Antonio scenes (April 2024) #Texas #photography

What does quantum mechanics say about the existence of free will? My latest for Scientific American:
scientificamerican.com/article/does-q… #physics #philosophy

#Texas scenes (April)

Nobel Laureate physicist Alain Aspect talking about quantum mechanics, earlier this afternoon. #physics U of T Physics @uoft

A few highlights from my visit to NASA's Johnson Space Center / Space Center Houston last month.

Jupiter ends its social media posts with “Io in bio.”

Here’s another way to check if you’re in a movie, versus reality. In a movie, there’s typically *one* tricky security thing to be overcome — a weight-sensitive floor *or* lasers *or* a fingerprint-scan *or* a retina-scan…

A new study suggests that scientists should be up-front with about the uncertainties in their findings, when communicating their research to the public. I spoke with researcher Charlotte Dries for Undark Magazine:
undark.org/2024/05/10/int…

So if you go around detecting, you’re a detective; but if you go around detecting *with a detector* then you’re a detectorist?

BBC: Roundup of aurora photos from around the world: bbc.com/news/in-pictur… #aurora #northernlights #Auroraborealis

Went out at 2 a.m. to look for aurorae; saw this instead