We have a Frigidaire Gallery cooktop and love it, and it's a particularly great model for the price. It's not in your list and so you've probably already considered it and tossed it out for other reasons, but I wanted to throw that out there! (We also cook a lot and were reluctant to give up fire.)

Glen Mills, PA at 9:35pm EST. Some light pollution, just a quick phone photo, but very visible with the naked eye. It had been brighter a couple minutes before this. Brightest to the NW.

Playing complex music is totally a form of meditation. It’s why I play gamelan. It’s just too intense and fast to think about anything else.

I immediately said to my spouse, “that’s high level static discharge!” IYKYK

I SAW IT!!!!! I am 46 and this is the first time I have ever seen it in my life!! I am emotional!

(I was even a lecturer on a college alumnae trip to Iceland to see the aurora once, and we didn’t see it then, either!)

Heck, I built an ISO-7, trace metal CLEAN ROOM in Bessey. What will they do with that??

Merging would still result in losses, even just the loss of infrastructure if there is physical relocation. The cultures are also not the same and don't have the same goals, so there would be losses there, too. But it's survivable, and not catastrophic, in comparison with... this.

It realistically won't even be "throughout" the university if they plan to eliminate 13 FTE (though it was 12 FTE in the first proposal)...

A lot of them are brand new, too. We had a faculty proposal competition and used foundation funds to purchase fresh equipment, like a benchtop SEM, sample prep equipment like a new Shatterbox, a press for pressed pellets, a furnace setup for fusing beads, some geophysics tools, etc.

In fact, both the opposing and in favor votes recommended the exact same thing: to merge EAS with SNR without eliminating most of the faculty lines or the degree programs! I guess it was just unclear whether that is a vote "for" or "against" the original proposal, so it split the votes.

And they won’t even save all that money. Those faculty have active grants, and without a department, they’ll lose the largest and most active alumni donor support organization on campus.

One of my colleagues there just had a baby and just got tenure. The faculty are actively getting grants. No one else in the state trains students for licensure. Doesn’t matter, apparently.

Oh I’m well past disappointment and sadness and have gone straight on to incandescent fury.

(And he was also a terrible person regardless)

Interesting. This reads like what happens in science a lot, as people present their work and debate over it and try new approaches. But I agree she should still have received credit.

This is all to say that yes Watson was a dyed in the wool bigot, but we shouldn't forget that was he was also a huckster.