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Nicolas de Caritat

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"The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command." George Orwell, 1984.

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Schrödinger’s cat just got a little bit fatter

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Schrödinger’s cat just got bigger: quantum physicists create largest ever ‘superposition’

Record-breaking experiment shows that a cluster of thousands of atoms can act like a wave as well as a particle.

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January 21, 2026 at 4:36 PM

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Rock and dust samples brought back from the near-Earth asteroid Bennu contain organic matter, including amino acids and all five DNA and RNA nucleobases, according to two papers published in Nature Astronomy and Nature in January.
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This figure illustrates molecules and minerals discovered in samples of near-Earth asteroid Bennu, which were delivered to Earth by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission in September 2023. The upper left panel depicts precursor molecules like ammonia and formaldehyde, while the upper right depicts salts and clays. These early ingredients mixed with water inside the parent body to undergo chemical reactions and synthesize organic molecules, shown at bottom. The lower right panel depicts nucleobases, the genetic components of DNA and RNA, while the lower left depicts amino acids, the building blocks of proteins. The Bennu samples contain all five of the nucleobases that are found in DNA and RNA, and 14 of the 20 amino acids that life uses to build proteins. Credit: NASA

January 2, 2026 at 11:34 PM

Nicolas de Caritat

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NY Sky tonight (11/4) after sunset. The white spiral is probably the second stage of Ariane 62 and the green spot above, comet Lemmon.

November 5, 2025 at 12:07 AM

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July 20, 2025 at 6:06 PM

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Joshua J. Friedman

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NEW: The Fourth Circuit REJECTS the Trump admin's appeal of Judge Xinis's orders to "facilitate" Kilmar Abrego Garcia's release: "We shall not micromanage the efforts of a fine district judge attempting to implement the Supreme Court's recent decision." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

WILKINSON, Circuit Judge, with whom KING and THACKER, Circuit Judges, join:
Upon review of the government's motion, the court denies the motion for an
emergency stay pending appeal and for a writ of mandamus. The relief the government is
requesting is both extraordinary and premature. While we fully respect the Executive's
robust assertion of its Article II powers, we shall not micromanage the efforts of a fine
district judge attempting to implement the Supreme Court's recent decision.

April 17, 2025 at 6:49 PM

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Steve Vladeck

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The opinion by Judge Wilkinson for the Fourth Circuit denying the government’s most recent request for a stay or mandamus against Judge Xinis’s rulings in the Abrego García case is especially powerful when you consider it was written by … Judge Wilkinson:

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April 17, 2025 at 7:18 PM

Nicolas de Caritat

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Slouching Towards Bethlehem Joni Mitchell’s adaptation of Yeats’ Second Coming

The best lack conviction, given some time to think
And the worst are full of passion without mercy

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