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Alejandro Soto
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Planetary scientist and aerospace engineer. He/him. https://www.alejandrosoto.net

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His joy for minerals was so infectious, I took as many of the minerals classes as I could just for the fun of it. Don't take me wrong, he was still rigorous. I struggled in all of the finals. But I too had a blast, and there are still tidbits I remember today that pop up at work.

RIP George Rossman
February 10, 2026 at 1:15 AM
Or doing ketamine.
February 8, 2026 at 4:17 PM
"The greatest friend Poland has ever had in the White House?"

One moment, Tom Rose, the corpse of Ronald Reagan would like to have a word with you.

Trump hasn't even had a Day of Solidarity for Poland. He's no competition for Reagan (of Pope John Paul II)!
February 6, 2026 at 11:15 PM
We've seen this before and it didn't end well.
February 6, 2026 at 11:04 PM
Taino history and mythology for me.
February 6, 2026 at 5:37 AM
It certainly feels like they are favoring industry needs over citizen safety.
February 3, 2026 at 8:17 PM
“Oh, my sweet summer child"
February 2, 2026 at 4:44 PM
I thought FV3 won the dynamical core competition? What happened here?
January 30, 2026 at 5:36 PM
I have lots of geophysical fluid dynamics suggestions, but that's my only general fluids suggestion.
January 30, 2026 at 4:03 PM
Here's an undergrad book that doesn't hide the math but also isn't a Landau-Lifshitz style mathematical treatise. It's by Benoit Cushman-Roisin at Dartmouth College:

mail.cushman.host.dartmouth.edu/books/Practi...
Practical FM Book
Practical Fluid Mechanics
mail.cushman.host.dartmouth.edu
January 30, 2026 at 4:02 PM
Another classic case of average not being as insightful as median. From the Empower report referenced in your first linked article: “in the 50s the average net worth is $1,369,809, but the median is only $192,964”. Our skewed wealth distribution (inequality) strikes again!
January 30, 2026 at 1:14 PM
I can make no guarantees on any text book being "non-annoying".
January 29, 2026 at 11:26 PM
@bowlerhatscience.org I assume Jed is like me and has a number of things we could send you but don't want to inundate.
January 29, 2026 at 11:25 PM