When social media exposes traditional media’s deceit, it’s time for independent journalists to investigate why the press is backing a president who undermines free press—and is it coordinated?

Jimmy Carter’s casket arrived earlier at the Capitol rotunda, where he will lie in state until Thursday. What a beautiful photo. Rest in peace, President Carter.

I am giving a commencement speech soon and I keep thinking that the only piece of advice I really want to give is “do things more.”

Have you been here? The view serves as a reminder of what we are working to protect.

When I say I want a home library I mean I want thousands of books in my house and also everyone shutup

I keep trying to write something eloquent and just being tired.
History matters. Philosophy matters. Languages and literature matter. Indigenous studies matter. Arts and humanities and social sciences matter. All of them.

Signed,
a physicist

If you’re afraid that books might change someone’s thinking, you’re not afraid of books, you’re afraid of thinking.

Here are some nice mushrooms

I have news…that place where you got food poisoning is probably not where you got the food poisoning.

Time between exposure and symptoms:

Campylobacter: 2-6 days
E. coli: 2-5 days
Salmonella: 6 hrs-6 days
Norovirus: 12-48 hrs
Shigella: 1-3 days
Staph aureus: fast
Listeria: 9-48 hrs