Commentary: I Work Very Hard, And I Would Like To Try Cake
Hello. I am a horse. I work very hard at my job of being a horse. When humans say move the heavy thing, I move the heavy thing. When humans sit on top of me and pull on my head, I carry them where the...
Are smartphones causing people to have fewer children? A provocative new working paper explores the persistent drop in birth rates since the iPhone was introduced nearly two decades ago.
We need to start looking some folks in the face and saying "I don't think you have enough real problems in your life"
“My two favorite things to do in the whole wide world are astrophysics and talking, and you all are in the arguably unfortunate position of getting to listen to me do both simultaneously three times a week for the next 8 weeks”
-Actual quote from my first ever lecture
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Are smartphones causing people to have fewer children? A provocative new working paper explores the persistent drop in birth rates since the iPhone was introduced nearly two decades ago.
Special shoutouts to: Hidden Figures, The Martian, Europa Report, Starship Troopers, Interstellar, Star Wars (original trilogy)
Day 3: Space Shuttle Tshirt (stolen from a friend when I graduated undergrad)
My top three space movies, chosen 0% based on scientific accuracy and maybe too much based on recency bias:
1) Project Hail Mary
2) Alien
3) 2001: A Space Odyssey
Not to be that guy, but under the newly proposed OMB rules, this research would not get funded if mRNA technology is politically inconvenient to the White House
(It literally currently is right now)
