It’s completely laughable. Mathematics does not belong to a human organization, nobody has a right or a way to put a fence around it and only give access to privileged diploma mathematicians with a license. It’s like trying to make it illegal to look at and draw maps of the moon

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UTEP SCORES FIRST AGAINST MICHIGAN It's Carver Cheeks!

New ad by the Norwegian Consumer Council about the declining lifespan of products.

FWIW any serious reading on the history of Manhattan makes it clear letting those genuine freak scientists be in charge would have been *disastorous* and that government control was vital

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On September 9, 1850 California was Admitted to the Union. 121 years later, I was Admitted to Earth. I got my first telescope on my tenth birthday. I thought I had been given a toy. Little did I know I had been handed my destiny. Only much later did I realize how fast the next four and a half decades would fly by. September 9 is ranked as America’s most common birthday, although the answer depends on the dataset. Even birthdays require error bars. On this date in 1892, E. E. Barnard discovered Jupiter’s moon Amalthea through the great telescope at California’s Lick Observatory. It was the last planetary moon discovered by direct visual observation. Apparently September 9 has been pointing people toward the sky for a while. I turn 55 this year. I could inflict “55 life lessons” on you, but California already taxes enough. So Here are 5½ lessons from your favorite Professor: 1. Go all in on family. I have received titles, grants, awards, citations, and occasional abuse from strangers online. None of them has ever hugged me back. Being a husband, father, son, brother, and friend is the work with the most enduring stakes. 2. Let reality humiliate you early and often. Build the instrument. Make the measurement. Calibrate it again. Invite falsification. Lose the prize you once worshipped for the sake of truth. Nature does not care about your reputation, your preferred theory, or how beautifully you formatted the PowerPoint. 3. Teach what you learn. My classroom, laboratory, research group, podcast, and YouTube channel are expressions of the same vocation. Difficult ideas musy be made clear without being made smaller. Never dumb it down. Ever. Your integrity is worth more than your popularity. 4. Remain physically entangled with the world. Walk. Lift. Surf. Climb the mountain where the telescope stares. A human brain confined to Slack and Zoom is bore-ing . 5. Choose people who improve your questions. Students, collaborators, guests, friends, and critics who disagree intelligently are more valuable than a stadium full of admirers. 5.5. Love where you call home with open eyes. I was born in Stony Brook, NY on Long Island, that ‘slender, riotous island’ Fitzgerald wrote about in The Great Gatsby. But I was born again in California. I met my wife in California. I raised my children here. My father died here. My brothers lived here. I teach at a California public university. I study the universe from mountains here. California is beautiful, inventive, exasperating, badly governed, and impossible for me to abandon. I will live here. I will die here. Until then, I will fight to make it better. Always a patriotic American and a son of California. Thanks to all my friends and here’s to another billion-kilometer lap around the Sun together!

Everything in American history leads to the inevitable birth of the “space cowboy,” the ultimate American archetype.