I’m sorry to have to be the bad guy here but we need to recognize that we live in a compressed air thrusters world now. If you’re not finding ways to teach the critical use of compressed air thrusters in your classroom, you’re setting your students up to fail when you could be setting them up to fly

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This has my vote for political ad of the year ...

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Many congratulations to Anne Carson for the well-deserved Nobel Prize! This is also great news for Translation, Classics, Poetry, the breaking of generic and disciplinary boundaries, and the fact that you don't have to fit a pre-existing mould to have a brilliant, successful career.

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The implausible but successful way I unclogged my super slow-draining shower: 1) Plunger to loosen things up 🪠 2) Poured in can of Coke Zero to dissolve hair &c🥤 3) For 2 weeks every time I made pasta 🍝 I dumped the boiling water 🫖 into the shower at the end, to dissolve soap 🧼 It worked!

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Really important point i hadn't seen yet, which is that AI data center proposals are concentrated in gas reservoir basins, bypassing federal permitting altogether by avoiding the need for interstate pipelines. All of the smoke about transmission costs reforms look different in this light.

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