"Bell Labs' antecedent was founded by a prolific maker and researcher, and it was led from the very start by makers and researchers. As a working scientist, Mervin Kelly understood the golden rule, "How do you manage genius? You don't." And it worked."

https://1517.substack.com/p/why-bell-labs-worked

A shock to no one

https://fixupx.com/EricLDaugh/status/1921901451061715227

4.1 Earthquake Shakes Eastern Tennessee, Felt In Atlanta And The Carolinas 
https://www.oann.com/newsroom/4-1-earthquake-shakes-eastern-tennessee-felt-in-atlanta-and-the-carolinas/
A 4.1 magnitude earthquake has hit eastern Tennessee and was felt as far away as Atlanta, Georgia.

The Narrative is Always Wrong

James Delingpole actually reads Machiavelli for the first time and discovers that the generally accepted narrative about the Florentine is almost completely false: Machiavelli was the victim of a Europe-wide hit job. By the time anyone outside Italy had read The Prince – it wasn’t translated into English til 1640 – Machiavelli’s name had long since become […]

https://voxday.net/2025/05/12/the-narrative-is-always-wrong/

We're back

In a striking move that ends a nearly four-decades-old relationship between the federal government and the Episcopal Church, the denomination announced on Monday (May 12) that it is terminating its partnership with the government to resettle refugees, citing moral opposition to resettling white Afrikaners from South Africa who have been classified as refugees by President Donald Trump’s administration.

https://religionnews.com/2025/05/12/episcopal-church-ends-refugee-resettlement-citing-moral-opposition-to-resettling-white-afrikaners/

That's one way to get a job in academic publishing.

"This first liquid fuel reactor began operation in 1953. This aqueous reactor at ORNL fed 140 kW into the electric grid for 1000 hours. In operation it successfully removed xenon fission products. The intrinsic reactivity control was so effective that the reactor was idled simply by turning off the steam turbine generator. Weinberg called this the “forerunner of a true thermal breeder”."
https://atomicinsights.com/alvin-weinbergs-liquid-fuel-reactors-part-1/#:~:text=This%20first%20liquid,true%20thermal%20breeder%E2%80%9D.

this was once on television...

"What do you know about Machiavelli?

"If you’re anything like me, at least me up until recently, you’ll know that he was the really bad man who invented the philosophy of the ‘end justifies the means’, advised all the worst people in the Renaissance, and said that it is ‘better to be feared than loved.’

"None of this stuff is a fair representation of the truth, though, as you can easily find out for yourself if you read his most famous book The Prince"
https://substack.com/home/post/p-163146836#:~:text=What%20do%20you,book%20The%20Prince

Ever wonder how big an Eagle talon is?

Located above the Jungfraujoch in Switzerland, the Sphinx Observatory is one of the highest observatories in the world, at 3,571 m above the sea level

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