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26 Nov, 4 tweets, 2 min read
Hello everyone just letting you know I am going to attempt to bake a pecan pie
This is the pecan pie recipe I’m using: thebigmansworld.com/wprm_print/351… It requires a high-speed blender, which I don’t have!!, so this will be an interesting experiment in adaptation! I’m using a mini food processor instead. It’s, um, trying very hard.
Pie update: Pie crust with brown pecan-pie filling in it. Mostly not tooPie crust with brown pecan pie filling plus pecan halves on
Pie status: divine 😋 A single slice of pecan pie on a white plate. The filling is

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23 Nov
Just my two cents but if schools are closing because some threshold level of community transmission has been reached the correct response is not "we should have decided to keep schools open no matter what" it is "we should have closed other things so schools could stay open."
(this tweet brought to you by yet another morning yelling at The Daily podcast)
Yes, be mad at the mayor for the fact that schools are closing while bars and restaurants are not. But not because it's UNFAIR that bars and restaurants can stay open and schools can't, but because bars and restaurants staying open is WHY schools had to close.
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5 Nov
In quantum mechanics, there's uncertainty built into every physical process. Let's say an electron could go left or right at a junction. Before you check, you can't know where the electron is: you say the result is a superposition of electron-going-left and electron-going right.
When you measure the electron's position, you'll find it either went left or right, and depending on how you set up the experiment, it might be that half the time you do it, you'll find left-electron, half the time right-electron. How does each electron "decide" which way to go?
That question is what different interpretations of quantum mechanics try to answer. How do we go from probabilities to single answers? You start with a "wavefunction" that contains all possibilities and end with a data point: you could say the wavefunction collapsed to one result
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1 Nov
You're never too young to learn about the ultimate fate of the cosmos!! 🤩 #EndOfEverythingBook
Update: I have been informed that 7 might be too young to learn about the ultimate fate of the cosmos. Please use the usual parental judgment when discussing cosmic apocalypses with your children.
My 3.5-year-old babynieces are pretty tough, though. I’m sure they can take it. Two 3.5-year-old girls in white sweaters and denim skirts si
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4 Oct
I took this photo of the Moon and Mars last night with my phone. It might not be the best photo but believe me when I say they were both GORGEOUS. Or better yet: don’t believe me — go out tonight and see for yourself! A very dark fuzzy image of the nearly full Moon rising over
Now is a great time to look at Mars. It’s unusually close to Earth in its orbit and (for the same reason) pretty much directly opposite the Sun. It’s as though it’s doing its best to be a mirror for the Sun shining back at us, so it’s very very bright. This is called #opposition.
Here’s a diagram of the positions of the planets right now from theplanetstoday.com. You can see that both the Moon and Mars are in the opposite direction as the Sun, so the Moon is close to full & Mars is bright and close. #MarsOpposition A diagram of the Solar System showing the Sun (labeled Sol),
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16 Sep
My book in title headings and epigraphs: a thread of appreciation for some of the writers who inspired me, and whose words were one way or another apocalyptically appropriate. #EndOfEverythingBook astrokatie.com/book
Chapter 1: Introduction to the Cosmos. Robert Frost, Fire and Ice. CHAPTER 1: Introduction to ...
Chapter 2: Big Bang to Now. @ann_leckie, Ancillary Justice. CHAPTER 2: Big Bang to Now....
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14 Sep
💥 Life on Venus? 😮

Quick thread with links to more info. First, the press release from @RoyalAstroSoc: ras.ac.uk/news-and-press…

Short version: a molecule was detected in the atmosphere of Venus that MIGHT have been produced by life. (It's unclear how else to produce it there.)
New York Times coverage by @shannonmstirone, @kchangnyt, & @overbye: nytimes.com/2020/09/14/sci…

"High in the toxic atmosphere of the planet Venus, astronomers on Earth have discovered signs of what might be life."
New Scientist coverage by @DownHereOnEarth: newscientist.com/article/225441…

"There are no known non-biological mechanisms of making the gas on Venus, so it may be being produced by alien microbes." [Paywalled article]
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