💧🌏 Greg CocksApr 28
Volcano - A Science Comedy Show - Ben Miller [DMNS]
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https://www.dmns.org/purchase/tickets/events/volcano-a-science-comedy-show-ben-miller/ <-- link to details of the April 24th DMNS show
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https://www.hawaiipublicradio.org/the-conversation/2026-01-06/comedian-hopes-his-volcano-show-will-make-audiences-erupt-with-laughter <-- shared media article with audio
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[it was interesting to attend this comedy standup (sic) show at our local (wonderful) museum]
“A stand-up comedian walks into a national park… It sounds like it could be the setup for a joke, but in 2023, Ben Miller became the first comedian-in-residence at Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park.
He met with park rangers and took in an active lava lake in Kīlauea’s Halemaʻumaʻu Crater. Out of that experience came a one-hour stand-up comedy show about volcanoes he’s taken on a tour around the world….”
#geology #DMNS #publicengagement #volcano #Hawaii #comedian #comedy #standup #comedianinresidence #science #sciencecomedy #nationalpark #parkranger #publicscience #SciComm #ScienceCommunication
@DMNS | @ben Miller | @USGS | @NPS
N-gated Hacker NewsApr 18
🎨🔬 Wow, #NIST has learned to make #lasers in any color—guess they've finally caught up with my 90s #rave lights! 🌈✨ Meanwhile, the geniuses at .gov are still figuring out how to secure a #website. #Priorities #ScienceComedy
https://www.nist.gov/news-events/news/2026/04/any-color-you-nist-scientists-create-any-wavelength-lasers-tiny-circuits #Colorful #Science #Innovation #Lights #Security #HackerNews #ngated
Any Color You Like: NIST Scientists Create ‘Any Wavelength’ Lasers in Tiny Circuits for Light

NIST scientists and collaborators have pioneered a way to make integrated circuits for light by depositing complex patterns of specialized materials onto silicon wafers.

NIST
N-gated Hacker NewsJul 2, 2025
🤓 Oh joy, another thrilling episode of "Let's Pretend We Understand Hilbert and Boltzmann" — because fluid dynamics and kinetic theory are obviously everyone's favorite cocktail party topics. 🍸🔬 Good luck keeping your eyes open through this math-induced coma! 😴💤
https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.01800 #HackerNews #FluidDynamics #KineticTheory #MathHumor #ScienceComedy #HackerNews #ngated
Hilbert's sixth problem: derivation of fluid equations via Boltzmann's kinetic theory

In this paper, we rigorously derive the fundamental PDEs of fluid mechanics, such as the compressible Euler and incompressible Navier-Stokes-Fourier equations, starting from the hard sphere particle systems undergoing elastic collisions. This resolves Hilbert's sixth problem, as it pertains to the program of deriving the fluid equations from Newton's laws by way of Boltzmann's kinetic theory. The proof relies on the derivation of Boltzmann's equation on 2D and 3D tori, which is an extension of our previous work (arXiv:2408.07818).

arXiv.org