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Greg Gbur; Professor of optical physics, blogger of physics, history of physics, and pulp fiction. Opinions are my own (and, of course, mighty Cthulhu's)
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The war, in song:

Monday send battalions
Tuesday, Wednesday say we've won
Thursday bomb more civilians
Friday head for golf

(To The Cure's "Friday, I'm in Love")

Book 8 for my goal of 36 books read and blogged for the year! Choose Your Own Adventure Cryptid Chronicles: Mothman, by Cristin Bishara! https://skullsinthestars.com/2026/03/29/choose-your-own-adventure-cryptid-chronicles-mothman-by-cristin-bishara/
Choose Your Own Adventure Cryptid Chronicles: Mothman, by Cristin Bishara

Book 8 for my 2026 goal of 36 books for the year! Still running a little behind but not catastrophically. As usual, my link to the book is through my bookshop.org affiliate account, which means I m…

Skulls in the Stars
Donald Trump now takes the lead for "greatest military blunder of all time," pushing "never start a land war in Asia" into second place
All I really need in a relationship these days is someone to cuddle with and build LEGO with.
I am still amazed that my cat Rascal trained me to give him an ice cube in his water and I have no idea how he did that.
My latest optics paper just got published! https://opg.optica.org/oe/fulltext.cfm?uri=oe-34-7-12319

The UK's biggest energy firm has seen a 50% rise in solar panel sales after the US-Israel war with Iran pushed oil and gas prices up.

The oil industry's inevitable and necessary demise is looming faster than ever.

#MakeOilHistory #EnergyrRevolution #StopOilWars

In this photo are several objects that are so dense that no illumination can escape them. There is also a mural of a black hole
The choice of image for this article is somehow simultaneously completely irrelevant and absolutely perfect https://gizmodo.com/disney-openai-sora-deal-dead-2000737676
Disney Says It Will Find Ways to Peddle Slop Elsewhere After Pulling Out of OpenAI Deal

Just three months after it was announced, Disney's partnership with OpenAI has ended with OpenAI's shuttering of its Sora AI video app.

Gizmodo
Trump hoping that sending Vance to negotiate with Iran will bring a swift end to the war simply because nobody can stand talking to Vance for long