Hi <3 I just donated - ALL IN - never allowing the neo-Nazi back into power in this country:
https://secure.actblue.com/donate/social-bfp-july-2024-v2
https://secure.actblue.com/donate/social-bfp-july-2024-v2
Jennifer Rittenhouse West
@rittenhousewest
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Theoretical physicist (postdoctoral fellow so basically a hobo detective). I do theoretical particle and nuclear physics, trained in particle - I love my darling job - I love physics - and music and art and people too - I'm an anti-fascist & a union woman 🇺🇦
Home from the American Physical Society meeting in Minneapolis - really I only went to the HADRON workshop part because I do love hadrons...that town was adorable. Flying in late at night was gorgeous. All of this tinted by Brenda Ueland's book "If You Want to Write." She was born in 1891 in Minneapolis & I love her.
Good things to have:
https://www.aclu.org/issues/criminal-law-reform/reforming-police/mobile-justice
https://www.aclu.org/issues/criminal-law-reform/reforming-police/mobile-justice
Scott CampbellAK Press has made the following ebooks available for free for the time being:
- "The Nation on No Map: Black Anarchism and Abolition" by William C. Anderson
- "As Black as Resistance: Finding the Conditions for Liberation" by Zoé Samudzi and William C. Anderson
- "Our Enemies in Blue: Police and Power in America" by Kristian Williams
https://www.akpress.org/featured-products/featured-topic-free-ebook.html
@bookstodon @abolition #abolition #ftp #acab #anarchism #books #reading #bookstodon #BlackAnarchism
Popular science article on quark-quark bonds & how they might act in NUCLEI. Typically QCD potentials are far too short-range to act over nuclear length scales, however, due to the uncertainty principle of quantum physics, they *can* act on quarks from different nucleons. Next question - is the potential strong enough to overcome the uncertainty principle, for a moment? The binding energy of the diquark state must be large - things look good. Nature to decide:
Robert McNeesIn the early morning hours of October 6, 1923, Edwin Hubble took a photo plate of M31 showing a Cepheid variable star. He originally mistook it for a nova - you can see where he has crossed out an “N” on the plate and excitedly replaced it with “VAR!”
Applying Henrietta Swan Leavitt’s period-luminosity relationship to subsequent observations, Hubble concluded that the distance to M31 was greater than reliable size estimates for the Milky Way.
Image: Carnegie Observatories
Berkeley hail outside my kitchen door yesterday...what a trip...
Yangyang ChengFor my first post on this 🐘 site, it seems fitting that I (re-)share my essay in Los Angeles Review of Books (which made LARB's "People's Choice Awards: Best of 2022" list!), a review of Ruth Rogaski's Knowing Manchuria and @seow's Carbon Technocracy. It's about dragons and coal mines, imperialism and indigeneity, the land, the body, and maps.
The story begins in a corner of Eurasia, at a time when mastodons roamed:
https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-land-is-a-body/
The story begins in a corner of Eurasia, at a time when mastodons roamed:
https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-land-is-a-body/
Lawrence Hall of Science today...some darling photobooth thing that processes an image of a person (me) and merges it, recreates it, in the style of a painting....(there are tiny apps that do this on my phone, I feel guilty saying this? but this is more sophisticated I think, much more).
