@Ruth_Mottram Thanks! Sometimes my poor French actually doesn't betray me.

@Ruth_Mottram "Pois au vin" sounds pretty ok, no?

Having a relaxing time today. @sparky , @jodi , and I continue the #Turkenfunken tradition (started by my sister) of watching the #SouthPark #BlackFriday trilogy, as well as a selection of #BobsBurgers #Thanksgiving episodes.

We setup a screen and projector in the living room so @jodi can participate in the festivities while she is preparing a magnificent feast. 😁

Another favourite semester of the Honors Physics class embraced failure and tried to teach students to learn from it.

https://media.cooleysekula.net/videos/watch/61d7c4df-f8bd-4812-8ed6-68d9e8247e69

@sjsekula I really enjoyed teaching Honors Physics and the semester on "The Physics of Video Games" was one of my favourites, in spite of the nascent COVID lockdowns that split the term in half.

Happy to be on a short vacation for #Turkenfunken (aka American Thanksgiving). Our theme this year is "Firefly (except it's turkeys)".

We see our brave crew making deliveries in spite of the Cleaver threat posed to this lunar colony!

@jodi @sparky

Do I want to spend part of my weekend writing a private dashboard for my home using an LCARS-based web UI toolkit?

Yes.

Yes I do.

https://www.thelcars.com/

#coding #startrek #lcars #javascript #css #html

@Ruth_Mottram A Canadian colleague of mine STRONGLY recommended this series. I have not had a chance to watch it yet, but my sense was the series transcends a UK/Ireland experience.

We are just two weeks from #Turkenfunken, the awesome Cooley-Sekula holiday that coincidentally overlaps with US Thanksgiving. It is a day of merriment, munchies, and memes.

This year's theme, suggested by @sparky , is "Firefly"!

I am very excited to be back at work on my 'science series" of books again. Writers gotta #write, I guess.

The general audience text (vol. 1) for the second book is basically drafted, but I am revising it (I haven't touched it since 2021). Then it is on to the second volume, intended for hard-core university students to help them problem-solve and put high-concept material in the context of basic physics.

Below is some concept art for the #book cover based on a photo I took.

I am so happy to be curling again!

@roytoo I only wish I had done this a long time ago.

My act for this Remembrance Day is not directed toward someone who lost their life in combat, but who was shaped by it and by the deaths they witnessed. It is directed toward my mother’s father, or “Pop-Pop” as we called him. His real name is Jacob, and it’s from him I get my middle name.

Pop-Pop was writing a brief memoir when he died in 1990. He fought in WWII and helped topple German fascism. Today, I hand-copied his typed memoir from dot matrix printer paper, as an act of memory and love.

I am calming myself with experimental #science. There is nothing so satisfying as a properly calibrated instrument. Or, to be more accurate, one instrument calibrated against another that is assumed to be more accurate. In this case, it's a TEMPer USB thermometer (which appears very unreliable) compared to an external digital thermometer that (based on house temperatures) appears more accurate.

Science. It's more than a body of knowledge. It's a way of thinking.

What an absolutely stunning morning. Perfect for working on a #writing project.

On what would have been Carl Sagan’s 90th birthday, I remember teaching our scientific method course using his book “The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark”.

I remember the helpful bullshit detector he gave the world.

I remember his warnings about a society that embraces credulity and denies critical and scientific thinking.

I remember his grand view of the Cosmos and our place in it.

Let’s celebrate with music quoting from his last interview.

https://youtu.be/avSP7nflGXA?si=acU_Q5B8CBtZiYsD

It was a lovely dawn today.

I have been enjoying getting up early to write and then coming into @SNOLAB early to get a jump on preparing for an upcoming review of a project I am involved in.

I had a fantastic time at the medical science “Catalyst” event today, organized by Health Sciences North (HSN) Research Institute (HSNRI) and HSN itself. I learned a LOT, including about medical simulation and pathogen observatory work in #Sudbury.

I am grateful for the chance to listen, question, and learn.

#medicine #patients #science #learning

@erdanton I am still recovering from last time.

Hot 🥵 on the heels of "The Dark Matter Discoverer's Guidebook", I have resumed work on "The Friendly Physicist's Guide to..." series. I paused that work in 2021 to collaborate on the DMDG, but I am eager to keep on developing that series of books.

The next one is on the use of light to understand the dark players in the universe.

#Writing #Physics #DarkMatter