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@AaronSlepkov
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🇨🇦Physics prof. Funny is good. Scientifically curious; politically bi-curious. Microwave oven enthusiast. Unabashed Excel evangelist. Home cook. #photonics.
On a mostly harmless rock
Joined February 2019
I prefer our original title: Microwave Ovens: now you're cooking with radar! "Why can't you put metal in a microwave oven?". Most of the time you can!
NEW VIDEO: Why can't you put metal in a microwave oven? Explore the physics of microwaves to find out: https://t.co/eMcrwLqvaP
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I know that the NYT Spelling Bee is bad with scientific/technical terms, but this one is outrageous. #photonics #NYTimes
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I'm in a terrible mood and pissed about the whole world. Posting Saturday Pizza as a mental cleanse.
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Oh you think you could play in the major leagues? Can you throw a ball that never stops increasing in velocity after it’s thrown?
Addison Barger reached 99 MPH on this throw to get the out at home 🤯⛽️
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My daughter was right to make me stop what I was doing and listen to Lily Allen's West End Girl. Marking can wait. #WestEndGirl
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An instant classic.
I converted to Judaism this year. Feels like I bought the dip.
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October 9, 2025 A first short note on some thoughts this morning. Gershon Baskin This is definitely a morning for celebration. The war is ending. The killing and destruction will stop. The Israeli hostages will be coming home – the living and the deceased. For Palestinians,
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I thought my TV was muted. It's so quiet in Yankee Stadium! #BlueJays
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Fun stuff here in PNAS. Static electric 'microlightning' in micro water bubbles may be the long-sought ignition mechanism for mashy will-o'-the-wisps... Unveiling ignis fatuus: Microlightning between microbubbles | PNAS
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Will-o’-the-wisps, ghostly blue flames seen at night in marshlands and long attributed to methane cool flames, have remained scientifically unexpla...
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Fascinating.
15/15 - Conclusion The two-sex system is not arbitrary or fragile. It is an evolutionarily stable outcome of natural selection acting on gamete size, fusion patterns, and reproductive efficiency. Decades of game-theoretic models and comparative studies show the same result: once
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Is the youth cooked? I just found my teen daughter's desk lamp in the recycling bin. When I asked her about it she said "It's broken. I didn't do anything to it! it Just stopped working!". LED bulbs last so long that she didn't know about bulb replacement. #parentingStruggles
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Mathematics, physics, astronomy, science fiction. Three-Body Problem. Newly discovered stable periodic orbits. By Xiaoming LI and Shijun LIAO, Source: https://t.co/GyNOHqO0X1, Used with permission.
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Nearly half of Canadian university students are hiding their real beliefs. When campuses become hostile to free thought, young people stop learning and start surviving. Universities were meant to be spaces of rigorous debate and intellectual curiosity—not tax-funded
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Happy Wordle-in-one day to me! 🎉 Time to find a new starter. Wordle 1,538 1/6 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
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The non-unitized worker’s mind can’t comprehend this.
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