D. Brett Richardson Ⓥ
@BerkeleyBrett
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Trying to save the world, one sentient being at a time. May Compassion be our Compass! (Retired from the Advanced Light Source @advlightsource / @BerkeleyLab )
Berkeley, CA & environs :)
Joined March 2010
RT @Rainmaker1973: This mama dog named Cora ended up in a shelter after her puppies were taken away. See her joy whe she was reunited with…
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For good, ill, neutral, or mixed, "Big Tech Makes Cal State Its A.I. Training Ground: Spurred by titans like Amazon and OpenAI, California State wants to become the nation’s 'largest A.I.-empowered' university..." NY Times unlocked article https://t.co/EAnikK4L0E
#AIinEducation
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Spurred by titans like Amazon and OpenAI, California State wants to become the nation’s “largest A.I.-empowered” university.
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"University of California sets world record for Nobel Prizes in a single year": https://t.co/FC0DLQws0u 🌎🤩🌍🤓🌏 #UniversityofCalifornia - @UCBerkeley - @UCLA - @ucsantabarbara - @UCSanDiego - @BerkeleyLab - #MolecularFoundry - @advlightsource - #NobelPrize #NobelPrize2025
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Newton's 1687 preface on Principia Mathematica ✍️ The ancients considered mechanics in a twofold respect; as rational, which proceeds accurately by demonstration, and practical. To practical mechanics all the manual arts belong, from which mechanics took its name. But as
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On this Virginia nonprofit’s little farm, vegetables grow and solar panels charge up side by side. Can it prove their viability on larger plots? https://t.co/8DY3XJOtSC
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The agrivoltaics demonstration project is experimenting with growing crops under solar panels to determine what works and help educate a wary public.
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🎶 She's a Smoothie Operator🎵Smoooothie Operatorrrr 🎶 😂🤣😂 (Seen in #Davis #California 😊 ) -- #Sade #SmoothOperator #Operators #Smoothies #DavisCA
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I came across this photo of my Dad, from a news clipping in the 1970s (I believe). He was a tough ol' Marine, most at home in the wilderness. Though life with Dad was complicated, I've always be thankful he was my father. Semper Fi, Dad! I'll never be able to thank you enough...
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I asked Google Gemini (AI) two questions: "In what year did more than 50% of americans have internet service?" & "In what year did more than 50% of americans own a personal computer?" (An AI-response is only as good as the resources on which it is based! Easy to forget ....) 🤓
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From 1954: "How to dial your phone by Bell System" https://t.co/WBFAOdgS7T 🤓 #TechNostalgia #BlastFromThePast #TelephoneHistory #Telephony #The50s
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The advertising algorithm seems to think I'm interested in buying a shipping container 😂🤣😂 (Good thing I'm not given to impulse buying, because I rather like the 3rd one to the right! 😝 )
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BREAKING NEWS The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided to award the 2025 #NobelPeacePrize to Maria Corina Machado for her tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela and for her struggle to achieve a just and peaceful transition from dictatorship to
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These long-lived little rodents are resistant to cancer, arthritis, & other diseases: can we discover their health secrets & develop them for human beings? More - BBC: https://t.co/lz0YXirZ7O - Science: https://t.co/wzTiaGesmL - #CancerPrevention #Cancer #Arthritis #NakedMoleRats
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I was interested to learn that LBNL scientist (and former Director of Berkeley Lab's Molecular Foundry: https://t.co/F3AHYy3Xoe ) Omar M. Yaghi has won the 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry [shared] : https://t.co/e4f8E9K1NU More about Professor Yaghi here: https://t.co/E06DCxQENl
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The "Paradox of Buridan's Donkey" strikes again! 🤣 https://t.co/DF5hc0vHUK -- #BuridansAss #Aristotle #Spinoza #JeanBuridan #AlGhazali #Paradox #Dilemma #Ambiguity
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A map projection necessarily distorts *something* -- it is a 2-dimensional representation of a 3-dimensional reality. Different projections distort different things (& get other things right) 🌍📷-- https://t.co/UTgu2gkqHw -- #MercatorProjection #MapProjections #Cartography
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Wow!! 🤩 May all blessings be with the first female Archbishop of Canterbury!! 🌍🌹🌏🌹🌎 https://t.co/GSBxim37B2 -- (Though not Anglican myself, I am happy to see the progress of fairness anywhere in our struggling human species 🥰 ) Pacem in Terris! #ArchbishopofCanterbury
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She becomes the first female leader of the Church of England, replacing Justin Welby who resigned over his handling of a safeguarding scandal.
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Earthquake near Berkeley, California, Magnitude 4.3, 2km ESE of Berkeley. Wishing safety & wellness to all our friends in Berkeley & the greater SF Bay Area! 🌎🙏🙏🙏🌎 For more, see the Berkeley Seismological Laboratory: https://t.co/2fsjmWt9Fh --- #BerkeleyEarthquake
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Wikipedia's "List of oldest continuously inhabited cities" lists West Asian cities Diyarbakir (Turkey), Aleppo (Syria), Byblos (Lebanon), Damascus, & Jerusalem. In the US, Tuscon (Arizona) & in Mexico, Mexico City make the list. Here's the link: https://t.co/QChspafvgP 🌍
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