Lawrence M. Krauss
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Theoretical physicist. Best-selling author. Science & public policy advocate. . President of @OriginsProject . Host of @TheOriginsPod .
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I expect little or no mainstream coverage of The Edge of Knowledge in the US & Can. So this is one way of getting the word out. And online purchases may help encourage bookstores to carry it.
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Surprised by recent stuff because when I was on
@joerogan
experience 8 years or so ago--the first time I had heard of him in fact--I was surprised and impressed by both the level of his preparation, and the quality of his questions about complex science.
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My goodness. Some things are universal. Babies love chasing birds, but after they fall, where do they head right away? :)
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A star just went out in the cosmos. We have lost an amazing human being. Stephen Hawking fought and tamed the cosmos bravely for 76 years and taught us all something importantabout what it truly means to celebrate about being human. I will miss him.
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My 100 year old mother all gussied up as we head out to her birthday party. She said I should post as she might meet another husband that way. :)
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Johnny Depp was so sweet with my mother when she cooked him Rosh Hashanah dinner 7 years ago.
Thinking of you and my mom today Johnny. You are a mensch. Love you.
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Never expected to see this so soon. Amazing. A real solar system visible!
First ever image of another multi-planet solar system captured by ESO Telescope
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There is poetry in the cosmos. Sometimes unintended. That Stephen Hawking died on the day that Albert Einstein was born has a striking pathos. These two men each shed new light on the force that governs the birth & ultimate evolution of the cosmos. We celebrate both their lives.
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Hard to believe it is 8 years to the day since we lost Hitch. Almost every day I ponder how much better the world would be if he were still around.
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a 6000 year old tradition that unfortunately continues to be effective.
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"“The biggest thing you can do now is pray,” Gov. Scott". Dumb advice. The biggest thing you can do is prepare your home, and evacuate.
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My mother passed quietly early this morning. Thanks to all of you for your kind and quite touching messages. They meant a lot.
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#JohnnyDepp
is one of the sweetest, gentlest, kindest, thoughtful, most generous people I have known, & I tried to capture that on stage. What he has gone through pains me greatly, as did the steady deterioration of his marriage.
#JusticeForJohnnyDepp
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Physics education could be improved for EVERYONE, not by getting rid of whiteboards, but by getting rid of this kind of ridiculous Physics Education Research. Sad to learn of this waste of valuable resources.
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Today is a day worth celebrating. In 1831 Charles Darwin set off on the HMS Beagle on a voyage that would change the world.
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The image of a black hole almost 10% as massive as our galaxy located in a distant galaxy! I never would have thought I could tweet those words. May not look like much but an amazing testament to the power of human ingenuity. via
@nytimes
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Can’t help thinking on those years when Easter lands on April 1, how appropriate that seems to be.
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Christopher Hitchens died 12 years ago today. A sad personal loss but more importantly a loss for humanity. Each anniversary I try to remind myself of the mantra “What would Christopher do?”
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My earlier rumor about LIGO has been confirmed by independent sources. Stay tuned! Gravitational waves may have been discovered!! Exciting.
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Am 63 yrs old & atheist with no religious affil. Until Trump ran for Prez I had never been target of anti-Semitic slurs. Just coincidence?
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Brilliant response from
@RichardDawkins
to KPFA's ridiculous cancellation of his lecture Aug 9.
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A lovely photo (credit Pete Lawrence) showing time lapse images of Jupiter and Saturn as they have converged, leading up to closest approach tonight. Closest since 1623.
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Got a new hip today. Was up and walking (with walker within 3 hours) and walking up stairs within 5 hours. And back home today! AIN’T SCIENCE GRAND?!!!
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Tragic to hear about shootings in Texas. & once again leaders will offer thoughts and prayers. Nothing to actually help stop this madness
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Went to the woods. Leaves make thousands of pinhole shadows. Isn't physics wonderful!!!
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On a road trip. Enjoyed seeing this. It’s a new world. :)
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Happy Darwin Day to all! 209th anniversary of Charles Darwin's birth. Here's to a man who changed the way we think about ourselves as much as anyone ever has!!!
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A Day of Celebration. A historic birth date!: Isaac Newton's 376 birthday--born Dec 25th, 1642. May heaven and earth rejoice in memory of the man who first showed they obey the same laws of nature. Going to the movies in his honor.
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Dear spaghetti monster: if we should impeach Trump give us a sign! How about blotting out the sun this week?
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I admit I was totally wrong about this election. I assumed American public could tell the difference between reality and a reality tv show.
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Ha! Just discovered that next year, Easter falls on April Fools Day! How perfect! 😀
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Johnny is a lovely man. Truly. Happy this is behind him and he can move on. :)
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Berkeley used to be Free Speech Center! Now KPFA Cancels Richard Dawkins talk because he criticizes Islam? Shame!
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Wow! This is another planet!!! Rovers rock!
A panoramic view from the surface of Mars captured by Curiosity rover.
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A sad day for truth and bravery. James Randi, a friend & a hero died today at 92. At some personal risk he bravely unveiled psychic and clairvoyant con-artists who claim mystical powers in order to scam the public. He did it with style, grace & humor, and he will be missed.
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One of the most dramatic and powerful scenes I have ever witnessed. Looking into the Yasur volcano on Tanna Vanuatu. The violent energy makes it abundantly clear that we are insignificant temporary inhabitants, and the earth wasn’t made for the benefit of us.
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Ten years ago today the world lost the great
#ChristopherHitchens
, and it still hasn’t recovered. I miss him and the world could use him now more than ever.
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Physics, when combined with biology, produces marvels that are wondrous to behold.
A bobcat (Lynx rufus) jumps over a river with a single leap.
Source: BBC's Planet Earth II
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Today we should celebrate the birthday of the most significant largely unheralded American, Thomas Paine, born Feb 9, 1737, author of Rights of Man, and The Age of Reason, leading figure in American Revolution, proponent of Free Thought and Equal Rights.. among many other things.
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If the reported discovery of a room temperature superconductor is true, it will change everything, reducing the energy cost of using electricity by orders of magnitude and changing the energy equation for human activity. That is one of the reasons i remain skeptical. .
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Dec 15 here in London. Been 5 years since we lost a remarkable man & I lost a friend: Christopher Hitchens. I miss him. We can't forget him.
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When I see the agenda being pushed by the evangelicals this administration is seemingly allying itself with it confirms for me how ludicrous it is to claim the Bible is a good moral guide.
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An oldie but a goodie, from Aldous Huxley, 1921. Still relevant, a century later.
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At Down house. Charles Darwin’s home. In awe. Truly a life highlight. What a remarkable human being.
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Scientists should unite in protest if anti-science zealots Ebell or Ben Carson are let near environment or education
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No White House
@realDonaldTrump
condemnation of white supremacist Christian terrorism in Charlottesville. Maybe because that is his base?
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In a single speech Trump shows he knows nothing about science, energy, environment, law, or the economy. Impressive
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Progress! At least in UK. 7 in 10 people age 18-24 say they have no religion in new survey
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Well, in single tweet DJT demonstrates unparalleled ignorance of the law and the constitution. Maybe electoral college SHOULD surprise him.
Nobody should be allowed to burn the American flag - if they do, there must be consequences - perhaps loss of citizenship or year in jail!
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Have to disagree with this, even if the intent is laudable. The purpose of science is to figure out how the world works so we can make accurate predictions. Period. Policy makers & citizens decide how to fund it and use the results to do good as their values define it.
.
@MonaHannaA
: "The purpose of science must be to do good. And a logical extension is that the paramount mission of all scientists is to be charged with doing good."
#ScienceforJustice
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Math isn't racist. Getting the right answer isn't racist. Showing your work isn't racist. It is unfathomable to me that a school district could argue that getting the right answer is an example of white supremacy.
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My new opinion piece warning about the Ideological Corruption of Science will appear in the
@WSJ
tomorrow. It is online now. I expect it may provoke discussion. :)
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Eight years ago we lost a shining light in the cosmos. I was privileged to call Christopher Hitchens my friend. Very few days go by when I don't think of him. I was honored when his widow Carol asked me to remember him at his memorial service.
#hitchens
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Wistfully remembering 48 years ago today, when we first landed on the moon. Not done for science, but by science--ingenious, bold and brave.
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Science Magazine is in a race with Scientific American to see which can be the more embarrassing former science magazine...It would be merely solipsistic, but in addition, the few meager descriptions of physics don't seem accurate either. :)
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Well that was interesting. Flying to east coast today and accidentally sat in wrong seat. Looked up when person asked if I wanted to swap seats and it was Pete Buttigieg. I asked if he usually flew commercial (and economy) on the campaign and he said yes. I was impressed.
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Have decided not to tweet whenever
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tells a big lie. Rather will tweet when he tells the truth. Will save time and space, and it may happen sometime.
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You tell ‘em
@RichardDawkins
. A brilliant rebuff to a once great organization, the AHA, that lost its raison d’etre and should now just disappear. They forgot that provocative questioning is the heart of humanism.
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The Nordic countries have rational and sensible attitudes about the world.
Denmark banned halal and kosher slaughter as minister quite rightly said "animal rights come before religion"
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We all are more free and not less free if society restricts access to the kind of weapons madman used to slaughter innocents in Las Vegas.
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I should clarify why I now refer to myself sometimes as Jewish. In the past, I made it quite clear that my ancestry means very little to me. It is just an accident of my birth, lucky or unlucky, that I had no control over. And Judaism as a religion is as mythical and silly as…
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Found a living fossil. The last of its kind still operating... in Bend OR. Didn’t go in because for all I know there may still be overdue fees from when my daughter was in high school.
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I arrive back in the country thinking about the worlds urgent issues and find that jerk in chief spent his time demonizing sports figures?
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I have seen photos my whole life but nothing really prepared me to turn the corner this morning after arriving and seeing this.
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74 years ago, on Aug 6, 1945, the first nuclear weapon was used against a civilian population, destroying Hiroshima. Since then we have armed ourselves with thousands of them, and we are doing much to essentially ensure that it will happen again. We have learned nothing.
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We need to put diplomatic pressure on Pakistan to stop being a medieval religious backwater. STOP THIS!
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July 4 is a special day to celebrate...the 5th anniversary of the discovery of the Higgs Boson!
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As several have reminded me, The Old Testament is terribly racist and sexist. It is also violent and is inappropriate for children. I do hope whoever owns the copyright will consider stopping publication of that hateful book to protect young people.
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I saw this sculpture in a church in Puebla Mexico. I couldn’t read the inscription but I am relatively sure it is the famous “Jesus on the toilet contemplating the sins of mankind”.
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2018 was a difficult year for the world, but I hope that many still found happiness & success. Without discounting the challenges & obstacles we face, I hope that 2019 will be a better year for us all, and that each of us can have some positive impact, however small. Best wishes!
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Even without the pussy grabbing one look at this and you know this is the kind of creep you would want your daughter to stay away from.
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After I moved to US Reagan elected & I thought it couldn't get worse. Then W & I thought couldn't get worse. Moral: it can always get worse
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Heartbroken for victims & families in LV. But prayers won't stop future gun violence. Congressional inaction seems like criminal negligence
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Happy summer solstice! (For those in the northern hemisphere.) The flat earthers can try and explain why this is the longest day of the year in the north and the shortest in the south. Or, better still, just give up trying to explain anything real since their picture isn’t.
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Americans will receive “great value health care” under DJT just like students at Trump University got “great value education”.
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You would think they would be embarrassed by now repeating this nonsense. Praying is not what they were voted in to do. Taking ANY action to reduce gun deaths (and all the school deaths involved AR-15's btw) would be better than useless prayers.
Heidi and I are keeping all the students and faculty at Santa Fe High School in our prayers this morning, along with all first responders on the scene. Please be safe and heed warnings from local officials.
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Another reason why religion poisons everything. Silly beliefs encourage silly, and in this case dangerous, actions!
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It is truly amazing to be living at a time when one can be privileged to even a short movie of the surface of a comet! Dazzling!
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Apparently the body of Christ contained glutens. Another striking scientific discovery of the catholic church.
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Here’s something surprising. Venus surface temperature hot enough to melt lead. Yet temps and densities in long lived cloud layers could support life as we know it. And there is anomalous UV absorption and evidence of large particles in clouds. Should we go check?
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Back to tweets. Trigger warning: Some tweets may offend.
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Couldn’t resist. Just asked Pete Buttigieg on the plane if he might want to do a podcast talking about science, public policy and politics in the US. Will depend on logistics, but could such a discussion be useful in the abstract, without turning into a campaign endorsement?
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It is now more than 30 days since my July 12th Wall St. Journal piece "The Ideological Corruption of Science" appeared, so I am now free to post its content, which is otherwise behind a paywall. Here it is.
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Surprised and saddened to hear that
@danieldennett
(1942-2024) passed away today. I didn't agree with him about free will and some other things, but it was a privilege to know him, learn from him, and spend some special times together.
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Got asked on radio (re god). "What do you say to kids who need to feel there is something bigger than ourselves." My answer "look up".
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One cannot help but contemplate, as one views the remains of the unfathomable engineering brilliance at Machu Picchu of the lost Inca civilization, that the belief that our civilization will endure in its present form is simple hubris. This too shall pass.
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