Out of nowhere, my nephew just asked, “Do you think Pavlov thought about feeding his dog every time he heard a bell ring?” and now I’m going to be haunted by this question.
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"If you're not part of the solution, you're part of this meeting."
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@XCsci@scicomm.xyz @JeremyParish@mastodon.social I need to apologize to Jeremy Parish for tooting a tweet of his without attribution. It tickled me, I copied it, later forgot the source, popped it onto Mastodon -- where, to my amazement, it spread like a prairie fire. What I did was sloppy and ill considered. I don't know how to fix this other than to own up and apologize.
"Life before the internet was awful. Your friend would be wrong about a trivial issue during dinner and you just had to let it go."
"For nothing is fixed, forever and forever and forever, it is not fixed; the earth is always shifting, the light is always changing, the sea does not cease to grind down rock. Generations do not cease to be born, and we are responsible to them because we are the only witnesses they have. --> 1/2
"My educated guess is that boredom has caused most of my problems in Hollywood. Any girl can be glamorous. All you have to do is stand still and look stupid.” -- Hedy Lamarr
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@GeorgeWL@mstdn.social I thought it was a chuckle, now I see it has spread like a house on fire. Any advice as to how I could make this right?
“There is, in short, no great idea that stupidity cannot put to its own uses. The truth by comparison, has only one appearance and only one path, and is always at a disadvantage.” -- Robert Musil
“No, you are not entitled to your opinion. You are entitled to your INFORMED opinion. Without understanding, without background, without research, your opinion is nothing. It’s bubble-babble. It’s a fart in a wind tunnel.” — Harlan Ellison
"Amateurs seek the sun, get eaten. Power stays in the shadows." ~ Lewis Strauss in OPPENHEIMER
“The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.” -- Voltaire
CONVO: 65 years of NASA – an astrophysicist reflects on the agency’s legacy
https://theconversation.com/65-years-of-nasa-an-astrophysicist-reflects-on-the-agencys-legacy-207285
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@GeorgeWL@mstdn.social Well, it's a mistake I won't make again. You may have noticed that I do attribute whenever I have that info.
Jordan Schachtel: Red Flag: Alien spacecraft 'whistleblower' has never actually seen evidence of UFOs, and all of his sources are anonymous / Zero evidence. Zero non-anonymous sources. Zero credibility.
https://www.dossier.today/p/red-flag-alien-spacecraft-whistleblower
Tchaikovsky - Hymn of the Cherubim - USSR Ministry Of Culture Chamber Choir
"I used to think the years would go by in order, that you get older one year at a time. But it’s not like that. It happens overnight." — Haruki Murakami, from Dance, Dance, Dance (Vintage International, 1995)
Denver Riggleman @RepRiggleman: I heard the the next iteration of X will be Xi.
IRISH TIMES: Sinéad O’Connor, acclaimed Dublin singer, dies aged 56 / Michael D Higgins leads tributes to Irish musician, saying the country has lost an ‘extraordinarily beautiful, unique voice’
D1: ‘More capable than anything we have’: lawmakers, witnesses, express alarm on UFO phenomenon / Witnesses recounted other-worldly events, but the head of the government office investigating those claims isn’t biting.
Listen, I'm not excusing McDonald's, but $800K to a family who failed to double-check the temperature of food offered to a toddler? Excuse me?
https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/19/business/chicken-mcnuggets-jury-award
RCD: How Xi Jinping Thinks
https://www.realcleardefense.com/articles/2023/07/22/how_xi_jinping_thinks_967931.html
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@GeorgeWL@mstdn.social Oops, you're right. I recycled something I thought was anonymous. Apologies to Mr. Parish!