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https://twitter.com/johncarlosbaez/status/7715889982674124802016-09-01 23:02:07-07
https://web.archive.org/web/20230228225634/https://twitter.com/johncarlosbaez/status/771588998267412480
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Check out Cayley's nodal cubic surface: http://blogs.ams.org/visualinsight/2016/08/15/cayleys-nodal-cubic-surface/ pic.twitter.com/g6PXhkJR5h
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https://twitter.com/johncarlosbaez/status/7715997427321487372016-09-01 23:44:48-07
https://web.archive.org/web/20230228123150/https://twitter.com/johncarlosbaez/status/771599742732148737
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Large countable ordinals are cool - start here and read all 3 parts: https://johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com/2016/06/29/large-countable-ordinals-part-1/ pic.twitter.com/6PNZOtlCAv
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https://twitter.com/johncarlosbaez/status/7716101853705256972016-09-02 00:26:18-07
https://web.archive.org/web/20230301004817/https://twitter.com/johncarlosbaez/status/771610185370525697
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Greg Egan has solved a problem connecting quintics and the icosahedron! Check it out: http://tinyurl.com/quintic-icosahedron pic.twitter.com/AObX0TZCkt
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https://twitter.com/johncarlosbaez/status/7716116293896151042016-09-02 00:32:02-07
https://web.archive.org/web/20230227172641/https://twitter.com/johncarlosbaez/status/771611629389615104
1A black hole with a black ring is called a "black Saturn". Learn more here: http://tinyurl.com/black-saturns pic.twitter.com/WrVwf0GqH6
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https://twitter.com/johncarlosbaez/status/7718550881847336962016-09-02 16:39:28-07
https://web.archive.org/web/20230228130711/https://twitter.com/johncarlosbaez/status/771855088184733696
1Learn about topological crystals, like this diamond drawn by Greg Egan: http://tinyurl.com/topological-crystals pic.twitter.com/UicAdY8nh1
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https://twitter.com/johncarlosbaez/status/7719208391136624642016-09-02 21:00:44-07
https://web.archive.org/web/20230301004702/https://twitter.com/johncarlosbaez/status/771920839113662464
1Quantum cryptography in space! It's taking off - see http://tinyurl.com/micius-cryptography pic.twitter.com/mGK8yLhTf2
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https://twitter.com/johncarlosbaez/status/7722500995314728982016-09-03 18:49:06-07
https://web.archive.org/web/20230227164527/https://twitter.com/johncarlosbaez/status/772250099531472898
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In Newtonian gravity, five particles can shoot to infinity in a finite amount of time! http://tinyurl.com/jcb-continuum-1 pic.twitter.com/TSKyyR1gPr
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https://twitter.com/johncarlosbaez/status/7722508675630612482016-09-03 18:52:09-07
https://web.archive.org/web/20230228120201/https://twitter.com/johncarlosbaez/status/772250867563061248
1Check out Kummer's quartic surface: http://blogs.ams.org/visualinsight/2016/09/01/kummers-quartic-surface/ pic.twitter.com/GjGZj9Mklt
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https://twitter.com/johncarlosbaez/status/7725967423656796162016-09-04 17:46:32-07
https://web.archive.org/web/20230227171440/https://twitter.com/johncarlosbaez/status/772596742365679616
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Why don't atoms collapse? With an inverse cube force law, they would! Learn more here: http://tinyurl.com/jcb-continuum-2 pic.twitter.com/jZMNnerA1b
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https://twitter.com/johncarlosbaez/status/7726148542092533762016-09-04 18:58:30-07
https://web.archive.org/web/20230227122731/https://twitter.com/johncarlosbaez/status/772614854209253376
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So hot that rocks boil, this planet with a 16-hour year is disintegrating as we watch - http://tinyurl.com/disintegrating-planet pic.twitter.com/5TOwLrNyrf
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https://twitter.com/johncarlosbaez/status/7729746879911075862016-09-05 18:48:21-07
https://web.archive.org/web/20230227172611/https://twitter.com/johncarlosbaez/status/772974687991107586
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Orbiting a black hole's "photon sphere", it occupies half your sky like this. Learn more: http://tinyurl.com/photon-sphere pic.twitter.com/JUMqfiHbl2
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https://twitter.com/johncarlosbaez/status/7734015812534558722016-09-06 23:04:40-07
https://web.archive.org/web/20230301113606/https://twitter.com/johncarlosbaez/status/773401581253455872
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A charged point particle can suck energy from its field and zip off to infinity! Nasty! http://tinyurl.com/jcb-continuum-3 pic.twitter.com/JK07QCQ70g
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https://twitter.com/johncarlosbaez/status/7737946169401712642016-09-08 01:06:27-07
https://web.archive.org/web/20230227170530/https://twitter.com/johncarlosbaez/status/773794616940171264
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I know a theorem whose proof doesn't fit into the observable universe! Learn it here: http://wp.me/pRBZ9-3id pic.twitter.com/aVcwzORym5
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https://twitter.com/johncarlosbaez/status/7741260446766571522016-09-08 23:03:26-07
https://web.archive.org/web/20230227180514/https://twitter.com/johncarlosbaez/status/774126044676657152
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Quantum fields saved us from the ultraviolet paradox, but they bring their own trouble! http://tinyurl.com/jcb-continuum-4 pic.twitter.com/L24gNxK1dW
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https://twitter.com/johncarlosbaez/status/7744099574919536642016-09-09 17:51:36-07
https://web.archive.org/web/20230228115835/https://twitter.com/johncarlosbaez/status/774409957491953664
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A chimera is an animal with two different sets of genes. Meet Venus, the chimera cat! http://tinyurl.com/gvaa6ld pic.twitter.com/m0M8mVtJJK
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https://twitter.com/johncarlosbaez/status/7748634148332707842016-09-10 23:53:29-07
https://web.archive.org/web/20230227155728/https://twitter.com/johncarlosbaez/status/774863414833270784
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Andrew Hamilton shows us what it's like to orbit a black hole at almost the speed of light! http://tinyurl.com/photon-sphere-2 pic.twitter.com/CjyMrYl4DL
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https://twitter.com/johncarlosbaez/status/7752444581744517122016-09-12 01:07:36-07
https://web.archive.org/web/20230227164544/https://twitter.com/johncarlosbaez/status/775244458174451712
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Virtual particles create infinities unless we renormalize. Learn how it works! http://tinyurl.com/jcb-continuum-5 pic.twitter.com/RDHAMeE9EC
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https://twitter.com/johncarlosbaez/status/7754992937759006722016-09-12 18:00:14-07
https://web.archive.org/web/20230227172636/https://twitter.com/johncarlosbaez/status/775499293775900672
1Do we need a bigger particle accelerator? Yang, China's best physicist, says no! http://tinyurl.com/yang-cepc pic.twitter.com/kPT9SIy3Cl
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https://twitter.com/johncarlosbaez/status/7758477372920422402016-09-13 17:04:49-07
https://web.archive.org/web/20230227160826/https://twitter.com/johncarlosbaez/status/775847737292042240
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Top cybersecurity expert: "Someone is learning how to take down the internet". Read this! http://tinyurl.com/jmpzrp3 pic.twitter.com/IJyRRGaypO
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https://twitter.com/johncarlosbaez/status/7762699567196487682016-09-14 21:02:34-07
https://web.archive.org/web/20230227170504/https://twitter.com/johncarlosbaez/status/776269956719648768
1From the World Nomad Games. Nomads: kicking ass since Genghis Khan. http://tinyurl.com/nomad-games pic.twitter.com/PfWptzds17
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https://twitter.com/johncarlosbaez/status/7762722456645509122016-09-14 21:11:40-07
https://web.archive.org/web/20230227162556/https://twitter.com/johncarlosbaez/status/776272245664550912
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Learn about Togliatti's quintic surface: http://blogs.ams.org/visualinsight/2016/09/15/togliatti-quintic-surface/ pic.twitter.com/MQ9b3LXNFY
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https://twitter.com/johncarlosbaez/status/7766148516448296972016-09-15 19:53:04-07
https://web.archive.org/web/20230227151205/https://twitter.com/johncarlosbaez/status/776614851644829697
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Leo Stein's webpage lets you play with photons orbiting a rotating black hole! See http://tinyurl.com/kerr-photon pic.twitter.com/A0FNzduIOC
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https://twitter.com/johncarlosbaez/status/7769780889030942722016-09-16 19:56:26-07
https://web.archive.org/web/20230228134447/https://twitter.com/johncarlosbaez/status/776978088903094272
1Explore black holes - with cats! http://tinyurl.com/go63kx6 pic.twitter.com/W2Pu35aSem
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https://twitter.com/johncarlosbaez/status/7775509364534927362016-09-18 09:52:44-07
https://web.archive.org/web/20230301014613/https://twitter.com/johncarlosbaez/status/777550936453492736
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Barth's sextic surface has 65 "double points". Learn more here: http://blogs.ams.org/visualinsight/2016/04/15/barth-sextic/ pic.twitter.com/0QpIl5sBBt
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https://twitter.com/johncarlosbaez/status/7779237374882693122016-09-19 10:34:06-07
https://web.archive.org/web/20230227172545/https://twitter.com/johncarlosbaez/status/777923737488269312
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In 1639, at age sixteen, Pascal proved G,H,K always lie on a line - no matter where A,B,C,D,E,F lie on the ellipse. http://tinyurl.com/mystic-hexagram pic.twitter.com/OKpU3gbWHY
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https://twitter.com/johncarlosbaez/status/7783025654652067842016-09-20 11:39:26-07
https://web.archive.org/web/20230227154929/https://twitter.com/johncarlosbaez/status/778302565465206784
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Learn how Penrose diagrams work! They're the best way to understand black holes. http://tinyurl.com/schwarzschild-black-hole pic.twitter.com/nsrEHK8vJI
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https://twitter.com/johncarlosbaez/status/7786195554300968962016-09-21 08:39:02-07
https://web.archive.org/web/20230228123106/https://twitter.com/johncarlosbaez/status/778619555430096896
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Stuff can fall into a black hole, but - in theory! - it could fall out of a white hole. Learn more: http://tinyurl.com/white-hole-penrose pic.twitter.com/DzTfQZSqZe
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https://twitter.com/johncarlosbaez/status/7789780937382420482016-09-22 08:23:44-07
https://web.archive.org/web/20230227180534/https://twitter.com/johncarlosbaez/status/778978093738242048
1"Poncelet's Porism" says you can do this trick - and not just for triangles! http://tinyurl.com/poncelet-porism pic.twitter.com/FJBfDPUEIl
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https://twitter.com/johncarlosbaez/status/7790177128864358402016-09-22 11:01:10-07
https://web.archive.org/web/20230301004833/https://twitter.com/johncarlosbaez/status/779017712886435840
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The hottest known planet: its atmosphere contains vaporized titanium dioxide, and its "year" is 30 hours long! http://tinyurl.com/WASP-33b pic.twitter.com/lVixkAkJU3
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https://twitter.com/johncarlosbaez/status/7794127324916408332016-09-23 13:10:50-07
https://web.archive.org/web/20230227174843/https://twitter.com/johncarlosbaez/status/779412732491640833
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A great free children's book about infinity - "Life on the Infinite Farm", by Richard Evan Schwartz. http://tinyurl.com/infinite-farm pic.twitter.com/lPVczbJ6EK
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https://twitter.com/johncarlosbaez/status/7794157170576588802016-09-23 13:22:42-07
https://web.archive.org/web/20230228235132/https://twitter.com/johncarlosbaez/status/779415717057658880
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The sums over Feynman diagrams in QED probably diverge - because electrons with imaginary charge would attract! http://tinyurl.com/jcb-continuum-6 pic.twitter.com/MivMKIbCfA
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https://twitter.com/johncarlosbaez/status/7798178674201518082016-09-24 16:00:42-07
https://web.archive.org/web/20230224140917/https://twitter.com/johncarlosbaez/status/779817867420151808
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Two NASA satellites are making movies of the solar wind. But what is the solar wind made of, and what's it like? http://tinyurl.com/jy8nj32 pic.twitter.com/dwv4R9c2g1
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https://twitter.com/johncarlosbaez/status/7801700284947046402016-09-25 15:20:04-07
https://web.archive.org/web/20230301113427/https://twitter.com/johncarlosbaez/status/780170028494704640
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The "Labs septic" has the most double points of any surface of degree 7- as far as we know! http://blogs.ams.org/visualinsight/2016/07/15/labs-septic/ pic.twitter.com/5Yfs1LeQhu
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https://twitter.com/johncarlosbaez/status/7804577714392268802016-09-26 10:23:27-07
https://web.archive.org/web/20230227164106/https://twitter.com/johncarlosbaez/status/780457771439226880
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A cubical lattice of points, as shown on "Charlie's daily sketches". Learn what's really going on here: http://tinyurl.com/3d-lattice pic.twitter.com/QKdeM972B0
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https://twitter.com/johncarlosbaez/status/7808231455780618242016-09-27 10:35:19-07
https://web.archive.org/web/20230227174801/https://twitter.com/johncarlosbaez/status/780823145578061824
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There's an "exotic atom" that's 1/9th as heavy as hydrogen, but otherwise chemically similar. Learn more: http://tinyurl.com/light-hydrogen pic.twitter.com/wlZCAfDUaj
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https://twitter.com/johncarlosbaez/status/7811549068706816002016-09-28 08:33:37-07
https://web.archive.org/web/20230228120159/https://twitter.com/johncarlosbaez/status/781154906870681600
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In general relativity the disastrous breakdown of spacetime is inevitable, thanks to the singularity theorems: http://tinyurl.com/jcb-continuum-7 pic.twitter.com/O4SMTKQ31a
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https://twitter.com/johncarlosbaez/status/7815530370933760002016-09-29 10:55:39-07
https://web.archive.org/web/20230301004826/https://twitter.com/johncarlosbaez/status/781553037093376000
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Besides light hydrogen, you can also make tiny atoms like hydrogen - but 1/186 times as big across! http://tinyurl.com/tiny-hydrogen pic.twitter.com/HR7TKlYEaR
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https://twitter.com/johncarlosbaez/status/7819622367470673932016-09-30 14:01:40-07
https://web.archive.org/web/20230228232114/https://twitter.com/johncarlosbaez/status/781962236747067393
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For the most double points on a surface of degree 8, you want the "Endrass octics". Learn more: http://blogs.ams.org/visualinsight/2016/08/01/endrass-octic/ pic.twitter.com/yv8Rzxkxw4
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https://twitter.com/johncarlosbaez/status/7822703402694328322016-10-01 10:25:57-07
https://web.archive.org/web/20230228113428/https://twitter.com/johncarlosbaez/status/782270340269432832
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Gluons hold quarks together in a proton - but you can also make a particle with just gluons: a "glueball". http://tinyurl.com/gwj9jxs pic.twitter.com/q7C4PoF3Cu
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https://twitter.com/johncarlosbaez/status/7826196499721543682016-10-02 09:33:59-07
https://web.archive.org/web/20230227150718/https://twitter.com/johncarlosbaez/status/782619649972154368
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Iron pyrite can form a "pseudoicosahedron"- using Fibonacci numbers to approximate the golden ratio! http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/golden.html pic.twitter.com/91NjK52dfW
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https://twitter.com/johncarlosbaez/status/7830481220249436162016-10-03 13:56:35-07
https://web.archive.org/web/20230227154435/https://twitter.com/johncarlosbaez/status/783048122024943616
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You can store about 10^124 bits of information in the observable universe. Alas, it would then be a black hole. http://tinyurl.com/bits-in-universe pic.twitter.com/EfTFoj3WVp
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https://twitter.com/johncarlosbaez/status/7833989233396367362016-10-04 13:10:32-07
https://web.archive.org/web/20230227162448/https://twitter.com/johncarlosbaez/status/783398923339636736
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I got a grant from DARPA to use fancy math - categories and "operads" - to design complex adaptive systems. More at http://tinyurl.com/complex-adaptive-1 pic.twitter.com/lHLBkl9fWX
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https://twitter.com/johncarlosbaez/status/7836995932004761602016-10-05 09:05:18-07
https://web.archive.org/web/20230227122704/https://twitter.com/johncarlosbaez/status/783699593200476160
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On Mars, an asteroid impact can cause a flood! Learn more about how and where these riverbeds formed: http://tinyurl.com/mars-flood pic.twitter.com/DDikOiRQ6g
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https://twitter.com/johncarlosbaez/status/7841934293874237442016-10-06 17:47:37-07
https://web.archive.org/web/20230227145121/https://twitter.com/johncarlosbaez/status/784193429387423744
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The mathematical structure of a diamond is more beautiful than a diamond - and it's even better in 8 dimensions! http://tinyurl.com/diamond-cubic pic.twitter.com/O8hUIbXUjW
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https://twitter.com/johncarlosbaez/status/7844940419204505602016-10-07 13:42:09-07
https://web.archive.org/web/20230227144241/https://twitter.com/johncarlosbaez/status/784494041920450560
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Kosterlitz and Thouless won the physics Nobel for figuring out how spins swirl in magnets! I explain it here: http://tinyurl.com/kosterlitz-thouless pic.twitter.com/Rh2OMEySkC
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https://twitter.com/johncarlosbaez/status/7848529928014520322016-10-08 13:28:30-07
https://web.archive.org/web/20230221155557/https://twitter.com/johncarlosbaez/status/784852992801452032
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Greg Egan drew gauge transformations of a vortex and antivortex, illustrating this year's physics Nobel prize work: http://tinyurl.com/kosterlitz-thouless pic.twitter.com/OfDDkrVvvf
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https://twitter.com/johncarlosbaez/status/7852508044205875202016-10-09 15:49:15-07
https://web.archive.org/web/20230227150226/https://twitter.com/johncarlosbaez/status/785250804420587520
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Someone named მამუკა ჯიბლაძე made a cool movie of the McGee graph, which has 24 nodes and 36 edges. Learn the math: http://tinyurl.com/jakzd65 pic.twitter.com/7RwbHBjcNP
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https://twitter.com/johncarlosbaez/status/7858742774635356172016-10-11 09:06:43-07
https://web.archive.org/web/20230227173721/https://twitter.com/johncarlosbaez/status/785874277463535617
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The maximally extended Kerr black hole has an infinite corridor of universes and 'antiverses'. Explore them here: http://tinyurl.com/kerr-hole pic.twitter.com/qfhEmHooiz
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https://twitter.com/johncarlosbaez/status/7862405692405268482016-10-12 09:22:14-07
https://web.archive.org/web/20230227145332/https://twitter.com/johncarlosbaez/status/786240569240526848
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I like this photo by David Burdeny - iceberg in the Weddell Sea chops the world in 4 parts! Learn more: http://tinyurl.com/david-burdeny pic.twitter.com/FuC1mfwgE1
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https://twitter.com/johncarlosbaez/status/7865981687881359362016-10-13 09:03:12-07
https://web.archive.org/web/20230228130708/https://twitter.com/johncarlosbaez/status/786598168788135936
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Black hole plus white hole equals wormhole! But you have to go a little faster than light to get across: http://tinyurl.com/gsapnz3 pic.twitter.com/OLp5VvhncW
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https://twitter.com/johncarlosbaez/status/7869466093135257602016-10-14 08:07:47-07
https://web.archive.org/web/20230227173752/https://twitter.com/johncarlosbaez/status/786946609313525760
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Astronomers found a thing with rings like Saturn, but hundreds of times bigger! It could be a brown dwarf: http://tinyurl.com/J1407b pic.twitter.com/D0p01CajQv
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https://twitter.com/johncarlosbaez/status/7873340149148794882016-10-15 09:47:11-07
https://web.archive.org/web/20230227164519/https://twitter.com/johncarlosbaez/status/787334014914879488
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Greg Egan showed how you can flex the McGee graph in the plane while keeping its edge lengths constant. Learn more: http://tinyurl.com/mcgee-embedding pic.twitter.com/wWvLkPuoDS
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https://twitter.com/johncarlosbaez/status/7877066665611223042016-10-16 10:27:58-07
https://web.archive.org/web/20230301112723/https://twitter.com/johncarlosbaez/status/787706666561122304
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What's better than a diamond? A triamond! A possible form of carbon, not yet seen: a "topological crystal". More: http://tinyurl.com/triamond pic.twitter.com/vXY4UMsVJa
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https://twitter.com/johncarlosbaez/status/7880267350402129962016-10-17 07:39:49-07
https://web.archive.org/web/20230301112621/https://twitter.com/johncarlosbaez/status/788026735040212996
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70,000 years ago, 2 stars shot past the Solar System! A tiny red dwarf and a even tinier brown dwarf. Learn more: http://tinyurl.com/scholzs-star pic.twitter.com/4MncAB3uzu
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https://twitter.com/johncarlosbaez/status/7883917070961213452016-10-18 07:50:05-07
https://web.archive.org/web/20230227162951/https://twitter.com/johncarlosbaez/status/788391707096121345
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Moving right or left? Learn the difference between group and phase velocity, and how *both* can exceed c: http://tinyurl.com/group-velocity pic.twitter.com/Hj7rZ3mxpb
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https://twitter.com/johncarlosbaez/status/7887317732534067202016-10-19 06:21:23-07
https://web.archive.org/web/20230227152108/https://twitter.com/johncarlosbaez/status/788731773253406720
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Shiny butterfly wings are made of "photonic crystals". In some, electrons act like massless neutrinos! Amazing: http://tinyurl.com/butterfly-gyroid pic.twitter.com/zCkF1XNVz3
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https://twitter.com/johncarlosbaez/status/7891347291990466572016-10-20 09:02:35-07
https://web.archive.org/web/20230228130715/https://twitter.com/johncarlosbaez/status/789134729199046657
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"Mini Saturn": astronomers have found an asteroid with rings! Or it is a comet? It's called Chariklo. For more: http://tinyurl.com/chariklo-rings pic.twitter.com/o3ifXWYEys
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https://twitter.com/johncarlosbaez/status/7895665790044119042016-10-21 13:38:36-07
https://web.archive.org/web/20230227171438/https://twitter.com/johncarlosbaez/status/789566579004411904
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Went to San Diego and got briefed on Metron's software for designing complex systems. Secretly it's category theory: http://tinyurl.com/complex-adaptive-2 pic.twitter.com/iHsrfvV34d
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https://twitter.com/johncarlosbaez/status/7902062215590174722016-10-23 08:00:19-07
https://web.archive.org/web/20230228130733/https://twitter.com/johncarlosbaez/status/790206221559017472
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2 million years ago, when the axis of Mars tilted more, ice at its poles evaporated and refroze elsewhere. More: http://tinyurl.com/white-mars pic.twitter.com/HBzn4jBaCT
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https://twitter.com/johncarlosbaez/status/7906188306533662722016-10-24 11:19:52-07
https://web.archive.org/web/20230227151432/https://twitter.com/johncarlosbaez/status/790618830653366272
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8 grad students worldwide can take a free advanced course in category theory! It'll be great! To apply: http://tinyurl.com/kan-two pic.twitter.com/EYzNb8wvzB
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https://twitter.com/johncarlosbaez/status/7909750403595755522016-10-25 10:55:19-07
https://web.archive.org/web/20230301014607/https://twitter.com/johncarlosbaez/status/790975040359575552
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This is what Mars may have looked like 3.8 billion years age - the northern plains may be old ocean bed. More: http://tinyurl.com/jsv8eda pic.twitter.com/tnjcwcPa1O
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https://twitter.com/johncarlosbaez/status/7912762184945213442016-10-26 06:52:06-07
https://web.archive.org/web/20230228102756/https://twitter.com/johncarlosbaez/status/791276218494521344
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Have three scientists just shown dark energy isn't real? I'm expecting a big argument - and here's why: http://tinyurl.com/darkenergyquestion pic.twitter.com/jgHGO1y0kM
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https://twitter.com/johncarlosbaez/status/7916594659047587842016-10-27 08:14:59-07
https://web.archive.org/web/20230301114243/https://twitter.com/johncarlosbaez/status/791659465904758784
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The US Geological Survey has a free huge map of Mars' north pole -see deep furrows carved by katabatic winds: http://tinyurl.com/mars-north-pole pic.twitter.com/srQZHjHqhM
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https://twitter.com/johncarlosbaez/status/7920932937607454722016-10-28 12:58:52-07
https://web.archive.org/web/20230227152952/https://twitter.com/johncarlosbaez/status/792093293760745472
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There's new free open-access math journal "Higher Structures", run by top experts on n-categories and such stuff - http://tinyurl.com/higher-structures pic.twitter.com/IkYj5QVZjO
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https://twitter.com/johncarlosbaez/status/7927687448628510722016-10-30 09:42:52-07
https://web.archive.org/web/20230227170608/https://twitter.com/johncarlosbaez/status/792768744862851072
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Liquid water on Mars! Salty water flows down Newton Crater in the spring. Learn more here: http://tinyurl.com/newton-crater pic.twitter.com/mr7Exlru3Y
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https://twitter.com/johncarlosbaez/status/7932241340334858242016-10-31 15:52:25-07
https://web.archive.org/web/20230227140516/https://twitter.com/johncarlosbaez/status/793224134033485824
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Did an 87-year-old mathematician just crack a famous problem? Are there no complex structures on the 6-sphere? http://tinyurl.com/atiyah-S6 pic.twitter.com/gAXbcuWtBx
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https://twitter.com/johncarlosbaez/status/7934836820192788482016-11-01 09:03:46-07
https://web.archive.org/web/20230227161228/https://twitter.com/johncarlosbaez/status/793483682019278848
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Juan Escudero found a degree-9 surface with 220 real double points, the maximum known. It's beautiful! Read more: http://tinyurl.com/escudero-nonic pic.twitter.com/pRq8O1ep1n
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https://twitter.com/johncarlosbaez/status/7938529756051251202016-11-02 09:31:13-07
https://web.archive.org/web/20230301112615/https://twitter.com/johncarlosbaez/status/793852975605125120
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Wolf Barth found a degree-10 surface with 345 double points, the most so far - and icosahedral symmetry! More here: http://tinyurl.com/barth-decic pic.twitter.com/sIYoy2v0Zx
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https://twitter.com/johncarlosbaez/status/7942761923543326722016-11-03 13:32:55-07
https://web.archive.org/web/20230227180423/https://twitter.com/johncarlosbaez/status/794276192354332672
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Mars' north polar ice cap has 820,000 cubic kilometers of ice! But here's a cute frozen pool in Vastitas Borealis: http://tinyurl.com/vastitas pic.twitter.com/1me65PhnD4
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https://twitter.com/johncarlosbaez/status/7945849110887301122016-11-04 09:59:40-07
https://web.archive.org/web/20230228133120/https://twitter.com/johncarlosbaez/status/794584911088730112
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The thorny devil, an Australian lizard, only eats ants. I think it's cute! Learn how it drinks water: http://tinyurl.com/thorny-devil pic.twitter.com/etIdtyHILJ
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https://twitter.com/johncarlosbaez/status/7949436923688099852016-11-05 09:45:20-07
https://web.archive.org/web/20230301030129/https://twitter.com/johncarlosbaez/status/794943692368809985
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Closeup photo of a Martian riverbed 1500 kilometers long and billions of years old. Learn more: http://tinyurl.com/reull-vallis pic.twitter.com/H0GQGFWLQm
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https://twitter.com/johncarlosbaez/status/7953744625478287362016-11-06 13:17:03-08
https://web.archive.org/web/20230227145520/https://twitter.com/johncarlosbaez/status/795374462547828736
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Nate Silver's blog gives you just 0.06 bits of information about who will be president. Why so little? See: http://tinyurl.com/relative-information pic.twitter.com/vh2hV1De3S
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https://twitter.com/johncarlosbaez/status/7956889804695429122016-11-07 10:06:50-08
https://web.archive.org/web/20230227152045/https://twitter.com/johncarlosbaez/status/795688980469542912
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Learn advanced math at a ski resort - for free! Homotopy type theory workshop for students and postdocs: http://tinyurl.com/hott-snow pic.twitter.com/7Z56gmaJ6X
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https://twitter.com/johncarlosbaez/status/7966025749841469442016-11-09 22:37:08-08
https://web.archive.org/web/20230227171455/https://twitter.com/johncarlosbaez/status/796602574984146944
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Going to Santa Fe Institute next week for a workshop on Statistical Mechanics, Information Processing and Biology: http://tinyurl.com/SFI-info-bio pic.twitter.com/JzdCuO0zX1
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https://twitter.com/johncarlosbaez/status/7981509592222720002016-11-14 05:09:52-08
https://web.archive.org/web/20230227164505/https://twitter.com/johncarlosbaez/status/798150959222272000
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See slides of my Santa Fe Institute talk on the math of networks and open systems! http://tinyurl.com/santa-fe-networks pic.twitter.com/8ROd0n9DXi
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https://twitter.com/johncarlosbaez/status/7989429217854259202016-11-16 09:36:50-08
https://web.archive.org/web/20230227143341/https://twitter.com/johncarlosbaez/status/798942921785425920
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Learn how computation is connected to entropy! Shannon meets Kolmogorov, and they're unified by Gibbs: http://tinyurl.com/alg-thermo pic.twitter.com/ydDLnjW3Oz
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https://twitter.com/johncarlosbaez/status/8000249496332574722016-11-19 09:16:26-08
https://web.archive.org/web/20230227152451/https://twitter.com/johncarlosbaez/status/800024949633257472
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Jarzynski gave a great one-hour intro to nonequilibrium statistical mechanics at the Santa Fe Institute - http://tinyurl.com/jarzynski pic.twitter.com/x764CAwgUJ
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https://twitter.com/johncarlosbaez/status/8007674229154856962016-11-21 10:26:45-08
https://web.archive.org/web/20230227145523/https://twitter.com/johncarlosbaez/status/800767422915485696
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Billiard balls move chaotically in a shape called the "Bunimovich stadium". They're "ergodic" - learn more here: http://tinyurl.com/bunimovich pic.twitter.com/kOfASv3kYI
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https://twitter.com/johncarlosbaez/status/8014804649637724172016-11-23 09:40:08-08
https://web.archive.org/web/20230227122803/https://twitter.com/johncarlosbaez/status/801480464963772417
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Learn about hairy, mammal-like reptiles that lived 60 million years before the reign of the dinosaurs: http://tinyurl.com/pisterognathus pic.twitter.com/TA1y17OXmE
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https://twitter.com/johncarlosbaez/status/8018359930157998082016-11-24 09:12:52-08
https://web.archive.org/web/20230227170551/https://twitter.com/johncarlosbaez/status/801835993015799808
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Trump's election has gotten me more motivated to fight climate change. There's a lot going on at the local level: http://tinyurl.com/zvad3yr pic.twitter.com/NQJkpsdZLK
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https://twitter.com/johncarlosbaez/status/8021947866607165452016-11-25 08:58:35-08
https://web.archive.org/web/20230227155316/https://twitter.com/johncarlosbaez/status/802194786660716545
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Thanksgiving: I was thankful to have grown up before the Arctic melted. Here's what's happening now: http://tinyurl.com/thanks-for-the-old-planet pic.twitter.com/ATC0qQNYqC
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https://twitter.com/johncarlosbaez/status/8029098062185185282016-11-27 08:19:49-08
https://web.archive.org/web/20230227153922/https://twitter.com/johncarlosbaez/status/802909806218518528
1Fireflies in bamboo forest, by Kei Nomiyama. For more pictures, visit http://tinyurl.com/bamboo-fireflies pic.twitter.com/6IjNVwsI4a
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https://twitter.com/johncarlosbaez/status/8035025562446274572016-11-28 23:35:12-08
https://web.archive.org/web/20230227160832/https://twitter.com/johncarlosbaez/status/803502556244627457
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Check out my student Blake Pollard's talk on category theory for studying open systems! It was a hit in Santa Fe: http://tinyurl.com/pollard-sfi pic.twitter.com/M6VO6aC3Vs
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https://twitter.com/johncarlosbaez/status/8058054090133504002016-12-05 08:05:55-08
https://web.archive.org/web/20230228133008/https://twitter.com/johncarlosbaez/status/805805409013350400
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Workshop on category theory and computer science here in Berkeley this week! Check out my talk on Tuesday! http://tinyurl.com/baez-compositionality pic.twitter.com/eoWx6FhCIw
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https://twitter.com/johncarlosbaez/status/8065581085919313922016-12-07 09:56:52-08
https://web.archive.org/web/20230227154658/https://twitter.com/johncarlosbaez/status/806558108591931392
1Here's my talk on the mathematics of networks: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IyJP_7ucwWo
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https://twitter.com/johncarlosbaez/status/8076248599581982722016-12-10 08:35:46-08
https://web.archive.org/web/20230228120202/https://twitter.com/johncarlosbaez/status/807624859958198272
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My student Brendan Fong explains the syntax and semantics of "network languages", like electrical circuit diagrams: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8JDPYO5ZrQ
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https://twitter.com/johncarlosbaez/status/8080105904173424652016-12-11 10:08:31-08
https://web.archive.org/web/20230301115043/https://twitter.com/johncarlosbaez/status/808010590417342465
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@drewvolpe - are enough people downloading and backing up the climate databases listed on your Google Docs page to be done by Jan. 20th?
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https://twitter.com/johncarlosbaez/status/8080884971394826242016-12-11 15:18:05-08
https://web.archive.org/web/20230228231932/https://twitter.com/johncarlosbaez/status/808088497139482624
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The climate war is heating up! What will Trump do, and what can we do about it? Join our discussion: http://tinyurl.com/j6236nc pic.twitter.com/Lq6fFWMC1a
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https://twitter.com/johncarlosbaez/status/8087646013701857282016-12-13 12:04:41-08
https://web.archive.org/web/20230227155739/https://twitter.com/johncarlosbaez/status/808764601370185728
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Scientists are racing to back up climate data in case Trump tries to delete it. Learn how to help here: http://tinyurl.com/saving-climate-data pic.twitter.com/rDjyrnPGbp
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https://twitter.com/johncarlosbaez/status/8091311931405107202016-12-14 12:21:24-08
https://web.archive.org/web/20230227151608/https://twitter.com/johncarlosbaez/status/809131193140510720
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Jerry Brown to climate scientists: "If Trump turns off the satellites, California will launch its own damn satellite!" pic.twitter.com/WPCJtPap2I
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https://twitter.com/johncarlosbaez/status/8098451185260707842016-12-16 11:38:17-08
https://web.archive.org/web/20230227164130/https://twitter.com/johncarlosbaez/status/809845118526070784
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The latest news on how we're rushing to back up climate data, and how you can help: http://tinyurl.com/saving-climate-data-2 It's wild - but it's working! pic.twitter.com/D0hsobaGAY
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https://twitter.com/johncarlosbaez/status/8101794905172828162016-12-17 09:46:57-08
https://web.archive.org/web/20230227164105/https://twitter.com/johncarlosbaez/status/810179490517282816
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Good computer skills? We need your help at the Azimuth Backup Project. We're busy backing up climate data! http://tinyurl.com/azimuth-backup pic.twitter.com/DRl0lftOMJ
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https://twitter.com/johncarlosbaez/status/8123534120376442892016-12-23 09:45:20-08
https://web.archive.org/web/20230227174741/https://twitter.com/johncarlosbaez/status/812353412037644289
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If your friend runs a big government climate database, tell 'em to "hash" it so we can tell if backups are accurate! http://tinyurl.com/saving-climate-data-3 pic.twitter.com/2kFqRUUwuM
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https://twitter.com/johncarlosbaez/status/8131354046227128322016-12-25 13:32:42-08
https://web.archive.org/web/20230227141920/https://twitter.com/johncarlosbaez/status/813135404622712832
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Read about Dan Romik's ambidextrous sofa - the biggest known shape that can go around two bends like this! http://blogs.ams.org/visualinsight/2016/12/15/romiks-ambidextrous-sofa/ pic.twitter.com/KgzSGowSo2
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https://twitter.com/johncarlosbaez/status/8135323509569781762016-12-26 15:50:01-08
https://web.archive.org/web/20230301014606/https://twitter.com/johncarlosbaez/status/813532350956978176
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"Just a farmer's wife" - but her fiber optics deliver data 35 times faster than the UK average! Farmers love it. http://tinyurl.com/z5faaxd pic.twitter.com/SGMGAR4VYq
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https://twitter.com/johncarlosbaez/status/8154465382351790092016-12-31 22:36:19-08
https://web.archive.org/web/20230227152936/https://twitter.com/johncarlosbaez/status/815446538235179009
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The scariest insect I've ever seen: the giant toothed longhorn beetle, from the Amazon basin in Ecuador: http://tinyurl.com/macrodontia pic.twitter.com/zKZpW1DWzc
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https://twitter.com/johncarlosbaez/status/8156629288587386892017-01-01 12:56:11-08
https://web.archive.org/web/20230227151311/https://twitter.com/johncarlosbaez/status/815662928858738689
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Happy New Year! This surface, the "Chmutov octic", has 144 nodes. Read about it here: http://tinyurl.com/chmutov pic.twitter.com/ApjcnsjWiY
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https://twitter.com/johncarlosbaez/status/8167605196798238722017-01-04 13:37:37-08
https://web.archive.org/web/20230227145242/https://twitter.com/johncarlosbaez/status/816760519679823872
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Check out my pal Tom Leinster's new book, Basic Category Theory. It's good and it's free! It's even open-source: http://tinyurl.com/leinster-book pic.twitter.com/NPPw3igscQ
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https://twitter.com/johncarlosbaez/status/8170975712062382082017-01-05 11:56:56-08
https://web.archive.org/web/20230227164549/https://twitter.com/johncarlosbaez/status/817097571206238208
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A mysterious player known only as "Master" started beating EVERYONE IN THE WORLD at go. Now we know who it is: http://tinyurl.com/go-master pic.twitter.com/4Pm4gUpXAA
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https://twitter.com/johncarlosbaez/status/8182557751223664642017-01-08 16:39:13-08
https://web.archive.org/web/20230301115050/https://twitter.com/johncarlosbaez/status/818255775122366464
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@timteachesmath chops square cake into 5 equal parts - with same amount of icing! Regular hexagon into 7 parts? http://tinyurl.com/chop-cake pic.twitter.com/pBjAxNLgaQ