@johncarlosbaez@mathstodon.xyz
Post #2854440
2026-05-25 09:03 UTC
Replies (13)
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@tpfto@mathstodon.xyz 2026-05-25 09:07
@johncarlosbaez@mathstodon.xyz I guess this is related to the "Pauli effect" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pauli_effect).
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@maxpool@mathstodon.xyz 2026-05-25 09:14
@johncarlosbaez@mathstodon.xyz Alternatively, he was extremely lazy but really smart. Seven of his students and his son received Nobel Prizes. It must be some kind of record. Maybe letting others do the work was teaching method.
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@davidsuculum@mathstodon.xyz 2026-05-25 10:06
@johncarlosbaez@mathstodon.xyz it represents me.
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@DamonHD@mastodon.social 2026-05-25 10:11
@johncarlosbaez@mathstodon.xyz I have little hand-eye coordination and bad enough shakes that I can't really solder anything less than 0.1" pitch! But I created a start-up based on embedded electronics, and I helped a molecular biologist with his PhD lab work, so there is indeed hope!
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@kimlockhartga@beige.party 2026-05-25 10:42
@johncarlosbaez@mathstodon.xyz If we are to believe the history reported, the man in charge of creating the atomic bomb was extremely clumsy in the lab, too. 😃
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@grumpydad@infosec.exchange 2026-05-25 10:42
@johncarlosbaez@mathstodon.xyz Hey, maybe there's hope for me yet.
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@6@possum.city 2026-05-25 10:52
@johncarlosbaez@mathstodon.xyz not permitting hammer is wild, lmao
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@l@gts.void.dog 2026-05-25 11:50
@johncarlosbaez@mathstodon.xyz no opposable thumbs
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@numodular@c.im 2026-05-25 12:19
@johncarlosbaez@mathstodon.xyz OTOH; don't expect a last minute miracle, saving humans from GHG'ing themselves into a #MassExtinction event. Replace #FossilFuels #TechBros #Broligarchy with #sustainability #scientists
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@tristrambrelstaff@mathstodon.xyz 2026-05-25 12:44
@johncarlosbaez@mathstodon.xyz I seem to remember reading that James Watson got banned from organic chemistry lab work for trying to heat benzene over a naked flame. After Watson famously started "The Double Helix" with "I have never seen Francis Crick in a modest mood", Crick thought about starting his autobiography with "Jim was always clumsy with his hands. One had only to see him peel an orange".
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@the_turtle@mastodon.sdf.org 2026-05-25 13:21
@johncarlosbaez@mathstodon.xyz in high school I ended up with Lori Bovenzi as my lab partner in chemistry. She Fuckin' Broke Everything®. She did not rise to heights of achievement in the sciences later in life.
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@jcolag@mastodon.social 2026-05-25 21:13
@johncarlosbaez@mathstodon.xyz And don't forget that almost every artificial sweetener's origin story is "guy mixing super-hazardous chemicals to make a super-duper-hazardous chemical saw some white powder on his fingers, licked it off, and didn't die..."
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@glasspusher@beige.party 2026-05-26 02:28
@johncarlosbaez@mathstodon.xyz I’m the one with the good hands, I try to help those who aren’t