• Scrubbles
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      205 days ago

      Was gonna say, covid if anything made me more focused. I did so many side projects

    • Hjalmar
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      145 days ago

      Pictured: Isak Newton proves that going outside is gay

    • @neidu3@sh.itjust.works
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      4 days ago

      Excellent picture of an excellent album. “The Black Album” is absolutely one of my favorite AC/DC albums. Not quite on par with “Nevermind”, but it’s definitely up there. “Stairway to heaven” alone makes this one of John Foggertys legendary works.

      PS: It was a loss to the band when Wes Borland left, but David Gilmore is a pretty great replacement drummer.

  • @niktemadur@lemmy.world
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    135 days ago

    Then by year two of his lockdown, Newton was inserting a tiny lever under his own eyeball, inside the eye socket, to try and figure out how the eye captures and processes light.

    • Lovable Sidekick
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      34 days ago

      I wonder what Newton would have done if he were alive today and tried to figure out furries.

      • @ornery_chemist@mander.xyz
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        23 days ago

        Completely rewrite the curriculum and problem sets for my advisor’s grad-level course for flipped-classroom virtual teaching as opposed to in-person lectures. It was the pits for many reasons, not the least of which was that his attitude became “everyone is at home doing nothing, so I can ramble into a recording for 3 h instead of giving 1 h lectures and we can have a full problem set every week instead of 4 in a semester and the scheduled class time is now a problem session amd to answer students’ questions :)”.

        And a fuckton of DFT calculations, so honestly, fair.

  • dumpster_dove [he/him]
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    95 days ago

    We’ve all heard the story of the falling apple, but did you know Newton figured out light while trying to make an album cover?

  • Lovable Sidekick
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    44 days ago

    To many people back then, a prism turning a sumbeam into a spray of colors must have seemed like actual magic happening right before their eyes.