Dan Falk

I'm on CBC's Quirks & Quarks today, talking about what comes next for particle #physics, after the Large Hadron Collider. In Canada, tune in at about 12:41 p.m. local time. 🕰📻 Of course, folks can catch it anytime, online: www.cbc.ca/radio/quirks... (scroll down toward the bottom) #science

Robert Redford was in a whole whack of good films, but my two favourites are The Sting (1973) and All the President's Men (1976), both of which hold up to repeated viewings a half-century later.

Got up early for this one. :) The waning crescent moon -- and Venus -- and their reflections -- at Geier Lake, NS, June 2025: ( #photography #nightphotography #novascotia )

Sometimes 24 years seems like the blink of an eye... The World Trade Center as viewed from the Brooklyn Bridge, 35mm slide film, 1990s.

Just over two days until the total solar #eclipse. Ahead of the last big eclipse, I wrote for @sciam.bsky.social about why I find that eclipses "anchor" me -- Unlike so many other things in our world, eclipses always unfold right on schedule: www.scientificamerican.com/article/ecli... #solareclipse

My “packing list” is an iteration of an initial list dating from, I dunno, the turn of the millennium or whatever. So it contains items like “VGA adapter” and “DVDs to watch.”

We're just six days away from the total solar eclipse! For those of you *not* travelling into the path of totality (Iceland! Spain!) here are some (approx) partial-eclipse percentages for a handful of cities: Halifax 30%, St. John's 50%, Berlin 85%, London / Paris 91-92%, Lisbon 95%

1/3 It was 30 years ago today that Bill Clinton spoke from the White House lawn on NASA's announcement that the Martian meteorite "ALH84001" contained possible microscopic evidence of fossilized bacterial life from Mars. (You can see his speech here.) But... (cont'd) youtu.be/Wt-eToev944?...

He’s not really a Cyclops; he just looks that way because of the IMAX aspect ratio. In widescreen, you can see his other eye. 🙃

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Happy 60th Revolver-versary to all who celebrate! 🎶

Great interview: On @quantamagazine.org's podcast, Samir Patel speaks with @philipcball.bsky.social about what makes living things different from inorganic material. Living entities appear to do stuff "for reasons"...as though they have agency... so what does that mean, exactly? #science #philosophy

Fun interview with an editor at @variety.com who saw The Odyssey in all available formats: podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/d... #TheOdyssey #Hollywood #movies

I wonder if the sheep whose wool got used in the Bayeux Tapestry were kind of proud — you know, like maybe they lorded it over the other sheep.