Alex Klotz
Physics professor at California State University, Long Beach. Interested in knots, DNA, and knotted DNA.
- Guy who walks around tourist areas with a big magnet to mess up people using phone compass navigation.
- ACAB includes websites that don't have a Reject Cookies button up front
- Calling variables in bash reminds me I should be in a different dollar bracket.
- Can't believe this bus wifi got a faculty position.
- It's funny how my "internet not working right" workflow has shifted from checking my wifi connection to checking downdetector to see if there's a global outage of from something like AWS or cloudflare.
- Someone in a pub asked me how I don't get cold running in shorts and I got to give a whole thermodynamics lesson.
- I woke up too early because of jetlag AMA
- After hanging around kids several times in the past few weeks I can confirm that the 6-7 thing is annoying.
- Environmentally and geopolitically it might be a disaster, but the Northeast passage between China and Europe could be made a lot shorter by digging a canal between Lake Baikal and the Amur River basin. Then you'd only need to sail the Arctic between the Yenisey and the White Sea-Baltic Canal.
- If there's one thing I can attribute my success to, it's understanding the post hoc ergo propter hoc falacy. My career really took off after I learned about it.
- Boss: "This new invention that rotates the pistons in our engine is great! What should we call it?" Jim: "A jimshaft!" Cam: "I have a better idea."
- I bet Ryerson didn't count on their name change setting themselves up for "Temu U of T"
- You are eating because you're hungry, I am eating because I'm bored. We are not the same.
- Guy who insists that arrays begin at index 0 but that the ground floor is the 1st.
- My biggest shame from high school English class is that I DNF'd Jane Eyre right before we found out about the wife in the attic.
- Good news, we now have evidence that there was a two month period in which planetary-mass black holes did not collide within our solar system. journals.aps.org/prl/abstract...
- Solving the helium atom in quantum mechanics 🤝 Cancer prevention Understanding the importance of screening
- Teaching thermodynamics but pronouncing "metastable" with the same cadence as "metastasis."
- If you're ever feeling bad, know that the building that houses the MIT Department of Chemical Engineering, one of the richest departments in one of the most prestigious schools, designed by world-famous architect I.M. Pei, does not have a way to take the stairs from the second to the third floor.
- Can't even reflect off nickel without my polarization changing, because of MOKE.
- I wanted to take the bus but it was stationary
- If you want to know how to make knots untie or why proteins have the knots that they do, our paper was just published:https://pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.1021/acs.macromol.5c01073
- Anglo-Saxon historians, can we just agree that the world would be a funnier place if we all said that Aethelred the Unready was actually unready for his responsibilities, and not just poorly advised or whathaveyou?
