Ben Monreal
Nuclear, particle, and astrophysics experimentalist at Case Western. Posting about physics, climate, urbanism, Cleveland. See also:
bmonreal.github.io/personal.html
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- In one story in The House at Pooh Corner, Owl is homeless after a storm: he's a public charge, a refugee, an asylum seeker. I love this passage: where Pooh grasps his moral duty towards Piglet after Piglet gives Owl his own house. Anyway! I spent today imagining what awaits Stephen Miller in hell
- Hey #cleveland I want to put in a plug for everything on-view at moCa (all new as of 1/30). The group show is "Ohio Now: State of Nature" (highlights for me are John Sabraw's one big canvas; Charmaine Spencer's and Supermrin's earthy wall hangings; Keith Lemley's neon stratigraphy) but also 1/2
- KINGCOBRA's shark (actual title: very long) is spectacular: look close for the craft details, then stand back, take in the whole thing, and panic a little. Sky Hopinka is doing something VERY INTERESTING with text that I want to understand better someday. Go check it out!
- ACADEMIC IN CHARGE OF A $500 THESIS PRIZE: please submit a performance video and 1 page personal statement GOP <sealioning>: no SAT scores? this self-dealing ivory-tower gatekeeping is unfair. you will be forced to run on merit like the private sector does PRIVATE MERITOCRACY IN CHARGE OF $2B:
- www.justice.gov/epstein/file... holy shit
