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David Meyer retweeted
‘Beyond Majority Rule’ - my interview with the leading Jesuit university educator, Michael Sheeran, is now out in English, Spanish and Swahili, open access. His politics PhD and book addressed Quaker discernment methodology in leaderless decision making.
friendsjournal.org/beyond-ma…
.@JohnHMcWhorter, Should Living Be Enough ‘Lived Experience’ for a Writer? nytimes.com/2026/10/22/opini…
"the very nature of creativity is to step beyond the self, an especially valuable step in a diverse society that promotes empathy"
Take that, #OwnVoices!
.@TimBalk & @ELaserDavies, Obama Issues Searing Attacks on Trump, Ramaswamy in Return to Campaign Trail nytimes.com/2026/10/24/us/po…
“He should be on @hgtv. He’s got the White House looking like Saddam Hussein opened a Cheesecake Factory. Just gold everywhere.”
.@sherlyholmes, The Vicious School Board Race That Became a Battle for the Soul of Beverly Hills lamaterial.com/p/beverly-hil…
Great story -- I can't wait to hear how it turns out!
Marquis, I Teach at a Business School. It’s Time to Shut Them Down. nytimes.com/2026/10/18/opini…
"I’ve come to a grim conclusion: The problem w/business schools is not repairable misalignment but the design itself."
Sad that it took him 20yrs to figure this out, but good that he did.
David Meyer retweeted
Any artists who would like to learn more about what does it mean when mathematicians say that "mathematics is an art"? My book "Art of Mathematics" is coming out soon and I would love to hear your take on this.
accartbooks.com/uk/book/art-…
David Meyer retweeted
Independent international experts have praised OIST’s interdisciplinary model and world-class research, highlighting the institute’s strong foundation and confidence in its future growth. Learn more: oist.jp/news-center/news/202…
.@Reuters has great idea to name heat storms. I was going to suggest Lucifer, Beezelbub, Belial, …
but on second thought maybe CEOs of oil companies would be better: Darren @exxonmobil, Wael @Shell, Murray @bp_plc, Mike @Chevron, …
Supersized heat waves used to be rare. No longer. A Reuters data-driven examination of global temperatures reveals the emergence of what we call heat storms. They now swarm the planet, upending life around the world. reut.rs/4zBUXtM
The Beacon of Knowledge, channeling sunlight into the underground levels of the Charles Trumbull Hayden Library @ASU. Except not today—I was not expecting rain in AZ!
Last slide at #SQuInT2026: Save the dates for #SQuInT2028, February 24–26, in Albuquerque.
A remarkably large audience for the last talk at #SQuInT2026, late Saturday afternoon. Tony Ransford @QuantinuumQC is describing “Helios: A 98-qubit trapped-ion quantum computer”
David Meyer retweeted
Ce monument historique de Limoges avait 143 ans.
Il aura survécu aux deux guerres mondiales, mais pas à des incendiaires d’extrême gauche, dont certains brandissaient le drapeau palestinien.
La haine.
The mathematics building @ASU, Charles Wexler Hall. Wexler was the founding Chair of the @ASUMathematics department and its *only* member 1930-1941! math.asu.edu/about/history-s…
Listening to @RobertHuangHY discuss “High-rate qLDPC processors” at #SQuInT2026. Very interesting—and potentially useful—but certainly engineering, not science.
