Kindly enlighten us with your evidence that George Soros funds the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. Because I can't seem to find any.

As for the actual past and present sponsors of the BAS, well ZOMG, now there's a festering pile of hard-bitten commie hacks (not.)

...came here looking for "overlords" posts, and left disappointed.

That's more of a philosophical statement than a quibble on grammar.

As a verb, effect means to cause, achieve or bring about. If you think nothing can "effect" the future, then basically you're a Calvinist.

A simple rule that I like to use: You can affect an effect, but you can't effect an affect unless you're in the same business as Meryl Streep and Robert de Niro.

Well her husband Pierre Curie apparently did. They had two children: Irène (scientist and Nobel laureate, along with her parents) and Ève (writer and pianist.)

He didn't "steal" it, and she wasn't his student.

Cecilia Payne's dissertation originally concluded that stars (particularly our Sun) were composed primarily of ionized hydrogen and helium, with smaller amounts of other elements, mostly metals. Russel reviewed her dissertation, and dissuaded her from presenting that conclusion, because the common wisdom at the time was that the Sun was made of the same stuff as the Earth, but heated to incandescence.

Later, Russel realized that Payne was right, and gave her brief credit in one of his papers for the idea. Unfortunately the idea was still attributed to Russel for a long time. Payne did get the recognition she deserved, albeit belatedly.

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Oh wait, you said state-wide national office. Yes, you're right. But so what? You're talking about two US senators who have been incumbents since prior to NVRA, so it's a half-truth. California has elected plenty of Republicans to other national and state offices since NVRA took effect, including Republican Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, who served two terms, from 2003 to 2011.

Actually it's the National Voter Registration Act, not just in California. It passed both houses in 1993 with bipartisan support, and took effect at the beginning of 1995.

Absolutely false.

It isn't even non-standard usage. It's just wrong.

"intensive" = "functioning at a level of high intensity" (e.g., an intensive course in computer programming.)

US citizens need to register to vote. It is not an "honor" system.

"But-but-but .. voter fraud!" Bullshit. State-issued ID cards are a thinly-veiled partisan attempt to disenfranchise certain voter-groups by placing additional obstacles in their way.

A Ph.D. in almost any technical subject (including, but perhaps particularly Physics) is a credential that shows you can dive deeply into a complex problem, demonstrate inventiveness and independence, not give up, and come up with a comprehensive report (dissertation) that describes what you accomplished.

It can be hard to finish a Ph.D. on a project you have spent years on, and may have lost interest in. I'm not surprised you finished your Ph.D. in the end just because you started it. Many people finish just for that reason, if they manage to finish at all. But be proud that you are among those who did.

[Disclosure: yes, I have a Ph.D. in Physics too, so perhaps my bias shows.]

As long as we're taking note of higher-tier Uber offerings, let's not forget this one.

...because this video will become less funny.

Oops, sorry. I just Googled and confirmed that Fortran 66 had logical-ifs, e.g.,
IF (X .LT. 0.0) X = -X
I thought it only had the arithmetic kind.

FTFY

No.

Math, for all of its beauty and power, is not a science. Why? Because it does not rely on experimental observations to arrive at conclusions. Instead, it relies on axioms extended by logical reasoning.