On Being Old and Naive: Studying Concepts for Discussions with My Son at Thanksgiving, Intermetallic Solubility.

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3. Good idea. The AAAS used to send members tee shirts as a gift when they paid their dues.

My favorite read simply, "Facts are facts."

I wore it to my dermatologist appointment, and my doctor, remarked how much he liked it, and I said, "It's a tautology that shouldn't be controversial but somehow has become so."

(This year the AAAS is sending laptop computer sleeves - sigh.)

Discussing the facts about thermodynamics here and elsewhere often gets into spaces implying that its laws are subject to change by wishful thinking.

I could certainly believe the topic could be controversial among some people. You hear all the time descriptions of what are effectively perpetual motion machines, or claims, even worse, that storing energy is a good idea. It isn't.

I certainly want to scream when I hear treatments of stored energy as if it were primary energy.