Brian Gibbs

Brian Gibbs

"Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood"

Quote from Marie Curie --request

quantum tunneling

"uncertainty in the exact location of light particles allows these particles to break rules of classical mechanics and move in space without passing over the potential energy barrier" --wikipedia

Kevin McCarthy (US House leader)

Republican serving as House Minority Leader in the United States House of Representatives since 2019. He has been elected to represent a California district eight times. --wikipedia

Hanuman (Hinduism)

He is viewed as the ideal combination of "strength, heroic initiative and assertive excellence" and "loving, emotional devotion to his personal god Rama" --wikipedia

Avicii - Waiting for Love

The embedded video has nearly 1 billion views.

time travel

calibrated: depiction in popular culture, scientific models / explanations, accessing the Akashic record out-of-body

Slack (software)

Slack has more than 10 million daily users, according to the company. It might be of interest for people who are part of this group. --request

T/F: voting is pointless without election integrity

by request, in light of America's failure to maintain election integrity nationwide

pyramid scheme

a business model that recruits members via a promise of payments or services for enrolling others into the scheme, rather than supplying investments or sale of products --wikipedia

Fall of the Berlin Wall

9 November, 1989. German reunification took place in October the following year.

Personality Disorders in Modern Life, by Theodore Millon

"Personalities are like impressionistic paintings. At a distance, each person is 'all of a piece'; up close, each is a bewildering complexity of moods, cognitions, and motives."

"If the path before you is clear, you're probably on someone else's"

Strikes me as a really dumb quote, but it is subjectively true at 195, which is not the level of dumb. Nevertheless, it is false and misleading.

smoked food

Smoking is the process of flavoring, browning, cooking, or preserving food by exposing it to smoke from burning or smoldering material, most often wood --wikipedia

dishwashing by hand

Request: This is an activity that plenty of adults do everyday. Personally, I do it 2 or 3 times daily. Thanks!

zealotry

"fanatical and uncompromising pursuit of religious, political, or other ideals" -- Google dictionary