The Weekly Weird - 2018-08-31

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  • I would definitely have reconsidered medicine as a career field if I knew stabbing cadavers with ballpoint pens was a valid research track.
  • If you think you should quit your job, you should quit your job. People stay way longer than seems obvious from the outside.
  • Thermodynamics kills. I don't mean poetically, I mean the list of academics studying the subject with successful or seriously attempted suicide attempts is ... startling (h/t stefanetal:
    • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludwig_Boltzmann
    • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Ehrenfest
    • https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julius_von_Mayer
    • https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clara_Immerwahr
    • https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilbert_N._Lewis
    • https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percy_Williams_Bridgman
  • I present to you the polar opposite of blameless postmortems.
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