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I'm Jean Hannah Edelstein, a writer, editor and author. This used to be my personal blog, but now I just use it for amusing and interesting internet ephemera. Head to www.jeanhannahedelstein.com for the full-strength version of what I'm thinking and writing.
Warp Speed will kill you

Harmless interstellar hydrogen becomes deadly ionized radiation that would fry the crew and electronics of starships traveling near light speed, according to a physicist.

Relevant research via Dadelstein & Arthur Edelstein

  6:20 am  |   May 19 2013   |  View comments  

(via noraleah:

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Le boom.

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  5:46 pm  |   May 17 2013   |  28,341 notes   |  View comments  

“At some point the fact that you are being an expat ceases to be a matter of happenstance and becomes a personality trait. Or perhaps the personality trait is that you think that the fact that you are an expat is a personality trait.”

— On a personality trait

  6:22 pm  |   May 16 2013   |  2 notes   |  View comments  

“You know what I need to do though? Put the phone down and ask myself who in the whole wide world is supposed to take responsibility for what I write if I won’t do it myself.”

— Um…shit. Yeah. OK.  

  3:34 am  |   May 16 2013   |  View comments  

Go on vacation with Vic and leave your camera at home; she’ll take care of the photos. You’ll also eat a lot of ice cream and laugh a lot of crying laughs.

Go on vacation with Vic and leave your camera at home; she’ll take care of the photos. You’ll also eat a lot of ice cream and laugh a lot of crying laughs.

  3:33 am  |   May 16 2013   |  1 note   |  View comments  

Pretty good Google doc

Pretty good Google doc

  1:16 am  |   May 16 2013   |  2 notes   |  View comments  

Reading!

  2:52 pm  |   May 12 2013   |  2 notes   |  View comments  

“My brain had apparently been storing every unfelt scrap of happiness from the last nineteen months, and it had impulsively decided to unleash all of it at once in what would appear to be an act of vengeance.”

— Hyperbole and a Half: Depression Part Two

  5:51 am  |   May 10 2013   |  1 note   |  View comments  

The Millions : So That If I Died It Mattered

“I really tried hard to be the best person I could be. So that if I died it mattered.”

(Source: breakthecitysky, via howto-kissdistinctly-american)

  5:41 am  |   May 10 2013   |  54 notes   |  View comments  

Spiersblr: On Conflating Your Job with Your Identity

“Producing good work has many benefits, and it certainly contributes to a stronger sense of identity and purpose. But fullness of self is about more than that. It’s about those ancillary but more direct questions: What are our interests? What are our values? Where did we come from, and where are we now?”

  3:56 pm  |   May 9 2013   |  9 notes   |  View comments  

Physics Illinois alumnus recognized for lifetime of pioneering contributions to MRI | Department of Physics at the U of I

He’s also a leading dad.

  12:10 am  |   May 8 2013   |  4 notes   |  View comments  

Such a gorgeous song, not just because Julian is my favorite* nephew.

*only; once his upcoming brother arrives, he will be my joint favorite.

  2:18 pm  |   May 7 2013   |  2 notes   |  View comments  

Oh my gosh, I thought to myself, There is a man there in a state of distress on the runway. Maybe he fell off his Segway and I am going to have to use my newly-acquired first aid skills to help him.

Oh my gosh, I thought to myself, There is a man there in a state of distress on the runway. Maybe he fell off his Segway and I am going to have to use my newly-acquired first aid skills to help him.

  8:21 pm  |   May 6 2013   |  3 notes   |  View comments  

Really instructive content from ABCRadioNational.

  8:56 am  |   May 1 2013   |  5 notes   |  View comments  

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