If you like the show How To with John Wilson (highly recommend if haven't seen it), his new documentary The History of Concrete is playing in theaters. It was really creative, entertaining and funny!

Still wrapping my mind around the fact that in quantum mechanics, all electrons are identical and no one knows which is which

Finished reading my 3rd physics textbook Intro to Electrodynamics by Griffiths. It was excellent with lots of derivations and helpful examples/problems. My fav topic so far is electromagnetism I emailed Griffiths how much I loved it, he actually replied and it made me so happy!

Random unexpected benefit of my physics studying the past year has been being way more handy around the house. Physical issues are like little physics problem to me now and it makes it fun to figure out and fix vs defaulting to asking my husband to do it or just ignoring it

I'm reading these 3 popular physics books in parallel to my textbooks if anyone wants to book club 1 or more with me! Would be fun to have people to chat with about them

Bark Barbecue in Brooklyn

I'm expecting my first kid in a few months and it blows my mind the difference of the world she's born into vs my own childhood, in just one generation. She'll only know a world with the internet, smartphones, AI, social media, etc. Will be interesting learning how to navigate

My husband just said to me "I'm just informing you that I need to buy a metal detector" 😂

Spent time genuinely replying to someone who cold messaged me a career question and I got an obvious block of AI generated reply back. That was so off-putting I don't see why people think that's even an option for outreach

I finally bought an Eight Sleep since pregnancy was making it more difficult to sleep and it's made a huge improvement. Now I don't need to kick off the covers throughout the night and I fall asleep easier with a cooler temp. My husband loves it too, really glad we got it!

Shared some of my thoughts on the AI discourse

Starting my next physics textbook Intro to Quantum Mechanics by Griffiths! I really enjoyed his electrodynamics one and found he's a great writer Quantum was the most difficult topic for me so far (still getting used to thinking in probabilities) so we'll see how it goes!

I learned about the existence of anyons and I'm trying to wrap my head around them. They're quasiparticles that occur in 2D but not 3D and their movements around each other have "memory" of some kind?? Insane