'Our anti-de Sitter club is small at the moment, but I've started corresponding with the conformal field theory people.'

3078. "Anchor Screws"

'The biggest expense was installing the mantle ducts to keep the carbonate-silicate cycle operating.'

3079. "Air Fact"

''Wow, that must be why you swallow so many of them per year!' 'No, that's spiders. You swallow WAY more ants.''

3080. "Tennis Balls"

'After initial tests created a series of large holes in the wall of the lab, the higher-power Scanning Tunneling Tennis Ball Microscope project was quickly shut down.'

3081. "PhD Timeline"

'Rümeysa Öztürk was grabbed off the street in my town one month ago.'

3082. "Chess Position"

'It's important to learn the moves that take you into the vortex, but it's best not to study vortex itself too closely. Even grandmasters who have built up a tolerance lose the ability to play for a few hours after studying it.'

3083. "Jupiter Core"

'Juno mission data suggests that Jupiter actually contains Matryoshka doll-style nested copies of every other planet in the Solar System.'