David Helfand @DavidJHelfand
Columbia U astronomer, Chair of the American Inst. of Physics, Quest U founding faculty & President, author of A Survival Guide to the Misinformation Age. davidjhelfand.info New York, USA Joined January 2016-
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TOMORROW @Columbia : Prof. @DavidJHelfand ‼️ Last Christmas morning, we opened a new window on the Universe with the launch of the James Webb Space Telescope. By far the most complex device ever placed in space. Come & learn what Webb is allowing us to see! 🤩#jameswebb
The #JamesWebbSpaceTelescope is a remarkable feat of human engineering and is big, but the SMAS0723 cluster is a telescope 1 million light years in diameter - a useful addition for seeing the early Universe.
When the weather is nice, @DavidJHelfand takes his @Columbia students on a walk in Riverside Park: “I try to get across the enormous enrichment one obtains in a walk in the park, if one can view it as a scientist does.” Find out what he sees: freak.ws/3I9wuRm
We're 0.000607346 away from a perfect #PiDay - need to wait 93 more years to get it right.
Inspiring science and dispiriting universities with @StevenDLevitt on @MostlyAdmiring @Freakonomics bitly.ws/ph6w
Fantastic (much needed) welcome to #MexicoCity by @Dayofknowledge, @UNESCO and @stregishotels ensuring I'll be well rested for my talk tomorrow on creativity, genius and the brain, along with @RoemerAndres @DavidJHelfand Orin Grossman, and Matt Stanley.
"People have been trying to understand what our place is in the cosmos, & what chapter our existence appears in the history of the universe. The amazing thing is that we live in an age where we can answer some of those questions." Dr. David Helfand LISTEN: trib.al/P7Im8W1
Tickets are now available for our upcoming @SpaceCentreYVR and @ColumbiaAlumniA talk on May 6th by Columbia University astronomy professor @DavidJHelfand! Come learn about new worlds - how we discover new solar systems and other habitable planets! bit.ly/2qKayYs #scicomm
5 Questions with David J. Eicher: Episode 15 - David Helfand ow.ly/tBb730i37xo
Prof. @DavidJHelfand on Surviving the Misinformation Age. Get your tix at dc.alumni.columbia.edu/helfand March 28th at 6pm @WeWorkDC White House.
Our Science Spotlight Series starts on 2/8 at 7PM in 700 Fairchild with @IvanaNHughes talking about some of the science behind nuclear weapons. Don't miss it!
We've finally got all the details set for our spring calendar! Save these dates and looking forward to seeing you next week!
The “ #SuperBlueBloodMoon ” is a) not super (just the regular old moon), b) not blue (it is never sad nor blue) and c) there’s no blood anywhere, but if you’re up at 6:45am and it is clear, look west. #supermoon
Generous interpretation of House action: colossal collective stupidity. Alternative interpretation: A blow for the anti-intellectual, anti-elitist agenda. I mean, true third-world countries don’t need PhDs in science, engineering, and math, let alone history and English.
House Tax Bill ends PhD education at private universities Jan 1 by taxing tuition benefits; it only decimates PhD education in public institutions. But hey, who needs PhDs from Harvard, Princeton, Columbia, Cornell, Stanford, CalTech and MIT — they are all in blue states anyway.
I suspect the interstellar comet will go away. Well, it will certainly go far away, but my guess is the interstellar claim will vanish also.
When my grad school office mate discovered a binary neutron star in 1974, we knew merger was possible. To see it happen is remarkable.#LIGO
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If Democrats were smart they'd put the pressure on Ginni & Clarence Thomas. Expose them to the public through these hearings. It will help make the case the Supreme Court is utterly compromised by right wing extremists. Also #ExpandSCOTUS will gain more traction after Roe falls.
When the weather is nice, @DavidJHelfand takes his @Columbia students on a walk in Riverside Park: “I try to get across the enormous enrichment one obtains in a walk in the park, if one can view it as a scientist does.” Find out what he sees: freak.ws/3I9wuRm
Every student at @QuestUniCanada completes a “keystone” thesis project. “Most of them were better than the master's theses I've seen at Columbia. They were just extraordinary,” says former Quest president @DavidJHelfand on this week’s episode: freak.ws/3i3Kbqm
.@DavidJHelfand worked for 22 years to add science to the @Columbia core curriculum: “It struck me as grossly irresponsible to graduate students who had not been equipped with basic quantitative-reasoning skills, what I call 'scientific habits of mind.’” freak.ws/3JaEOSt
.@DavidJHelfand has been at @Columbia since 1977. So why did he decline their tenure offer? “Tenure does more to deny academic freedom to those who don't have it than it does to protect the academic freedom of those who do,” he says. Listen now: freak.ws/3KIC2UQ
“Science is a process of building models, testing them against nature, and typically having them fail,” says @DavidJHelfand. “Given that definition, it conforms rather closely to what 5-year-olds do.” Don’t miss his conversation with @StevenDLevitt: freak.ws/3i76o7e
David Helfand is a longtime member and chair of the Astronomy Department at Columbia University. He is a skeptic, author, and innovator in teaching in new and creative ways, and you can hear about his amazing career in this “5 Questions” podcast. ed.gr/tntw
Fantastic (much needed) welcome to #MexicoCity by @Dayofknowledge, @UNESCO and @stregishotels ensuring I'll be well rested for my talk tomorrow on creativity, genius and the brain, along with @RoemerAndres @DavidJHelfand Orin Grossman, and Matt Stanley.
"People have been trying to understand what our place is in the cosmos, & what chapter our existence appears in the history of the universe. The amazing thing is that we live in an age where we can answer some of those questions." Dr. David Helfand LISTEN: trib.al/P7Im8W1
Professor @DavidJHelfand breaks down the information into its bits. @ColumbiaAstro @WeWork
Today I interviewed the great David Helfand of Columbia University — very interesting stuff, and will be posted soon.
Listen in as we speak with David Helfand, astrophysicist, skeptic, teacher, and the author of "A Survival Guide to the Misinformation Age: Scientific Habits of Mind." trib.al/PvRgDF8
5 Questions with David J. Eicher: Episode 15 - David Helfand ow.ly/tBb730i37xo
Prof. @DavidJHelfand on Surviving the Misinformation Age. Get your tix at dc.alumni.columbia.edu/helfand March 28th at 6pm @WeWorkDC White House.
Our Science Spotlight Series starts on 2/8 at 7PM in 700 Fairchild with @IvanaNHughes talking about some of the science behind nuclear weapons. Don't miss it!
We've finally got all the details set for our spring calendar! Save these dates and looking forward to seeing you next week!
Science Spotlight Series started with a bang of exploding stars and an audience exploding out the door. Thanks @DavidJHelfand for speaking!
Our first science spotlight feat Prof @DavidJHelfand is on 10/9 at 7pm in 700 Fairchild at @Columbia. Come check out the @ColumbiaScience!
Check out @DavidJHelfand dropping science and taking names ccnmtl.columbia.edu/projects/helfa…
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