Jake Yeston

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Editor at @science.org, shepherding chemistry papers; views here are my own; he/him

bright yellow can of “Banagua” simply organic banana water
Coyote vs. Acme PG 1 HR 38M Aug 27 7:30 PM Regal Kingstowne Seats G9, G8 Screen 3
It’s a badge bonanza! Wordle in 1 + Beat the Bot Wordle Bot: You earned multiple badges and made the top 1% of today’s players. Statistics 1305 played, 99 win %, 263 Current Streak, 263 Max Streak
Black and white cat staring straight ahead on a screen porch in front of a tree
straw-colored cocktail in an octagonal glass with lemon peel in front of bottles of reposado tequila, manzanilla sherry, and pear liqueur
Queen Bee graphic for July 11, 2026 A I L N P U with T in the middle
A baby elephant that looks vaguely like a giant anteater, standing on dirt, seen through a horizontal brass fence at the zoo in Washington, DC
Closest I’ve had to the Platonic ideal of an onion bagel, from The Bagel Place on Queen St in Philly
A bottle of “bearproof” huckleberry whiskey on a glass table in front of a window
old school crank driven burnished metal meat grinder on the edge of a table grinding chicken liver into a glass bowl
Max Planck’s gravestone in Göttingen
dark orange drink in a collins glass in front of orange bitters, La Gitana Manzanilla sherry, Dettling cherry liqueur and Montifaud cognac
BABY spice .75 oz Pelacañas Agricole Rum .75 oz Avuá Amburana Cachaça .5 oz Pairidaēza Crème De Banane .5 oz Tempus Fugit Crème De Cacao .75 oz Heavy Cream
flat large triangular slice of pizza with some nice charred bubbles
Pepe’s pizza—cheese in the foreground and spinach/mushroom/gorgonzola in back. Half of each has already been eaten.
black and white cat looking dangerous
foamy cocktail in an octagonal glass in front of a bottle of La Diablada pisco
In April 2026, the proctored exam policy finally went into place. Because of A.I., most of us now take our tests by writing in blue books, like students a century ago, scribbling out answers by hand under keen observation. Meanwhile, we wonder constantly what will happen next.
Several prominent universities, including the University of Michigan and Harvard, alerted students earlier on Thursday that Canvas was unavailable. Across the country, students have been preparing for, or are already taking, their final exams.
Lake Mcdonald under a bright cloudy sky
copper colored cocktail in an octagonal coupe in front of an absinthe sprayer, Chateau Montifaud cognac, Giffard Abricot and Bonal
ORTEP diagram of an osmium ion (orange) sandwiched between two staggered parallel pentagonal rings that have a boron (green) at each vertex. The borons share bridging hydrogens with each neighbor and also have an apical hydrogen sticking out.
closeup of white flowers on a dogwood tree
Quinquina Cocktail (variation) adapted by Chantal Tseng, Tabard Inn, Washington, D.C. 1 ounce brandy 1/2 ounce apricot liqueur (Rothman & Winter suggested) 3/4 ounce Bonal Gentiane-Quina 2 dashes Pernod (I substituted absinthe) –lemon peel, for garnish Stir well with ice, strain into chilled cocktail glass, give it the lemon peel treatment.
What does it mean to publish a paper? “Gibbs’ chief scientific papers appeared in the Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences. The articles were expensive to set in type because of their length and their wealth of mathematical formulas, so funds were raised by subscription from Yale professors and New Haven businessmen, few or none of whom could understand the publication they were subsidizing.” -from AIP Center for History of Physics
snow falling in my yard in Alexandria next to a leafless dogwood
A reddish orange heart with a yellow border in various peach and beige colored concentric rings. A white Cupid arrow is piercing the heart. The words say: Valentine Hat You earned this badge by reaching the Genius rank in Spelling Bee on February 14, 2026. Also the Pangram today was kind of lame, like -ing Pangrams often are (it doesn’t say that)
A blue snow shovel bent up at the edge so it’s unusable
nicely browned pancakes with some obscured mini chocolate chips on little dark gray plates on a wooden table with Flintstone vitamins peaking into the frame
NY Times says “U.S. emissions jumped in 2025 as coal power rebounded”
fire in a fireplace
A red and white knit hat on a white shaggy beard with a perfectly round beige nose in between
A copper-hued cocktail in front of bottles of Depth Menthe and Chateau Montifaud vsop cognac
A card that says “It’s Girl Scout Cookie Season!” on top and features photos of 9 types of cookies (Tag-a-longs, Toffee-Tastic, Do-Si-Dos, Lemon-Ups, Exploremores, Thin Mints, Samoas, Adventurefuls, Trefoils). Only the Lemon-Ups cookie doesn’t have a bite taken out of it.
Me holding a glencairn glass of Star Hill Farm wheat whisky
Black and white cat looking bemused while I ask the WhatsApp AI to draw ridiculous maps
A mysterious rendering of a sort of tornado shaped mix of cultivated fields, pine trees and colonial era buildings surrounded by a tan, antique-looking background with indiscernible scrawlings. At the top in brass relief it says VILRWNA.
A bottle of Star Hill Farm, Maker’s Mark’s new wheat whisky release. The label says “Locally grown whisky, farmed to showcase the influence of our land. Nature as the maker.”
A brass pocket watch with a taped on fancy V to make it look like a real omni
Robinson created the board game Balderdash with advertising copywriter Paul Toyne, her boyfriend at the time, in 1984.[12][13] It is a board game version of the parlor game Dictionary, where players compete to guess the correct definition of a word from among false ones. Robinson and Toyne played the parlor game the first time they met, at Toyne's family cottage, and they started work on the board game within a month.[13] The five television commercials that Robinson had running supported the pair while they developed the game over the first eight months.[13] They almost lived in libraries to research the 2,500 words that made it into the first edition.[13] One night they were locked into the University of Toronto library after missing closing time.[14] Her mother Margaret came up with the board game name, which means "nonsense".[15]
ducks in an artificial pond in Honolulu
frozen pina colada in a plastic cup with a cherry
5 days of rain forecast in Honolulu
Photo of Maria Goeppert Mayer above the headline “S.D. Mother Wins Nobel Physics Prize” in the San Diego Union Tribune in 1963
Cox Richardson is #1 on Substack and Nate is #7
foamy beige cocktail between nutmeg on a grater and a bottle of brown demerara syrup, in front of three bottles of Braulio, Bonal, and Hampden Great House rum. Original spec calls for Nardini, Bonal, and Smith&Cross
Tho we felicitate ourselves, we sympathize with those who are trembling least the Lot of Boston should be theirs. But they cannot be in similar circumstances unless pusilanimity and cowardise should take possession of them. They have time and warning given them to see the Evil and shun it.—I long to hear that you have declared an independancy—and by the way in the new Code of Laws which I suppose it will be necessary for you to make I desire you would Remember the Ladies, and be more generous and favourable to them than your ancestors. Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of the Husbands. Remember all Men would be tyrants if they could. If perticuliar care and attention is not paid to the Laidies we are determined to foment a Rebelion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any Laws in which we have no voice, or Representation. That your Sex are Naturally Tyrannical is a Truth so thoroughly established as to admit of no dispute, but such of you as wish to be happy willingly give up the harsh title of Master for the more tender and endearing one of Friend. Why then, not put it out of the power of the vicious and the Lawless to use us with cruelty and indignity with impunity. Men of Sense in all Ages abhor those customs which treat us only as the vassals of your Sex. Regard us then as Beings placed by providence under your protection and in immitation of the Supreem Being make use of that power only for our happiness.
A Chanukkah menorah with a different colored ceramic cat under each of the nine candle holders. The cat under the shamash is sitting on a little cat tree.
A circular bottle of orange “genuine curaçao liqueur triple sec” from Senior & Co
A bagged loaf of Holiday Stollen from Great Harvest next to a brown slice of the bread with a marzipan circle in the middle bigger than a silver dollar.
A sack of “Peru” coffee beans from Misha’s Coffee roasters in Alexandria, VA in front of an old school lever espresso machine and a grinder
a roast chicken, yams cut in half, a duck cut in half, and cranberry cornbread stuffing
photo of a hotel nightstand with a little strip that has two giant outlets, and another pair of outlets on the wall by the night lamp. On the left is an alarm clock that says 8 53
NYT Spelling Bee won’t take ALKANE
A selectively reactive tributyl tin center (in blue) over an arrow indicating its use in coupling a vinyl group to an iodine-substituted tropolone derivative
clear cocktail with a ball of ice and desiccated pink grapefruit slice in front of bottles of Carpano Bianco, Broker’s gin, and Cinque amaro
black and white cat scowling on the dinner table
ball-and-stick and line structures of a porphyrin nanobelt