Nathan Ryan

@nathanryan.bsky.social

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Nuclear science and I cook sometimes :) Views are my own. https://nsryan.github.io

Two columns of ducks made of snow sitting on a ledge leaving Talbot Laboratory at UIUC
Blue-green pasta bowl with squid ink pasta coated in a cream sauce with 6 seared scallops, dusted with cilantro and lemon zest
Snapchat video that starts by zooming in on flowering whit and yellow plants and then pans over to purple flowers that are peaking up from the mulch. I have no idea what type of plant they are, but they’re waving in the wind.
Picture of Jeremy Mettler presenting his PhD defense in a packed room of people (it was so full we had people sitting on the floor and standing around the edges).
Merriam-Webster’s word of the day for December 11, 2024. The picture has the Merriam-Webster logo in the upper right corner and reads: Word of the Day: December 11, 2024 Sublimate Verb SUB-luh-mayt To express a feeling or desire in a more acceptable way
Dinner plate with thin strips of fried potato atop a spinach and cheese stuffed chicken breast. In front of the chicken is a stack of potato sheets stuffed with cheese and spinach with red pepper flakes on top. Filling the rest of the plate is roasted asparagus with some roasted potatoes (we used the leftover bits from the potato sheets to make little quarters).
Video of a series of small snowmen sitting on a ledge. Each had the name of a mathematician in front of it including (Euler, Cauchy, Lagrange, Oscar, Galerkin, Kirchhoff, and Taylor).
Me sitting with my legs crossed on a stone cube that reads: “THE WORLD'S FIRST NUCLEAR REACTOR WAS REBUILT AT THIS SITE IN 1943 AFTER INITIAL OPERATION AT THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO THIS REACTOR (CP-2) AND THE FIRST HEAVY WATER MODERATED REACTOR (CP-3) WERE MAJOR FACILITIES AROUND WHICH DEVELOPED THE ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY THIS SITE WAS RELEASED BY THE LABORATORY IN 1956 AND THE US ATOMIC ENERGY COMMISSION THEN BURIED THE REACTORS HERE”
A video through a window of snow flurrying between buildings and over rooftops. The emphasis is on the size of the flakes.
A parchment paper lined cookie sheet with a browned puff pastry covered with cracked black pepper.
A line plot of the number of reactors layered over a bar plot of the net electrical capacity in GWe.
Bar chart of reactor type along the vertical and number along the horizontal (the capacity for each type is above the number of units deployed).
Table of Clebsch-Gordon coefficients that every physics undergrad has beaten into their head.
Half a stick of unsalted butter with Paula Deen’s head on one end breathing fire
Three dogs staring at the person taking the photo from behind a glass door
Three people posed infront of a pink wire statue of Dolly Parton
Two carved pumpkins, one with a jagged-toothed smile and the other is Mario’s head
A puppy in a collar sitting on a blue checkered bed, placed on top of a car seat
Screenshot of a Snapchat showing a tv with a video of Mary Roach in her American Idol interview. A banner of text below it says, “Avery hadn’t heard of Mary roach!”
Photo of a model in a brown coat from the 2012 Louis Vuitton Ready-to-Wear collection with a man in a train conductor uniform carrying her bag
Wing of a plane along the horizon set above a layer of clouds with some holes. The sun is just off screen to the right.
Person standing in front of a bust of Abraham Lincoln with one hand on the bust’s nose.
A laptop displaying the congressional website with a traffic error saying that a bill isn’t available at that time.
Three apple galettes on a plate sitting on a counter.