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Brennan Price @brennantprice.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

A non-trivial portion of my time as a patent lawyer was spent explaining chirality to the partners trying our pharma cases. It is good to see some pioneers in the field of asymmetric catalysis get their due from the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.

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Chemistry Nobel awarded for chiral chemistry advances

Henri B. Kagan and Kenso Soai win the 2026 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their work on nonlinear effects and asymmetric catalysis

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Brennan Price @brennantprice.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Radio-Canada prévoit que, si la tendance se maintient, le prochain gouvernement du Québec sera formé par le Parti québécois.

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Brennan Price @brennantprice.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Watching the Social Creditization of the CAQ.

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Brennan Price @brennantprice.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Those who transplanted still sustain doing that which is always done to tyrants.

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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

#BREAKING: #SCOTUS once again freezes the lower federal courts’ rulings in the Missouri redistricting case—and affirms that, as the Missouri Supreme Court held earlier this month, Missouri will use the 2022 map in the November elections. There were no public dissents.

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Brennan Price @brennantprice.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Satellite law protip: The Permitted List and the Approved Space Station List are not the same thing.

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Brennan Price @brennantprice.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Susan Collins has learned her lesson. --by Susan Collins

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Brennan Price @brennantprice.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

If ARRL had paid a hundredth of the attention over the last decade to the 9 cm band as they have to Logbook of the World, we might still have a 9 cm band. That said, there seems to be an outage this morning. Those inclined to see the world ending will do so.

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Brennan Price @brennantprice.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Martin Minski, The Problemist, September 2026. White to play and win.

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Brennan Price @brennantprice.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Missed field goal attempt reaching the goal line is a touchback in every high school state association except Texas. No one here in the stands knows this. Must. Bite. Tongue.

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Brennan Price @brennantprice.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

A composition is the hard problem on gameknot.com today. C.J. Morse after E.D. McQueen, The Problemist, 2008. Mate in two.

b4Q2/bk2K2R/N1N4r/BPp5/8/8/6RP/7B w - - 0 1

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Brennan Price @brennantprice.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

A former job was once dismissed by someone saying, "All you do is negotiate with Canadians all day." My reply, then and now: "You have clearly never negotiated with a Canadian."

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Brennan Price @brennantprice.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

From my hometown's wonky Thursday-in-August general election:

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Brennan Price @brennantprice.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Regardless of who ultimately wins MI-SEN-D (and I would rather be El-Sayed than Stevens at this point), this was a huge polling miss.

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Brennan Price @brennantprice.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

This composition by two 13-year-old Brazilian chessplayers was recently published by the British Chess Problem Society. Good to see new faces in chess composition. Flora Sarmento and Arthur Reimberg, The Problemist Supplement, May 2026. Helpmate in two, two solutions. Helpmate => Black moves first.

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Brennan Price @brennantprice.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Lynx win 108-100. If Atlanta wins tomorrow, Sophie's team will be . . . Tied for fifth. (Ok, 4th and 5th, but still.)

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Brennan Price @brennantprice.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

This position from a 3/4 Final of the 13th ICCF World Championship appears in the 3rd edition of Chess Informant's Encyclopedia of Chess Combinations. Problem solvers will have a leg up in finding how Danish ICCM Niels Granberg finished off Ukrainian ICCM Semen Gubnitsky. White to play and win.

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Brennan Price @brennantprice.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

This is why FIFA keeps the third place match. When the pressure is off, fun things happen.

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Brennan Price @brennantprice.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Jan Timman, 1980. White to play and draw.

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Brennan Price @brennantprice.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Fine. We'll take 8-3 and do it the hard way.

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Brennan Price @brennantprice.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

Live look-in from the EWR Gate C74 United Club.

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Brennan Price @brennantprice.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

Truth: The Local Geography unit in Virginia fourth grade classrooms requires students to learn and identify "a major city along the Potomac River." The credited response is . . . Alexandria.

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Brennan Price @brennantprice.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

Annual reminder: Radio amateurs suck at April Fool's Day. The jokes are not funny, too many people fall for them, and too many of those people are too insistent that the jokes aren't jokes and waste time and resources by worrying themselves and others about them. This includes you. And me.

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Yonah Freemark @yonahfreemark.com · 27/03/2026

Happy birthday to the Washington Metro, which opened 50 years ago today with service on 4.6 mi of Red Line between Rhode Is. Ave & Farragut N. System now serves 130 mi. The DC Metro shows that, with good planning & enough investment, the public sector can succeed & build something extraordinary.

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PBS News @pbsnews.org · 24/03/2026

If the antimatter had come into contact with actual matter, even for a fraction of an instant, it would have been annihilated in a quick flash of energy. So experts at CERN had to be extra careful when they took 92 antiprotons for a short ride on Tuesday. to.pbs.org/41bEy0d

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Did you remember to pack the antimatter? CERN takes antiprotons for a short drive

Scientists in Geneva took some antiprotons out for a spin — a very delicate one — in a truck, in a never-tried-before test drive that has been deemed a success.

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Brennan Price @brennantprice.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

Yeah, only Republicans use Democrat as a proper adjective. Instant block.

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Brennan Price @brennantprice.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

Solution: 1.Ra7! > 2.d8Q#; if 1...Sf7 2.d8S#. A "Meredith" (less than twelve pieces) with underpromotion that remarkably escaped anticipation even in 2024.

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Brennan Price @brennantprice.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

Kabe Moen (professionally a mathematics professor at the University of Alabama), Special Commendation, The Problemist, 2024. Mate in 2.

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Brennan Price @brennantprice.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

My application for a license for amateur radio station J79QX is pending. Intercessions for favorable action by Dominica's NRTC would be welcome. If successful, operation will be exclusively via FM satellites *as work permits* between April 5-11. QSL *exclusively* via Logbook of the World.

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Brennan Price @brennantprice.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

The First Sunday in Lent means The Great Litany at St George's Episcopal Church. In a sign that perhaps Arlington has a *lot* of lawyers, the cantor assigned to the relevant portion asked for deliverance from "false doctrine, hearsay, and schism." And to be fair, hearsay kind of fits . . . .

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Brennan Price @brennantprice.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

Jan Timman, Schaakwerk I, 1983. White to play and win.

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Brennan Price @brennantprice.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

Hint: The key leaves nothing but a series of spite checks before execution of the threat.

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Brennan Price @brennantprice.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

Black to play and mate in seven. What, you were expecting Western chess?

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Brennan Price @brennantprice.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

Any halfway seasoned amateur satellite operator knows that it's *not* always sunny in space.

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Brennan Price @brennantprice.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

As I don't play over-the-board go at all, I have set out my goban as a snowboard (a solid surface against which snow measurements can be made). The sticks are driven into the ground for ease of location. This will be my first foray as a volunteer weather spotter. Wish me luck, and be safe.

13 by 13 goban on ground with sticks driven into ground at corners, being used as a snowboard for accurate snow measurement.

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Brennan Price @brennantprice.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

Annual amateur radio reminder: Friends don't let friends do Winter Field Day.

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Brennan Price @brennantprice.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

Alexei Troitsky, Movie Vremia, 1895. White to play and win.

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Brennan Price @brennantprice.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

I am going to try to do some chess problems for noobs articles this year. My first effort is a walk-through of an instructive helpmate in 4 1/2 by Luis Echemendia, published in The Problemist Supplement this month. This is geared toward a "What the hell is a helpmate?" audience. Feddback welcome.