Extremely satisfying thing with something I started doing recently happened today that I can’t say what it is, but it was, well, very satisfying.
Hope you all also have those small moments of personal or professional satisfaction.
A satisfying outcome of being a scientist is when an organically developed collaborative project comes to fruition, and an early career researcher seizes an opportunity to publish new findings. This is the case for Anthony Arsenault who found that across the Great Lakes, ice stores different levels of dissolved organic matter, which can be very important to microbes during melt to jump-start spring production.
Just scraped a bunch of ICE off the walk to the rear door, and it was immensely satisfying — both physically and metaphorically
There is something oddly satisfying about grinding demons with a chainsaw. Cacodemons too.
#Doom
For battered magician Aaron Rodgers, this latest act ended without one final trick https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6965435/2026/01/13/aaron-rodgers-steelers-texans-retirement/
The Tightrope for Defense Contractors: Satisfying Investors and President Trump (Drew FitzGerald/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/politics/national-security/the-tightrope-for-defense-contractors-satisfying-investors-and-president-trump-fc3bf75a
http://www.memeorandum.com/260202/p29#a260202p29
It’s not exactly an entirely satisfying consolation given the amount of misery they inflict on others, but it does help a little seeing them for what they are.