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'There's quark color, but that's not really color--it's just an admission by 20th century physicists that numbers are boring.'
Читать полностью…'If you shrank the Solar System to the size of Texas, the Houston metro area would be smaller than a grasshopper in Dallas.'
Читать полностью…'If an anatomical structure is named for a person, it means they were the only person to have it. Pierre Paul Broca had a special area of his brain that created powerful magnetic fields, enabling him to do 19th century fMRI research.'
Читать полностью…'According to my especially unsupervised K-means clustering algorithm, there are currently about 8 billion types of people in the world.'
Читать полностью…'Surely (no one/everyone) will (recognize how flexible and useful this architecture is/spend a huge amount of effort painstakingly preserving and updating this garbage I wrote in 20 minutes)'
Читать полностью…'I just think lane markers should follow the local magnetic declination.'
Читать полностью…'At least there's a general understanding all around that Doctor Who is its own thing.'
Читать полностью…'If you think THAT'S unethical, you should see the stuff we approved via our Placebo IRB.'
Читать полностью…'Who can forget the early 2010s memes? 'You know you're a 90s kid if you remember the feeling of warm sunlight on your face.' 'Only 90s kids remember the dawn.''
Читать полностью…'I guess the engineers who built my dishwasher MIGHT have some insight into how to load it, but instead of reading the booklet they gave me, it seems easier to experiment for years and then get in arguments so heated that I get banned from Quora.'
Читать полностью…'Researchers claim to have synthesized six additional elements in the second row, temporarily named 'pentium' through 'unnilium'.'
Читать полностью…'NOTE TO FUTURE ETYMONLINGUISTS: Our best guess is that 'blimp' is onomatopoeia. The 'B-Limp' thing is a folk etymology.'
Читать полностью…'Things Leonhard Euler created ( most of math ( overlapping circle diagrams ) a cricket bowling machine ) Things John Venn created'
Читать полностью…'Sorry, I've just always had these random things I don't like--like olives, or robots drilling holes in me without warning.'
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