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27 Dec 2023 20:35

2873. "Supersymmetry"

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25 Dec 2023 18:20

2872. "Hydrothermal Vents"

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22 Dec 2023 20:05

2871. "Definitely"

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21 Dec 2023 00:35

2870. "Love Songs"

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18 Dec 2023 20:50

2869. "Puzzles"

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15 Dec 2023 17:00

2868. "Label the States"

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13 Dec 2023 23:40

2867. "DateTime"

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12 Dec 2023 04:40

2866. "Snow"

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06 Dec 2023 21:30

'People may complain about readability, but even with jpeg compression, extracting the data points is usually computationally feasible if there aren't too many of them.'

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04 Dec 2023 20:50

'And over heeee[...]eeeere (i)s Saturn.'

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02 Dec 2023 01:35

'Now that airlines have started adding wheel locks to their drink carts, less than half of flights have one accidentally fall out through the hole.'

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29 Nov 2023 19:40

'The value of n is still unknown, but new results constrain it to fall between 8 and 10^500, ruling out popular 'n=1' and 'n=2' theories.'

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27 Nov 2023 21:50

'Unlike an Iron Age collapse, a Bronze Age collapse releases energy, since copper and tin are past the iron peak on the curve of binding energy.'

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24 Nov 2023 21:30

'Shipping times vary. Same-ocean delivery may only take a few years, but delivery from the Weddell Sea in Antarctica may take multiple decades, and molecules meant for inland seas like the Mediterranean may be returned as undeliverable by surface currents.'

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22 Nov 2023 23:05

'An occasional source of mild Thanksgiving tension in my family is that my mother is a die-hard fan of The Core (2003), and various family members sometimes have differing levels of enthusiasm for her annual tradition of watching it.'

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25 Dec 2023 18:20

'Benthic Santas weren't even discovered until the 1970s, but many scientists now believe Christmas may have originally developed around hydrothermal vents and only later migrated to the surface.'

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22 Dec 2023 20:05

'A really mean prank you can play on someone who's picky about words is to add a 'definitely->definitively' autocorrect rule to their keyboard.'

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21 Dec 2023 00:35

'The Piña Colada song carves a trajectory across the chart over the course of the song.'

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18 Dec 2023 20:50

'Why couldn't the amulet have been hidden by Aunt Alice, who understands modern key exchange algorithms?'

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15 Dec 2023 17:00

'Even with a blank map, a lot of people can only name 45-50 of the 64 states.'

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13 Dec 2023 23:40

'It's not just time zones and leap seconds. SI seconds on Earth are slower because of relativity, so there are time standards for space stuff (TCB, TGC) that use faster SI seconds than UTC/Unix time. T2 - T1 = [God doesn't know and the Devil isn't telling.]'

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12 Dec 2023 04:40

'For someone who has ostensibly outgrown staying up late waiting for Santa, I do spend an awful lot of time refreshing websites to see if packages are here yet.'

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08 Dec 2023 22:20

'The phantom found Edward Everett Hale a century too early; by the time we invented satellites, the specifics of his 'brick moon' proposal were dismissed as science fiction.'

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06 Dec 2023 21:30

2864. "Compact Graphs"

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04 Dec 2023 20:50

2863. "Space Typography"

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02 Dec 2023 01:35

2862. "Typical Seating Chart"

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29 Nov 2023 19:40

2861. "X Value"

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27 Nov 2023 21:50

2860. "Decay Modes"

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24 Nov 2023 21:30

2859. "Oceanography Gift"

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22 Nov 2023 23:05

2858. "Thanksgiving Arguments"