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hrm, double-click and your browser does the rest. For added benefit, full screen? Until you need presenter notes or other niceties, this covers a large space of usage.

There were the so-called Subsequent Nuremberg Trials (12 of them). Among them were the trials of IG Farben (gas chamber supplies, Zyklon B) and Krupp (armament of the German milita…

No horse either but here is an attempt (ignoring criminal record as you say): Opening the border and letting her rip is clearly not sustainable in the medium term. So you try to ma…

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Not sure I agree with 'appearance [...] is much worse'. Given the choice between a class room of first years who believe (in themselves and) an appearance of calculus knowledge or …

resulting in an unhealthy, pale appearance /s

no. there might be some mild advantages (less environmental damage? also protection from excessive IR+VIS?) But in the published testdata listed above there are mineral sunscreens …

we discovered the same joke independently in Germany. loved it.

We used to love riding in them at our university in the late 80s/90s. And when you proceed to ride over the top will the car flip upside down? We managed to scare at least one of o…

very clever, thank you

It is also not a pipe

a decent stab at humour. I chuckled.

GO AROUND, WINDSHEAR AHEAD!

Until you encounter a switch that's part of a three-way switch arrangement where up can be on or off depending on the position of the other switch in the circuit.

The 1951 UNHCR convention [1] would like to disagree that only an entitled line of thinking presupposes rights of refugees. [1] https://www.unhcr.org/about-unhcr/who-we-are/1951-re…

"TERRAIN, TERRAIN! whoop whoop PULL UP!" -- the makers of the Terrain Avoidance and Warning System (TAWS) thought that this extra information was useful. Maybe the timing is differ…

I am quite impressed by their transparency. However, I need to decide on whether to replace my ailing laptop with their 13" model or whether I can limp along until the glorious 16"…

Well, that pair of Ethiopian immigrants might be doing OK [1]. Immigrants from Africa esp if they are blessed to come from places where English is taught and education levels are h…

I think your incorrect assumption is that tenured faculty are running and shaping the universities. Much has been written about the rise of different class in the academy: administ…

Yes. 12kWh/kg chemical energy for kerosene, a little more for avgas. But with a 25% efficiency you are only getting 3kWh out of a kg of fuel. Electric motors tend to have higher ef…

That t is not entirely useless (non-native Russian speaker here). Even the pronunciation of 'check' has a starting t sound in it: tʃɛk. Without the starting t, you might end up wit…