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An entertaining uplift story modeled after the 1-on-1 interviews part of Childhood's End. It's a hoot. ... About Tycho's Uraniborg observatory: "Your species' best habit began ther…

There are certainly some people with severe autism whose behavior is emotionally flat and they don't SHOW emotions much. But that's a far cry from not having any emotions. Explain …

The idea of what should happen is irrelevant, because we have not seen this "dense housing" actually materialize in US LVT jurisdictions any time in the past 100 years. The townshi…

An LVT results in new McMansions getting built on quarter acre lots and being taxed at the same rate as SFHs and trailers on quarter acre lots. It's the perfect way to allow rich p…

325 mg aspirin pills were originally 5 grains. A carat was 4 grains. The unit was used by apothecaries, jewelers, and bullet makers.

In Canada, Santa's postcode is H0H 0H0. In the 1800s a letter addressed Sromfidevi England was eventually delivered to Sir Humphry Davy.

Clocks at NIST Boulder in Colorado run faster than NIST Gaithersburg in Maryland by about 1.55 microseconds per year because of the 1500 meter altitude difference. It's about 1 nan…

They're pretty sure the primordial environment was a hydrothermal vent in an anoxic high phosphorus soda lake with methane, ammonia, and UV exposure. Nowadays those lakes don't hav…

They made a walking robotic exoskeleton for a snake. https://lifeboat.com/blog/2023/01/madman-invents-robot-suit-...

There's a diagram of the size of everything in the universe from quarks to the whole observable universe. https://www.universetoday.com/163927/everything-in-the-unive...

The old process depended on a small amount of undocumented residue that was removed in the new process. Obligatory FreeFall reference http://freefall.purrsia.com/ff1500/fc01415.htm…

As Kevin Bacon put it in Quicksilver, "What happened to all that money?" "Nothing happened to it. The money's still there. It just belongs to somebody else now."

IP-locating databases have mostly switched to showing the default location as being in the middle of a lake, so that people will know it's not a real house. related: Null Island at…

Also https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-07-31/shipwreck-cargo-revea...

> In 1968, analyst Richard Brandon told the ACM that the typical programmer was "excessively independent ... often egocentric, slightly neurotic, and he borders upon a limited schi…

The Smokey Stover themed "WHAT THIS COUNTRY NEEDS IS FOO" (1938) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2pljKyCgwc

At least it fixed itself.

Bugger. The reaction wheels have gone bad. https://arstechnica.com/space/2026/07/reaction-wheel-failure...

The name has been cited as Uhackatik and/or Uhaachatik. Northern Quebec, 25 km wide. 51.2° N https://craterexplorer.ca/uhackatik-impact-crater/

James Burke's book version of 'Connections' https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/55024.Connections Also Douglas Coupland's 'Microserfs' , described as "Here's a guy who seems to hav…

It was mentioned in http://www.terrydunkle.com/glass.php and in a Sky & Telescope magazine article from 1989 which explained why Perkin-Elmer began using very meticulous step by st…

In 1968, a team of Perkin-Elmer technicians were carrying the million dollar Copernicus space telescope mirror to the other side of the lab. They tripped over a piece of scrap lumb…

"Like so many good ideas, nuclear pulse propulsion started with a Polish guy living in New Mexico." (Stanisław Ulam)

Victor Borge pronounced his punctuation marks. O:-) https://duckduckgo.com/?q=victor+borge+punctuation&ia=videos...

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