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This article is a weird mash-up of an actually very interesting paper [0] with random personal slop like i've asked my rabbi, consulted my kabbalah-initiated friends and for the fu…

You are probably right it was timed deliberately this way, this is why the Iranians also didn't rush it ... > Iran waited until the clock passed midnight local time to finalize the…

For context the Cell paper published several weeks before [0][1] provides a more bird's eye view (multi-omics etc.) the Nature paper here is very hands on providing x-ray crystal s…

It is unfortunate that at some point in midst of numerous renaming itself after a brief stint in mass media around 2014 the programming on both side was so successful that the lati…

Thanks, the article written in 2020 (?) is essentially a 1 to 1 copy of the vox clip "How a recording-studio mishap shaped '80s music" from 2017. (If the chronology is right) kind …

I stand corrected you are right there is no isolated use of [ɬ] in nahuatl as a phoneme it is used only in the context of an affricative /t͡ɬ/ I got ahead of myself in trying to is…

Well, actually I suppose the hardest part is to pronounce the other consonant hispanicized as -tl at the end (a soft lisp) [ɬ] voiceless alveolar lateral fricative [0] in a suffici…

Ironically the "drama" narrative which was constructed much later making for a good story to tell could have been avoided right from the start. Just three weeks after the publicati…

While at some point in the optimization game Goodhart’s Law will also apply here, before that happens I thoroughly enjoyed the insights from reading it and will try implementing so…

What would the people who sealed the grave do when they accidentally unearthed a sophisticated burial site from the middle bronze age? Leave it alone? Maybe. I'm not sure, humans a…

> It's amazing when people flag this as a bad thing when it's undoubtedly a key component of getting places to prosperity in the first place. Got to get people away from being star…

For me largley shaped by the westering old Europe creaking and breaking (after 2 WWs) under its heavy load of philosophical/metaphysical inheritance (which at this point in time ca…

An interesting read on that topic an nyt-article from 2002 "killer songs" https://archive.ph/fy9SC

Regarding Corbin Bleu the english wikipedia article itself mentions this oddity [0] apparently some great fan from Saudi Arabia [1](the article in Arabic itself is also unusually v…

Without the proper philosophical/historical context[0] the final part of Hilbert's speech and its end slogan ( Wir müssen wissen. Wir werden wissen. ) cannot be fully appreciated. …

I think the underlying assumption is that we all suffer i.e. challenges and struggles in life. Say first time heart-broken, some people really lean into it, and some of those peopl…

Going through a lot of iterations until one band name "stuck", true to his obsessive working ethos in finding the "right" sound for his music. > L: Where did the name Nine Inch Nai…

Looking at extreme examples of historical spelling (e.g. Tibetan) English isn't particularly bad, even in the context of Great Britain, e.g Manx [0] is way more off. [0] https://en…

You are likely referring to ignorance: not knowing what you don't know thus resulting in a possible false confidence. The article is about "feeling stupid" in hindsight. Because yo…

GenZ are mostly aware[0] but feel powerless about it so they don't act accordingly which may seem that they are oblivious. From personal experience in a controlled setting (tutorin…

Surprisingly it is obvious for Gen Z that social media in its current form is highly addictive and destabilizing in terms of well-being because (usually framed as "mental health").…

Interestingly, the most toxic thing about the Revigator wasn't its added "radioactivity" through Radon to the water but its leaden spout combined with the impurities leaked conside…

> Landa and Councell evaluated the leaching of uranium into different solutions over a 24 hour period. The glassware they used was designed to hold liquids (e.g., drinking glasses)…

Never heard of the "learning zones" as a concept but from my own teaching experience after a while I was aware if I made my lecture too accessible and easy to follow through my stu…