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Turbo Pascal is 3.7x smaller than the Wikipedia page describing it. Wikipedia's prose description of Turbo Pascal is 148k.

Russia was experiencing democratic protests against their czar and might have had a peaceful transition to democracy in 1918. German-supported propaganda ended up ruining their 20t…

Also discussed on NPR: https://www.npr.org/2019/12/11/786760790/44-000-year-old-ind... The NPR story quotes one of the authors of a paper published today in Nature... but then brin…

Is it possible to even find out the rated noise level before purchase? I feel like every 'fridge and air conditioner should print this up front with the capacity and voltage. Noise…

If you have the right paper you can download and print your own notes from https://5thpillar.org/programs/zero-rupee-note/ I believe note will be historically important. I wanted a…

Exactly this. Barabási says "networks drive success." The Baroness was a leaf node. She connected mostly through Duchamp. His network allowed him to succeed. Her packets got droppe…

Sugary foods, opium, these things all cost money. Most things on the Internet are free. Think of the addictive things as “gravity wells”. Everyone explores until they find somethin…

Nice photo of the oldest zero known, at Angkor Wat, Cambodia, dated 683 AD http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/origin-number-zero-180... The previous contender was the zero at Gw…

Few names survive beyond their great-grandchildren unless there are contemporary records to remind people. After the statues are destroyed and books containing are not allowed to b…

No. It was recently revealed that even a much simpler problem, detecting genitals in on-line worlds, was so difficult that the world was shut down. It might be possible to detect c…