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You can get more fuel by entering a negative Thrust value.

From the introduction: "At the time of writing, these notes do not contain anywhere near a proof of FLT, or even a sketch proof."

I started a TMBG fan club called Church of the Possible Giants around the time this album was released. One of the requirements for membership is that your given first name is John…

In a Senate hearing today, CIA Director John Ratcliffe said, under oath: “One of the first things that happened when I was confirmed as CIA director was Signal was loaded onto my c…

I watched the full debate. The proposition was "Don't Trust the Mainstream Media". On the pro side were Matt Taibbi and Douglas Murray; the con side was made up of Malcolm Gladwell…

the unnamed Trump aide cited in the book indicated that the GOP standard-bearer may have spoken to Putin as many as seven times

I believe the young economist mentioned in the article is simply wrong in his analysis. The most efficient 4-denomination set is {1,5,18,25} (tied with {1,5,18,29}) at 3.89 coins p…

Worth noting that 2016 election denial (Russia hacked the election!) was never banned. Here's an entertaining compilation of some of it, but there's plenty more where that came fro…

I'm old enough to remember when Antarctic sea ice extent set a record high in 2014. The cause? Probably global warming. "So as counterintuitive as expanding winter Antarctic sea ic…

Literally the subhed of the article: "Director has criticised the practice of re-editing older films while expressing remorse over removing guns in a later edition of ET"

Still broken for me.

Password requirements in general are off-putting. It's my password.

The verdict came in around 7pm. Anyone else find it ironic that the author submitted, and the NY Times published, a 1750-word opinion piece the very next morning, complaining that …

It may save the business of baseball, but it won't save baseball itself, because the game will no longer be baseball. C'est la vie.

What are some of your stories?

Can you share a few examples out of the 30,000 entries that you consider actual lies? (not mere puffery, not trivial errors, not simple difference of opinion) Something substantive…

Spot-checking works best if we remotely agreed on a random number, but here's one a just looked in on. Trump claim: “Every week, 300 of our citizens are killed by heroin alone, 90%…

Spot check the Post's database of 30,573 lies. It's a joke. *This very sentence, if uttered by Trump, would be entered in their database: a joke is an amusing action or story with …

The author uses the Clinton email scandal as an example of how the media over-covered certain stories. "That Clinton was somehow a criminal for doing what her predecessor Colin Pow…

I'm pretty sure this first appeared in Gardner's "Mathematical Games" column in the March 1962 issue of Scientific American. Gardner later collected some of his columns and publish…

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That is not what happened at all. In the first poll, he asked when the journalists should be unsuspended and the options were (a) now, (b) tomorrow, (c) in 7 days, and (d) longer. …

I watched the full debate. The proposition was "Don't Trust the Mainstream Media". On the pro side were Matt Taibbi and Douglas Murray; the con side was made up of Malcolm Gladwell…

It's interesting that a platform of pro-worker, anti-war, anti-censorship, which used to be central tenants of the left (and I would say the best of the left), now make up the core…