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This article is about two galaxies which we are seeing as they appeared 300-400 million years after the big bang (over 13 billion years ago). Those galaxies are magnified to the po…

In particular, copper smithing predates glassmaking, 10000 years ago versus 4000 years ago

Same here - the games just randomly end, sometimes my clock gets set to 0 out of nowhere, sometimes the opponent's. Fun game though!

I met Ellsberg when I attended a live recording of the podcast Philosophy Talk in 2019. It was called "The Doomsday Doctrine", it was about the policy of mutually assured distructi…

My bet continues to be optical phenomena - that's why the orbs and other phenomena resemble simple geometric forms, rather than anything with complex structure, service irregularit…

By the way, the word is "beeline", not "b-line". It originally was a reference to bees traveling back to their hive. Sorry to be pedantic.

Real qubits have flaws, and you could experiment to see under what conditions they work better or worse, like by applying magnetic fields. Simulated qubits are presumably flawless,…

They seem to be marketed for educational purposes. You could simulate them in software easily. They could be useful for research, but they're not directly useful for computing, exc…

The cubit/kubit/qubit typo does not inspire confidence in this article. Here's the items for sale, in Japanese: https://www.switch-science.com/search?type=article%2Cpage%2C... *

That pattern looks periodic, but it's super cool! I think the periodic unit is a flower shape consisting of 8 tiles: 2 in the middle making a hexagon, and then 6 more around the he…

Your reaction should be "astronomy fun fact, that will have no direct effects on anyone's life." This black hole is so dim and distant that it required a super powerful telescope t…

This object is rated as a 1 on the Torino scale, which combines probability of impact with size to get an overall danger level. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torino_scale The las…

Most cases of Polio are actually caused by vaccines - it's not a case of confusing cause and effect: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polio#Epidemiology This is only the case because …

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This is a story about documenting multiple kinds of history at once: documenting the dinosaurs, and documenting the expeditions that dug up the fossils. Prior to modern technology,…

They mention that "The water ice was first chilled in liquid nitrogen to minus 320 degrees Fahrenheit" (77K). The paper mentions that the new phase of ice reverts to something less…

Given that "The water ice was first chilled in liquid nitrogen to minus 320 degrees Fahrenheit" (77K), I think it would taste like frostbite. The paper mentions that the new phase …

These videos just look like optical artifacts of the lenses of the cameras, as discussed here: https://youtu.be/jHDlfIaBEqw Is there any evidence that there's more to these videos …

The abstract of the underlying research paper: https://www.mdpi.com/1999-4923/14/11/2290/htm contains the quote "Vaccination prevented decreases on physiological measures (oxygen s…

These strings are included in the regexes given just about that line as reserved for potential future by certain header files. "island" is covered by the ctype.h and wctype.h heade…

This definition fails because Q-bar needs to be a subset of Q, but in Q-bar, the graphs T1, S2, and T2 are specified to be the single-edge graphs e1, e2, e3. But single-edge graphs…

While an M/M/n is a good starting point, there are several extra important features to capture. First, many of these applications have a load-balancing step, where arriving jobs ar…

The only thing we use processing time for in the Nudge paper is to classify jobs as "Large", "Small" or "Other". If instead of exact processing times, we had estimates, the result …

There's a transition zone from "fast" to "slow" fluctuations around the mean waiting time that's more complicated and is an area of active research. If the fluctuations are 5x belo…