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Jordan Peele does a fantastic impersonation of Ray Parker Jr. (“the Ghostbusters guy”) promoting his lesser known movie theme songs he’s submitted through the years. Talk about bad…

If I turn the volume down to the point that I only hear the cadence/rhythm of the voices, but can no longer make out the words, it sounds like any, “This Week in…” podcast.

In this case, the User deliberately changed the text of a fairly well-known riddle in order to “fool” the LLM. What you really are looking for is the right question: “A man and a s…

It's important to distinguish between the types of stem cells when referring to pluripotency (i.e., the ability for a cell to differentiate into almost any cell type in the body). …

My first thought was of the old “Ronco Shower/Blow Dryer in a Briefcase” skit with Martin Short on SCTV ( https://youtu.be/eTHvF2aAi50?si=JmPQsvjV6YtpWjQw ). “Why you….”

I completely agree that neglect, indifference and lack of involvement can only result in negative outcomes for a child (e.g., sense of insecurity, lower feelings of self-worth, del…

Yes, Lamarck is alive and well. I frequently hear colleagues in biology with years of experience making lazy statements such as, "Humans evolved to walk because..." as if evolution…

Upvote for the solid relationship advice, technology aside.

“Do you know that books smell like nutmeg or some spice from a foreign land? I loved to smell them when I was a boy. Lord, there were a lot of lovely books once, before we let them…

I expect that a technical publication will be available soon at one of these sources: https://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/ https://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/mission/science/data-access/

You were not alone.

I'm a biologist who purchases reagents from Bio-Rad. I received this email last night: December 10, 2019 "Bio-Rad Dear Valued Customers: At approximately 5:30 PM (Pacific Standard …

Good article, and I agree that Kennedy's speeches are generally associated with the push for the Apollo program ("We choose to go to the Moon..."), but I would hardly say that LBJ'…

The "big deal", at least according to NASA and congress, was that the crew accepted funds ($7,000 each) to transport the items to the surface of the moon without informing NASA off…

Interesting list. I wouldn't be too fond of my Gemini crew mate who brought the corned beef sandwich. What was special about the Apollo 15 postal covers, and relevant to the OP, wa…

Interesting take and I agree. I always thought of it as a labor-relations issue rather than a crime. However, the article states, "a single day on Skylab was worth about $22.4 mill…

Before I clicked on the story, my first thought went back to the Apollo 15 "Postal Covers Incident". Each of the three crew members received $7K from a stamp dealer to bring stamp …

Agreed. Possibly Equifax consciously chose a "scammy-sounding" domain to deter individuals from filing a claim.

Pretty close on the populations. The moon colonies, not so much. “In 2014, there is every likelihood that the world population will be 6,500,000,000 and the population of the Unite…

Very astute comment about external motivation versus internal motivation. The fact that someone else is depending on me will spur me to push through a task, particularly if it is f…

I'm curious about why the filename for the PDF is "Pretend-Paper.pdf"? I double-checked and it is published in the peer-reviewed journal, "Personality and Individual Differences". …