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Comet colours would be extremely bland and boring to a human eye (and to the regular cameras we use on Earth) - the Sun is far, no atmosphere to have meaningful shades of grey, and…

This one is 11700 yo and 900 meters in diameter, but TIL that people are also fond of looking for fresh ( [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_impact_structures_on_E... [2] ht…

> ...there are two kinds of people, those who do things only if it helps them achieve a goal, and those who do things just because. The ideal, of course, is to be a mix of both. Th…

I'm curious, could you plz share the source for the last claim? In my field - distant from the book - it's quite respected.

> "Original data collection for both studies was funded by the Norwegian Department of Defense; however, data extractions were archival and, hence, not funded."

Also, if we are talking X-rays, in Ukraine it is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivan_Puluj , not Röntgen. Although, to his credit, the latter apparently did cite Puluj when using th…

Haven't tried it, but it seems you could get, within 6 km, to Saint-Saveur-de-Puisaye - on bus 861 (need to call them) from Auxerre Saint-Gervais which is reachable by train from P…

Most likely, yes, like the loudness of baby crying. Humans are pack animals so any predator attracted by snoring or baby cry, and deciding to check it out would be in a very very b…

Carl Sagan proposed something along the lines in 1961 (but using bacteria to convert CO2 to graphite), however later it became clear that wouldn't work, in part, because the depth …

Ironically, borsch is actually a famous Ukrainian soup and has about 20 ingredients (sometimes more, it depends on a region, village and family). Why one would reduce to only 4 ing…

Thread about the same research https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41512191

Yes, in Germany all months when you are expected to in the oncall rotation are basically an addendum to your usual contract that you sign and receive more money even if nothing eve…

I'm suprised the post and comments here do not cite the famous Nature paper by S. Carlson - "A Double-blind Test of Astrology" - which performed a very similar experiment 40 years …

It can't be iron though, as it's not soluble in milk. In fact, that's the reason why, in the 3rd trimester of pregnancy, babies stock iron for the first 4-6 months of (postpartum) …

What prevents people from biking these 5 miles? Can't be capitalism, because bikes are cheaper than cars or just fuel with amortization costs for such trips. For 2+ years I had to …

Birth of the first (and only first) child triggers what might be the largest brain rewiring in males since pubety. Women don't seem to undergo a rewiring of the same scale [1]. To …

Yes. The Reichenbach Common Cause Principle [1] tells us that behind every correlation there is a confounding variable that causally influences both of the corrrelated variables, s…

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