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by dmbche 3y ago
"The prize he was awarded was a large clock that was equipped with a hand that indicated the sixty-first second — the “leap second”—and minute and hour hands that puzzlingly indicated seconds. The prize money was $10 trillion, although
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The Relativistic Rocket(math.ucr.edu)
2 points by dmbche 3y ago|0 comments
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Phineas Gage(en.wikipedia.org)
4 points by dmbche 3y ago|0 comments
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The town that built a mirror to catch the Sun(bbc.com)
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by dmbche 3y ago
"The Sloot Digital Coding System was an alleged data sharing technique that its inventor claimed could store a complete digital movie file in 8 kilobytes of data — violating Shannon's source coding theorem by many orders of magnit
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by dmbche 3y ago
Makes me think of this : https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrell_rotation How when going at relativistic speeds, you start to appear to rotate to obervers even if you are going straight - you can even see behind the ob
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by dmbche 3y ago
Here : https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Braess%27s_paradox This is the principle behind it I believe. It's a reaaaally cool rabbit hole.
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by dmbche 3y ago
Did I miss the process? Isn't it a guy saying he's got Free Energy™?
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by dmbche 3y ago
No sunlight for years, no photosynthesis - same pronostic of 95% loss of life id guess
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by dmbche 3y ago
"National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) funded project by psychologist Harris Rubin for $121,000, on developing "some objective evidence concerning marijuana's effect on sexual arousal by exposing groups of male pot-smokers
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by dmbche 3y ago
"I will try to allow no one from outside our state to buy any land until we get through this crisis and decide what Lahaina should be in the future." Fron the gov
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by dmbche 3y ago
They explicitely are trying to make sure international buyers don't come in and swoop the land for scraps - not fucking over Hawaiians trying to get housing. I don't understand what you're arguing for
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by dmbche 3y ago
Real estate moguls are getting shafted?
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by dmbche 3y ago
....maybe Hawaii isn't in the best place to negotiate fairly because they just suffered wildfires and are trying to make sure the land doesn't get sold for nothing by the locals who lost everything? This is the reason there is reg
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by dmbche 3y ago
"He vowed to prevent foreign buyers from swooping in to exploit the tragedy, suggesting the state was better suited to take control of the land. "I'm already thinking of ways for the state to acquire that land so that we can
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Harvard confirms century-old book is covered in human skin(theverge.com)
3 points by dmbche 3y ago|0 comments
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by dmbche 3y ago
They got 400 000 records in the collection, I don't think they're being dishonest here
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by dmbche 3y ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shellac Just learned shellac is resin produced by south asian bugs - used to do not only record but food glaze and varnishes.
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by dmbche 3y ago
My pleasure - I've had great experiences chatting with them through email for things that weren't on the site (frostbite treatments in pigs), they really are wonderful!
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Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Gloria Steinem Fought for Your Right to Get a Beer(lithub.com)
10 points by dmbche 3y ago|1 comments
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by dmbche 3y ago
"Statement from Brewster Kahle, digital librarian of the Internet Archive: “When people want to listen to music they go to Spotify. When people want to study sound recordings as they were originally created, they go to libraries like t
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by dmbche 3y ago
Somewhat similar project, for animal care in sanctuaries - very thorough! https://opensanctuary.org/
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by dmbche 3y ago
I think you might want to look into the Mandelbrot and Julia set, and things like Kochs Snowflake, as these are purely mathematical systems like in OP - this is one part of the book I didn't integrate as well, you might be satisfied by
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by dmbche 3y ago
It's been a while, but I remember many experiments being presented in Gleick's book ( The double pendulum being a chaotic system, or the paper showing how it was impossible to predict the distance between two points in a structure
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by dmbche 3y ago
I have a hard time pointing you somewhere, I think you should start with the first chapter and see from there, it's a good primer.
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by dmbche 3y ago
James Gleick's "Chaos: Making a new science" will answer your questions and is a fun read!
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by dmbche 3y ago
Riveting writing. I have a family member who collapsed from sudden cardiac failure, from a non diagnosed heart syndrome she had since birth - she luckily was at the hospital when it happened. This and aneurysms make me value the small thing
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by dmbche 3y ago
I disagree - feel free to try and find an example of your claim
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by dmbche 3y ago
Hence why there is a replication crisis. There are many claims can be proven that aren't social science, you're the one unable to show an example of a scientist that had solid evidence of something and ruined their career and arti
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by dmbche 3y ago
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5141512/ IQ tests are not reliable when not heavily weighted on the culture of the person taking them (and even then - the same people taking the same tests get di

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