ed_westin

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by ed_westin 3y ago
Purity can play an outsized part for some identities and moral worldviews. The truth is messier than myth.
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by ed_westin 3y ago
As is the modern invention of ancient white marble statues: https://www.metmuseum.org/perspectives/videos/2022/7/spotlig...
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by ed_westin 3y ago
Heinz invented beans on toast in 1927 https://www.internationelle.org/beans-on-toast/
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by ed_westin 3y ago
From a Newsweek article, sliced bread was invented in 1928. French fries and baguettes in the 1920s. https://www.newsweek.com/food-invented-last-100-years-164336...
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Dihydrogen Monoxide Parody(en.wikipedia.org)
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by ed_westin 3y ago
The human era is geologically recorded with plastics and radioactive isotopes in our bones. The CO2-CH4 concentration spike is the cherry on top. Meanwhile, the cults continue to incantate to the god(s) as in the neolithic era. See: https:
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Barlow's Law(en.wikipedia.org)
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1963 United States Tri-Service rocket and guided missile designation system(en.wikipedia.org)
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The Wubi Effect – Radiolab Podcast [video](youtube.com)
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QWERTY Effect(en.wikipedia.org)
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Olivetti and the Italian Computer: What Could Have Been [video](youtube.com)
4 points by ed_westin 3y ago|1 comments
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Switch Mode Power Supply Troubleshooting and Repair – Yaesu FT-1000MP [video](youtube.com)
2 points by ed_westin 3y ago|1 comments
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Teen Lapsus$ member was behind the leaked GTA 6 footage, London jury finds(theverge.com)
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by ed_westin 3y ago
"According to the study, in principle, cortex-wide organizational structures might be by-products of development or evolution that serve no computational function; but the fact that the same organizational structures can be observed f
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Log-Normal Distribution(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by ed_westin 3y ago|0 comments
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Chandrayaan-3(en.wikipedia.org)
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by ed_westin 3y ago
The largest discrepancies were recorded on flights prior to 2005. The later satellites recorded near zero discrepancies. MICROSCOPE found nothing anomalous. "The equivalence principle was measured to hold true within a precision of 10−
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Stanley R. Mickelsen Safeguard Complex(en.wikipedia.org)
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Liminality(en.wikipedia.org)
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Russia’s Luna 25 spacecraft has crashed into the Moon(arstechnica.com)
11 points by ed_westin 3y ago|2 comments
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by ed_westin 3y ago
August 20, 2023 "State Corporation Roscosmos On August 19, in accordance with the flight program of the Luna-25 spacecraft, an impulse was provided to form its pre-landing elliptical orbit. At about 14:57 Moscow time[UTC+3], communicat
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Green S(en.wikipedia.org)
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Arithmetic has a biological origin – the ‘deep structure’ of our perception(theconversation.com)
3 points by ed_westin 3y ago|1 comments
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The Cost of Knowledge(en.wikipedia.org)
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An illusion of predictability in scientific results(pnas.org)
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Debunking the Dunning-Kruger Effect(theconversation.com)
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Testing Hypotheses Suggested by the Data(en.wikipedia.org)
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Giant Structure Deep in Australia May Be Largest Asteroid Impact on Record(sciencealert.com)
9 points by ed_westin 3y ago|1 comments
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Zero-Knowledge Proof(en.wikipedia.org)
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Normalization of Deviance(en.wikipedia.org)
9 points by ed_westin 3y ago|0 comments

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