jmopp

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   by jmopp 5y ago

   Fun fact: Shooting was only segregated by sex after 1992 - when a woman won gold.
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   by jmopp 5y ago

   I think you're thinking of how Niels Bohr dissolved two Nobel Prizes in aqua regia for two of his Jewish colleagues when the Nazis invaded Denmark. After the war the gold solution was returned to the Swedish Academy and the medals were
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   by jmopp 5y ago

   The difference is that there is no way that Biblical or ancient Islamic scholars would have the equipment to study quantum physics or advanced astronomy. It is entirely plausible that Polynesians who settled as far south as the Chatham Isla
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   by jmopp 6y ago

   I disagree with that. Effective eradication is also an option. It will be significantly harder now that the virus has spread around the world, but if we can create low-covid areas - where the case count is low enough to support test-and-tra
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   by jmopp 6y ago

   Minor piece of anecdote: I have watched my great grandmother, my grandmother, and my mother age. They all look like they aged at different rates: my grandmother at 70 does not look as old as my great grandmother did at 70. My mother at 50 d