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by scentoni 9y ago
In case you're wondering whether an Alaskan earthquake could cause damage in California, the answer is yes. The tsunami from the 1964 Good Friday earthquake in Alaska obliterated the port of Crescent City: https://en.wikiped
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The state can broadcast emergency messages, it doesn't need to send them individually to some database of cell phone numbers. Alert About Missile Bound for Hawaii Was Sent in Error, Officials Say https://news.ycombinator.com
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Onion (and its relatives) and horseradish (and its relatives) store the components of a sulfur-based binary chemical weapon to deter being eaten by animals. When the tissue is ruptured, the chemical deterrent is formed and released. However
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by scentoni 9y ago
If you're counting hot=chili=capsaicin as a taste, you should also count cold=mint=menthol. Not sure where https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sichuan_pepper falls in that
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Rodent Plague Surveillance in California https://www.arcgis.com/apps/ImpactSummary/index.html?appid=6...
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PSA: "Plague is widespread in much of California, including in the Sierra Nevada mountains and foothills. In a typical year, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reports about ten cases of plague in humans per year in t
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Japan's Kasotsuka Shojo, the world's first cryptopop group(qz.com)
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Colorglyph–Playing with Cryptocurrency(medium.com)
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by scentoni 9y ago
About a hundred years ago, evolution came up with something that killed 50-100 million people. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1918_flu_pandemic Smallpox and plague did far worse.
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Nopal is the word for green vegetal pads, somewhat like green beans with okra mucus. Tuna is the word for the bright purple or yellow fruit, which has a flavor similar to watermelon.
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Moore's law is slowing because of the exponential increase in R&D and manufacturing costs to push to the next generation.
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It means whenever it is being used. Manufacturing silicon chips involves temperatures from room temperature to ~1300C.
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'Safer avocado' invented to keep people from stabbing selves(sfgate.com)
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Preprint at https://arxiv.org/abs/1705.07621
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Benjamin Franklin’s Bizarre and Beautiful Glass Armonica(nerdist.com)
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Grasshopper problem yields insight into quantum theory(phys.org)
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Enhance. http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/zoom-and-enhance
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The Shape of the Milky Way: Mapping the Far Side of the Galaxy(syfy.com)
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by scentoni 9y ago
Some other examples: sign conventions in thermodynamics conventions in Fourier transforms short billion vs long billion calorie vs Calorie English vs. metric units SI vs cgs metric esu vs Gaussian units in EM
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Only a small percentage of the plutonium's mass gets converted to energy during fission.
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Sparc machines were not as good at number crunching as Power so Sun wasn't as well-represented in the list as IBM, and Solaris wasn't as heavily used as AIX.
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The NSA, configuration management via netnews, and the origin of Perl(cahighways.org)
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Detecting evolutionary forces in language change(arstechnica.com)
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That isn't the case. Most physical constants do have units, such as G=6.67408(31)×10^−11 m^3⋅kg^−1⋅s^−2
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She can cover the notch with her thumb.
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LMGTFY: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antihydrogen
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Exactly. For instance, electrons in semiconductors have an effective mass that is a tensor, not a scalar. Holes (a missing electron, the semiconductor analog of a positron) typically have effective masses different from electrons.
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The author is French. Using Roman numerals for centuries is the standard in Romance languages. And fecund is less obscure if your language derives from Latin. Not disagreeing, just explaining.
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A boiling river of wine runs through a fire-ravaged Santa Rosa winery(sfgate.com)
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Standing waves of light(phys.org)
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