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24 Jul 23:42

Recursive Trucker's Hitch

As if the americium smoke detector incident wasn't enough, now nuclear regulators have ANOTHER reason to worry about the Boy Scouts.

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22 Jul 16:06

Calibration Nobel

We would like to once again apologize to Dr. Jones for last year's mistaken announcement. We should really have double-checked the envelope for this award in particular.

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20 Jul 16:21

Arthurian Connector

Most coffee shops have a descendant of Sophia of Hanover on staff for this, but just as I was about to ask for help, a previously unknown heir of Uther Pendragon who was ordering a muffin tripped on my laptop cord.

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17 Jul 20:09

Latitude and Longitude

NGS and IERS are complaining that they left CLEAR instructions to set the washing machine to WGS84 (G2296) instead of WGS84 (G730).

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16 Jul 01:42

Time Change

All discussions of daylight saving time policy are doomed by a mix of contradictory, inconsistent, and impossible preferences, which is why I think the only thing we can really hope to do is to make it worse.

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14 Jul 02:57

The Princess and the Pea

Once we've fully explored this space, we can start varying the number of princesses.

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11 Jul 01:15

Toasting Marshmallows

We have two 'in case of fire, break glass' boxes, which you pick between based on how big of a problem the fire is. One has an extinguisher, and one has sticks, marshmallows, graham crackers, and chocolate.

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08 Jul 20:09

Airport Meeting

Although it was a setback for physics, I'm glad the particle naming rights issue led to the cancelation of Pizza Hut's Superconducting Super Collider in the early 90s, so the Double Stuffed Extra Cheese Topping Quark ended up just being named 'top quark.'

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06 Jul 23:27

Offside

The arbiter gave my knight a red card for capturing with cleats up :(

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04 Jul 03:15

Types of Tornado Alert

I hate the unearthly sound my phone makes when the weather service issues a tornado harbinger.

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02 Jul 02:12

Holes

If you're thinking 'Wait, a giant crystal cave in Mexico? What's that?' then I'm SO excited for the image search you're about to do.

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29 Jun 18:24

Asteroid Threat

Paleontologists have long worried that the dinosaurs blasted into space 66 million years ago will one day complete their orbits and fall back down.

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27 Jun 02:42

720 Ollie

This discovery was key to his demonstration of regular/goofy symmetry violation, which won him gold in the theory portion of the X Games.

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25 Jun 04:15

Baryon Asymmetry

Wait, what do you mean, 'dark matter'? It's not dark, it interacts with high-energy gamma rays ... right? Oh jeez, did I forget to make it interact?

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23 Jun 03:57

Sports Commentary

The plural of anecdote may not be data, but the singular of data is anecdote.

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20 Jun 02:12

Side Effect

Brace yourself--the chirp gets pretty weird.

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17 Jun 16:36

Messi

Commentators agree that this will probably be the last World Cup in which Messi faces serious competition.

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15 Jun 15:51

Tethys

In order to carry the necessary crafting supplies, they built the ships at 12:1 scale.

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12 Jun 22:12

Plate Flip

It's great for exfoliating your skin, bones, houses, cities, landscape, etc.

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11 Jun 01:42

Beam Pipe

'If you keep trying to spray your collaborators with the beam when they're not looking, I'm turning off the ion source and NO one will get to play with the beam!' --Physics's mom

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08 Jun 22:54

Nostalgia Content

Gen-Z got a chunk of the Carboniferous, and now all their memes are about how pathetic and small today's dragonflies are.

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05 Jun 13:36

Planetary Science

The research was overseen by the Institutional Review Board, which is what I named my surfboard.

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03 Jun 21:39

Detector

No other experiment has a lower false negative rate.

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01 Jun 15:51

Sunbeam

While weather control is typically thought of as a superpower, the unconscious ability of astronomers and astrophotographers to summon clouds is more properly classified as a curse.

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29 May 18:09

Ancestral Genomes

SUGGESTIONS FOR FUTURE RESEARCH: No further research is needed as it is frankly none of our business.

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27 May 21:09

Time Machine Conversation

It's possible to do sea navigation without a compass, but you'll have to get some spoilers from the Polynesians.

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25 May 22:24

Flag Design

Every place has a local cryptid; more places need a local Pictish Beast, a creature in historical art that's drawn so weirdly that no one can tell what animal it's supposed to be.

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22 May 19:09

Neutrino Project

We definitely put the pool in a mine for shielding. It was absolutely not to hide it from the funding people.

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21 May 04:15

182.8 Meters

They rounded down to 182.8 instead of rounding up to 182.9 because 182.9 might make the statement incorrect.

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18 May 19:24

Particle Census

Remember, your answers to the physics census are confidential; we will not be issuing Pauli exclusion principle citations.