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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.

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16 May 01:12

Speedrun

Usain Bolt holds the world record in the 100 meter speedrun.

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13 May 18:39

Results Age

Please, we need your help. Our research suggests you're the last living descendant of the person who knew how to format this config file.

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12 May 09:00

Pullback Drive

"How does the spring not run out almost immediately?" "We pull it back REALLY far."

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08 May 18:09

Crystal Gazing

'Beyond that lies a vale of fire through which my vision cannot penetrate' is the kind of fun thing geologists, heliophysicists, and early universe cosmologists have a lot of opportunities to say.

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06 May 18:39

Aperiodic Table

Scientists occasionally invent alternative periodic table layouts, which is usually a sign that they don't have enough enrichment in their enclosures.

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05 May 20:09

Horizontal Stabilizers

It started as a mistake that everyone was afraid to admit to, and then it stuck because removing it 'looks silly.'.

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01 May 18:39

Bottle

"I know it seems impossible, but the trick is that I sailed in here when I was very young."

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29 Apr 16:36

Simple Machines

It's hard to decide which simple machine system to invest in. DeWalt makes a great lever and inclined plane, but I hear Milwaukee's wheel-and-axles are really good.

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28 Apr 04:30

Soniferous Aether

Imagine you could ride alongside a sound wave. It would probably be pretty cool, right? We're putting in a departmental budget request to buy a really fast plane so we can check it out.