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06 Mar 14:36

Bazookasaurus

In contrast to the deep booming sound associated with the cannon in pop culture depictions, recent studies show it actually made more of a 'toot toot!' noise.

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04 Mar 15:36

Solar Warning

This replaces the previous solar activity watch, which was issued last month when the sun took off its sunglasses.

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03 Mar 03:57

Electric Vehicles

Now that I've finally gotten an electric vehicle, I'm never going back to an acoustic one.

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27 Feb 21:39

Dental Formulas

I mean, half of these are undefined. And your multiplication dots are too low; they look like decimal points.

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26 Feb 02:42

Little Red Dots

After a lot of analysis, I've determined that they're actually big red dots; they're just very far away.

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24 Feb 06:00

Amperage

Oh, and do you have any tips on how to vacuum up copper that's melted into your carpet?

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20 Feb 20:39

Eliminating the Impossible

'If you've eliminated a few possibilities and you can't think of any others, your weird theory is proven right' isn't quite as rhetorically compelling.

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19 Feb 03:42

Plums

My icebox plum trap easily captured William Carlos Williams. It took much less work than the infinite looping network of diverging paths I had to build in that yellow wood to ensnare Robert Frost.

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16 Feb 21:54

SNEWS

People say setting of fireworks indoors is dangerous, but I looked at their energy release and it's like 10^-40 foe; totally negligible.

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14 Feb 02:42

Bad Map Projection: Zero Declination

'The zero line in WMM2025 passes through a lot of population centers; I wonder what year the largest share of the population lived in a zone of less than 5° of declination,' he thought, derailing all other tasks for the rest of the day.

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12 Feb 02:42

Installation

Do YOU remember the skylight being this big?

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10 Feb 04:57

Carbon Dating

This dating is corroborated by the presence of stone tools at the site, rather than earlier and less effective helium ones.

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06 Feb 19:39

Dinosaurs And Non-Dinosaurs

Staplers are actually in Pseudosuchia, making them more closely related to crocodiles than to dinosaurs.

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05 Feb 04:45

Binary Star

The discovery of a fully typographical star system comes with a big asterisk.

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02 Feb 16:51

Groundhog Day Meaning

Originally, the ceremony used a variety of rodents and mustelids, but over time most people agreed it made sense to standardize on a specific individual ground squirrel in Pennsylvania.

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30 Jan 17:36

Proof Without Content

There's also a proof without content of a conjecture without content, but it's left as an exercise for the reader.

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28 Jan 20:39

Chemical Formula

Some of the atoms in the molecule are very weakly bound.

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27 Jan 00:57

Early Arthropods

'Ugh, I'm never going to be like spiders. My descendants will all just be normal arthropods who mind their own busines and don't do anything weird.' --The ancestor of a bunch of eusocial insects

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24 Jan 02:42

Double-Pronged Extension Cord

'Oh, and can I borrow 50 sacks of loose flour, a pile of lithium-ion batteries, a bucket of bleach, and a bucket of vinega--' 'NO!!!!!!'

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21 Jan 23:42

Cost Savings

Unfortunately, my scheme to trick NASA has now taken over a decade longer than planned and has run way over budget.

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20 Jan 02:57

Aurora Coolness

I've had countless nights where the line never left the bottom zone of the graph, but the few moments where it's climbed all the way to the top have made up for them all.

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16 Jan 15:36

International Station

Welcome to the International Space Station Exclamation Point!

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14 Jan 20:39

16 Part Epoxy

Some surfaces may seem difficult to glue. But if you research the materials, find tables of what adhesives work on them, and prepare your surfaces carefully, you can fail to glue them in a fun NEW way that fills your house with dangerous vapors.

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13 Jan 04:57

Sailing Rigs

I wanted to make the world's fastest yawl, so I made the aft sail bigger, but apparently that means it's not a yawl anymore! It's a real ketch-22.

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10 Jan 05:45

Planetary Alignment

We're going to need to modify the surface to mount it on the test stand. Which ocean basin do you like the least?

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07 Jan 20:39

Superstition

It's important to teach yourself to feel responsible for random events, because with great responsibility comes great power. That's what my wise Uncle Ben told me right before he died; he might still be alive today if only I'd said rabbit rabbit that year!

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06 Jan 03:57

Tensegrity

Some people argue that the tension and compression in the human skeleton is technically tensegrity, but it's missing the defining characteristic: making people say 'wtf, how is that thing floating?' when they see it.

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03 Jan 01:42

Conic Sections

They're not generally used for crewed spacecraft because astronauts HATE going around the corners.

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31 Dec 22:39

Anyone Else Here

Anyone else watching this Youtube video in 1954? If so, my last trip definitely messed with the timeline.

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29 Dec 23:54

High Altitude Cooking Instructions

1,300,000-1,400,000 ft: Ask a crew member to show you how to use the ISS food warmer.