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Maze

As a side effect of the research, mice are now the only known animals other than humans to have developed a Backrooms mythology.

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Main Span

Wind stress? Don't be silly. When has wind stress ever been a problem for a suspension bridge?

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Vera Rubin Observatory

'Spurious signals from the kitchen' is harder for an optical telescope than a radio one, but with enough determination and creativity, I believe it's possible.

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Forth

I NOTATION POLISH REVERSE ❤️

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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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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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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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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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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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The Princess and the Pea

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

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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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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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Offside

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

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Types of Tornado Alert

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

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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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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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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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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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Sports Commentary

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

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Side Effect

Brace yourself--the chirp gets pretty weird.

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Messi

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

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Tethys

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

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Plate Flip

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

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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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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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Planetary Science

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

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Detector

No other experiment has a lower false negative rate.

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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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Ancestral Genomes

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

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Time Machine Conversation

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