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Truly Universal Outlet

2025-12-26 07:00:00

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Truly Universal Outlet

Building Inspectors HATE This One Weird Trick

Sauropods

2025-12-24 07:00:00

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Sauropods

Funny Numbers

2025-12-22 07:00:00

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Funny Numbers

In 1899, people were walking around shouting '23' at each other and laughing, and confused reporters were writing articles trying to figure out what it meant.

In 1899, people were walking around shouting '23' at each other and laughing, and confused reporters were writing articles trying to figure out what it meant.

Pole Vault Pole

2025-12-19 07:00:00

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Pole Vault Pole

My goal in life is to be personally responsible for at least one sports rule change.

Telescope Types

2025-12-17 07:00:00

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Telescope Types

I'm trying to buy a gravitational lens for my camera, but I can't tell if the manufacturers are listing comoving focal length or proper focal length.

I'm trying to buy a gravitational lens for my camera, but I can't tell if the manufacturers are listing comoving focal length or proper focal length.

Jumping Frog Radius

2025-12-15 07:00:00

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Jumping Frog Radius

Earth's r_jf is approximately 1.5 light-days, leading to general relativity's successful prediction that all the frogs in the Solar System should be found collected on the surface of the Earth.

Earth's r_jf is approximately 1.5 light-days, leading to general relativity's successful prediction that all the frogs in the Solar System should be found collected on the surface of the Earth.

Apples

2025-12-12 07:00:00

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Apples

The experimental math department's budget is under scrutiny for how much they've been spending on trains leaving Chicago at 9:00pm traveling at 45 mph.

Fishing

2025-12-10 07:00:00

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Fishing

'That's definitely above the catch-and-release size minimum for planetesimals.' 'I'm going to throw it back anyway.'

Hyperacute Interdynamics

2025-12-08 07:00:00

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Hyperacute Interdynamics

Our models fall apart where the three theories overlap; we're unable to predict what happens when a nanometer-sized squirrel eats a grapefruit with the mass of the sun.

Our models fall apart where the three theories overlap; we're unable to predict what happens when a nanometer-sized squirrel eats a grapefruit with the mass of the sun.

Chessboard Alignment

2025-12-05 07:00:00

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Chessboard Alignment

Luckily, the range is limited by the fact that the square boundary lines follow great circles.