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Data from over 100 failed ceasefires shows most are followed by offensives
This article was originally published by War is Boring on 31 October 2016.On Sept. 10, 2016, the U.S.-brokered a ceasefire with Russia and Syria in the besieged city of Aleppo. Although low-in
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Cartoon Laws of Physics
Cartoon Law I Any body suspended in space will remain in space until made aware of its situation. Daffy Duck steps off a cliff, expecting further pastureland. He loiters in midair, soliloquizing flippantly, until he chances to look down. At this point, the familiar principle of 32 feet per second per second takes over.
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Shrimp Trap
I built a prawn trap from lawyer cane, sticks and vine. Then I caught some prawns and ate them. Prawn (and fish) traps are simple traps designed to catch aquatic life due to their shape. It consist…
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Steven Pinker on Language, Reason, and the Future of Violence
Steven Pinker believes deeply in the power of reason to understand the world and ourselves. But can he convince Tyler?
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Does your mind jump around, stay on task or get stuck?
Analysis of mind-wandering studies offers new perspective on mental disorders
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Engines of Evidence – A Conversation with Judea Pearl
In the early 1960s, every company had a huge investment in the future of computers. I fell into a device-oriented research group, wherein the goal was to find new phenomena that we could turn into computer memory. Magnetic core memories were already becoming a nuisance. Some people worked on photochromic phenomena…
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The “432 Hz vs. 440 Hz” conspiracy theory
<p>Would you believe that there is a conspiracy theory about the way we tune musical instruments? And that this theory even involves the Nazis, chakras, and whatnot? No? Then sit down and enjoy
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Schiaparelli descent data: decoding underway
Essential data from the ExoMars Schiaparelli lander sent to its mothership Trace Gas Orbiter during the module's descent to the Red Planet's surface yesterday has been downlinked to Earth and is currently being analysed by experts.
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Common prostate cancer treatment linked to later dementia, researcher says
A new retrospective study of the health records of prostate cancer patients supports an association between androgen deprivation therapy and future risk of dementia.
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So You Want to Learn Physics
Over the past few years, ever since writing “If Susan Can Learn Physics So Can You,” I've been contacted by people from all backgrounds who are inspired and want to learn physics, but don't know where to start, what to learn, what to read, and how to structure their studies...this post is a condense
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World Population Growth
Explore global and national data on population growth, demography, and how they are changing.
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A Natural Law for Rotating Galaxies: What Does This Mean for Dark Matter?
Learn about public engagement activities from the American Physical Society
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Carcinogenicity of red and processed meat
Red meat refers to all mammalian muscle meat, including beef, veal, pork, lamb, mutton, horse and goat.
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The 2016 Nobel Prize in Physics
The Nobel Prize in Physics 2016 was awarded with one half to David J. Thouless, and the other half to F. Duncan M. Haldane and J. Michael Kosterlitz "for theoretical discoveries of topological phase transitions and topological phases of matter"
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How Robots Can Acquire New Skills from Their Shared Experience
Posted by Sergey Levine (Google Brain Team), Timothy Lillicrap (DeepMind), Mrinal Kalakrishnan (X)The ability to learn from experience will likely ...
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Human Height
The average height of a population can inform us about the nutrition and living conditions of populations in the past for which we have little other data.
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The Moon Illusion, an Unsolved Mystery
physics, history of science, pseudoscience, hoaxes, writing, education, skepticisism, humor, quotes, illusions, 3d stereo photography.
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What does a kilowatt hour look like?
Some time ago I came across a very good read by David McCay - Sustainable Energy without the Hot Air. I’ve seen many good reviews of the book, so it didn’t t...
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Will Coke Dissolve a Nail? (2003)
An experiment to see if Coke really dissolves a nail after four days like the email says
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Nootropics
Notes on nootropics I tried, and my experiments